User talk:William H. Bickford

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Hello William, welcome to the Computers work group. You seem to like to write articles on programming languages. How about cooperating with User:Alex_Bravo who is doing that also to agree on a common format for such articles. --Markus Baumeister 20:00, 11 March 2007 (CDT)

Hi William, just to explain why List of common phrases in various languages was deleted: it consisted of four words left on the wiki for more than two hours. Please, if you're going to make a start on an article (or table of information), please make a more credible start than that. We don't mind stubs, but our stubs have got to be more substantial than that. --Larry Sanger 08:17, 13 March 2007 (CDT)

Programming languages

Hi, right now the three articles I started (C, Ruby, Perl) share the structure: Syntax, Hello World and analysis of the Hello World. This way it is much easier to compare different prog. langs. Which ones are you most interested in? I could get some help with them, as I'm no specialist. :-) --Rion 09:29, 13 March 2007 (CDT)

List of Languages

William, recently you created an article List of languages that has been nominated for speedydelete. As a constable, it is my job to delete along certain guidlelines. This article qualifies under:

  • it consists of two sentences or less, or 50 words or less, which have been left on the wiki for more than two hours;

If you would like to recreate it, that would be fine, but do develop it further. Also, I might suggest that you look into the CZ:Linguistics Workgroup. Thanks, and have fun! --Matt Innis (Talk) 13:48, 13 March 2007 (CDT)