User talk:The Dark Side

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving The Dark Side! This method of wishing someone a happy thanksgiving has been stolen (with permission) from Randfan (talk · contribs). | AndonicO Talk | Sign Here 01:05, 15 December 2006 (UTC) I wish you a happy Thanksgiving! I hope you and your family have a magnificent day! So, what are you thankful for? | AndonicO Talk | Sign Here 01:05, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Happy Turkey Day from AndonicO! Enjoy!

Simpsons quotes

Hello, I'm moving them right now. Cheers. L0b0t 02:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Here ya go The Simpsons/Season 18. Cheers. L0b0t 02:43, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

re: ==Communist China== on Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities by The Dark Side

My Grade 6 Social teacher. Sorry, Social Studies teacher. Why?100110100

Can you give me the link? I forgot why I asked. --The Dark Side 02:26, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk_archive/Humanities/2006_October_15#Communist_China100110100 05:20, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Just wondering. I didn't think it was a professor. --The Dark Side 01:25, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

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UBX template

That's a nice idea, I just moved so many of them. :| There are bots that change the templates, but I have no idea when they will be running. I may have to do that to get all the complaints (just look at my talk page) off my chest. Scepia 02:34, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

The Gorean "Dina" abstract flower symbol

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Mandolarian

Shouldn't it be "Mandalorian"? AnonMoos 17:01, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks for the user boxes

Thank you so much for making the user boxes for me!! One minor thing though, could you possibly add a period at the end of this user likes kiwis? Teak the Kiwi 03:17, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind about the period, maybe I didn't see it, or else someone fixed it. Teak the Kiwi 16:47, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the nice Vatican City State userboxes. They look pretty darn good, and you did it really quickly. poopsix 08:48, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Comics

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falungong out side china

i certainly balance that article, there rejection case outside china there rejection what ever it involved china party or by glodok comunity there rejection about falungong activity in glodok comunity and true are there area not china part, we reject them but cause they stuborn activity to make our comunity to kick them from glodok. and i certainly put netral oponion with the ref adrres about the incident(news). so well both side argument have balance oponnion as you see. Before this ancident falun gong are ussualy have painting exhibit in glodok area such chandra building and they are not rejected(in the past they have several painting exhibit in glodok area and they are not rejected, but the last time they push the limit and rejected by glodok people) but this ancident prove how the falung gong did legaly dirty way to push the limit.Daimond 06:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

if they angry and push this ref adress as source i said the adress only cover by falungong side as did epoch time did as they prespectif to told there nothing wrong with they way, this was they told but truth are diffrent than that as you see, how they terorizing and distrub our comunity in many month?? certainly they activity are not month in our place there few year activity in our comunity before that and now they push the limit and distrub. i think i am right to cover both argument(in indonesia matter) not one side story like epoch time or clear harmony way isn't it for balance the articel. if they anger with both argument you could imagene how angry i am read this ancident story by epoch time who only give one side storyDaimond 07:07, 28 January 2007 (UTC) and the foto taken in desember as you see the date of the foto taken.

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Copyright issue with Character classes from the Dragon Quest series

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Re: List of character classes

I figured it was either a momentary lapse of reason from an experienced user or something else reasonable. Most of the copyvios picked up by wherebot have no other contribs. I'll see about the larger article. Thanks! -- Butseriouslyfolks 03:31, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

On second thought, the article you moved it from had quite a history. When I was looking at Character classes from the Dragon Quest series on its own as a new article, I assumed it was copied from the external website. Considering the fact that it was part of an article going back several months, and it wasn't picked up as a copyvio previously, I'm now thinking the external site copied from WP. It's already been deleted, but I'm going to do my best to restore your work and make a note on the talk page. -- Butseriouslyfolks 03:37, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Oh man, I missed the fine print at the very bottom of http://en.allexperts.com/e/l/li/list_of_character_classes.htm. "This is the "GNU Free Documentation License" reference article from the English Wikipedia." D'oh! Do me a favor and see if I missed anything re-creating the page. Sorry!!!!! -- Butseriouslyfolks 03:53, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

It would have served you right if I had changed Character classes from the Dragon Quest series to a deleted, protected page: use edit summaries to explain what you are doing. -- RHaworth 13:54, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Right. --The Dark Side 21:08, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

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007 userbox

Hello TDS,

I took the liberty of updating the sourced P99 JPG image in your custom userbox to a PNG with a transparent background. Now you should be able to make whatever color is behind show through. Hopefully it adds to the effect. Cheers --Sirimiri 01:37, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

UCFD

I have nominated a category you created, Category:TDS Original userbox, for deletion. You can contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia:User categories for discussion. Thanks, VegaDark 01:44, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

As for Category:Wikipedians who need to update their userboxes, that actually looks as if it may be helpful...why do you want it deleted? As you are the creator of the category you can tag it as {{db-self}} if you want it to be deleted. VegaDark 03:09, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

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Userbox

Thanks for the heads-up DarkSide. Not checking the usage policy on the picture was a pretty foolish oversight on my part. I'm getting the userbox removed until I can find something more suitable and I'll certainly be more sensible in my experiments in the future. Suriel1981 07:40, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: User:Averross/Penny Arcade

Well, I didn't think it would be a big deal since the picture was on this site and could be used in userboxes and such. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Averross (talk • contribs) 13:22, 1 March 2007 (UTC).

Thanks

Thanks for the fix. So was the problem largely just the fact that i was trying to make more than three boxes, or that they were layed out incorrectly or what? WookMuff 01:48, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

The problem wasn't with the number, I think it was because it was very hard to read the markup so you might have missed a bracket or two. Either that or it was those positioning commands you left (left, centre, right).

Cool, thanks :) WookMuff 02:02, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Copyright

I've got a copyright item on my talk page from you. Just checking, but has anything actually changed on the template? If you have the time, please respond, if not, don't bother. May teh force be wiv ya TDN 23:08, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I took out Image:Merchts.gif from the right side. --The Dark Side 23:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Userbox

Thanks for making the Userbox! It looks really good!

Thanks again,

Skunkmaster 01:31, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

I just noticed something about the userbox. Could you add "task force" to the end of it? And I noticed that the category link at the bottom of the page is broken. How do you fix that?

Thanks,

Skunkmaster 01:42, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! And with the category link, were talking about moving the list of participants to that page?

Skunkmaster 01:51, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Ohhhhhhhhhhh. Thank you!

Skunkmaster 01:59, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to bug you but I was looking at their talk page and they had chosen a picture for their icon, so could you change the userbox image? Here is the link to the image.

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

Skunkmaster 15:37, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

How do you put a pic on a userbox?

When making a userbox, how do you place an image in it? The picture I want is already on Wikipedia, which makes it legal to use, right?

Please reply on my talk page.

Thanks,

Skunkmaster 19:14, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

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...Of The Moon. I like the other Dark Side. And the wall.--Editor510 ^{drop us a line, mate} 17:17, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

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request for a user box

Hello Dark Side. I like your user boxes, especially the one about big bands. Do you think you could make me one for Big Band Latin Jazz? ThanksRamon4 (talk) 00:28, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Cool! Thanks. Ramon4 (talk) 17:00, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

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