User talk:JimCubb

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[edit] Welcome

Hello, JimCubb, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! –Outriggr § 03:41, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Listas category

Hi there. I noticed this edit on the listas category talk page. You managed to sum it up pretty well! :-) I suspect that the "Those who can make the changes do not see a need to track the usage of DEFAULTSORT" is less to do with 'no need' and more to do with 'no interest'. An obvious need to track DEFAULTSORT is to ask the simple question: "Which biographical articles lack DEFAULTSORT"? The only way to answer that is to have a way of tracking which articles are using DEFAULTSORT. That is why I set up the categories to track the listas parameter, as this is a way to track usage of a template parameter. DEFAULTSORT, though, is a magic word (see Wikipedia:Magic word), and it seems these can't be tracked, or at least not easily. Carcharoth 04:32, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Benazir Photo

Thanks for the comment. I missed that...been irregular with wiki recently. My Benazir Photo was on the front page?

--iFaqeer 10:57, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] RE:Helpme

Hi there, and thanks for your efforts! Yes, there is a way to revert to the previous version of a page. Doing this is actually quite simple. I'll explain step-by-step;

  1. Go to the page's history and find the last good version (commonly called the LGV).
  2. Click on the version time of the edit you're reverting to.
  3. Click the "edit this page" tab, then fill in the edit summary appropriately and save.

This will bring the page back to the edit you chose, removing all information added after. Hope that helps! If you have any additional questions, please do come by my talk page. Cheers, Master of Puppets Call me MoP!☺ 23:39, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

It is not only simple but almost intuitive -- Edit the last good version before the bad versions and save it. I've been working much too long in systems that are not intuitive. I need to remember how to get back into the mind set that knows that all drafts are available. I think I know how to do that.

JimCubb (talk) 23:49, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

We try to keep this place as user-friendly as possible. :) Cheers! Master of Puppets Call me MoP!☺ 23:55, 9 March 2008 (UTC)