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Revision as of 02:09, 26 April 2007

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Welcome!

Hello Dreamafter! Welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions to this 💕. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Mahanga 01:31, 15 April 2007 (UTC) Getting started Misplaced Pages tutorial • The five pillars of Misplaced Pages How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Attribution • Neutral point of view • Notability Conflict of interest • Autobiography Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Citing sources • Footnotes Image use policy • Copyrights • Fair use External links • Spam • Vandalism Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry What Misplaced Pages is not • Deletion policy The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The "perfect" article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Adoption

I have been looking for someone who I can Adopt. I think that you could be the right person. If you agree, post a message on my User talk:Mahanga. Mahanga 18:02, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Great! Let me know if you have any questions. I noticed you were editing your monobook.js. Were you having problems or were you just testing it out? If you're interested, I encourage you to check out some of these links and see if they pique your interest. Cheers! Mahanga 21:18, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

New user tasks

• Copyedit articles
• Join a Wikiproject
• Add wikilinks to words
• Revert vandalism
• Write an article
• Sort stubs

Probably the first question I should've asked, but how comfortable are you in editing Misplaced Pages? Mahanga 01:31, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

James Ensor

Hello thanks for your suggestion that I get an adopter - but I do not even know how to accomplish that 16:44, 19 April 2007 (UTC)James Ensor

user warnings

First of all, I want to thank you for directing User:James Ensor to the adoption program. Many new users don't know that it exists, so this lets us help them very much.

If you wish to leave a note or a warning on a user because he vandalized a page or whatnot, you can leave a handwritten note on their page. However, most experienced Wikipedians use template messages. Many templates for different purposes exist here. There are some that create infoboxes, welcome new users, warn users, create a timeline, and so on. The text of the template will be substituted for something else.

For example, take the "citation needed" template. If you type {{cn}} into an article and hit save, it will expand to form this -> . You can link to a template like this: Template:Citation needed or the easier way, {{cn}}.

If you want to leave a user a message for vandalism, you'd go to Misplaced Pages:Template messages/User talk namespace and copy the appropriate template, such as {{subst:uw-vandalism1}} for the first warning and {{subst:uw-vandalism2}} for 2nd warning.

You can test these templates out in the WP:SANDBOX. Please let me know if you need more clarification or examples. Mahanga 22:10, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

By the way, certain avenues exist if you have trouble handling certain vandalism. Misplaced Pages:Administrator intervention against vandalism (for obvious, persistent vandalism) and Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents (for more controversial vandalism).

monobook

Your changes monobook.js didn't do anything at all? "After saving, you have to bypass your browser's cache to see the changes. Firefox/Mozilla/Safari: hold down Shift while clicking Reload (or press Ctrl-Shift-R), Internet Explorer: press Ctrl-F5, Opera/Konqueror: press F5." I added a script. On your sidebar (toolbox) to the left,

There should now be five new items in your toolbox:

• Filter recent changes, a link to User:Lupin/Filter recent changes,
• All recent changes, a link to User:Lupin/All recent changes,
• Recent IP edits, a link to User:Lupin/Recent IP edits and
• Monitor my watchlist, a link to User:Lupin/Monitor my watchlist.
• Live spellcheck, a link to User:Lupin/Live spellcheck.

Do any of those links work? What browser are you using? Internet Explorer?

I also added a welcoming tab at the top right of the page, that will insert the welcome template on a user's talk page. Note, it only appears when you hit edit on a user's talk page. Try it on my talk page. Did that help? I sometimes have trouble with my monobook tool. Sometimes, the userscript only works in Firefox, sometimes it conflicts with another userscript. Are there any specific tools you're interested in? In combating vandalism? I'd recommend WP:TWINKLE, but I think that only works in Firefox. Mahanga 22:30, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:TWINKLE only works on Firefox or Opera web browsers. It probably won't work if you're using Internet Explorer. Note, you don't need to use twinkle for revert functionality. Help:Reverting#Undo shows you. Let me know if you can't get either of those to work. Mahanga 23:40, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Twinkle is wonky? What exactly is wrong? I'm not sure I understand your second question. You want a tab that inserts a {{prod}} to an article? TWINKLE already does that. One thing I found out though is if you increase the font size or if you have too many tabs, then it doesn't show up. I removed the welcome template, since it wasn't working anyway. The prod should show up now. Mahanga 23:26, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Sartell Middle School

This is how Sartell Middle School measures up to other articles on Misplaced Pages: Category:Minnesota school stubs.--Daveswagon 01:58, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

I was following along with the precedent of "Category:Middle schools in Minnesota".--Daveswagon 02:09, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

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