User talk:NativeForeigner/Archive/Archive-Jan2007

RE: Thanks

Hi Redskunk, of course I'll help wherever I can! Throw any questions my way and I'll get back to you ASAP. Also, here's my standard welcome message with some links you may find useful;

Welcome!!

Hello NativeForeigner/Archive, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. This is not an automated message :) Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Help pages
• How to write a great article
• Manual of Style
• Also feel free to make test edits in my sandbox.

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, please leave me a message!
ShakingSpirit^talk 11:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

RE: Four more Vandalsims

Heh, indeed, although strangely enough I rarely get any retaliation from vandals; most of the time it's from people who've created pages that I've tagged for speedy deletion ^_^ ShakingSpirit^talk 04:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmm. It sort of makes since. Vandals are too busy vandalising to retaliate. Redskunk 04:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Signature please

Can I have your signature (the red and black oe) in my autgraph book? Thanks and remind me tomorrow to give you a "card" on my talk page! Happy holidays! —¡Randfan!^{Sign here?} 19:56, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Red Skunk, I'm trying to collect 2007 signatures of fellow Wikipedians before January. Could I have yours as well in my signature book? Thanks! sign here • HAPPY HOLIDAYS! — s d 3 1 4 1 5 18:49, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Merry Winterval(s)!!!! (12-22-06)

Oh, the weather outside is frightful!... But I hope wherever you you are, that it's warm and delightful! : ) —Randfan!!

Dear NativeForeigner/Archive/Archive-Jan2007, I wish you a very, very merry Winterval! And since I don't know which you celebrate, I hope you have/had/will have a very happy Holiday!. Hope you and your family have a magnificent day, or series of days! You might wanna install the "SaucyMillionaire" font to see this correctly. Cheers, mate!:) —Randfan!!

God (or your deity/deities) bless you and your family! —¡Randfan!^{Sign here?} 02:30, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

-I was planning to hand these out on the 22nd of Dec. but things got in the way.... Happy holidays! —¡Randfan!^{Sign here?} 20:03, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Oh well. That's alright. Everyone has things to do.

RE: Tables

Ah, the joys of tables! I've always used DIVs and CSS for website layouts, so wikicode's HTML-like table code was all greek to me, but thankfully it's pretty simple to get the hang of ^_^ Help:Table has basically everything you could need, if you have any questions on the specifics, let me know!
DIV tags work exactly as they do in HTML, so to add inline CSS code you can just do <div style="css-code:here;">Foobar</div>
Userboxes are really really easy to do; either just add the template of the userbox you want to your page (e.g {{user AGF}}), or to make your own just use the Userbox template (e.g {{subst:Userbox|id=[[Image:Crystal_kthememgr.png|42px]]|id-c=#d0e5f5|id-fc=#000|id-s=16|info=This user is [[User:Redskunk|Redskunk]], who is learning userboxes!|info-c=#f1f5fc|info-fc=#000|info-s=8|border-c=#abd5f5|border-s=1}}
Personally I always use the Userbox template and (re)make my own userboxes, because not all ready-made userboxes are the same size, and when some are larger than others I think it looks messy. Also, I like to have them all using my colour scheme ^_^ But it's really just down to personal preference.

{{user AGF}} will give you:

This user assumes good faith.

And {{subst:Userbox|id=[[Image:Crystal_kthememgr.png|42px]]|id-c=#d0e5f5|id-fc=#000|id-s=16|info=This user is [[User:Redskunk|Redskunk]], who is learning userboxes!|info-c=#f1f5fc|info-fc=#000|info-s=8|border-c=#abd5f5|border-s=1}} will give you

This user is Redskunk, who is learning userboxes!

Hope you got that, and merry Christmas! ShakingSpirit^talk 23:25, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Indeed you can, do something like <div style="background-color: green; width: 100px; padding: 10px; border: red 2px dashed;">Merry Christmas</div>, which gives:

Merry Christmas

ShakingSpirit^talk 23:45, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

ShakingBot

All the details on ShakingBot can be found on its BRFA ^_^ ShakingSpirit^talk 03:20, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

It's not "on" wikipedia, it runs from my server and edits wikipedia via an API made for bots ^_^ ShakingSpirit^talk 03:27, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Not that I know of, though Wikipedia:Creating a bot does carry some insight :) ShakingSpirit^talk 03:32, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

No worries, let me know if you ever think of making a bot yourself! ^_^ ShakingSpirit^talk 03:37, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

John Viva Muhammad

Obviously I was too slow ;) Personally I always move the page to the user's User: page, and leave a note on their talk page explaining how it's not notable enough for mainspace, then speedy R2 the old redirect. Most people just speedy A7 the article on sight though >< ShakingSpirit^talk 21:11, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, should have explained myself better ^_^ 'Speedy' tags are the speedy deletion tags, and they take the form {{db-xx}}, where 'xx' is a two letter code for why the article should be speedy deleted. There's a full list over at WP:CFSD. {{db-a7}} is the tag used for a non-notable person/website/band/etc.

I don't like using speedy A7 tags when a user makes an article about themselves, because it's kinda WP:BITE, so I always move it to their User: page. Doing so leaves behind a redirect on the original article, so I tag that with {{db-r2}}, which is used for redirects to User: space ^_^ Any questions? ShakingSpirit^talk 21:23, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

When you move a page, the original page is replaced with a redirect to where the new page is. E.g. Moving Old Page to New Page would leave a redirect on Old Page pointing to New Page. As redirects aren't allowed to point to anything except article/WP: space, they should be speedy R2'd if you move a page to User: ShakingSpirit^talk 21:27, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Nono, you move it to their User: page (unless they already have one, but most newbies don't). The redirect is created automatically, which you don't want, so then you tag the redirect for speedy deletion. ShakingSpirit^talk 21:33, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Yup! Or atleast, that's what I do ^_^ There's no rules set it stone, but I find that's the nicest way; keeps wikipedia clean without biting the newbies ^_^ ShakingSpirit^talk 21:39, 3 January 2007 (UTC)