User talk:Flyingcat

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Can I ask you for $1?

We're 9 days into our 30 day campaign, and we've raised $537. That's fantastic! The idea of Orain, our message, our purpose - it means something. The belief that there can be a community led, a community ran, and a community funded website that's not ad-driven or profit based works.

Our community has believed in us from the beginning, and I firmly believe that our community will stand by us and continue to support us. It's okay if we don't reach our $5,000 goal. $5,000 was a best case scenario. $1,000 enables us to stay online another year. It enables us to keep looking at alternatives and other ways to stay online and cut costs. $500 halves that time and shortens our research ability. 11% of our goal is better than 0% of our goal.

I've made a pledge from the beginning. I've vowed to never force ads on this community for the purpose of keeping Orain alive. Ads are what separate us from the other farms we compete with. I will give my personal funds before I enable ads by force. Ads are a nuisance that you should have a voice in. We've toyed with and are developing the idea of individual wikis who want ads within their community. Some people can't donate a dollar, and that's okay. That's their way of giving and I'm down for that.

To the backers who have helped so far, Thank you!

If you haven't had a chance to donate so far, please please do. Your $1 will help make a difference in the WikiFarm world. You can help us stay online, free, and ad free.

If you have a little more than a dollar and want an Orain t-shirt, we've got those. We've also got hoodies, coffee cups, and blankets. Most of these things will have to be purchased in bulk so there's likely going to be an online store for the leftover donation drive items once the campaign is over.

As always, I want to hear from you. If you have ideas to help our Indiegogo campaign please send them to me or email me.

I apologize for spamming you like this, but I love Orain, I believe in Orain, and I want to fight to keep it alive. If you no longer want to receive urgent messages like these, please send me an email and I'll ensure that you're not bothered further.

With love,
Dustin "Dusti" Muniz
08:43, 14 January 2015 (GMT)

Dusti: I'll consider it. By the way, have you thought of configuring these mass message things so they work with LiquidThreads, Flow or whatever the latest fancy software is going to be? They think we use regular talk pages. Spike the Cat (talk) 18:59, 14 January 2015 (GMT)

The blasphemy! I'm going to poke some of the sysadmins and see if we've got anything that'll work with liquid threads. For what it's worth, I didn't use MassMessage for these, I used AWB. And thanks for considering a donation - we really could use it, and you can get some cool gear ;) :) Cheers, Dusti (talk) 22:09, 14 January 2015 (GMT)

Previous page history was archived for backup purposes at User talk:Spike the Cat/LQT Archive 1 on 2016-05-31.

The capitalization is in fact correct, being pretty much the only way we can represent an emphasis in an article title (markup does not get parsed as such if you include it). That said, there would be little lost in your rename.

However, the reason I reverted your rename is because we do not permit users to change page names at whim. Page name changes are Serious Business for many reasons, and the proper procedure for doing one is to propose it -- and provide the reasons you think it is a good idea -- in the Trope Talk forum. It will be discussed, and we will get a consensus on the proposal from those users who contribute before we do anything. In the future, please follow this procedure when you feel a page needs a name change. Thanks!

Ah, sorry about that. I thought that might be the case. I know that about emphasis, but I wasn't sure it was meant to have any because the TV Tropes page has the word lowercase (only the "actual" page title has "HAD" -- it seems to have been overridden). I'll head over to Trope Talk when I have time.

Hello! I noticed that you moved "Politically-Incorrect Villain" to "Politically Incorrect Villain" because you'd never seen the hyphen used in that phrase (and because we had "Politically Incorrect Hero" as a counter-example). I've moved the page back to "Politically-Incorrect Villain" (and moved "Politically Incorrect Hero" to "Politically-Incorrect Hero"). In this case, the hyphen is used to show that the words are a single adjective and should not be separated.

The APA Style Guide offers the example "the adolescents resided in two parent homes" (they resided in two homes) and "the adolescents resided in two-parent homes" (they resided in homes with two parents).

The Chicago Manual of Style offers "a group of eight- to ten-year-olds" (everyone in the group is aged eight to ten) as opposed to "a group of eight to ten year-olds" (there are eight to ten in the group, and they're all aged one).

Wikipedia offers:

• Man-eating shark (as opposed to man eating shark, which could be interpreted as a man eating the meat of a shark)
• Wild-goose chase (as opposed to wild goose chase, which could be interpreted as a goose chase that is wild)
• Long-term contract (as opposed to long term contract, which could be interpreted as a long contract about a term)
• Zero-liability protection (as opposed to zero liability protection, which could be interpreted as there being no liability protection)

I know how hyphens work. I cannot recall seeing "politically-incorrect" before, and there is no danger of ambiguity here, so this "lesson" seems rather pointless.

Your moving of the page implied to me that you didn't know how hyphens work; my apologies for assuming.

You might not have seen the hyphenated term because the phrase is almost always seen in contexts where "correct" and "incorrect" are the terms that the adjective "politically" modifies. (That, and many people ignore style guides. Repetition of an incorrect usage does not make the usage correct, IMHO.) In these cases, the nouns being modified are "hero" and "villain".