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Revision as of 15:16, 14 July 2004 by Bishonen (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Good evening, Bishonen. Saw your additions to Parental leave. Hope you continue to contribute, and you might want to create a user page. Geogre 18:47, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hello there, Geogre, good afternoon to you. Did you find the phrase "minority parent" communicative? It doesn't really make good sense, I know, but putting it in a more reasoned way seemed to weigh down the paragraph disproportionately, while I did think the gender aspect worth mentioning. Please edit if you have any suggestion.
IRC
Good middle of the night, Bishonen. I just received a message from another user that you might find helpful as well. "You ever go to Wikipia IRC chat? Misplaced Pages:IRC channels -- orthogonal 00:57, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)" I mention this in case it's a resource you have overlooked. As for the "minority parent," I thought it was clear, but I agree that a more felicitous phrase could be wished. At the same time, I, too, am at a loss for one, and I am occassionally made aware of the differing reading levels of our users. It could well confuse some of our less experienced readers. Perhaps "secondary care giver" would work? It, too, is not an elegant phrase, but I think "caregiver" is now a well known enough term to be comprehensible to all the readers. Geogre 01:23, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Like you, Geogre, I have never irc'd, but if there's ever a good time window for me to chat live with Americans, maybe I'll try. I've got Mozilla with all the trimmings. As for secondary care giver, thanks for the suggestion, but it's rather politically incorrect for the Swedish gender politics scene. The discourse tends to avoid suggesting that parents might be primary/secondary in relation to the child. --Bishonen 06:02, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Sorry about moving your comments here, Bishonen, but I thought this might be a more logical position for the discussion. Primary and secondary caregiver does imply that one parent does the work, I agree,and I guess the only thing I can say is that in the Anglophone world there may not be as much awareness of the political implications of the language, so it might be an answer in the English Misplaced Pages that would never fly in the Swedish one. I'll keep thinking, though, and maybe one of those thoughts will come up with a solution. (There aren't that many thoughts, and they all need something to do in there.)
- During the summer, I seem to be devoting enormous time to Misplaced Pages -- to the detriment of my social contacts, grocery shopping, official form filling out, etc. -- so I'm on quite a bit. I mean to wean. Geogre 12:42, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Hello, Geogre, do you find my username on your own talk page an embarrassment, by any chance? I picked it a bit at random, sorry about that. I just looked for you on the irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia channel, but didn't see your name there. If that means you're weaning, all the better, IMO, and I should, too. (I'm on right now, but wouldn't know very well what to do, or how to tell, if anybody tried to talk to me there.)
The Groke
I noted that today the article entitled The Groke is on the Clean Up list. Don't know if the character is memorable enough, or if there's more to say about her, but I thought you might know it. Geogre 17:44, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)
The test
http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Are_You_a_Wikipediholic_Test I'm about to take it. IRC last night was ... was ... weird. Anyhow. Tough night last night, very poor sleep, got a cold all of a sudden (low fever, sniffles). Feeling rotten. Don't know where I am. Geogre 14:43, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- So did you take the test yet? Not that you need to, sure you're a wicipediholic, and dragging me down with you. I've been out some today, showing my American cousin (Kerstin/Meg, 47) and her son (Eric, 16, jazz saxophonist) the town. I'm sorry you're feeling bad. :-( --Bishonen 15:16, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC) (Say, will my username stop being red if I type a few words into the user page?)