User talk:SpeakFree/Archive
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Your posts
Welcome to the English-language Metapedia. It is important for you to examine some of the various posts and to use the correct formats. In addition you must provide proper and credible sources. Take a look at Treaty of Versailles. Here you will get some ideas on layouts etc, sources and categories. Don't just start a page with a single line and leave it for others to do the work, as in White Lives Matter. I would also point out that contrary to what the Far-Left say about Metapedia, we are not a National Socialist site. Anything we post on this period is for historical purposes, not promotion. Thanks. Matt58 (talk) 11:55, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
List of Nationalist Parties
I unprotected the List of Nationalist Parties and added Nieuwe Nationale Partij. Please fell free to do the additional edits and welcome to Metapedia! - NatAll75 21:23, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Holland metapedia
I forwarded your email to the forum: [1]. You could also write to User:Aurvandil here, he is a metapedia administrator. I assume, adding a new language is quite a bit of work. Hu1 14:52, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
- We have already set up a Dutch Metapedia. Please get in touch with me (Daniel F.) through www.nordisk.nu, and I can get you involved. --Aurvandil 16:10, 8 March 2011 (CET)
DEFAULTSORT
I assume it makes a difference when you do not insert a space between the period and the first name. My edits always include the space. --DasGewisseEtwas 22:46, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- AFAIK it does not make a difference. You can do it for style reasons but in the the text it shows up the same. SpeakFree 22:48, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
If you have {{DEFAULTSORT:Grimm, Wilhelm}} and {{DEFAULTSORT:Grimm,Jacob}}, the latter should be showed first in categories, but does it while the space comes before the letter in ASCII? --DasGewisseEtwas 22:52, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- You're right, I just tried it out with Jim Jones and John Paul Jones. The space does matter. But most person articles lack DEFAULTSORT so it's pretty much a mess anyways. SpeakFree 23:00, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
- I tell you the reason why most articles lack. The people here do not invest time in articles and forget to add many things as they forget the articles which need attention. Worst of all, much is copied from Wikipedia, who is interested in nourishing Wikipedia articles? If you look at the histories of my articles which are few in numbers, you see that there are always things to add. --DasGewisseEtwas 23:11, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
Category:Christians Category:Muslims etc.
I have answered to your question on my talk page. --DasGewisseEtwas 23:11, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
