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this link might help but don't click on the top right link of this page or there will be nothing left to learn...

Email John (@wordie.org). He can do it for you.

How do I delete my profile?

Try adding the other people again as contributors. Currently, no other people are set as contributors to the Our Favorite Words list. Go to the list, click 'Edit' under the list name. Scroll down to 'Words can be added by' and check the 'Me and these people:' option. Enter Wordie usernames or email addresses of the people you want to contribute to the list, then click 'Edit List' to save the new setting. They should then be able to contribute to your list.

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Q: when i created my list i only wrote down 2 users who can add to my list. one of them was trying to add a word and did not have the little add box on the page when she navigated to my page. the other hasnt signed up yet. i tried to edit the list and add the names again and it still didnt work. what did i do wrong?

"This list", in chained_bear's comment, was just a way to say "click here if you want to read which page I am talking about", and it was an anchored link, not a tag, indeed.

You're looking at regular hyperlinks in each case: ?Plethora (I think you meant Prolagus) linked to two tag pages, and chained_bear linked to a list page. Tags appear on word pages (e.g. 'meta' on this page), but they also have their own dedicated pages.

...If that's what you were asking.

2 months agog Plethora defines a Wordie tag as a way to link words, and gives 2 examples of tagged words, which were links to the "central" word page for each. So far i'm good. But then the following comment made by chained_bear' ("How Do I Use This Site?"), a Wordie tag is used on a list called "this list", which as promised was a list.

Where did I go wrong when I expected "this list" to be anchored html, not tagged?

Q How do I delete a tag?

A Just click [add tags/pos] again, then delete the unwanted tag.

Hmm, sorry c_b, I just assumed you didn't intend to italicise your answer as well as your question, and that Pro's subject line was also not meant to be itals.

You know what they say about assumption...

I realise I'm making the problem worse, but all the tangential comments dilute the effectiveness of this page as an FAQ resource.

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I see what you mean chained_bear. No problem.

What about it? There's a close-italics tag at the end of my post, what's the problem here?

c_b: what about the italic capital a: at How Do I Use This Site?

Plethora: my tag is most certainly closed.

Daz: Thanks for dissing a site the rest of us obviously like. Would it not have been simpler to just leave? How often do you intend to check this page and see if people responded? *eyeroll*

Another quotation for the mentions page, then...

Bye Daz, you shan't be missed.

I spy an unclosed ital tag... tsk tsk c_b!
:)

Edit: Daz, by all means leave Wordie if you want. We all know that it's not for everyone. But insulting people is never the way to go.

I would like to withdraw from any affiliation with this site. When I signed up a few minutes ago, I had no idea how poorly conceived this site is.

I have consistently tried to avoid websites designed by morons, but this time I blew it.

Q: Is there some kind of user's manual for this site?

A: No, and there are few rules (if any), but there are a whole lot of opinionated regular contributors! See this list for a few helpful tips. The tips themselves are on the word pages, so click on each word for more info, conversation, or general banter.

Q What are tags for?
A There are no formal rules - we are on Wordie, after all. But in general, tags are meant to relate words to each other, so that you can easily find words, for instance, in different languages (e.g. Italian) or pertaining to a specific jargon (e.g. scientific name).

Q: I'm a spammer. How can I use Wordie?

A: No way! The creator and webmaster of Wordie is also a passionate user. He'll destroy you - and you'll get the Wordie treatment.

Similar principles apply to e.g. Blogger profile links (and make sure you link to your profile, e.g. for Blogger it'll be a user-number like 0123456789 as in http://www.blogger.com/profile/0123456789, not example as in http://example.blogspot.com).

Q Why doesn't my facebook link work?

A It's your fault, since John can't be wrong. Go to your facebook profile: its URL looks like this
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=675003241
right? Now just copy the number (in this case, 675003241) and paste it into the facebook box of your Wordie profile page.

Ah, yes. WeirdPet.

Since WordNet got a mention:

Q Why are some of these definitions a little... strangely chosen?

AThe marvel we call WeirdNet is down either to WordNet itself or John's implementation—we're not sure which, but it's provided so much entertainment that it's been kept unfixed, as a sort of pet or mascot.

Thank you, Pro! I think the general consensus was that if people already know how to embed images, there's no reason to stop them, but Wordie's about words, and nobody wanted to see the character of the site change in any essential way. :)

Which is not to say people can't embed images, but your comment is right on the money--most people use links.

Q Can I embed images/videos?

A You can, in the sense that it is possible. It is still unclear whether this is appreciated, so Wordies usually tend to link to an external page where users can see the image/video.

Q Why do some words have definitions, and some don't? And how do you add the definition?

A The definitions come from an open-source project called WordNet. If they don't provide a definition, then Wordie doesn't show one. So far, there is no way to add a definition - but you can add it as a comment on the word page.

Q: How come I have a word listed twice in the same list?

A: It got added twice! This, I presume, is a bug and not a feature. If it's an open list, that means multiple people added it. If it's a closed list, that means you added it twice.

The way to fix it is to delete the word, of course.

- FOR OPEN LISTS: If you're the list creator, you have the ability to choose which contributor is more special and delete one of the duplicates. If you're not the list creator, both words will remain listed until one of the contributors deletes their duplicate, like some sort of verbal, apathetic game of chicken.

- FOR CLOSED LISTS: If you delete one dupe, both dupes will disappear, dropping the word count by 2. Then, you will have to re-add it to have it listed again.

Q I'm new here! How can I start adding words?

A Just create a list: http://wordie.org/lists/new
Then follow the instructions: type your words in the box after "add word:". Then hit "add".
You just created a link to a word page! Click on it, and add a comment (if you like).

Q Cool website! Can I add anything I like?

A Yes, you can. But don't forget you are sharing it with more than 8000 users. Be respectful - or nicely disrespectful.

Pedantic aside: Wordie declares itself to be XHTML (albeit served, yes, as text/html), and therefore tags technically ought to be lowercase:

<a href="http://www.example.com/">Linked text here</a>

Here is a really good reference for using character entities in comments. Each entity begins with an ampersand and ends with a semicolon.

I copied and pasted from John's answer on features :-)

Ooh! Frindley was asking about that recently, wasn't she?

Q: What if I want to use square brackets in my text without linking to a word, like in [...]?

A: Use character entities: &#91; and &#93;

SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOW TO MAKE A WEB LINK.
This is useful for people who want to link to lists but don't know how. Using the Brackets [ ] is for words, not lists. I've seen some people try to link lists this way, and it doesn't work.

This is done by making a simple HTML tag. The example is below.

<A HREF="blah">Linked text here</A>

Where "blah" is, you replace that with the URL. The URL is the exact web address. To get that, all you have to do is highlight the URL/Address at the top of your browser and then COPY-PASTE it into where the "blah" is. That's it! Enjoy!

Q: How can I delete a comment I made?

A: Hit the "edit" button, save it again and then the "delete" option will be available to you.

Oh, well, I don't know how to say it, but whatever, you know what I mean. Maybe.

roflmao with maggots flying out sionnach

Don't you mean "There is also missing to us a fuck section", Pro? :-}

We also miss a fuck section.

Oh, and there's a FAQ tag, originating on ambulance, but little-used to date. Maybe because of overlap with the 'meta' list and tag?

Seeing Tulimeera's comment on Prolagus's profile about 'FAQ-ignoring' reminded me about the absence of a FAQ page; Asativum noted that about three months ago on features (in reference to comments by John here about maybe writing one someday).

Incidentally, help has been listed for a while, but the only comment there involves Apple keyboards.