User talk:Earldouglas

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Jamestastic, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Monad (functional programming). I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or click here to ask for help here on your talk page and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 16:41, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with your custom signature[edit]

You have a custom signature set in your account preferences. A change to Wikipedia's software has made your current custom signature incompatible with the software.

The problem: Your preferences are set to interpret your custom signature as wikitext. However, your current custom signature does not contain any wikitext.

The solutions: You can reset your signature to the default, or you can fix your signature.

Solution 1: Reset your signature to the default:

Find the signature section in the first tab of Special:Preferences.
Uncheck the box (☑︎→☐) that says "Treat the above as wiki markup."
Remove anything in the Signature: text box. (It might already be empty.)
Click the blue "Save" button at the bottom of the page. (The red "Restore all default settings" button will reset all of your preference settings, not just the signature.)

Solution 2: Fix your custom signature:

Find the signature section in the first tab of Special:Preferences.
Uncheck the box (☑︎→☐) that says "Treat the above as wiki markup."
Click the blue "Save" button at the bottom of the page.

More information about custom signatures is available at Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing how everyone sees your signature. If you have followed these instructions and still want help, please leave a message at Wikipedia talk:Signatures. 19:04, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Special:WantedTemplates[edit]

Hi, I have been helping with an effort to clear up false-positives in Special:WantedTemplates and found that 22 of the entries can be traced back to User:Earldouglas/vis.js. For example, if you check Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Dom: Object, domProps: Object, emitter: Emitter, you will see that the server is reporting that vis.js is transcluding that template. Clearly this is a quirk in how the backend software parses javascript pages, but it makes it harder to find the real problem pages. It would be great if you could put

// <syntaxhighlight lang=javascript>

at the top of the script and

// </syntaxhighlight>

at the bottom of the page. Since these are commented out, it won't break the javascript, but it will prevent the backend software from parsing the {{dom: Object, domProps: Object, emitter: Emitter}} as a template transclusion. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:43, 3 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]