User talk:Fast

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Your contributions
Hi Fast, I was just curious why you update your user page so often if you're not a part of Memory Alpha outside of that. According to your contributions, you've only made two edits outside of your user page. User pages aren't intended to be blogs or other such utilities, so if this is your intention, I'll have to ask you to stop. If not, I apologize. Thanks. --Vedek Dukat Talk 18:35, 3 Jan 2006 (UTC)


 * Although you are allowed to include what you wish on your user page, bear in mind that "Your user page is not storage space: Do not use Memory Alpha for storing material unrelated to the project." Sufficed to say, the exploration of "Wischi Waschi science" is not really conducive to "the project." Nevertheless, there really is nothing 'in stone' that limits your contributions, however, also bear in mind that your page does take up a lot of space in our database of finite space-- considering each save you make essentially creates a duplicate over the previous edit. Being that you really are not contributing to "the project," the questionability of your user page does appear to to some as if you are taking advantage of your "free" user space on MA for your own projects and not ours. --Alan del Beccio 19:15, 3 Jan 2006 (UTC)


 * I will move the page to http://conlang.wikicities.com/wiki/Pi:Language in that case, but it will be using the same pool of resources there, as both are hosted by Wikicities. I appreciate your attitude of protecting resources you aren't paying for but if resource usage is your main argument, there will be no change to resource usage as Wikicities have already invited me to use their resources. I have no intend to make more than marginal contributions to memory-alpha.org, but the idea of a wiki is to be a place for major and minor contributors alike, isn't it?


 * I'm not sure it's really resources per se that we're worried about, just the fact that you are not a part of the project. I think it is the principle; for example, a lot of members explore ideas similar to yours on their user pages, but they're a part of the team and contribute elsewhere regularly. That's why I skirted the issue in a way - as Alan said, there's nothing "in stone" to say you can't do this, but it does seem odd. --Vedek Dukat Talk 23:41, 4 Jan 2006 (UTC)


 * As I said I have no intend to make more than marginal contributions to memory-alpha.org, so I will move the page away. --fast 10:29, 5 Jan 2006 (UTC)