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Hi. Can someone help me please? How do I go about to make a "Contents" section in my User page?

Freddie2016 (talk) 07:01, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How do I get my Userboxes below each other, and my Wikipedia:Babel above it? And how do I get them all on the right side of my page? Freddie2016 (talk) 07:02, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! I've made a few changes to your userpage. I hope these are what you were after. Feel free to revert my edit otherwise. I've additionally removed the rollback and reviewer topicons, as you do not have these privileges and it's somewhat misleading. TheDragonFire (talk) 07:48, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I think I copied those from someone elses page, and I thought it was something to allow other people to review and change my User page. Thank you for the help! Freddie2016 (talk) 08:52, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Good day. I am really struggling with the userboxes. I want to get the boxes on the right side. But I am struggling to get it fixed there. Freddie2016 (talk) 09:12, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I need some help again. I have been working on the page, 2017 in rugby union. I want to put the flag of each country in front of that country's name. How do I do that? Can you help User:TheDragonFire? Maybe User:Dale Arnett and User:LittleWink can also help with this? Freddie2016 (talk) 09:24, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to put flags next to a country name, the template will vary based on the context.

For a country, if you want a wikilinked country name with it, surround the ISO, IOC, or FIFA code with double curly brackets/braces. For example, {{ZAF}} (or RSA) will produce South Africa.
- EXCEPTION: In the case of Ireland, which has one national rugby union for the entire island, use the "flagcountry" template instead if you want to refer to the whole island. Also, the proper 3-letter code to use is IRE, not IRL (the Republic) or NIR (the North). {{flagcountry|IRE|rugby union}} produces Ireland.
If you just want the flag without a wikilinked country name, use "flagicon". For example, {{flagicon|ENG}} produces the English flag: .
- For Ireland, use "IRE" plus the "rugby union" parameter: {{flagicon|IRE|rugby union}} produces .
For a national team, there's an entire series of templates for men's, women's, sevens, and age-grade teams, each producing a wikilinked name that directs to the page on that team.
- Men's senior teams: {{ru|IRE}} produces Ireland.
- Men's "A" national teams: {{ruA|ARG}} produces Argentina XV. In this case, the actual team name will be displayed.
- Women's senior teams: {{ruw|AUS}} produces Australia.
- Men's sevens teams: {{ru7|FJI}} produces Fiji (FIJ also works here).
- Women's sevens teams: {{ru7w|NZL}} produces New Zealand.
- Men's under-20 national teams: {{ruu|20|FRA}} produces France.

With that said, I try to minimize the use of flags—enough of them and you have a VERY long page load time. — Dale Arnett (talk) 10:01, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please ensure that any use of flags complies with MOS:FLAG. TheDragonFire (talk) 06:30, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Retief Burger

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A tag has been placed on Retief Burger requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Louis Brittz

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A tag has been placed on Louis Brittz requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a band or musician, but it does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Ways to improve 2016–17 SAFA Second Division

Hi, I'm Boleyn. Freddie2016, thanks for creating 2016–17 SAFA Second Division!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Please add clear sources.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Boleyn (talk) 18:08, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ways to improve 2017–18 South African Premier Division

Hi, I'm Boleyn. Freddie2016, thanks for creating 2017–18 South African Premier Division!

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Boleyn (talk) 18:29, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Ways to improve 2018–19 South African Premier Division

Hi, I'm Boleyn. Freddie2016, thanks for creating 2018–19 South African Premier Division!

I've just tagged the page, using our page curation tools, as having some issues to fix. Please add your sources.

The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, you can leave a comment on my talk page. Or, for more editing help, talk to the volunteers at the Teahouse.

Boleyn (talk) 21:06, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thank you. I will look into that and add sources. I actually created that page as a kind of a template, so that the additions can be made faster and easier by anyone who want to help. But I will work on it a little more.

Freddie2016 (talk) 16:30, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Help with my User Page please

Hi

I am looking for help with my User Page, especially with my Userboxes.

I hope you don't mind that I tag you here...

16:50, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

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Why was I blocked?

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Freddie2016 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Hi. I understand that I was blocked. I would like to know why this is. To my knowledge, I have never done anything wrong when editing pages.

Decline reason:

Your underlying IP is blocked as it is an open proxy. You will not be able to edit as long as you are using that specific IP.Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 21:10, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I see no block on this account, now or in the past. To help you, please provide the exact message that appears when you attempt to edit. 331dot (talk) 16:21, 14 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The message that shows are, in red, "You are currently unable to edit Wikipedia." Part of the message also say "Editing from 196.41.101.46 has been blocked (disabled) by ProcseeBot for the following reason(s):" How do I change that proxy? The message also includes these words: "This block has been set to expire: 07:13, 12 June 2020.

Can you help me? I am still nowhere closer to know why I am blocked. Freddie2016 (talk) 13:23, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Even if blocked, you will usually still be able to edit your user talk page and email other editors and administrators." Freddie2016 (talk) 08:12, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Are you purposefully using a VPN/proxy? If so, you will need to disable it to edit.-- Jezebel's Ponyo^{bons mots} 17:10, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No, I am not purposefully using a VPN/proxy. How do I disable it? Freddie2016 (talk) 16:26, 21 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Is there nobody who wants to help me? I am still blocked, and I do not know how to fix it. Freddie2016 (talk) 13:21, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If you are not knowingly using a VPN or proxy, you will probably need to contact your ISP or whomever is providing your internet access for assistance. There isn't much more we can do for you on this end. Is your physical location a public place(I don't need to know specifically) or are you using public WiFi? 331dot (talk) 13:37, 17 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I am using public WiFi Freddie2016 (talk) 07:36, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Pages with DEFAULTSORT conflicts

Hello there. One or more of your pages have DEFAULTSORT conflicts: (search)

User:Freddie2016/sandbox

Please either

<nowiki> DEFAULTSORTs (if your page is a draft consisting of multiple subjects); or
remove redundant DEFAULTSORTs (if your page is a draft with multiple DEFAULTSORTs); or
remove all DEFAULTSORTs (otherwise)

in the affected pages. Thank you. – Ase1este^t@lk_c0ntribs 02:53, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really understand. Could you explain more? I though the Sandbox is part of my own personal page, which I can use if I want to practice making a page. That is what I am doing there. Maybe I am wrong in this understanding? Freddie2016 (talk) 10:51, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You are not wrong about your sandbox page, but the problem is that DEFAULTSORT was not made to be included in a page multiple times. Usually, this is not a problem for mainspace articles as they only cover one subject each, but when you created a page that is for multiple subjects, like your sandbox, this becomes a problem. Of course, there is nothing wrong with including multiple subjects in your sandbox, but maybe it is better to fix those errors about overriding sort keys. It doesn't take much to fix it, just surround DEFAULTSORT with <nowiki>, like this: <nowiki>{{DEFAULTSORT}}</nowiki> and remove <nowiki> when the content goes to mainspace. – Ase1este^t@lk_c0ntribs 11:51, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Okay. I just want to make sure if I understand correctly. Can I leave my Sandbox page as it is, but when I want to make a mainspace page, I have to surround it the DEFAULTSORT? Freddie2016 (talk) 09:40, 8 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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