User talk:CesarB

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Archives

/Archive 1

/Archive 2

Contents 1 Wording issues again 2 Puzzled 3 Archiving 4 Archiving 5 Can I interest you in a formatting discussion? 6 Exercise MAPLE FLAG 7 Adminship thing, or  whatever. 8 Sean gorter again. 9 Pass of Brander 10 Padding for an  infobox 11 Re: standard.js 12 A user you unblocked 13 TfD nomination of Template:Delete 14 User:207.44.156.107 15 Help! New user freaking out! 16 Me again. 17 Requesting "sprotect" on my talk page, User_talk:HarroSIN 18 Css/HTML question 19 Speedy deletion 20 The sandbox 21 Your block on User:216.16.246.124 22 Browsers not reloading common.css 23 Arbitration 24 User Drowner 25 absolute css positioning for dots on maps 26 "Broken" talk pages 27 Simple English Wikipedia 28 WP:RECALL 29 Thank you! 30 div.tleft not working? 31 Botty botty, here I comey! 32 Halp! 33 Best answer I've seen in a while! 34 Wikipedia e-mail -- unicode buggy??? 35 Gaza 36 Salvador de Bahia 37 Thanks for reply, Some questions 38 Integration Userbox 39 Encyclopaedia Dramatica 40 Categories 41 Hidden templates 42 Slammer worm 43 HELP!!! I don't know what I'm doing with my user page! 44 Hoax? 45 Different printable version of a template 46 Bureaucratship 47 Main Page 48 Re Whitespace, comments and  esoteric templates 48.1 Wikicoded 49 underlined link 50 Regarding the tags 51 Template:Nobr 52 sidewalk chalk 53 Olá 54 Copyright tag question

[edit] Wording issues again

A user left a message on my talk page about the wording of MediaWiki:Emailforlost (I figure that's what he was talking about, even though he's following up on our discussion of MediaWiki:Prefs-help-email, the wording of which hasn't changed since you took my suggestion back in April). So I'd like to suggest a change to MediaWiki:Emailforlost, also (my edit in bold): "* E-mail address is  optional; no confirmation is  required. However, giving your e-mail address allows other users to send you mail, and  enables you to request password reminders. We won't reveal your address to anyone, unless you use the "E-mail this user" feature to send mail to another user." A little redundant, perhaps, but I think it  drives the point home a little more  clearly. - dcljr (talk) 05:51, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Puzzled

Hi - Do you have  any idea what these folks are  talking about? -- Rick Block (talk) 03:42, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

If it's about what was shown at User:Bkell/Sandbox (the first list item has its width constrained by the image, instead of wrapping around it), I found the cause and  a workaround. But I'm not 100% sure it  was that issue they were talking about. --cesarb 22:00, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I think you're right. Thanks for looking into this. -- Rick Block (talk) 22:14, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Archiving

CesarB,

How did you archive all the first 136 sections in your talk page? Don't you dare say that you'll tell me only if I pay you $$$. My tildes are  symbols like this:¬.

User:Sean gorter did this.

[edit] Archiving

Hey thanks CesarB. I know how to archive my talk subjects now. You're great!

Sean gorter 12:47, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Can I interest you in a formatting discussion?

Hi - There's a discussion at Template talk:Infobox City#class bordered or  not that I think you may find interesting. I'd be interested in your opinions on this. -- Rick Block (talk) 22:07, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Exercise MAPLE FLAG

Could it  not have  been left in place based on this under the "Non-commercial Reproduction" section? Just curious. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 20:48, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 20:55, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

[ or  whatever.">edit] Adminship thing, or  whatever.

Just curious for later, how do you request to become an  administrator? --Sean gorter^{{talk with me}}22:11, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Requests for adminship and  Wikipedia:Guide to requests for adminship. --cesarb 16:16, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

It's not telling me how. not a bit. It's just telling me about being an  administrator and  the benefits of being an  administrator.--Sean gorter 16:22, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sean gorter again.

How do I join the Esperanza or  the Counter Vandalism Unit?--Sean gorter

[edit] Pass of Brander

I was working to create this article which you appear to have  deleted. Rcpaterson 02:22, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I had already written an  article on the Battle of Culblean in much the same fashion. Your action has caused me to loose a good two hours work. I am  relatively new to this project and  have been spending much time eliminating a great many errors in my area of expertise, and  rephrasing badly written articles. it  is only now that I am  beginning to work up items from nothing. I am  still unclear why you effectively sabotaged my work before I had a chance to finish. I will certainly think twice before I waste my time in this fashion in future. have  you nothing better to do? Rcpaterson 02:45, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

No, I can't find it. As far as I am  aware it  is completely gone. I recently joined the military history group. There are  a number of red article requests, and  the two I worked on were both there, in that part concerned with the Scottish Wars of Independence. I simply took the red headline and  started to work from that. The Culblean piece was fine-though it  took two sessions to finish. You know what happened to my efforts on the Battle of the Pass of Brander; and  I have  to stress once again  that I had been writing for well over an  hour. Rcpaterson 03:06, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Cest la vie. Can't be helped; at least I now know there was no malice involved. Rcpaterson 05:13, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I am  pleased to report that the Battle of Pass of Brander is  now up and  running, restored rather than resurrected! Rcpaterson 17:24, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[ an  infobox">edit] Padding for an  infobox

Hi - I'm trying to come up with a somewhat simpler version of template:Infobox Country, see User:Rick Block/Template:Infobox Country. I'm having trouble getting the padding to look similar. it  appears that the padding specified in the infobox style in common.css can't be overridden globally for the infobox. Does this make sense to you? If you could take a look at this I'd appreciate it. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 22:07, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure of what you are  trying to do, but:

• The padding is  for .infobox on Common.css, but not for .infobox th or  .infobox td
• Using the DOM Inspector, I can see that the computed padding for the table element is  0px, even if both Common.css and  your inline style says otherwise
• Looking at [1], we have  "Also, in this model, a table doesn't have  padding (but does have  margins)", which explains why it's 0px
• The computed value being 0px means you can't simply use inherit (it'd be 0px too)
• There's no way to, with inline style, change the padding for all cells (since inherit doesn't work); you really need a descendent selector

The best way would probably be to add another class (so you'd use class="infobox infobox-country" and  have something like .infobox-country th, .infobox-country td { padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0 } on Common.css)

--cesarb 22:52, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

What I'm trying to do is  emulate the look of the existing Country infobox, but in a way that might be (easily) reusable in other infoboxes (like template:Infobox City and  the numerous country subdivision templates like Template:Infobox U.S. state). it  seems relatively insane to me that a city's infobox, the infobox for its national subdivision, and  the infobox for its country each have  dramatically different looks. The "new" look of the country infobox is  (I think) the newest one, but it  uses a ton of stuff that makes it  difficult to reuse. Rather than .infobox-country th (and td), perhaps we could do a .infobox-geography th/td. My preference would really be for all infoboxes to use the vanilla infobox style, which seems to be the point of styles in the first place. Having these heavily customized infoboxes seems like a problem to me. -- 01:05, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Argh! border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 1em 0.4em; is  very close to the existing look, but (sigh) IE doesn't support border-spacing. I guess your first suggestion of border-collapse: collapse; and  padding set in a TH/TD style is  the way to go. This doesn't achieve the 1em border, so the border lines for rows that have  them will go edge to edge. I'm not sure how attached the Infobox Country folks are  to the current look. BTW - does this strike you as a ridiculous waste of time (trying to rationalize the various geographical infoboxes)? Just curious. Thanks for the help - I'm still maintaining that I'm not a CSS expert. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:42, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: standard.js

I find your comments rather surprising. Do you mean to say that those pages exist for no real purpose? Ingoolemo ^talk 04:57, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A user you unblocked

At Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Ip_Problem you explained that you unblocked the IP 68.113.77.49. The user claimed that they did not know who Locust was, but there appears to be a bit of evidence that they are  indeed the same person (a possible attempt to circumvent the block?). I left a message on the administrator who originally indefinitely blocked Locust43 at User_talk:Tijuana_Brass#A_sockpuppet_of_a_user_you_blocked, but it  appears Tijuana is  on a Wikibreak. Cola2706 appears to be jumping back into the problems that got him blocked in the first place, as showed by the message I left Tijuana. So, I came here to ask if you could look over this and  see what should be done. Thanks. Cowman109^Talk 15:02, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I just looked through the IP's contributions, and  this link confirms that they are  indeed the same user. The user does seem to be trying to fix the problem, but they are  being a tad disruptive in my opinion by lying about the unblock request and  continuing the behavior that got them blocked in the first place. Cowman109^Talk 15:08, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Delete

Template:Delete has been nominated for deletion. You are  invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Wisden17 19:38, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:207.44.156.107

heh i atchually did try and  acsses the server via http and  recived no response, im guessing it  was down at that time. still no harm done though. Im often finding when running through some unblock requests that ips have  changed ownership over time and  i use through scanning before asking an  admin to unblock (i have  specialst network admin's scripts to use) Benon 22:59, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Help! New user freaking out!

Hi there,

I'm completely new to Wikipedia and  have been browsing many of the welcome-new-users/policies/general-info/copyright pages the last couple of.. hours - and, argh! Ok, I was checking out the images listed here: WP:CP.. and  argghh, when I was looking at this page: contribution that possibly violates copyright (yes, I still need to learn how to include a link to an  image without including the image itself!!), I accidentally clicked on the 'rev' link!

I'm panicking now, because I'm new and  didn't mean to click there (but I know that clicking the link was wrong) and  ahhh!!! :// Okay, I just wanted to let you know about it  since you reported the copyright violation. I'll go now and  see if I can revert it  back.. to how it  was.. before I clicked on it. (But eeeep, what about that three reverts rule?! Ahh, what if I'm too stupid to figure it  out before I violate that one?! *panics some more*)

--Kaythekay 12:19, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Me again.

Uhhhmm, I don't dare do anything now, because I'm not sure how to revert it  back to how it  was before!

(Because I added a comment right after I'd clicked on the link! Would I have  to click on the other 'rev' link - the one next to the user's second edit - to revert everything back?! Heeelp! and  sorry for bothering you with this all, I just don't want to make even more  mistakes! :/)

--Kaythekay 13:16, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requesting "sprotect" on my talk page, User_talk:HarroSIN

Requesting "sprotect" on my talk page, User_talk:HarroSIN, due to anons leaving irrelevant comments. Thank You. --HarroSIN 02:43, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Css/HTML question

Hi - I'm not sure if there's a way to do this, but I thought if anyone might know you would. Various infoboxes have  entries that really should wrap if the width computed by the rest of the entries warrants it. I've looked for some way to effectively say "don't use this entry's width in the width computation" but haven't found anything (seems like "width=0" should work, but it  doesn't seem to). Anyway - if you know or  can think of anything, please let me know. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 00:19, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

With Safari, I think the things you tried look the same as you see them in Firefox (sort of works, but affects the whole column, not just the one entry). What I'm looking for is  logically the inverse of "white-space: nowrap", but it  doesn't seem to exist. I tried wrapping the text in a span and  a div with explicit widths, but this doesn't seem to work either. Oh well. Where this occurs today I've coded an  embedded break so at my default font size the table columns have  reasonable widths. This is  clearly not an  optimal solution, but I suspect won't be noticed by most people. Thanks for taking a look. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:46, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion

Hello CesarB or  better: Oi CesarB! I have  just written a deletion tag in the {u|Octavio Miamontes Vidal} that you just deleted. Let me explain better: Thus username is  my own real name and  I do not have  any clue of why someone has created this usernaem with my name. You may verify that at the email address I gave. Do not think that there are  many other Octavio Miramontes Vidal in the world...this is  a unique name with no homonimes. Please delete the user page. Obrigado! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 132.248.7.200 (talk • contribs) 23:29, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Obrigado Cesar, agora preciso sair. Amanha gostaria de contactar vc de novo para explicar melhor o caso e dar um jeito em issto. Voce pode entender que nao estou gostando muito de que exista meu nome verdadeiro como o nick de alguma outra persona que pode escreber cualquier bobaje usando o meu nome. Obrigado de novo e disculpa por o meu portugueis. Vc poderia verificar se as IPs minhas e as do usuario tem o mesmo padrao? Tal vez eu mesmo fiz a conta e nao lembro de isso. Poderia haber acontecido mas eu tenho meu propio user na wikipedia, entao nao faz sentido. Vc pode me contactar no email que deixe, eu sou fisico da UNAM no Mexico, casado con brasileira e visito Brasil todos os anhos. Tenho minho CV no Lattes, pode consultar. Disculpa de novo. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 132.248.7.200 (talk • contribs) 00:07, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The sandbox

Granted, but the anonymous users were editing it  every ten seconds or  so and  when I re-added the heading, it  got immediately removed again. Using the sandbot woudn't have  helped much, I fear. I think that the one-minute protection was in order. - Mike Rosoft 15:35, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Your block on User:216.16.246.124

I noticed your block on the said IP. I understand that the IP is  an open proxy, but this is  the advised proxy server posted on Wikipedia:Advice to Tor users in China so that Chinese users can connect to Wikipedia. Indef blocking this proxy may prevent users from China to create accounts and/or editing. --WinHunter ^(talk) 16:05, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Oups.. my mistake. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. >< .. --WinHunter ^(talk) 16:17, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Browsers not reloading common.css

Hi - I've heard some folks have  had to do a forced reload to get their browsers to know about some styles I recently (like a week ago) added to common.css. Any ideas what might be causing this? Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:48, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

The proxy servers are  requested to only check with the origin servers after 31 days ($wgSquidMaxage). This means you can only be sure your changes have  been propagated to all the squid servers after 31 days have  passed. This is  visible as the smaxage=2678400 on the import of Common.css, which corresponds to a HTTP Cache-control: s-maxage=2678400 header. --cesarb 19:22, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Any idea why this is  set so long (I assume $wgSquidMaxage is  something we control somehow)? 31 days means any change in common.css won't necessarily be visible to clients for this long (right?). This seems like an  awfully long time. is  this a Brion/Jamesday or  somebody like that thing? Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 23:59, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arbitration

What is  an arbitrate???--Sean gorter^{{mind a chat?} e@ CVU}(UTC)

"Arbitrate" is  actually a verb -- "to arbitrate," which essentially means "to decide." In the context of Wikipedia, it's sort of the "final stage" -- the Arbitration Committee have  the ability to set policy that all users on Wikipedia have  to follow. I suppose the easiest thing to compare them to would be Supreme Court justices -- matters involving people come up before them, and  the Arbitration Committee first decides whether to hear it, and  then makes a decision on the matter before them, the effects of which can reach down to all Wikipedia editors.

Sean, also, you need to change your signature. This is  a little complicated to explain if you've not been around Wikipedia for a while, but right now, it's a "transclusion" -- you're essentially telling Wikipedia's computer servers to look inside the contents of another entry -- your User:Sean gorter/Signature page -- and  paste it  in. Because the servers have  to do that every time a page is  loaded where you've signed your name, it  causes a lot of work for the servers. The way to solve this is  to go to Special:Preferences. On that first page, you should see a box that says "Signature". Inside that box, paste your signature, which right now is:

[[User:Sean gorter|Sean gorter]]^{[[User talk:Sean gorter|{mind a chat?}]] [[User:Sean gorter/Esperanza|e@]] [[User:Sean gorter/Counter-Vandalism Unit|CVU]]}([[User:Sean gorter|U]][[User talk:Sean gorter|T]][[Special:Contributions/Sean gorter|C]])

Then click the checkbox next to the words "Raw signature (no auto link; don't use templates or  external links in this)", and  click on the 'Save' button at the bottom of the page. If you want to get rid of your signature page after doing this, you can open up the page and  type {{db-owner}}. — Mike (talk • contribs) 03:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User Drowner

You have  blocked this user as a suspected sockpuppet of Hogeye. He has sent an  e-mail to the Unblock list claiming that he is  not a sockpuppet. it  seems that the main edits of concern were in relation to the Anarchism in the US article. Could you please advise of the situation with this user. Capitalistroadster 04:04, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] absolute css positioning for dots on maps

Hi - Do you know if there's any reason not to use absolute CSS positioning to put dots on locator maps (as is  done by some geographical templates, I'm not sure of any current examples but template:Infobox U.S. City used to do this)? I've asked this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps#Locator dots with no response. And, BTW, while I'm here, do you know why the featured article star recently stopped working in classic skin? I can't find the change that did this (not template:Featured article or  any change to common.css). Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 01:40, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I failed to see any mention of the dots in any discussion related to that deleted template; it  looks like people either weren't aware of the feature, or  the other template already had the feature and  it got removed. As to the FA star, you forgot to look at MediaWiki:Standard.css; looks like the relevant style got commented out on purpose. --cesarb 13:15, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, not too many people seemed to be aware of this feature. There are  a number of cities in Pennsylvania that use it, see [2]. There's also a template for cities in Ireland that still uses this technique, see Template:Ie citytown infobox. The question is  whether you know of any technical issues with this approach (for example, any browser compatibility issues). I don't understand why I've gotten no response at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Maps#Locator dots. I'd think the folks that create maps would be all over this since using it  would eliminate the need to create individual maps for every single place with an  article.

I found standard.css, too (forget it  was there, and  not at classic.css [which doesn't exist]). Thanks for the reply. -- Rick Block (talk) 13:36, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Not a technical reason, but I have  realized that not using the CSS positioning mechanism but rather using a specific map per place may be friendlier to  and  forks">Wikipedia:mirrors and  forks. On the other hand, templates are  getting so complex (with m:ParserFunctions, for example) that I suspect it's getting to the point that non-MediaWiki mirrors are  having a hard time consuming alot of Wikipedia content. -- Rick Block (talk) 18:05, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Broken" talk pages

Are all those "broken" talk pages thanks to the db slave unsync earlier today? Titoxd^(?!?) 03:58, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Simple English Wikipedia

Oi Cesar. Vejo que você é brasileiro também. Por acaso você não teria vontade de contribuir também no Simple English Wikipedia em artigos relacionados ao Brazil? Obrigado. --Paulistanum 21:06, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:RECALL

Oops, good semantic catch. I was severely overdoing the 'policy' tone of voice. Thanks. :) rootology (T) 21:42, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

		The Minor Barnstar
		This minor barnstar is  presented in thanks for your creation of {{skiptotoctalk}}, which was a great idea and  long overdue. Thanks! Jim (Talk) 10:21, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] div.tleft not working?

Hi - I made the change to MediaWiki:Standard.css we talked about a while ago, but it  doesn't seem to work (see MediaWiki talk:Standard.css#Change to div.tleft. Do you have  any ideas why it  might not be working? Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:32, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Botty botty, here I comey!

When creating a bot on SourceForge, what should you tick on page 3?--Bleed Span  ^{Who knows, you might be the victim too... because it's normal!}

[edit] Halp!

I'm in need of expert advice, and  because of this I decided to pick on you! (Must be your lucky day! <g>)
   re:

1. {{unicode}}, incorporated into {{space}} whilst I was on vacation.
2. So while cleaning up some commons category disconnects I used {{s}} which is  'space' defaulted to 3 (or 5?) characters... but got a squarebox (undef'd char, presumably) on MSIE-6 while using the commons version.
3. Since one re-cat needed on the commons was for both 's' and  'space', I followed the {WikiPtmp} link to en.wikipedia's 'space' to see if there was a diff, found there is  ... tons of unicodes added by Patrick as noted above,
4. so decided to port the MSIE fixup templates, beginning with {unicode} to the commons...
5. whereupon I find you tagged one {{Unicode fonts}} as deprecated... which seems to do nothing anyway,

So what the hell do I really need! (This cross-porting is  usually simple, add a {{Commonstmp}} here, a {WikiPtmp} there, fix up any text, maybe do the same for a couple of other templates... and  done.

The crux is  I'm an  old programmer with firm belief in self-documentation, and  so Commons:template:unicode wants this do nothing template {{unicode fonts}}. So why isn't it  showing it's 'talk contents' on our pages if it  does anything at all, at all? or  was it's whole purpose to list the font sets in the order accessed? (This isn't editing, it's techy stuff I edit to get away from! <g>)

1. In sum, did I just port something that won't work in the commons, if I equalize 'space' to Patricks version and  if not, why not?
2. What the hell is  MediaWiki:Common.css anyway? (I hate scripts!!!)
3. How does your deprecating something which seems to have  done nothing get around the notice: 'Any changes to Monobook.css or  Common.css should be first proposed to Wikipedia:Village Pump' embedded in said script of MediaWiki:Common.css.
4. What happened to not confusing the editors per the talk in template talk:unicode?

So HALP! Which category:MSIE font fix templates have  a half-life over two or  more months!
    (seems reasonably necessary! <g>) regards // FrankB 00:47, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Best answer I've seen in a while!

So rest assured it  helps. I'd copied the {{unicode fonts}} page after posting you, and  iirc, had just finished porting the unicode template when I decided you were a likely tech-type target to pick on! <g> So you might say that edit generated the message. Thanks! // FrankB 08:38, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia e-mail -- unicode buggy???

re: changes to {{space}} using {{unicode}} ... seeing bugs. Please check your email ASAP. // FrankB 18:12, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gaza

You are  listed in the history page of  and  internment camps">List of concentration and  internment camps as finishing woggly's unprotect. He has again  protected it  but left this message on my talk page.

By continuing to edit war on this article, I feel you have  abused my trust. You should work towards reaching a compromise with the editors who oppose the paragraph you've been trying to add, rather than simply push it  again and  again, accusing them of political motives. Everybody has political motives - you do too. For personal reasons, I can't spend time on wikipedia in the upcoming weeks. You are  welcome to seek the assistance of other administrators to unprotect the page, as long as they read the talk page and  look at the history of the article, which I am  sure any administrator will do before unprotecting, I will not consider it  wheel-warring.

The recent edit I made was a substantial rework that took in to consideration all of the suggestions that were given in the previous discussion as to how I would get this content included in the article. Although the cite references doesn't seem to work properly in my sandbox (I hate cite.php), the new content is  at User:Carbonate/Sandbox. I have  tried to remove the POV and  OR and  focus on stating the facts that can be verified with references. But as I decided to stop reverting while the discussion continued (at least of a few hours), I don't think woggly read the new material.

I don't belive the current editor who is  reverting the material IronDuke has made any vaild arguments against the material beyond "its anti-israeli". Can you please take a look and  tell me what your impressions are?

Carbonate 06:19, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

I am  a little concerned about this lockdown. During the last one which was done because some 3rd party had filed an  RfA, woggly reverted the content out before locking it. He has locked it  again with the content out and  the opposing partys don't discuss the issue when the content is  out as they have  "won". If and  when the lock is  released, what can be done to see a fair representation at having the content locked in? Without that, it  appears that despite the notice at the top, the current version is  endorsed... Carbonate 16:55, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Salvador de Bahia

Hello there. I'm coming to you because I see it  was you who added the section about Brazil on Wikipedia:Naming conventions (settlements). Do you think you could take a moment and  fix Salvador, Brazil, move the article to a more  standard location? As far as I can see, it's the only Brazilian city currently in breach of that naming convention, but magic admin powers are  needed to move it. And, from what I read on your user page, you're probably better qualified than me to decide whether it  should be at Salvador de Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, or  wherever. I'll be watching the article and  solemnly promiss to fix all the redirects. Thanks, Bolivian Unicyclist 18:54, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Swift and  efficient. Muito obrigado, Bolivian Unicyclist 02:49, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for reply, Some questions

Thanks for you reply! Now I can use SSL to edit. But, I have  some questions to ask you. (maybe some were told on other pages, but I did't find it, and  my English isn't good) Why proxy (Tor) users are  blocked? What is  the reason? Now maybe 1.3 billion Chinese have  to use it  to visit Wikipedia. And, using SSL is  strangely slow! Opening one page maybe cost me (more than) 1 minute, if I make an  edit, from opening the page, editing, to saving it, maybe cost me 5 minites! and  it seems I can't see pictures while using SSL. So, please tell me in simple way: why block proxy (tor) users? (Please also copy the reply to zh:User talk:Flsxx.) Thank you very much!--Flsxx 08:32, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Integration Userbox

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Integration/Userbox}}

You've helped out in the past. Add this to your profile if you'd care to: we must spread the word! Cwolfsheep 18:53, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Encyclopaedia Dramatica

Out of curiosity, why did you block this?--Santahul 09:07, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

The categorization system is  having growing pains. There seem to be several different view about what our category system should be; a way to browse, an  index of articles, a classification system, and/or a database search tool. Each of these views leads editors to different conclusions about how categories should be populated, and  many conflicts result. To deal with these problems, Rick Block and  I have  been working on a proposal to add the ability to create category intersections. We think our proposal will address these problems and  add some very useful new features. We are  asking editors and  developers concerned with categorizaton problems to take a look. We'd appreciate your feedback. Thanks. -- Samuel Wantman 05:54, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hidden templates

Ahoy there. I'm an  admin on the YPPedia, the wiki for the Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates community. I noticed your name when looking over MediaWiki talk:Monobook.js. We have  attempted to replicate the show/hide functionality of the {{hidden}} template on our wiki but with no success. If you have  the time and  inclination, would you be able to look over our files and  see what we have  missed? Everything that we have  already copied uses the same name as on the Wikipedia, so you should have  no trouble finding (or not finding) the relevant files. Thanks in advance, we appreciate any help you can give us.--Fiddling Frog 06:48, 9 September 2006 (UTC) Thanks. I followed your advice and  got it  working. We really appreciate the assist.--Fiddling Frog 19:38, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Slammer worm

Thanks. I patched with SQL sever 3 and  I still have  the occurrences, but not as often. Maybe it's something else. Maybe something is  making my CPU usage spike and  thus giving me that high ping. But whatever it  is, thanks for the tips.--Hellogoodsir 07:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HELP!!! I don't know what I'm doing with my user page!

I am  completely lost. Perhaps you could help a new user get his user page off the ground. Or, if you don't know as well as someone else, you could refer me to that person?

Send me an  email at odinfromcentr2@aol.com with the subject line "Help is  on the way" so I don't mistakenly delete it  as spam. Oh, and  I don't speak Portuguese.

[edit] Hoax?

Hi - have  you ever heard of Raul Julia-Levy, or  his alleged grandfather Abraham Levy? The Abraham Levy article looks like a hoax to me, which makes me pretty suspicious of the Raul Julia-Levy article as well. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 17:12, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Different printable version of a template

Hi - Do you have  any idea how to make Template:NavigationBar look different when "printable version" is  selected? As it  stands, the scrollable version is  displayed which is  not appropriate for printing. I could make it  a non-printing style, but if there's some way to make the "white-space: nowrap" and  "overflow: auto" conditional I think that'd be a better solution. I'm interested in any other comments you might have  about this template as well. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 20:31, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry to be dense but, for example, how do I make this template simply not show up on a printed article? It's currently class="toccolours". I've tried various ways to add "noprint" to this, and  can't seem to find the magic incantaton that makes it  work. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:00, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bureaucratship

Why aren't you requesting for bureaucratship when you have  over ten thousand edits? •Sean•gorter•^{(T) (P)} 09:57, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Main Page

Hey, is  it possible to add af:Tuisblad to the Main Page under "in other languages"? --Adriaan90 13:34, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, thanks. I actually read that just after posting this. Sorry for wasting your time o.o --Adriaan90 20:49, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[ and  esoteric templates">edit] Re Whitespace, comments and  esoteric templates

Hi cesarb,

...be very careful with what you put in comments; two dashes inside a comment close the comment, as comments on HTML are not delimited by <!-- and  -->...

Thanks for repairing the template and  for your explanation including the above. I find it  ironic that the action I take in an  effort to make the template more  comprehensible to folk such as myself causes it  to behave peculiarly!  Best wishes, David Kernow (talk) 01:20, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

...A further thought: If all the HTML table code were replaced with wiki table code, would that make the code insensitive to these dash issues...?  Thanks for any further advice, David (talk) 01:33, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

...Regarding the wiki table code versus HTML table code, I don't think it's possible; AFAIK, wiki table code does not iteract well with parser funcions or  other conditional trickery...

And even if you could use wiki tables throughout, it's quite possible it  would still need magic whitespace eating comments... --cesarb 04:54, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh well... it  was an  education. I imagine someone will now take exception to the comment-headings you had to amend – in fact, I may even remove them myself (but keep the gaps between sections in the manner you've explained) before too long!  Best wishes, David (talk) 05:00, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

...One other possibility: If a character other than the dash were used between the <!-- and  --> comment markers – say ===== [Parameter name] ===== – would the problem still occur...?  Thanks for your expertise!  Yours, David (talk) 13:00, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

I thought of that too, but I didn't want to risk using =...=. it  would look like a section heading...

--cesarb 14:32, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Ack, I should've thought of that... If possible, though, I'd like to find a safe alternative (for the sake of future templates) so will probably experiment with this in a while. If I find something that seems to work, I'll let you know before I think of tinkering with the actual template again. Yours, David (talk) 15:24, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikicoded

• User:David Kernow/Template:Infobox Officeholder (and cf instantiation on User:David Kernow/Test page)

What do you think – sufficiently insensitive...?  If so, I'll replace the {{Infobox Officeholder}} code accordingly. Yours, David (talk) 21:40, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Looks good. I also tested with a real example (Saddam Hussein ... and  nothing seems to break.

--cesarb 22:04, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Glad all seems okay for you. have  now updated {{Infobox Officeholder}} and  hope no problems will be reported... Thanks, David (talk) 22:17, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] underlined link

Hi there! You said there was a config option to prevent link underlining, but I can't find it. Could you please tell me which one it  is? or  should I change my monobook.css after all? >Radiant< 23:32, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

• Ah, thanks. I was looking under "skin" and  such, completely missed this one. >Radiant< 00:26, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding the tags

I'm not sure which way I would get a fast reply so I'll just say it  here:

Some other person tagged a pic from Angel Blade and  labeled it  pd-self. I made the screenshots myself from Angel Blade. So, which tag am  I supposed to use? Let alone you already changed the tags. "THROUGH FIRE, JUSTICE is  SERVED!" 04:06, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

ok, so what about this pic? looks like it  just a screenshot (hence it  not full-on clear): "THROUGH FIRE, JUSTICE is  SERVED!" 22:36, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ayame_Fudo.png

[edit] Template:Nobr

Hi again  cesarb,
In case you're interested, more  of the rationale behind my renaming {{Nobr}} can be found here. Yours, David Kernow (talk) 06:56, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] sidewalk chalk

Dear Cesar,

What did we every do to you? Why did you take our great sidewalk chalk article down??????? What was wrong about it  and why would you take down such a masterpiece! Im only semi serious but cmon that was some good stuff.

sincerly ,

the chalkers

[edit] Olá

Olá Cesar,

É bom encontrar um brasileiro aqui na en. Nunca te vi lá na wiki lusófona e acho que não fomos apresentados. Eu me chamo Raphael e participo do Projeto Subdivisões do Brasil lá e de outros projetos relacionados ao Brasil no Commons e no Source.

Venho aqui pedir a sua ajuda para remover as excessões que existem nas regras de nomenclatura para municípios brasileiros. Algumas dessas regras são aproveitadas em outros projetos e a atual convensão está gerando muitos problemas, principalmente no Commons.

Eu propus a renomeação de "Rio de Janeiro" e "São Paulo" (veja as discussões: 1 e 2) e também a alteração da regra atual (veja 3). Como foi você quem a criou e como eu não conheço nenhum outro usuário capaz de falar português nativo aqui eu peço a sua ajuda.

Muito obrigado,

Raphael.lorenzeto 14:24, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright tag question

I have  images of Bloodrayne, but I am  unsure which copyright tag to use because:

Bloodrayne: the images I have, you see them in the guide in the charcter section

Bloodrayne: you see these after you beat the game. A section called the gallery shows images of the game. like the hi-res images, and  the "building blocks" (parts of an  image in the game, etc.) what copright tag should i use? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Angelofdeath275 (talk • contribs) 05:24, 17 December 2006 (UTC).