User talk:Swift

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Contribute first, delete later
Dear Wikibooker,

It is in general a good idea for a new member in a community to contribute and try to improve on existing materials before you go and submit a lot of pages for deletion. It would be great if you could turn the wikiversity pages into useful resources. If not, please leave the chance open for somebody else. Hillgentleman | //\\ |Talk 06:21, 25 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Please don't bite. I have a username which you are fine to address me with. I, furthermore, look at myself more as a Wikimedian and have no intention of crippling the Japanese stream or topic but hope to make them useful resources. They currently aren't. If you want to be involved in improving these educational resources feel free to contribute. Just don't block others trying to clean up the mess that well-intentioned, but half-hearted attempts have created. --Swift 08:22, 25 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Dear Wikimedian Swift, I am surprised. I have absolutely no intention to "bite" you in any way. And I appologise if you perceive it otherwise, and would be grateful if you point out how that happened.  As to the notion of "don't bite", And as I can see, you are an experienced wikimedia but not an experienced wikiversian, and I think it rarely happens that a newbie submit half a dozen pages for deletion.   Your work is much appreciated.  It is just that, in general, creating content is much more urgent and important than trying to organise them in one way or another.  Please keep coming back. Hillgentleman | //\\ |Talk 13:26, 25 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Both of your comments here sound pretty snarky to me, Hillgentleman. Whether or not creating is more important than organizing (I think so too, of course), if someone wants to get involved by organizing, we shouldn't insist that they "build up some WV street cred" before jumping in. Addressing someone as "dear Wikibookian" and telling them how to do things certainly seems like biting to me. --SB_Johnny talk 20:40, 25 February 2009 (UTC)