User talk:Keinstein

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Keinstein, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions.

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Again, welcome!  SeveroTC 18:03, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Strikethrough

I saw you mention about striking obsolete text. You can do this by placing strike tags, <s> and </s> either end of what you want to strike. Like this. Of course, you wouldn't do that on an article page, but it is a useful technique on talk pages. Regards, SeveroTC 19:48, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some help, please?

{{helpme}} Hello! I signed in a couple of days ago. I got the e-mail message on which I was asked to click to confirm myself. Now I have done that about as often as my ramshackle e-mail server has permitted, but to no avail. I haven't found the exact remedy on any Wiki page I've found (not being on the easiest of terms with a computer), and the deadline is drawing nearer.

I also have problems with error messages every time I turn pages (with Microsoft Explorer), and with faulty pages (Mozilla firefox). Can there be a connection?

In fact, I don't even know whether the problem is with Wiki or with my computer, and my real-life friends can't attend to me all the time... Could it be possible to have something of this clarified? Thanks beforehand, Keinstein 22:30, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm having a hard time understanding exactly what problems you are having, but no special settings should be needed to browse or edit on wikipedia. If you try asking your question again, we will try to get you some additional help. --After Midnight 0001 23:38, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

{{helpme}} Thank you very much indeed for trying! I'll try and see if I can clarify myself. I know nothing about computers. I wish I did, because they are so useful, but... When I created my Wiki account, I got a message back to my e-mail address. That mail contained an address, on which I was asked to click to confirm I was not a robot or whatever. If I didn't do so before the (22nd? 23rd? - my e-mail server is presently out of function, so I can't check it), my account would expire. Clicking on that address, I did get to Wikipedia, but only to the page telling me that my confirmation had failed. But I seem to have normal access to the Wiki facilities as long as my unconfirmed account remains valid.

The other problem, of which I don't know if it has anything to do with this at all: When I use Microsoft Internet Explorer, these error message templates pop up every time I turn pages (whether by clicking a link, subpaging with the top flaps or search-and-going). [A typical message reads: "[Error in] Line: 672 / Character: 35 / Error: '}' expected / Code: 0".]I click them away, and within the confines of each page, everything seems to work. When I use Mozilla firefox, the page-turning works; instead, some "edit" marks are displaced, and on the "edit" subpage many of the words are underlined in red (some hotchpotch from those changed or added by the last few editors, it seems (??)).

These Microsoft error messages and faulty Mozilla pages only turn up (anywhere near this regularly) when I'm browsing the English Wikipedia - not e. g. on Google, or German, Swedish or other Wikipedias I've peeped into. Keinstein 01:01, 23 July 2007 (UTC)


Since you are logging on to your account, the account is verified. However, if you switch e-mail addresses the server sends a message to your e-mail account that you want to switch to. You then have to click that link in order to verify your e-mail address. Now, for your technical issue with your browser, please ask the technology question to village pump. Thanks. Miranda 02:10, 23 July 2007 (UTC)