User talk:Metardis/Archive 7: Difference between revisions

== Archive ==

== Not a spelling mistake ==

Thanks for trying to help out, but it's not engine.  It's [[Engin]], a character in ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]''.  

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Also do not link to [[The Doctor]] when the link should go to a specific Doctor. Thanks. [[User:Mini-mitch|MM]]/<small>[[User talk:Mini-mitch|Want to talk?]]</small> 15:05, December 8, 2011 (UTC)

== Adminship ==

== Signatures ==

::I don't understand your question.  [[Help:signatures]] contains a ''complete'' guide of how to create a "template call" signature.  Follow the instructions there and you'll be able to create such a sig.  It doesn't, however, tell you what ''kind'' of signature to make -- that is, what ''content'' should make up your signature -- but it does tell you ''completely'' how to create the basic "shell" into which you can dump your content.  

== Locking main page ==

== User talk vandalism ==

So that's the wiki policy.   

== Please be specific ==

As the wiki's technical administrator, I have a special responsibility to make sure that things are working.  There are a ton of things I'm doing on a daily basis to coax the site into working and looking better.  Therefore, I need problems reported to me in a specific and economical way.  I can't act on anything you're saying — "the main page needs locking", "this thing in the bottom right is blanked" — unless I know:

#Whether it's happening on multiple reloads of a page

#Whether you've cleared your cache between reloads

== Coloring on my talk page ==

:Just taking a cursory look at your signature, however, I must ask you to please follow the standard procedure at [[Help:Signatures]].  You are dumping '''way''' too much code onto pages.  Not only does this cause your signature to take up a great deal of vertical space, but it also makes it easy to "screw up" your template.  All that needs to happen to mess it up, along with any page on which it appears, is to clip one of the span tags on your signature.  It's far better to make a personal, user-namespace-based template our of your signature, and then to place only a template call on a page.  Again, instructions are at [[help:signatures]].  

:That's a matter of compliance with standard procedure.

:As a matter of personal opinion, however, can I just say that I find it ''incredibly difficult'' to read your signature.  I'm not saying that you have to change it.  Maybe you mean for it to be difficult to read.  But you might want to consider balancing the "cool" green-and-yellow scarfy design against the need to actually ''read'' the damn thing.   

::Thanks for the screenshot.  At no point has my page ''ever'' looked like that to me.  But I think I see a part of your problem.  Your screenshot appears to have been taken from Internet Explorer.  This site is in no way guaranteed to work for IE.  We don't support that browser.  It does massively unpredictable things.  I strongly suggest you switch to Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or really ''anything'' but IE.  In this case, IE is reacting ''very'' badly to unclosed span tags.

::See, the reason it's doing that on my page, and no other, is because you've posted several different signatures to my page, and one of them had an improperly closed span tag, which is affecting things beneath it.  In Safari and Firefox, I don't get the full on green lines that you screenshot from IE, but I do get different shades of green/and blue.  The only reason this is happening is because you've got an unclosed gold segment, followed by an unclosed green segment, further up the page.  These unclosed colors are desperately looking for closure, but they can't find it.  So they're mixing with the colors beneath it to result in colors that aren't standard red, green, gold and blue.  The error, if you're interested, is at [[user talk:CzechOut#sorry]].  There, you've interrupted your own signature to type the words "Oh.  It isn't", which means that the time portion of the first comment never gets closed.   

::This is an absolutely textbook case of why it's better to use what are called "template signatures" at [[Help:Signatures]].   

::I '''strongly''' suggest that you switch to the "template sig" approach.  You're still dumping rather a lot of raw code every time your signature appears.  I mean, it's ''better'' now cause you've reduced it, but it's still a bit "span-happy" for raw inclusion into a talk page.  Edit this page in source and look at what my code leaves behind.  There's a ''tiny'' bit of code to style the time stamp, but basically it's just '''[[user:CzechOut/Sig]]'''. As the instructions say, you need to put all your code onto a page called {{tl|User:Metardis/autosig}}. Then, you create another page called [[user:Metardis/sig]] on which the ''only'' content is {{tl|user:Metardis/autosig}}.  Then, in your [[Special:Preferences]], at the custom signature line, put {{tl|user:Metardis/sig}}. This will insulate your signature from damage — like the self-inflicted damage you caused at [[user talk:CzechOut#sorry]].  (The other cool thing about the approach is that it allows you to have different signatures on each wiki. My sig at [[w:c:community]] differs from the one here, for instance.)

==Stop creating categories==

Please stop creating categories.  

See [[:Category:Stub templates]] for a list of the templates that already have categories as part of their structure. To use them simply put <nowiki>{{name stub}}</nowiki> so for instance for [[Template:Drink stub]] you'd type <nowiki>{{drink stub}}</nowiki>. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] / '''[[User talk:Tangerineduel|talk]]''' 15:23, January 13, 2012 (UTC)

== Harper ==

== Archive note ==

== Capitalisation ==

After reviewing your recent addition, [[vortex code]], I was a little concerned that you may need a brush-up on the standard rules of [[English]] language capitalisation.  I urge you to [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/592/1/ read this short overview].  Clearly, words like ''planet'' and ''universe'' would not be capitalised in ordinary usage.

Also, please remember that all sentences should begin with a capital letter.   

(If you're wondering why I'm saying all this, please compare your last revision at [[vortex code]] with my last one.)   

== Monobook cover? ==

==Unsigned anon==

Hi, I'll refer above to CzechOut's comment about unsigned posts. Also, unless you're actually going to fill in the unsigned anon with the correct info, it's not all that useful. See the [[Template:Unsigned-anon]] page for information on how it's used. Or [[Template:Unsigned]] as would be the case with [[user:HumanRejection]]'s talk page as you can see looking at the [http://tardis.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:HumanRejection&action=history history for that user's user page] there were only 2 contributors to the page prior to your addition of the unisgned anon template. I'm a little unsure why you decided at all. Thanks. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] / '''[[User talk:Tangerineduel|talk]]''' 15:02, January 17, 2012 (UTC)

I am sick to death of having to tell you this. Please do not do this again. [[User:Mini-mitch|MM]]/<small>[[User talk:Mini-mitch|Want to talk?]]</small> 15:04, February 5, 2012 (UTC)

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