User talk:Jeffrey Smith/Archive 1

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Archive 1

Welcome

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January 15 Seattle meetup

Just wanted to let you know we are planning another Seattle meetup on January 15, 2005. We're trying to get a sense of who will attend, so please drop by that page & leave a note. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:38, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Stoicism

Thanks for picking up my carelessness. That'll teach me to edit after midnight. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:16, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

User categorization

Greetings, Jeffrey Smith! Please accept this message as an invitation to categorize your user page in the category Category:Wikipedians in Washington and removing your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Washington page. The page will be deleted when all users have been removed. Even if you do not wish to be placed in a category, could you take a moment to remove your name from the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Washington page? Thanks!!

To add your name to the category, please use the tag [[Category:Wikipedians in Washington|Jeffrey Smith]] to ensure proper sorting.

For more information, please see Wikipedia:User categorisation and Category:Wikipedians by location. -- Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 04:30, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Working Man's Barnstar

Wow, thanks! I'm pleased to be of service. — Jeff | (talk) | 11:35, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Template talk:H2G2Researcher

Could you please read and respond to my comment on the bottom of this page? -- NERD42 EMAIL TALK H2G2 UNCYC NEWS 23:57, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Apologies for the delay. I'm replying right now. — Jeff | (talk) | 10:38, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Birmingham, Alabama userbox

Mille grazie for catching the possibly bad image on this userbox. I'd just assumed a picture out of the city's article would be righteous. Good catch. MARussellPESE 02:41, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Degree Userbox

Thanks :) Avi 13:09, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Syntax for Degree Userbox

Thanks for fixing that on my userpage. Did the syntax recently change? Lawyer2b 15:29, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

I was the one who changed the syntax (after updating the user pages of everyone who used a degree userbox). The degree userboxes were made from the single, large, obfuscated {{User degree}} that used the {{switch}} tool to display the appropriate degree's userbox, given the degree's abbreviation as a parameter. Under the new setup, each degree userbox has its own, separate, independent template; this is why I had to change the syntax on the user pages. The old syntax was working fine (and was entered correctly at the time it was added), but it would have been broken after I made the change. — Jeff | (talk) | 11:23, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks from me, also. - WarriorScribe 17:21, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
- I don't think I could ever go back to my old userbox ;-) Thanks! Michaël 18:01, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks as well from me. -Acjelen 17:38, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks also from me. Bduke 20:31, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

for fixing the coding error on my page Ginar 17:06, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

for fixing the coding error on my page. It would have taken much more text to explain to me what needed to be done. Val42 16:34, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

WP:AUM

Sorry for moving the shortcut, I didn't realize it was a shortcut to the talk page (and I'd never seen one of those before, heh). =) And as a note, I modified your "new messages"-style header at the top since it seemed you were trying to duplicate the look of that (now it's identical except for your customized colors/text). =) Anyways, sorry again! —Locke Cole • t • c 04:14, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't worried about it. FWIW, I don't think I've seen a shortcut to a talk page anywhere else either (probably a testament to how controversial the page is/was, that someone felt they needed to create a shortcut for easy access). As for the message at the top of the page, that's actually subst'd from {{message}}. — Jeff | (talk) | 11:23, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Ahh, cool. I updated that template then, hopefully nobody minds. =) And you're right about AUM being controversial; hopefully we can get everything squared away with it now that Brion is involved. —Locke Cole • t • c 12:05, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Hye Jeff BL

Hye, so you asked me about the user box Bl...For me that mean Bachelor of Literature (In french we say "Bac Littéraire") so if you don't want to hurt someone, i think that the best way to resolve the problem is to do 2 user box and precise the different possibilities. Gxis jonathaneo

I have created {{User degree/BL}} and also updated your user page. — Jeff | (talk) | 11:23, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks jonathaneo

userboxes and subst

Listen, Jeffrey, I hate to sound like a total tyro here, but I don't get subst and how it effects the use of userboxes. For example, I use a number of userboxes. Should I, in my userpage, be putting subst inside the braces? What I am looking to do is whichever ways is seen as the best practice on wiki--Vidkun 16:03, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry that I'm just now answering this. If you're just an end-user of userboxes—that is, you use pre-made userboxes (like {{user separation}}) or you make your own for use on your page (like your Freemasonry userbox)—then subst isn't something you really need to worry about. The main place where using subst is advised is if you're creating a new userbox template for others to use; so, for example, if you wanted to create the template {{user freemasonry}} for others to use, you might be advised to use subst in creating that template. (It used to be that subst was enforced somewhat heavy-handedly, since Wikipedia:Avoid using meta-templates was tagged as official policy and using subst was needed to bring userboxes in-line with the policy. Now, it seems that meta-templates might not be as bad as once thought, so I don't think using subst is as important as it used to be.) I hope this clears things up somewhat. Let me know if you have further questions.— Jeff | (talk) | 07:54, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

thanks

Hey Jeffrey, thanks for dropping by my user page and updating one of my userboxes (the MA one). Not sure exactly what you did, but thanks anyway. Anytime! Penguin2006 08:33, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Sig correction

Thanks so much for letting me know about that. I had changed the font color so I didn't immediately see that it pointed to an empty page. I didn't think to actually check it like any intelligent person should. If you hadn't left that message who knows how long I'd keep using the wrong link. Now that I know people actually pay attention to that thing, I'd better remove the tacky multicolors while I'm at it. =P — Indi ^{[ talk ]} 16:27, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Regarding logos in Userboxes

Hello. Today I, on the advice of other users, changed the Opera Userbox to incorporate the official Opera Logo. You reverted with the claim that company logos should not be used in userboxes. However, there are copious numbers of userboxes with official logos in them. How do you account for this discrepancy? Please respond on my talk page. TydeNet 03:33, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Followed up on user's talk.

thanks

thanks for the NiMUD edits King queermo 14:51, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Userbox problem

Ancientanubis complains the removal of the images in his userboxes {{User Straw Hat}}, {{User Full metal alchemist}}, {{User NERV}}, and {{user Ghostintheshell2}} because he claims that he legally owns the images. Here's the replies he gave me:

first off, i dont mean to sound rude when i say this

but from what i can tell, you've changed 4 of the ones i've made

One Piece
- the image that i used here i uploaded my own copy
  - granted on further investigation i notice that there was already a copy on wiki but has been removed for reasons that i dont quite understand
    - again, here's a link
Ghost in the Shell
- the image that i used for this one was provided on wikipedia, so i dont see why it was removed
  - here's a link
Evangilion
- the image i used for this one was a one that i found online, i stated where i found it, and even though i forgot to do the copyright box when i uploaded it, i have sense fixed it
  - granted again, there is also a image of this already on wikipedia here i decided not to use this as it had a white background and i wanted a black for the one i was goin 2 use
Full Metal Alchemist
- yet again, i clearly state where the image was found, and how i had edited it to remove some thigns that i didn't want on it
  - what i didn't mention was that it was an off shoot from a projet i did for school
    - what i did was outlined the entire picture of this and then cleaned that up, then proceeded to add actual picture's into it so that it looked realistic (yet agian, you can find a link here to see that), from all this i filled one in black for use as a buddy icon on an online game i play

so i appologise if i am missing some small detail hidden among a moutain of text but can you please tell me why these 4 templates had to be changed

thanks, --Ancientanubis 23:29, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

well first of, what is it you consiter to be "free use", i mean if i were to draw something in paint and then said anyone could use it... would that not be free use???

nextly(is that even a word[lol]), IMHO the ones that i edited(besides the NERV one) were some what pathetic them selves and i felt that it was a discredit to those shows to have them like that(i apologise if they are of your design, its just how i feel), the one piece one for example, yets it shows a jolly roger but i personally felt that it didn't capture the actual feel for the show so i changed it to something that did

so sence i feel that i'm fighting a battle that is already lost then let me ask you this, is there any way that i/we/who ever can work to make these box's soemthin a lil more respectible??

--Ancientanubis 16:52, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

What can we do about this matter? I've already told him about the images, but it seems he still does not understand the "fair use" image policy on userboxes. Can you tell him for me ASAP? -上村七美 | talk 23:21, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I've left him a message on his talk page that points to the explicit policy statement prohibiting fair-use images on user pages and explains some of the reasoning behind it. Hopefully, it will be well received. Thanks for pitching in with the (sometimes controversial) task of keeping fair-use images out of userboxes. — Jeff | (talk) | 10:10, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the help Jeff... sometimes it seems that when someone takes time to explain it them selves instead of just referrin you to a page with a list of rules.... well lets just say it makes me feel more willing to cooperate and understanding the bigger picture.

thank you again for taking time to help me understand the whole situation

--Ancientanubis 01:54, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Linking

hey jeff... this may come as a stupid question at first glance but bare with me

i'm trying to set up a link on a page so that there isn't a bit (blah blah blah) right after the link explaining more about the item being linked

what i was seeing if i could do was have it explained within the lil box that appears under a link when you hold your mouse over it(idk the technical term but i've seen it refured to as simply a title)

ie, lookin at my talk page link for example are the way's i know how to do links w/in wikipedia

what i get	what i type
user:ancientanubis	[[user:ancientanubis]]
my talk page	[[user:ancientanubis\|my talk page]]
note though that reguardless of how i do it, when you mouse over it'll still say user:ancientanubis

that is what i'm tryin to change

i looked in the editing help section for link's and i couldn't find anything in there(i think)

is there something i am overlooking or is it just not possible w/in wikipedia at this time??

respond when you get a chance, thanks, Ancientanubis 19:09, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I think <span title="foo">text</span> (appears as: text) would do what you want, where foo is what you want it to say in the mouseover box/title. For example:

what you get	what you type
user:ancientanubis	<span title="ancientanubis user page">[[user:ancientanubis]]</span>
my talk page	<span title="my talk page">[[user talk:ancientanubis\|my talk page]]</span>

I can't think of a good reason to use titles like this in encyclopedia articles, but it's probably fine to use on your user pages and talk pages. Hope this helps. — Jeff | (talk) | 08:58, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

crazy question

hey jeff, long time no see

i have a quick(kinda weird) question

have you ever heard of a program that you could copy and paste wiki format into, then be off line and it'll read it as if it were an actual wiki article so you could work on edits offline

if that doesnt make sence let me know and i'll explain it a bit further:P --Ancientanubis 21:46, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request

This is a form message being sent to all WikiProject Disambiguation participants. I recently left a proposed banner idea on the WikiProject Disambiguation talk page and I would appreciate any input you could provide. Before it can be approved or denied, I would prefer a lot of feedback from multiple participants in the project. So if you have the time please join in the discussion to help improve the WikiProject. Keep up the good work in link repair and thanks for your time. Nehrams2020 21:31, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Change to Common.css

Per recent discussions, the way in which Persondata is viewed by Wikipedia editors has changed. In order to continue viewing Persondata in Wikipedia articles, please edit your user CSS file to display table.persondata rather than table.metadata. More specific instructions can be found on the Persondata page. --ShakingSpirit ^talk on behalf of Kaldari 01:15, 25 December 2006 (UTC)