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Thanks

Thanks for helping me out. Manxruler 14:05, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you! Arnon Chaffin (Talk) 15:48, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for your reply to my request for help on the article I started, "Kimkins Controversy." I went thru some hoops to have speedy delete tags removed and the article was beefed up with decent sources and all the delete tags were removed (from what I could tell - this is my first foray into Wikipedia as a contributor). It was shaped up and I asked for help about categories & indexing - and you replied that it would just take a day or so to show up in searches.

Unfortunately, when I went back to check it out, admin bumm13 deleted the article with no explanation that I could understand ("vanity"?), and he has not replied to my inquiries about it. He doesn't appear to pay any attention to his talk page, and his userpage says to find him on irc, but gives no indication of WHERE on irc (he says channel #wikipedia, but not which server - undernet, efnet, dalnet?) so that's not helpful at all. I am getting lost in the bowels of Wikipedia!

I have entered a request to have the article's content restored so that I can at least copy it and put it the sandbox to work on. I have the support of another admin for the challenge procedure, which I will go read up on now. I had no idea what was involved in Wikipedia and I don't know that I have the time to devote to all of this but I appreciate your help and I will try to stick with it a bit more to figure out what's going on with this article. Sorry to be so longwinded. Any feedback or additional info would be appreciated! Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kathycha (talkcontribs) 04:25, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Very helpful info you provided - thanks so much. I'm making my way through the process. It's not pretty, but I'll get there! Thanks again for your help. Kathycha 16:50, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Ahhh, back for more help Master Scripter! ;)

Ok, I'm working on a random picture display from the previous quotes script you helped with. It does the same thing but instead of pulling and outputting quotes, it pulls and outputs pictures. It's working somewhat except that it's creating 11 picture boxes, 10 of them empty. It should only be outputting 1 picture box. See my template here: User:Allstarecho/LGBTPicstemp and see the problem it's causing here: User:Allstarecho/LGBTPics. Any help fixing this issue would be most certainly appreciated. -- ALLSTAR ECHO 07:42, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

I tried several different ways to put the template within #ifeq with no luck. It either totally breaks the output or does nothing at all. -- ALLSTAR ECHO 09:45, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
You are total awesomeness! Thank you! -- ALLSTAR ECHO 09:55, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
OK, one more thing. I'm done with it and have now placed it on my user page using {{User:Allstarecho/LGBTPics}}. It's supposed to be right under the LGBT quote output where it says WP:LGBT QUOTE OF THE DAY. However, it's doing something really screwy and putting it down under my On the road again... section and has trashed other tables and div layers unrelated to LGBTPicstemp. What can I do to fix this? -- ALLSTAR ECHO 11:34, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Well, what I expect to happen other than what it's doing is it to be in its own tidy little box, which it is when by itself such as when viewing it at LGBTPics. But once placed on other pages that also use div layer boxes, such as my user page, it trashes the other div layers and such. It should be in a nice, tidy box right under the quotes on my user page but instead it has distorted my whole page, causing other div boxes on there to malform and it's placing the picture box down towards the bottom way off where it's supposed to be. -- ALLSTAR ECHO 19:13, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Excellent adivice with the {{-}} tag. I implemented it and it was causing a good bit of dead space above and below the output so I changed it to {{clear}} and that fixed the dead space issue. Now, any idea why the output has so much dead space on the left and right? See it in action here: User:Allstarecho Once I get that fixed, it looks like it'll be ready for release. And I do want you to know I appreciate all of the help and advice you've given and the work you've done! -- ALLSTAR ECHO 18:53, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Looks like I figured it out. Again, thanks for all of your help and advice! :) -- ALLSTAR ECHO 00:27, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry?

Could I please ask why your username is creating many new editors simultaneously, according to here? Onnaghar talk ! ctrb ! ed.rev. 14:59, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Replied here, in case anyone else is wondering. --ais523 15:06, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
I understand, like they say you learn something new everyday. Thanks for replying so swiftly. Regards, Onnaghar talk ! ctrb ! ed.rev. 15:07, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Ah. I'll keep that in mind. I hadn't noticed it before. Onnaghar talk ! ctrb ! ed.rev. 15:09, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Help with redirect.

Thanks very much, Ais523. Your redirect suggestion is just what I needed to know. Tim Ross 17:23, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks fyi

Hi. Thanks again for the Scheduler for WP-work or wikibreaks. Just wanted to mention that, to my chagrin, I realized there's a way to work around the enforcer. So it's very helpful, but I guess I still have to exercise some self-discipline! Take care, HG | Talk 23:50, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

==Help==

Much obliged. I'll file it for next time. --Rodhullandemu (talk - contribs) 17:38, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

About Max Media Dock

Why did you delete the article? The concensus was 50/50, you didn't give any reason? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jidoo (talkcontribs) 21:54, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Template bug

Hi! Could you help me out with this template: Template:Infobox Organization2. It's causing a lot of whitespace to be added in the lead. See this example: Mumbai Amateur Radio Society. [FYI -- My browser is Firefox/Ubuntu.] Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 04:06, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey, thanks for fixing it. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»= 17:25, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello Ais523, I seem to be having trouble with your catwatch script. After I added it to my monobook.js file and cleared the cache, I checked my watchlist and a message appeared. So I followed it and it lead me to my watched categories.js file, after I filled it in and cleared the cache again, and checked my watchlist the message still keeps appearing. Any help you can give, will be appreiciated.--Sunny910910 (talk|Contributions) 00:19, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I am using IE7, BTW did you check my "watched categories.js" file (the problem might be there). And thanks for replying to my problem.--Sunny910910 (talk|Contributions) 22:33, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Here's what the popup said:

responseText:'/*Empty*/', statusText='OK'

And good idea about the avvreviation, it might make things easier in the future (if it works)--Sunny910910 (talk|Contributions) 23:01, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks Ais523, your idea about deleteing browser history seems to have worked. As thanks, I present this:
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
I Sunny910910 hereby present this "Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar" to Ais523, for his/her kindness in helping me understand why his/her script didn't work. Sunny910910 (talk|Contributions) 21:16, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

BTW, you can change his/her to his or her if you want (your username doesn't give an obvious idea of what your gender is).--Sunny910910 (talk|Contributions) 21:16, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

My Search History Substitute

You suggested using the browser as a substitute. What would you think of using my watchlist as a substitute instead? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiquiman (talkcontribs) 18:36, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

I just wanted to say thank you for fulfilling my editprotect requests. They were kinda trivial, but I'm trying to get the template categories in shape. Thanks again! Rocket000 11:04, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Talk page

Hi Ais523. Thanks for the information on the talk page of Marc A. Kastner[1]. I still believe that something about the article should be mentioned on the talk page. When I create a talk page for an article, what should I mention? You can answer on my talk page. Regards, Masterpiece2000 06:09, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Your reply was great. Masterpiece2000 07:59, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Spam on New Contributors Help Page?

Hi, thought I'd ask your help on this one. What do you do when you suspect blatant advertising on New Contributors Help Page? It looks to me like this edit is such, but I'm not sure hence consulting. MarkMarek 20:14, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Moonriddengirl responded to it in the meantime, and afterwards another edit was made from what appears to be a different username, but the edit has procisely same structure and is also geared towards nothing but apparent promotion of the site. MarkMarek 20:53, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your help :) MarkMarek 14:48, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

You're totally correct that articles aren't usually deleted on the subject's wishes, but I suspect a deletion might be in order here. First of all, though admittedly my knowledge of UK soccer clubs isn't all that solid, I have never even heard of a club by that name and I suspect his club - and thus by extension Sean - isn't noteworthy. Also, searching for his name +soccer or football in Google gets quite some hits, but based on a cursory glance of the first few pages, not all of them correlate and quite a few don't have useful information in them. Unless someone can do a more detailed search than I can, I suspect there are no useful sources to base an article on. And THAT is crucial when the subject doesn't want the article. - Mgm|(talk) 11:30, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

An article on the club would be certainly be deleted at AfD as would Mr Caldwell's article. I'm off to speedy them both under CSD A7. No point being bureaucratic about it. Angus McLellan (Talk) 15:50, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Great!

Thanks for the clarification, I've added another question so yeah. But fantastic paragraph on edit counters! Phgao 13:59, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

How to seperate those boxes, like the ones that tell you "/this user plays halo, and whatnot

go to my user page, and u'll c the problem, i can't get the boxes to separate. can u help me?

Note: u might notice that i took the clock thing, is that ok?

Search: User:Darth Chyrsaor —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darth Chyrsaor (talkcontribs) 21:33, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

hey Ais523, thx for helping me with that little nitch.

PS: Do u play Runescape? and if u do, what's the username?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darth Chyrsaor (talkcontribs) 03:49, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Fixed bar

Did you see my note about meta:Help:User_style/floating_quickbar? — Omegatron 04:35, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Category watchlist

Just a note of appreciation for the category watchlist script. I'm only using it for {{helpme}} but I'm sure I'll find other uses in the future. By the way, I had the same problem when I initially loaded the script that is reported higher on this page, and the same fix worked for me. Might be a good idea to add that to the instructions for installiing the script. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit 20:06, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

References

Hi Ais523! I have a problem. I have added references to the articles I created. However, when I see other articles, the references are even better. And, there is something like 'Accessed on [certain date]'. How can I add references better? Regards, Masterpiece2000 09:34, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Thank you!

RE: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject edit counters‎ and comparision of two editors. Travb (talk) 22:35, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for the reply! Regards, Masterpiece2000 02:46, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for your help on the help page about my question about transcluding user, not user page, to a template. I did figure it out but before I could mention it on the help page, you answered it. Thanks! I did self teach myself how to make a complex template which I used in an article later. Archtransit 15:43, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Award

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
I award "The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar" to Ais523 for some really useful suggestions. Masterpiece2000 03:16, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi Asi523. Today I have completed one month on Wikipedia. Now, I am really comfortable. Thanks for your help. Your suggestions were great. Regards, Masterpiece2000 03:24, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Article Blink chat

Please check Blink chat and history. Thanks. abhih 22:27, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Some questions

Ais523, I have some problems.

1) If someone vandalized a page, how can I warn that user?

2)I am create an article and it is incomplete. What should I do? Can I post something that will suggest other user that I will work on that article later?

3) How can I nominate an article for featured articles and/or good articles? How can I contribute for featured articles or good article?

4) Please provide some information about templates used in Wikipedia.

Regards, Masterpiece2000 08:58, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Your watchlistnotifier script notifies people of changes they make themselves, is there anyway to fix that?--Sunny910910 (talk|Contributions) 23:47, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hello Ais523. Thank you for the reply. Regards, Masterpiece2000 03:09, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

And, I am not interested in adding numbers. You replies have really helped me. Once again, thank you. Regards, Masterpiece2000 05:15, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Need your help from vandalism!

Hello,

I hope you don't mind me contacting you.

Could you please assist me to protect our main userpage from vandalism. We are aware who the user is and the matter is being dealt with by us. The offender has registered a website kaydanes.org which is a false and malicious attack made by a person that is known to us, against our client [Kerry and Kay Danes].

The offender details can be provided should you require. We would request a protection page on all material on the site in the interests of protecting our client from further defamation.

Thank you for your assistance and we look forward to your support and guidance.

Camatta Lempens Pty Ltd http://www.camattalempens.com.au/contact.html

sunnyroe 06:19, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Stub tag

Hi, you probably already know this, but in your "stub tag" script, you may find a line like this:

document.getElementById('wpPreview').click();

If you change to say:

document.getElementById('wpSave').click();

it will automatically save instead of just previewing. As an option, you may want to add this in somewhere to give people an option (but it's your choice!). I just wanted to know what you thought of this. Thanks   jj137 (Talk) 15:41, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the help there!   jj137 (Talk) 16:23, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

A request

Hello Ais523. Please delete a category Category:Quantum theory physicists. The name should have been 'Category:Quantum physicists'. I have created a new category Category:Quantum physicists and recategorized all the pages. Regards, Masterpiece2000 13:32, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

And, please deleted the category Category:Alumni and faculty of Moscow State University. I have created two seperate categories - Category:Moscow State University alumni and Category:Moscow State University faculty and recategorized all the pages. Regards, Masterpiece2000 06:05, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the help. Category:Alumni and faculty of Moscow State University simply doesn't make any sense. It fails to tell whether a person is an alumni or faculty member of the Moscow State University. Thus, I split the category. Masterpiece2000 04:43, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Categorising

Ok, thanks I understand I can't categorise sections. How about where individual articles on each person were initially created but each now redirects to the group article. Is it possible to leave the categorisation on the individual article or will the REDIRECT also include the categorisation and thus REDIRECT to a categorisation of the group article ? -Sticks66 12:02, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Numbered list

Hello Ais523. You said that I can create a numbered list by starting each entry in the list with the # character. I tried that in my Sandbox and it didn't happen! Can you please show me a demonstration? Regards, Masterpiece2000 05:44, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. Regards, Masterpiece2000 03:26, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Request to block user:Sporty rohit

He is removing speedy deletions tag on Michael Keith Robert Wood placed by other users. Please check his [contributions]. I have detected that he has added Denner to Alternative fuel which is completely irrelevent. We need to check all his edits. But I request you to block this user. Thanks. abhih 13:08, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

RE: Adding media files to a page

Thanks ais523, I have placed my question on the help desk. Could you please help me?

Thanks,
Bugalugs13 11:18, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey thanks for the help, but how exactly do I convert a song into ogg vorbis format? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bugalugs13 (talkcontribs) 11:21, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your help, ais523! You are one kind and helpful Wikipedian. Wish you well. Bugalugs13 12:03, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

category watchlist

I'm trying to use your catwatchlist.js on Commons to watch just one category. I took the source and copied to my monobook.js (changing all en.wikipeida-->commons.wikimedia). I disabled the enhanced watchlist thing. Went to my watchedcats.js and added one category. It still thinks I have nothing there. I know it's not really your job to worry about it working on Commons, but if you could take a look, it'd be great. commons:User:Mike.lifeguard/monobook.js & commons:User:Mike.lifeguard/WatchedCategories.js Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 05:34, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look. I don't know if that's what's happening. There are 4 entries on my commons watchlist for today. When I first click watchlist a dialog box pops up with a "you don't have a category watchlist yet" message. Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 18:26, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Deleting temp files worked. Thanks so much. Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 18:34, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hello Ais523. A user called Commmando5603 has vandalized the biography of John Bardeen[2]. Regards, Masterpiece2000 10:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. Regards, Masterpiece2000 04:30, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

A couple of things

Hi - I don't think I've run into you as of yet, delighted to meet you. *shakes hand*

I have a question - regarding your vote symbols script - does it affect articles? For example, if I were to go to the article on the keep, will it add symbols after each instance of keep?

And also, I would like to know if there's a collapsible box-type thing - for keeping long-winded talk page comments tame.

Thanks in advance for any help, Jame§ugrono 21:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

My question on sockpuppets

I asked my question on sockpuppets on His space reasearch's RFA after the PrivateMusings er..."disagreement" to see what he might do in such a situation. I am actually quite okay with sockpuppets, I think you misinterpreted--Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs) 20:37, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Strange!

Hello Ais523. Whenever I sign, the signature is like this: Masterpiece2000 (talk). In my preferences, the signature is: Masterpiece2000. What is going on? Can you please explain it to me? Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 10:41, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 08:07, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Please block this username

Because it is name of Indian superstar, who was polled as 'superstar of the millenium' by BBC World. You can easily google it. Thanks. Amitabh Bachchan (talk) 18:47, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Technical knowledge

Hello Ais523. I would like to know few things about you. I know that Wikipedia is not a social networking website. However, Wikipedians are humans. I noticed that you have a lot of technical knowledge about Wikipedia. I saw you successful RfA and there you mentioned that you are an admin on a private wiki. Are you from the English speaking part of the World? Well, I am not.

I have made over 2000 edits and created over 30 articles and I am less than two month old. Now, I would like to understand the inner workings. How can I take part in RfA? How much experience is required to take part in RfA and discuss about the policies? How can I take part in village pump? I would like to understand about the technical issues and policies about Wikipedia. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 08:32, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. I must say, your answer was great. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 12:08, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Ashleys Law

For my education, why did you think Ashleys Law didn't qualify as a G1 speedy? I reckoned that "Law I  : Physics is a lie" "Law II  : Physics acts in the opposite direction of true motion" "Law III : Ashley is correct, end of story" certainly qualified as "Patent nonsense". JohnCD (talk) 12:54, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

OK. I'd have thought it just about came under "Content that, while apparently meaningful after a fashion, is so completely and irredeemably confused that no reasonable person can be expected to make any sense of it whatsoever", but marginal, I agree. Thanks. JohnCD (talk) 13:08, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

I have read WP:WELCOME and WP:INTRO and I think I know how to do this stuff now. I don't think I have it talkpage though. How do I get to it? I also have Twinkle. BK4ME (talk) 17:01, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Cool, thank you! I saw a bright orange bar! BK4ME (talk) 17:09, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Similar name

Hello Ais523. Today I noticed that there were other users with the user name Masterpiece! See:[3]. What should I do? Someone can create accounts like Masterpiece2001, Masterpiece2002, etc. Can I created other accounts with similar user names are redirect them to my user name? Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 09:19, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 09:31, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Ais523, can I create an account and redirect it to my account? Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 09:36, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the reply. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 02:43, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you

Hey! Just wanted to say thanks for approving my username/creating my account. Regards, Ilva (talk) 22:03, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Two question more!

Hello Ais523. I must thank you for all the help. I have two more questions: How can I welcome new users? How can I know about the new users? Once again thank you for the help. Without your help, it might have taken me about 6 months to understand everything. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 09:47, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. Regards, Masterpiece2000 (talk) 12:42, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Interwiki links for Special:Contributions

I would like for there to be interwiki links in Special:Contributions as there are on Special:Recentchanges. Since single-user login seems distant on the horizon, I think standard interwiki links would make life a lot easier in the meanwhile.

If I want to see interwiki links for a given IP address, the simplest way to do it is to click on User:EVula's own interwiki links, then replace his user contributions with the username or IP of interest. There ought to be a better way.

I mention this because I think it would be extremely helpful in combating vandalism. Three of the recent IP addresses at the Simple English Vandalism in Progress (their equivalent of WP:AIV) all had substantial block logs on English Wikipedia. It looks like the vandals realized they couldn't get away with it on en.wiki, so they went to simple.wiki instead. This phenomenon is generally known for years already, but there still is no quick and easy way to check an IP's contribution logs on other Wikimedia wikis.

Please post this to bugzilla, the Village Pump, or wherever else it should be seen. Thanks, and best regards, Shalom (HelloPeace) 15:04, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for replying. I saw the links at MediaWiki talk:Sp-contributions-footer, but I didn't see them at Special:Contributions itself. Could you please double-check to see that the interwiki links are actually appearing where you expect to see them? Shalom (HelloPeace) 18:53, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
I have commented out the interwiki list at MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer. 99% of the interwikis the page creates are non-working. The interwikis at Special:Recentchanges have existing targets, so this is not a similar situation. This needs to be discussed as we do not usually have dead interwikis, which means a change like this will cause confusion. Prolog (talk) 20:11, 28 November 2007 (UTC)