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[edit] On making your page look cool

I suggest "borrowing" other people's code. As its wikipedia and technically under the GFDL, they shouldn't mind! Lots of people have theirs as templates, for example, my header is on a subpage, User:David Fuchs/bar. Other users who have cooler stuff going on... User:Daniel.Bryant, User:BostonMA, some others... all those cool boxes, etc, are CSS and HTML generated, so it should be easy to modify them.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by David Fuchs (talk • contribs) 19:06, 2 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] List of crisis hotlines by country

Hey. I completely agree with the deletion of this, but you created the deletion discussion as an Mfd, whereas it should be an Afd. You can see the instructions for nominating an article for deletion at WP:AFD#How to list pages for deletion. Thanks, Prolog 05:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I changed it from {{subst:afd1}} to {{subst:afdx|2nd}}. You can now create the discussion by following the redlink. The last discussion was over a year ago, so don't worry about it being the second nomination. Prolog 06:01, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
No problem. Considering this list is clearly in violation of WP:NOT and the phone number entries are either unverified or unverifiable, I'd be surprised if this survived again. Prolog 06:20, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
I forgot to mention that you might want to add {{db-author}} to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/List of crisis hotlines by country. Prolog 06:37, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

Hi Daniel. Nice work on those templates. I haven't got around to making a template myself yet, but I'm always impressed when other do. So well done. I have been pretty busy myself recently, so haven't been doing much editing beyond attempting to sort out tedious civility issues with problem editors. However, you seem to be doing just fine. One question though: Whats with the Jimbo "POV Pusher" Wales on your userpage? I don't have much of an opinion on Wales either way, but do remember that he is another Wikipedian and therefore WP:CIV and WP:NPA applies in reference to him as much as any other editor. Is there a reason for labeling him as such? Rockpocket 05:50, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh, I see. You'd be surprised at some of the accusations leveled at Wales by some editors, including POV pushing. There was an incident where Wales edited his own article regarding who founded Wikipedia - which is a big no-no - which caused a bit of a fuss (See Talk:Jimmy Wales#Co-Founder). So I wouldn't be too sure it was mean as a joke by the person you borrowed it from. Rockpocket 06:35, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MensKeperRa

This user doesn't even have his facts straight about who created the article. My involvement is minimal - I objected to his lobbying users to delete the article concerned. This user has ramrodded through several AfDs that in my opinion were unjustified, getting his way by actively lobbying other users and posting histrionic derogatory screeds about the subject in the AfD. He seems to have ulterior motives, but I would hesitate to guess precisely what they are. If he bothers to make his first point, I might respond, if it is logically and not emotionally based. Best regards, Jefferson Anderson 16:09, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Really? I haven't finished catching up on my watchlist yet this AM. I'm sure I'll figure out what you mean soon. :-) Jefferson Anderson 16:00, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Ah, just caught up with his "closing" his account. A peak at his last edit before blanking his user and talk page shows he had no use for consensus unless it agreed with him! I suspect WP is better off without him, for now at least. Jefferson Anderson 16:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A B Spelling template

Typically, documentation for templates looks like the docs on Template:Uw-test3. If you review some of the templates in Wikipedia:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace you'll see that hardly any of them use background colors for the documentation, and people certainly pay enough attention to them. I'm not going to get into a fight about this, but random people are likely to keep coming across the template and fixing it to match the rest, so you might as well change it, or go and try to get consenus to change all the other ones. Hope this helps! JesseW, the juggling janitor 03:09, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Holy crap you're way too smart for me to follow (sorry, haven't gotten used to the wikipedia - uh - lingo (see what I mean?) yet. But when you say background color are you talking about the orange stripe in it - cause I can def. take that out easily, I mean I only added it to seperate the pic from the text.Daniel()Folsom T|C|U 03:36, 8 February 2007 (UTC) (Copied from User_talk:JesseW)
I'm not sure what Wikipedia specific lingo I used, but... I was referring to the white on black text in the list of arguments for the template. I don't have an opinion on the colors of the actual template -- people have made complicated suggestions about those, but I don't understand them well enough to say anything, but I do think we shouldn't use white text, just because it's harder to read, and people can change it to black if they perfer in their own systems. JesseW, the juggling janitor 06:12, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
By "house style" I mean the way things look on the Template:Uw-test3 page; starting with Usage just in bold, followed by enough wikitext examples to show the common forms of the template, followed by textual notes documenting more subtle aspects of the template. And, although it's an added flourish for a low-use templates like this one, putting the documentation on a seperate subpage, and transcluding it onto the template page. Hope this helps. JesseW, the juggling janitor 04:56, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Remove Auto

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

Autoblock of 158.59.200.115 lifted or expired.

Request handled by: Yamla 16:15, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

There are about 24 people using this IP at one time (as it is a computer science classroom) including myself and User:David Fuchs - all in all 72 people use this ip per day. Daniel()Folsom T|C|U 16:11, 9 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Hi and Go Template

Hi Daniel. I made a few edits to your template, and just thought I would let you know. Actually, I came across it entirely by accident, and didn't realize you had made it until I noticed the talk-page request redirected to here! Rockpocket 09:30, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] testing testing testing

TESTINGG!!!!!! TESTTESTIIIIINNNNNNNNGGG!!!

16:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Testing testing testing test2

test 2


That should do it.' Flyingidiot 16:50, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How i did that

i just removed the endcap for the table, and it most likely will show in the archive —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Flyingidiot (talk • contribs) 16:57, 11 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Numbers

I've replied on my talk page. Oh, and thanks for pointing out the POV problem on the Play n trade article. I'd assumed that the statement was true, but without references (which I've been unable to find), it does read a lot like advertisement. Cheers, Black Falcon 22:14, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Imagemap

http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/ImageMapEdit/ImageMapEdit.html?en now you have your own logo! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Flyingidiot (talk • contribs) 12:07, 12 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Hi...

I've replied on my talk page. MastCell 16:07, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Archiving WP:REQT

Thanks for helping with the cleanup at WP:REQT. After the backlog gets worked down, I was thinking that maybe unresolved requests should stay up for a month, and resolved requests for a week. Does that sound reasonable? —Dgiest c 20:20, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh wow, so I just had another idea for archiving RTs. Maybe this would make things too complicated - but the goal is to have a easy start page. Ok, so you know how currently users will go to the page and portentially be kidna overwhellmed at all of the text - I'm thinking that maybe we should auto-archive everything by using Werdnabot (where you can say archive after 3,4,5 ... days) and put them into a page called "to be categorized" or something. This way we can have a system that tells people exactly what should/shouldn't be archived (anything that hadn't been archived by Werdnabot stays) and it makes it less daunting- what do you think?Daniel()Folsom T|C|U 20:40, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Ok for some reason I'm having a strange issue on my watchlist - could you respond on my talk page - sorry for the inconvienience ...Daniel()Folsom T|C|U 21:42, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I think the volume of requests is small enough that once we get all the old stuff archived, there won't be much need for an automated solution. —Dgiest c 21:53, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] good one!

hah, i figured you would revert that edit i made. I just couldnt resist taking advantage of it. anyway, no harm done. thanks for the info on the elementary schools and such hahahahaha.Realtimekid 00:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Day's journey

I like to reconsider your opinion. I propose remove the del tag. I just searched for the journey distance. I hope it will not disaper til tomorow. For the name I'm not shure singular day of jaourney or plurar. What do you think ?

Nasz 07:33, 22 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Hi!

Hi Daniel. Thanks for the offer. At the moment, I have been busy helping set up Wikipedia:WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration, there are a number of random articles in there that need writing if you ever feel like doing some research on a random topic!

I've been checking out your contributions and you appear to be well into the swing of things, which is great. You are doing excellent work. Moreover, you now seem to be pretty adept in the ways of Wikipedia (more so than I in template creation, it seems!). While I am very happy to remain as a mentor for as long as you wish, if and when you feel ready to branch out of the official adoption programme just drop me a note. I have no qualms with you flying the nest, so to speak, and will be pleased to graduate you whenever you feel ready. Of course, whenever you choose to graduate, I will always be happy offer advice if needed. In the meantime, keep up the good work and let me know if i can be of any further assistance! Rockpocket 08:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] You helped choose Rwandan Genocide as this week's WP:ACID winner

 Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Rwandan Genocide was selected to be improved to featured article status.
Hope you can help.

AzaBot 23:04, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

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