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[American Eagle]

As poorly as many editors think of it, Simple English Wikiquote (yes, the wiki that "translates" quotes) has never been this active! With the additions of four administrators in the last three days, things are moving along quite nicely. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/rolleyes.gif)

Yay for Simple English Wikiquote!

[thekohser]

I'll tell you what's wrong with Simple Wikipedia.

They have contributors giving them great, simple new articles about things like Waterfowl...

But then they descend upon those new contributors with pack attacks like this.

It is shameful.

[Alex]

I'll tell you what's wrong with Simple Wikipedia.

They have contributors giving them great, simple new articles about things like Waterfowl...

But then they descend upon those new contributors with pack attacks like this.

It is shameful.

Hardly a pack attack. Each thread is about something different, with one person other than you in each. I think the first one is completely unjustified, but the second, well, you could have been a little more mature and not spoken to Razorflame at all, but you did. It wasn't really necessary to bring your Yahoo Answers conflict over. Anyhow, please continue working on articles, and avoiding arguments and conflict. Hopefully you won't get banned from Simple... (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/mellow.gif)

[thekohser]

I'll tell you what's wrong with Simple Wikipedia.

They have contributors giving them great, simple new articles about things like Waterfowl...

But then they descend upon those new contributors with pack attacks like this.

It is shameful.

Hardly a pack attack. Each thread is about something different, with one person other than you in each. I think the first one is completely unjustified, but the second, well, you could have been a little more mature and not spoken to Razorflame at all, but you did. It wasn't really necessary to bring your Yahoo Answers conflict over. Anyhow, please continue working on articles, and avoiding arguments and conflict. Hopefully you won't get banned from Simple... (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/mellow.gif)

Thing is, I didn't have a "conflict" on Yahoo! Answers. I was attacked, unprovoked, by someone I've never interacted with before, who deliberately blocked my ability to respond to him via Yahoo! Answers, regarding our difference in opinion about Wikimedia projects. I thought that Wikimedia projects have a policy that editors shall not harass other editors about Wikimedia-related matters, even on non-Foundation sites. You know, the whole "stalking" thing.

Anyway, I'm trying to simplify this passage from the Simple article about Chrono Trigger:

Chrono Trigger is about a boy named Crono who goes to an event called the Millennium Fair to celebrate that it was now the year 1000 AD, and meets a strange girl named Marle. After going around the fair with her for a while, they go to a showing of his friend Lucca's teleportation machine. After Marle tries it, her pendant starts to shine, and she gets sucked into a portal without her pendant. Crono picks it up and has Lucca turn her machine on so he can go into the portal to save her. Crono appears in a strange place and is attacked by goblins. He goes to a town and finds out that he's in the year 600 AD. He goes to the castle and sees Marle in a dress, because when she was found, the knights thought she was their Queen Leene who had gone missing. He learns that she's actually Princess Nadia, a Princess in 1000 AD, but soon after, she disappears. Crono runs into Lucca who came back to the past, and she explains that Queen Leene is Marle's ancestor, and because they thought Marle was Queen Leene, Queen Leene's search ended, and she was never found, so all of her descendants including Marle disappeared. Crono and Lucca have to go find Queen Leene, and go to a church. They find out that it's actually a lair for monsters, and join with a knight who looks like a frog called Frog to find the Queen. They go deeper into the church and run into the Chancellor, who was actually a monster called Yakra. After they defeat him, they rescue Queen Leene and the Chancellor, and Marle returns. Frog leaves the castle in shame, and Crono, Marle, and Lucca return to the present.

Does anyone have any ideas about how to simplify this a little bit more? I think Lucca's time travel is going to be the most difficult aspect to reformat in terms understandable to both a child and/or someone learning English as a second language.

Greg

[thekohser]

Thing is, I didn't have a "conflict" on Yahoo! Answers. I was attacked, unprovoked, by someone I've never interacted with before, who deliberately blocked my ability to respond to him via Yahoo! Answers, regarding our difference in opinion about Wikimedia projects. I thought that Wikimedia projects have a policy that editors shall not harass other editors about Wikimedia-related matters, even on non-Foundation sites. You know, the whole "stalking" thing.

Looks like Razorflame lost another challenge on Yahoo! Answers. My snarky answer prevails as the best, while Razorflame's suffers in obscurity down in the dregs.

[American Eagle]

Thing is, I didn't have a "conflict" on Yahoo! Answers. I was attacked, unprovoked, by someone I've never interacted with before, who deliberately blocked my ability to respond to him via Yahoo! Answers, regarding our difference in opinion about Wikimedia projects. I thought that Wikimedia projects have a policy that editors shall not harass other editors about Wikimedia-related matters, even on non-Foundation sites. You know, the whole "stalking" thing.

Looks like Razorflame lost another challenge on Yahoo! Answers. My snarky answer prevails as the best, while Razorflame's suffers in obscurity down in the dregs.

thekohser, I have zero knowledge of you whatsoever. I have never, ever attacked you. But, you've given me a horrible first impression of you: you don't stop complaining, whining and acting like you're the poor victim everyone destroys, when it appears you've spent all your time attacking and demeaning everyone around you. It's no wonder the largest wiki in the world banned you.

[Somey]

thekohser, I have zero knowledge of you whatsoever. I have never, ever attacked you.

Are you trying to tell us you're not an integral part of the Massive International Anti-Kohser Communist Conspiracy? (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/wtf.gif)

Well, get with the program, dude! We have meetings every Wednesday at 4 PM, in the back of O'Malley's Coffee Shop on 13th and Locust Sts. Though I should warn you, first-timers have to pick up the check...

Also, I really did think until just now that the term "waterfowl" was merely another euphemism for pissing in the bathtub while somebody else is in it. Thanks for setting me straight, folks!