User:Wilfred
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[edit] About me
Hi, I'm Wilfred, a yo-yoer from the UK. Rather than going it alone with a website written by me I realised that it's more fun to be part of a community created site. I've not been here from the beginning but I've been around for a while so can probably answer any questions you have. I'm also here to add my personal knowledge to the wiki. I'm also a stickler for spelling & grammar so many of my changes are just spelling corrections :-P
[edit] Current status:
Editing status: Normal
Editing as normal.
[edit] Admin-stuff
I'm an admin/mod/sysop type person here, so if you're interested in the general policies:
[edit] Banning
We have only banned people who only come on here to post spam links to casinos or whatever. We haven't banned a single yo-yoer, so we're pretty laid back. We could if we have to, but that hasn't happened yet. If you think something merits a ban, leave a message on my talk page.
[edit] Page protection
Again, we're pretty laid back about this, so not even the main page is protected. This is great in my opinion, as a number of people have contributed edits to that page. If the main page gets spammed hard, we may protect it temporarily/permanently, but that's pretty unlikely.
If you look really hard, a few pages are protected from editing. These are the ones in the Mediawiki name space. These are not content pages, they are internal and are part of the workings of the site. These are protected by default because a seemingly ok change could have unexpected consequences (frankly, I don't know what most of them do). If you think we should edit a protected page, use the discussion page with it.
We have also protected some of the pages involved with our competitions to prevent judging decisions being changed or people entering competitions that have long finished. Again, if you think we should unprotect it just use the discussion page.
[edit] Page deletion
Pages are only deleted when they're blank (or extremely short) and unused for long periods of time. If you want to flag an article for deletion add {{DeleteProposal}} to the page.
[edit] Projects
Occasionally I'll aim to do something biggish specifically. Of course, don't let that stop you editing the pages I'm focusing on, the more the merrier.
[edit] Current project:Stubs
We have too many stubs, I'm going to expand a few. Please don't let that stop anyone else expanding them though.
[edit] My Photos
I'm uploading various photos to YYW. Just post on my discussion page if you want higher resolution images.
[edit] Most recently learned tricks
- Brent Stole
- Spirit bomb
- Offstring whip
- Triple reverse trapeze laceration
- And whut
- Two-handed inside loops
[edit] Pages I'm most proud of
This is out of date now, there are many pages that rock :-)
- Styles Of Play -one of the best and most comprehensive style list on the web.
- Cleaning a Bearing -shaping up into a great page.
[edit] My sandbox
I've set myself up a sandbox to experiment with wiki markup language. Sandbox I Sandbox II
[edit] Spelling corrections
Every so often I will run searches to make sure yo-yo, yo-yoing and yo-yoer are hyphenated, and offstring is not hyphenated. 'Yoyo' check, 'Yoyoer' check, 'Yoyoing' check, 'Off-string' check.
[edit] Offline editing
I used to be more paranoid about the data here and had a very simple backup set up. I used the list of pages I've put together here. This is no longer an issue.
