User talk:Gimli

Haeremai, talofa, Willkommen, bienvenue, moin moin, welcome
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Enjoy!

Thanks for bringing up the "new page" question on the Central Wikicity. I'm a newly-created admin here but I know nothing about the technical side of any solution to that. Most of your additions, though, look like character names that were already on the list of characters. I hope there isn't any needless duplication.

I'm not sure that it's a good idea to broaden this to all of Tolkien's work: that invites criticisms - as we have had in the past - that we are duplicating earlier wikis. However, I'm happy to see it all come in if people want to add it.

Please use the proper acknowledgment for pages that copy from Wikipedia. It's very easy.

Finally for today - plural is fine for category names but not for article names. Elves redirects to elf and other plurals should all do likewise.

Kind regards

Robin Patterson 21:44, 15 Jan 2006 (UTC)