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D-Day
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. That info you added to D-Day really belongs on Battle of Normandy and/or French Resistance. The D-Day article is about the term, rather than the events of June 1944. —wwoods 18:04, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for adding this information to a more appropriate place. However I want to urge you to check any facts before you add them. The essence of what you added is reasonably correct, but it contained very significant errors. One of the main ones for example was that the code for the floating harbours was Mulberry not Raspberry. That's an easy thing to fix, but it is a strong indication that you need to check your facts before adding information. This encyclopedia will only be good if everyone is careful about what they add.
Given this, I would ask that you supply a reference for your statement about "les carrottes sont cuites". I can find no mention of this fact anywhere. Please let us know where you got it from. DJ Clayworth 14:27, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the information. I wasn't meaning to imply that you always make mistakes, but I was encouraging you to fact-check things very carefully. I would also encourage you to check and article carefully before adding information to it, in case contradictory information is already in the article. What I think would be appropriate here is to copy out the paragraph or so of the book that relates to this message. The problem here is that a different message indicating the imminent invasion is already recorded in the article. It may be of course that what is currently written there is wrong. it may also be (and this seems likely to me) that the BBC broadcast many messages that night, in which case we can't report them all. May I also say this this seems, without evidence, to be an unlikely message, because "les dés sont jetés" is such a well-known phrase associated with being committed to a risky endavour. It would be like using "we're going to invade' as a codeword for an imminent invasion.
Incidentally, it's a good idea to sign your posts to talk pages with four tildes, like this: ~~~~. It automatically expands to your username and the time. DJ Clayworth 16:37, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
DJ Clayworth 16:37, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for your edits on these 2 articles. They are very welcome, especially for Swiss French, which could do with some improvements, so don't hesitate to make further changes. I have made a few modifications after your edits; in the Swiss French article, you mentioned that octante was used in Belgian French; I was going to move this information to the corresponding article, but I saw there an indication that huitante and octante are in fact not used in Belgian French, so I removed the sentence.
In Romandy, you mentioned For more on this subject, visit the Swiss French section of Wikipedia; since Wikipedia's content is often used on other websites, it is better to avoid self-references; having a wikilink to the Swiss French article should be enough.
I look forward to seeing your next contributions ! All the best, Schutz 22:31, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
Help has arrived
You wanted some help, here I am! How can I help you? You can ask your questions right here, and I will respond.--Commander Keane 16:37, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
You know on ceratin pages, that you can see what languages they can contribute in, an which languages they can speak etc. etc. Well when i attempted this, my entire page got mucked up. I tried re-aligning, but everything was jammed in a sort of text box....
By the way, this is the encoding I used:
{| style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; width: 242px; border: #99B3FF solid 1px; clear: right"
| style="text-align: center" |
| {{User en}}
|-
| {{User fr}}
|-
| {{User it -2}}
|-
| {{User nl -3}}
|-
| {{User de -1}}
| style="text-align: right" |
Grouping_userboxes and Wikipedia:Babel have ideas on how to set your userboxes up. You are using a table (a good way to do it!). I have put a syntax that works below. You will need to look at it in the edit window.
How can I help? - cohesiont 08:18, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
I need to be able to shrink this icon, if possible, to a more reasonable size: ''[[Image:CFF logo.png]]''
In the article I wish to insert it in (2005 in rail transport), December section, the logo is to large, and I cannot shrink it it.
Thanks,
Booksworm 08:20, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
No problem, here are some ways to make it smaller, I will use another image as an example:
some caption
Hope one of those examples is close to what you would like. Just click on edit to see the markup. :D - cohesiont 08:26, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, how can I help? :) - cohesiont 09:19, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
You know your userboxes? Well when I type {{user russian}} I get in my userbox:
This User has Russian ancestry
But when I type {{User British}} instead, I get:
This user is proud of being British
And I would like to know the markup so that my userbox will say:
This user has British ancestry
Thanks again,
Booksworm 09:26, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
P.S: how can I customize my Userboxes?
Booksworm 09:31, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
You can type {{subst:User British}} and save, which will pull the data onto this page, then you can edit it to make it slightly different than the actual template. Does that make sense? - cohesiont 09:56, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
What help do you require?
—Phil | Talk 15:47, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Better repost {{helpme}} if you still need help, I'm not going to be here much longer: you can maybe try somebody else. —Phil | Talk 16:40, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Help!
Hi! What do you need help with? Ask you question here and place {{helpme}} on the end so I know to check back.--Commander Keane 12:31, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello Commander Keane,
I wish to add an Image of the day on my userpage, but, when I add it, it doesn't stay near the title on top but instead it just drops down to the bottom of the page. What is going on?
JP 12:35, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
I added it and it seems ok, is that what you wanted?--Commander Keane 12:38, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Just one little thing:
Is there any way I could make the image a little bit larger?
If so, how?
If not, Thanks Anyway with all of your help Commander.
JP 12:44, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm not aware of a way to do that, but you could ask at the Help desk to get more advice. Have a nice day!--Commander Keane 12:59, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello you added a paragraph to operation barbarossa which I believe is missleadin if you read this American military article about winter you will see that the Axis were forced to a halt before winter set in, winter was just cake on cake it just added to the problems but it by itself was not the reason why the advance halted those reason are many and complex.
"Hitler's plans also miscarried before the onset of severe winter weather; he was so confident of a lightning victory that he did not prepare for even the possibility of winter warfare in Russia. Yet his eastern army suffered more than 734,000 casualties (about 23 percent of its average strength of 3,200,000 troops) during the first five months of the invasion"
So you can see he was stoped BEFORE winter not BECAUSE of winter.
So with your approval I would like to remove that specific paragraph you added (Deng 17:59, 8 April 2006 (UTC))
Help! (Again)
How do I create a border for an image?
You probably mean something like [[Image:Frog.jpg|thumb|right|100px|Caption... :-)]] which looks like: Caption... :-) (see the image to the right). The "thumb" causes the border. Wikipedia:Extended image syntax has more info on how to set out images.--Commander Keane 08:39, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
I know it's annoying but.... I need help!
I add this encoding and title
===Railway image of the week===
[[Image:Flying Scotsman in Doncaster.JPG|thumb|left|900px|One of the most amazing trains of all times: [[LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman|The Flying Sctosman]]]]
I then add:
===War/Weaponry image of the week===
[[Image:Tzarbo1.jpg|thumb|left|900px|The most powerful nuclear bomb of all times: [[Tsar Bomba|The Tsar Bomb]]]]
Which creates this:
How can I make the title War/Weaponry Image of the week take its place above the image of the Tsar Bomba?
Hey Booksworm, I'm not sure what you mean... on my browser, the title appears above the image - what do you want it to do? -- Tangotango 09:02, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Maybe it depnds on which browser you are using, because for me on my browser (IE), the title War/Weaponry Image of the week appears next to the Flying Scotsman image, near to the the top right-hand corner
JP 09:04, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Right. I just tested it in IE7 and understand what you mean. In that case, simply put the following code before the heading:
<br style="clear:both" />
Hope this helps. -- Tangotango 09:06, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
No problem. Nice Flying Scotsman photo, btw. -- Tangotango 12:23, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Help! (Again)
I am using IE7 and I have created an "image gallery" at the bottom of my user page using the following encoding:
===Railway image of the week===
[[Image:60007 Sir Nigel Gresley.jpg|thumb|left|600px|Not Necessarily the most beautiful of all trains, but the most amzing, the [[LNER Class A4]]]]
<br style="clear:both" />
===Weaponry image of the week===
[[Image:Tzarbo1.jpg|thumb|left|900px|The most powerful nuclear bomb of all times: [[Tsar Bomba|The Tsar Bomb]]]]
<br style="clear:both" />
===World War image===
[[Image:NA-306-NT-3173V.jpg|thumb|left|250px|The war that touched everyone, [[World War 2|WW2]]]]
<br style="clear:both" />
===20th century image of the week===
[[Image:First step on moon.jpg|thumb|left|500px|this is one small step for a man, but huge leap for mankind]]
But sadly this turns out as this:(on the talk page this is not visible-check my user page to understand what is going on!)
Could you please try and contact me before 10.50 UTC or contact me again AFTER 14.00 UTC because I am at school.
Hello, CSS floating is a tricky business and doesn't always work as intended on all the various browsers. I'd suggest you try putting the images in tables, or better yet, using divs, as they are the standard HTML way of doing things. If you need any specific help, please ask again. Cheers, Tangotango 11:58, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Re: We need a block
We need to block 195.194.63.254 he/she has not listened to your warnings. If you have anything againnst this, please tell me JP 17:44, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
I actually went to bed about 10 minutes before you left me that message ;) In future, if you need a block (and you've gone through the appropriate warnings), report them at WP:AIV. Cheeers. --james°o 02:02, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Re: Vandalism of Hajj
Hi, it looks like the vandal has stopped for now. If they come back, they'll probably get a block sooner or later. As James says above, you can report any serious vandalism to WP:AIV and it will get sorted in a timely manner by the admins who keep an eye on that page. Cheers, Tangotango 07:56, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Argh!
I am in need of help for the following encoding:
I want to turn this:
<div class="usermessage">Please click [[user talk:Booksworm&action=edit§ion=new|here]] to add a new message Thanks</div>
into
But it remains red.
So I try to sen this via an external link and this results in:
<div class="usermessage">Please click [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user_talk:Booksworm&action=edit§ion=new|here]] to add a new message Thanks</div>
Hi Booksworm, the edit link is considered an external link by the MediaWiki software, so you need to wrap it in <div class="plainlinksneverexpand"> and </div>. So, replace the link with the following:
.jpg)
