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Double vote?

It appears that you may have placed two votes on the Megan Stammers AfD page, please could you clarify and correct if this is the case - many thanks Markdarrly (talk) 14:32, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

You can delete it by going into "Edit" and then add your comments to the original vote that you castMarkdarrly (talk) 10:33, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

It was me guv!!

You did "bump" into me at the Stammers page, what can I do to be of assistance??Markdarrly (talk) 11:52, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

I'm looking for someone to make the Megan Stammers page On Wikinews. Do you think it would be too late for that? I'd do it myself if I had the right idea of how to construct a professional news article like Wikinews is full of, but to be honest I think i'm still a few pages short of the right idea. And as for it already being there I checked that.

I could also do with knowing of a page for making a good citation if you know one. One that explains making a citation with details next to it rather than the link alone, can you help with that please? MIVP (talk) 08:17, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

I think the best time to be writing a news article about this incident is after Forrest has been dragged back to the UK and made a plea in the court. After that time, more info will become known, as of now, all we really know is that he legged it with a love sick kid! After he is back in blighty and more is known, i'll write it with you if want.

As for the Good cite bit, if you click on the HELP icon on the bar on the left of the screen, it will bring up HELP CONTENTS, and inside you will find a direct link to CITING SOURCES. When you first open the help page, you may have to click on the SHOW tab at the right hand side. Hope that helps. Markdarrly (talk) 08:43, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

No problem, you know where I am if you need any further info, just tap the keys!!! Markdarrly (talk) 08:50, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

References on a user page

{{helpme}} I'm looking to get <[ref]> to work on the User Page.

Hello, The tags to use are <ref></ref> and {{reflist}}. Is that what you wanted to know? Patchy1 11:23, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Partially, but i've tried putting { {Reflist} } next to the <[ref> and at the top of the page but the message was still showing. The bit about the template makes me wonder if i'm putting it on the completely wrong page. Any ideas? MIVP (talk) 11:32, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Note: I have moved your reply back to your talk page so the discussion is easier to follow. Use colons to indent here and {{Talkback|Matticusmadness}} on my page to notify me.

A typical reference will look like this:

Text to be referenced<ref>Reference text</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

If you like I can edit your userpage to include the above example. -- Patchy1 11:49, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Close enough, I've figured it out now so thanks. MIVP (talk) 11:41, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

I was part way through typing the above entry when you posted. If you need anymore help, contact me anytime. -- Patchy1 11:49, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

Admin page

To be honest, I can't quite remember when I registered my account. And the User Creation log seems to have forgotten who I am... or at least when I showed up here. caknuck _° needs to be running more often 03:36, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks 4 the strawberrys!!!

Just one minor complaint-where is the cream?Markdarrly (talk) 19:10, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Many thanks for the tea, i'll get cream for both of them!!!!!;-)) Markdarrly (talk) 08:15, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Userboxes

The Userboxes are driving me crazy. Could someone please sort them so there's 4 to each line? I'm no good with coding so edit their sizes if needed.  Done, give me a shout if it needs tweaking. Yunshui 雲‍水 10:13, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Your userpage

Given the enthusiastic vandalism currently affecting your userpage, I've protected it from editing by IPs and unregistered users. If you want the protection lifted or extended at any point (it's currently set to expire in about three weeks), let me know. Cheers, Yunshui 雲‍水 13:19, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Reporting vandalism

Yes, WP:AIV is the right place, if the vandal has been sufficiently warned - see the box marked "Important!" at the head of that page. The reports should be in the form {{IPvandal|IP address}}, not just [[IPaddress]] - there are examples on the page, visible after you click "Edit", which you can copy.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 13:34, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

ClueBot and user pages

Hello! I have posted it on the talk page of ClueBot. Regards···Vanischenu^「m/_Talk」 19:50, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Page protection

Given recent activity by CardinalBadboy (who isn't blocked yet, but is only one more inappropriate edit away), I'm willing to reconsider your request to semi-protect your user talkpage. Still want me to do that? Yunshui 雲‍水 11:50, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Your wish, etc. I've set the protection at three months. If you need it lifting at any point, say the word. Yunshui 雲‍水 12:31, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Hi

Don't think I've come across you before. That was a very sensible answer you gave to User:BecWaters, which I've added to. Didn't really need an admin - any regular patroller could have confirmed your remarks, but newcomers do seem to think that admins have a lot more authority than we do. (Comes in handy, sometimes...) If you're keen on becoming an admin, don't let people know. It won't help. Get in some content creation, be seen around in as many places as possible (without being obvious or pushy about it), be good at explaining things and cleaning up messes (or at least recognising a mess and finding someone who knows more to mop it up or untangle it), don't edit war (even in a good cause), don't get blocked and don't use sockpuppets, keep your edit count evenly spread out, attend RfAs and comment sensibly (without piling on), shadow people (there are a number of people who watch my talk page, for example), and keep it all up for a minimum of 18 months without getting bored, and someday, my son, you too could be an admin.... (BTW don't copy my style of writing - it probably wouldn't work. Find your own style, and vary it to the different clients.) (PS I do advise getting Twinkle. I did after I got my mop, having done 12,000 odd edits totally manually. It's not like Huggle or some of the other things - it's just a short cut rather than an automated tool. It's a lot easier to click tick boxes than to remember a load of templates with subst: in them. It won't do anything you don't want it to. And you can still do your talk page spiel manually.) Peridon (talk) 18:10, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Greetings and thank you Peridon. I was just trying to do what I believe any good Wikipedian should do. Allow me to give you a little background to my WP Motives, I set up an account on Wikipedia with intention of keeping my school's IP Address out of trouble. With my position as a prefect within the school I can keep close ties to those in the technical department who will be able to determine which student does any Wikipedia vandalism. It's worked well so far but there's always people who think they can flip the net so I must be ever alert. As for newcomers thinking that Admins have more authority i'd say i'm semi-newcomer but I still believe that. Even though I have seen Bureaucrats and read about Stewards I still look up to the Admins as the people who will always be the protectors of Wikipedia when we users fail.

I believe that a lot of newcomers mess up their first page because the rule of sources is not explained simply enough, that was what I was doing with User:BecWaters, I haven't jumped into my own first article yet because I don't know of anything with significant enough media coverage to be article worthy, I have considered starting an article for my school but it fails the criteria straight up (independent sources, only got 1) plus i'll be running a block risk being part of the organisation that i'm making a page on. Any suggestions? Perhaps the page that discusses sources could do with a simplified explanation of how they work like I did? it could save a lot of pages and time. If you think I could have a good shot at making it easier for people to understand then kindly link me towards the correct page, thank you.

As for your suggestions towards becoming an Administrator I thank you greatly for your suggestions and will keep them in mind. I have that userbox mainly because I wish to be able to help those who need it and block those who deserve it. perhaps you can help me out with two things please? Firstly is there any chance User:CHCS06 could be mistaken for a sockpuppet of me? he works with me in a lesson / class so he was motivated to make an account and since most of my contributions come from the same IP Checklist could make a false assumption. Secondly are you any good with coding? This Wikipedian originally did the coding for my user page's userboxes to put them to 4 on a row but i'm looking to set them in a scroll bar fashion now, I'm thinking 4 to a line and 3 lines down if you get what I mean. As for getting Twinkle so be it, you're the experienced one, i'll look into it.

Thanks for all the ideas and feedback. It's users and Admins like you that are helping me become the use to Wikipedia that I wish to be ^_^ MIVP - (I can haz Cheezburger?) 19:06, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

CHCS06 would only be considered a sock if there were cause to investigate, that is, if you were making the same edits to get round WP:3RR, !voting the same way in the same discussions, etc. He hasn't edited yet. Your school address is blocked for six months (anonymous editors and account creation blocked), so you shouldn't have any trouble in that direction. Registered accounts made off site or pre-block can edit - obviously... As to the user boxes, I had the same trouble. Three people tried, and the last one succeeded. Can't remember who, but they mightn't still be around anyway. Coding is more the term for making bots and little twiddly things that get put in obscure places to affect the way things work. Chasing userboxes round the page is more like formatting. I tend to stick to cruelly deleting articles and sympathetically (or rudely, as occasion suggests) explaining why. You could try the Village Pump (Technical bit) (Wikipedia has some strangely named things - we even have a policy relevant to sockpuppets called WP:DUCK) - which you will find a link in a box of goodies on my /links subpage. (Not the DUCK.) There they deal with bugs and complaints about popups and how to get things to go away. Userboxes should be easy for them. That /links page might lead you to some of the darker recesses of Wikipedia. Don't join in until you've got more experience, and cautiously then. Peridon (talk) 20:21, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

PS You're quite right about the sources - but the real problem is getting the people to understand the concept of notability as the word is used in Wikipedia. If they don't understand notability, they won't worry about RS. I must get round to an essay on it. Peridon (talk) 20:23, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

Sonic X Universe

Hi, I'm Sarah. I just wanted to let you know that I removed the CSD tag from Sonic_X_Universe because the content of the page doesn't meet the criteria . I left a message on the article talk page as well. If you still think it should be deleted feel free to nominate it for deletion at AFD. Also, the deletion tags usually go on the article page not the talk page. Thanks. Sarahj2107 (talk) 02:35, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Matticusmadness. You have new messages at SuggestBot's talk page.
Message added 21:53, 30 November 2012 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Cheers, Nettrom (talk) 21:53, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi,

Just stopping by to attempt to express my gratitude for the barnstar I got, it was a surprise I greatly appreciated, thank you ever so much! Regards, Nettrom (talk) 15:45, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

Fixing Sinebot edits

Not that I'm fussed one way or the other, but is it really a worthwhile use of your time to go through SineBot's edits "correcting" them? What you're doing is kind of the reason the automated bot exists in the first place... Carry on by all means if it gives you any satisfaction; I'm fairly sure we don't have any policies against it - it's just a bit odd... Yunshui 雲‍水 14:30, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Help request

I would be highly grateful if someone could leave me the coding for aligning text into the middle of the page. Just leave it in some <nowiki> markup and I should be able to figure it out. While we're at it can I be taught how to apply redirect to pages? MIVP - Allow us to be of assistance to you. (Maybe a bit of tea for thought?) 22:20, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

<center>centered text</center>

OR

{{center|centered text}}

Hope this helps. -- Patchy1 22:32, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Woops I didn't read the last bit, to make a redirect, you replace ALL content in an article with #REDIRECT [[Destination Article]]. Is that what you were asking? -- Patchy1 22:36, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Yes that covers it, thank you very much. i've noticed this is the second time that you've helped me. I'm thinking about whether I should drop you a barnstar or whether I should wait until you have helped me a third time. MIVP - Allow us to be of assistance to you. (Maybe a bit of tea for thought?) 22:41, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

I was away for the weekend, time off all round. I haven't really had many barnstars, but I am happy to continue helping wherever I can no matter what :) -- Patchy1 22:59, 16 December 2012 (UTC)