'''On DeleteOffTopic, just because it is OffTopic!!!''' ''Explanation and suggestion to '''new comers'''. Especially to those who got their enthusiasm squashed due to the GotDeleted attack.'' CommunityExpectations change over time. I have read in a separate page on WardsWiki, that made an excellent analogy of this place to a coffee shop. So if your contributions, or mine in this post, got deleted in part/whole by other parties, then it is ''''just karma'''. * but if you back up your own edits on a PersonalWiki, you are helping yourself when fate does extend you a welcoming smile. ---- There are things you can do to increase the chances of WikiZen''''''s taking a TolerateOffTopic view: * make sure you are a known personality here, as there are lots of one-off/short-term visitors who left material that nobody else care about. ** Set up a proper HomePage and use a UserName in your posts would help. * Hopefully you are known for some collaboration in OnTopic pages. * Very helpful if you are known for helping out other new comers who share similar general principles, it would be good. * If you model your behavior after a WikiGnome, your GnomeFee may come in the form of extra tolerance for your own interests. * If your OffTopic interests are not controversial (generate more heat than light), that would stand a better chance to being left alone. * If you do post OffTopic material, please do a small test page first. Survival rate is much better if there are other people here with similar interests. See also WikiNewbieToBeginners ---- '''Tough gnoming work needed''' * help reduce EditWars. Blessed are the peace makers. Just make sure you do not get dragged into one yourself. See LetHotPagesCool for some hints * help reduce ThreadMess (very difficult but worthwhile if you have the skills and patience) ---- '''Your say''' ---- '''Have a nice day !''' ---- '''As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.''' ''Albert Einstein'' ---- '''Age only matters when it concerns cheese!''' * ''Were that only but true, It isn't!''