User talk:Melancholie

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[edit] Questionable Zen Linux edits

Why are you persistently adding an exclamation mark (!) to the disambiguation section of the Zen Linux article? This would appear to add nothing, and since Zenwalk Linux's article does not include an exclamation mark as part of its name, I am at a los as to why you are adding it. --Maru 23:44, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

I have seen it as a sentence. And on the end of a sentence like "Do not..." normally a exclamation mark is placed! Furthermore I just wanted to adjust this section in Zen Linux and Zenwalk Linux and an other article to look equal. If there should be a convention of not using ...!, then sorry for possible circumstances! But for me it was like correcting a misspelling. --Melancholie 17:57, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
/chuckles. Ahh, if only most people had such creative reasons. I'll just take this opportunity to set you straight: generally, we try to avoid exclamation marks: both for NPOV reasons, encyclopedic reasons, and because the stylistic rules are derived from Strunk and White's Elements of Style- which advises strongly against exclamation marks when discussing factual or empirical subjects, and to reserve it for personal reactions. --Maru 21:32, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gratuitous FreeBSD Content Removals?

There were a couple of removals of content that seems useful from 209.217.123.158 on FreeBSD tonight. Since entering a revert war is not exactly my idea of spending a weekend, what is the best way to protect the page from similar things in the future — especially from changes that remove content without any sort of log message? — Keramida 00:43, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the edits to Template:Female adult bio

Just wanted to drop you a note to say thank you for your work on the Female adult bio template. Excellent work! -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. Think out loud 18:24, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Last Preview Version (Skype)

Hi. You've added a reference to "Last Preview Version" on the Skype article. Do you mind removing the reference again? At the moment, Skype has preview version available. Thanks. --Valentinian 12:48, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Hiding undefined lines

regrettably for IE and Dillo it is simply not possible to hide a parameter if undefined (only if empty) --you, 21 October 2005

See how it works now at Template:Infobox OS ;-) --tyomitch 19:44, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of templates

For what reason did you tag a whole lot of "Template:Latest preview release/xxx" pages for speedy deletion? enochlau (talk) 09:06, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

I second the above qestion. None of the ones I have looked at appear to fit any of the Speedy delete criteria I am removing thsoe deelte tags for which i can see no reason. I would ask that you use one of the speedy delete templates that provide a specific reason in future, and stick narrowly to the CSD reasons. DES (talk) 17:01, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

I hope you are getting the message. I believe your tags are OK but please: a) do not use a simple delete tag; use {{db|reason}} with reason explaining what you are doing. b) add a note at the top of Template:Infobox Software2/updates to explain that it is not a true template but just a work in progress list to control these moves (if that is the case) - it would have been better to place that list in the user namespace. See also User talk:StephenHildrey#software infoboxes. -- RHaworth 21:03, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
I tagged those templates for speedy deletion, because they are not needed anymore (->they had been moved; the most of those templates only had been redirects; no article used them anymore). --- Best regards, Melancholie 01:38, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Monobook.js

I think you're confused. MediaWiki:Monobook.js doesn't call on the loading of MediaWiki:Edittools. MediaWiki:Edittools is only loaded if you are on an edit page. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-01-17 04:03

  • Actually, I didn't even know that it tried loading MediaWiki:Edittools before I moved the content to Charset.js. — 0918BRIAN • 2006-01-17 04:10

[edit] Bit of help on the html on my userpage

Hi Melancholie!
I'd like to ask you a favour. I'm OK with HTML but I've gone over my depth with the image linking thing. What I have is that little icon of me in my banner linking to a larger pic:


<td colspan="2" align="center" bgcolor="#484848"> 
   <table border="0" width="780" id="table2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#484848" >
     <tr>
        <td width="612" height="96" align="right" bgcolor="#484848">[[Image:Fir0002 banner 01.jpg]]</td>
        <td width="168" height="96" align="left" bgcolor="#484848">{{click|image=Fir0002 banner 02.jpg|link=:Image:Fir0002.jpg|width=168px|height=96px}}</td>
     </tr>
    </table>
</td>


(Sorry for the mess!)
But problem is the image I'm using to link with is over 100px wide (168px). I was wondering if you could help me out? Thanks! --Fir0002 www 00:50, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey thanks a lot! I was beginning to think you'd give up on it! Here's a little token of my gratitude.
Thanks for your help --Fir0002 www 08:32, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

And yes I do take all the photos I upload (except the edits for FPC voting). I'm glad you like my userpage/website! --Fir0002 www 08:32, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alemannisch translation

Hello! Would you be able to translate for me the opening paragraph of my Wikipedia user page, and the splash page of my web site into alemannisch for me? — Nicholas (reply) @ 11:21, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your bot

Your bot account has been blocked as an unathorized bot. Bot accounts require permission at WP:RFBOT. Please see the instructions on that page. If you have already gone through this approvals process, our apologies, please leave me a talk page message, or an email if you got hit with an autoblock. — xaosflux Talk 04:53, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but I disfavour bureaucracy that leads to unnecessary queue time. --- Best regards, Melancholie 15:16, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Infobox Software

Hello, I'd like to ask you the purpose of the following change [1], because the template {{click}} has been proposed for deletion. Thanks! --surueña 15:15, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tagging of Template:Latest preview release/scWiki

I recently removed a speedy delete tag that you had placed on Template:Latest preview release/scWiki. I do not think that Template:Latest preview release/scWiki fits any of the speedy deletion criteria because The A1 and A3 criteria are for articles not tempaltes, and this seems to be part of a workign or possibly working tempalte family. If it needs to go, WP:TfD is the route. DES (talk) 17:03, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:LPR/syntax

A tag has been placed on Template:LPR/syntax requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{tranclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:25, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:LSR/syntax

A tag has been placed on Template:LSR/syntax requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{tranclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:26, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks...

...for the usurpation. Much appreciated! Cheers, Daniel (talk) 22:34, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bot

Hi. Could you register your bot on Samogitian and Lithuanian wikipedias? It may be blocked if will run without any information. Thank you. Hugo.arg (talk) 16:19, 31 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Bot at ln:

Would you mind to read this, please: ln:Discussion_Utilisateur:MelancholieBot. Thank you. ln:User:Bombo —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eruedin (talk • contribs) 15:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)