User talk:Gingerfool

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Blank categories

Hello there, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but please do not create blank categories such as Category:Mickey Smith short stories. It is policy that every category should be a subcategory of another category, and also it's best that you include some descriptive text, as outlined at the policy which I linked above, though this is not necessary. Thank you in advance. Aquanafrahudy 📢 🖊️ 16:31, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

Spam

They're just spam bots. Nothing to do except make sure every page is documented so it can be deleted when an admin gets on. Najawin ☎ 07:57, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi Najawin, not sure what you mean by this - I think I've got caught up in this new spam fiasco - I just make categories that are missing and add VHS covers. Gingerfool ☎ 08:16, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Nah, nah. I was responding to your comment on, uh, Talk:Need More Out Of Your Life Setting Up A Terrarium For Frogs Setting Up A Terrarium For Frogs Setting Up A Terrarium For Frogs. You're good. Najawin ☎ 08:20, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

I put it here because engaging with those pages is just counterproductive. Najawin ☎ 08:20, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Re: Wrongly Marked as Bot

Hi. You've not been wrongly marked as a bot. I disabled almost all page creations to try and stop the spam wave, and this includes legitimate edits. It seems that the spam wave has stopped so I will disable this measure soon. Bongo50 ☎ 08:28, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Signature

Hey! Apropos of nothing, I love your "tilted" signature, but also I must point out that signatures are supposed to retain a link to your talk page… --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 16:57, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

I was about to say this myself but I've been beaten to it. However, I would like to mention the relevant policy: T:SIG LOOK. Bongo50 ☎ 17:44, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Should be sorted now, let me know if there's any other problems. - SID'gingerfool'RAT (☎) 21:55, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Looks good! Bongo50 ☎ 17:45, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

User page

I thought I'd mention 2 things about your userpage:

to make the text readable on dark mode, you can wrap each paragraph with <p style="color:#000000;">[...]</p>. This will override the default text colour.
to display your edit count directly on your page, you have to use the {{#editcount:}} parser function. For example, the following code will create a nicely formatted output: [[Special:EditCount/Gingerfool|{{formatnum:{{#editcount:Gingerfool}}}} edits]]: 6,695 edits

Bongo50 ☎ 17:44, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice, I've changed it up and added it. - SID'gingerfool'RAT (☎) 21:55, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

User page templates

Hi, while I love the idea of the user page templates (Template:Gingerfool/UserboxDoctor11 etc.), they should probably be in the "User:" namespace rather than the "Template:" namespace. Thanks, Aquanafrahudy 📢 🖊️ 17:47, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

They've been moved now :) SID'gingerfool'RAT - ☎^🔎 |📂|📝 19:23, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Template categories

Why have you added a lot of templates to Category:Maintenance templates? Many of them are not actually maintence templates and so should not be in this category. Maintence templates are templates used primarily to maintain the wiki, like {{merge}}. In addition, and this applies to many of your other template category additions as well, the way you have added these is incorrect. Firstly, the category should be within a pre-existing <noinclude> tag if that exists. Secondly, and more importantly, the opening <noinclude> tag must be on the same line as the whatever comes before it to prevent unecessary line breaks and white space. For example, see what your change to {{cite source}} did to the template documentation by pushing the closing ")" bracket of each example citation onto a new line. I fixed this by placing the category inside the existing <noinclude> which is on the same line as what came before it. Also note that I switched the category out for one that is more appropriate. Bongo50 ☎ 16:59, 22 July 2024 (UTC)

I appreciate that you were trying to clear out the uncategorised templates. However, Category:Maintenance templates is not the catch-all for templates that don't fit elsewhere. Category:Templates is. It's perfectly acceptable for a template to just be in that category without being further categorised. It broke {{cite source}} for the reason I already told you. The <noinclude> must start on the same line as whatever came before it. All unecessary line breaks should be removed from templates. Bongo50 ☎ 13:50, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Sig template

Off hand I don't do CSS, but just from a quick glance I can tell the two aren't identical. Epsilon wrapped his inside a div element, and you didn't + you have 11 opening span s and only 10 closing span s. Not sure which bit is causing the issue, but those are the bits I'd suggest looking at - wrapping the thing in a div again, or matching the spans. Najawin ☎ 14:38, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Please follow the instructions at Help:Signatures#Method two: calling a template. Bongo50 ☎ 14:59, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome! Bongo50 ☎ 16:02, 30 July 2024 (UTC)

Re: Mass Categorisation?

This is a very frustrating situation because all of those categories should exist and never should have been used without existing, yet fixing the issue is going to have to be a manual process as there isn't a clear rule that a bot would be able to universally apply. Really, they all need to be categorised themselves and to have the relevant image category templates applied. Bongo50 ☎ 10:31, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Re: Uncategorised categories

The special page you linked doesn't seem to exist? Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 22:17, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

I'll have a look re: the templates. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 23:22, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

(Done.) --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 12:42, 8 September 2024 (UTC)