User talk:Clannagael

Welcome to Uncyclopedia

Spike is a grumpy old dog. You can stroke his fur, or you can be smitten by his stick. It is up to you.

Hello, Clannagael, and welcome to Uncyclopedia. This is a wiki (a collection of pages anyone can edit). Words in blue are "links" and can be clicked to take you to another page. This wiki is for comedy. It pretends it's Wikipedia, but we make people laugh, not bore them. If you aren't interested in a fake encyclopedia but in writing fake news stories, we have UnNews, and there are other projects for scripts, lyrics, how-to guides, and so on.

What you can do

You can create your own article. For starters, create it under your own name; for example, User:Clannagael/Bedbug. (The red instead of blue is a link to a page that doesn't yet exist.) We have a list of articles that need to be created. You can help without writing articles; just read articles and, if you see an improvement in writing or in comedy, jump in and edit it. In fact, you can help without writing at all, such as organizing, watching for vandals, or even greeting other new users.

What you need

To write articles, you need a sense of humor and an ability to write good English. We all have strengths and weaknesses and you can get help in any area. But everyone needs an ability to work with other people. Be polite, positive, and helpful toward others, and assume others are doing the same toward you.

What to read

Here are some pages that might help you:

• Beginner's Guide
• Help pages
• Our vanity policies: Why we don't want articles about your friends, and probably not about your school
• And, if you need to learn what is funny, what is not, and what seems funny except that it's been tried a hundred times here already, read "How to be funny and not just stupid."

For personal help

• The administrators are willing to help you, and several Uncyclopedians are willing to adopt you.
• I will watch this page for a while and will know if you edit it. Afterward, you can contact me on my own talk page.
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I hope you enjoy it here and write a lot of funny stuff! Spıke ¬ 16:22 26-Feb-13

The Troubles

Thank you for fixing the grammar in this article. (But you missed the same mistake in the previous sentence!) However, the section you took aim at is largely name-calling, which is not funny unless someone puts some actual work into it; and may I nominate you? There are plenty of ways to play it: Illustrate real hypocrisy, or vilify a group but in a innocent-and-pretty treatment, but don't let this section call a group "xenophobic racists" as though that were a joke. If the original author didn't mean it, the reader will never know. Thanks in advance for whatever skill you can apply to this section! Spıke ¬ 16:22 26-Feb-13

Thanks, that's more aggressive. The result is more encyclopedic but still suffers from the impression that the author is trying to convince more than amuse. I am 2,000 miles too far West to be on either side, but have started at the top to make the article a little more playful. However, I stalled at Section 1.1. It is toilet humor, I don't know whether it's based on anything in reality and don't know enough of the facts to rewrite it. Spıke ¬ 19:23 27-Feb-13