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The Holding Pen

The <div> tag and Cascading Style Sheets_tag_and_Cascading_Style_Sheets-The_Holding_Pen-2009-02-03T06:39:00.000Z">

The <div> tag is part of the HTML standard, and in essence lets you group things logically in a HTML page. Since different user agents have different needs and treat the data differently (e.g. a screen reader for the visually impaired, a bot or a normal browser like Firefox) the rendering of elements and the logical structure has been separated into two different languages: HTML and CSS.

HTML is supposed to structure the document logically while CSS is used to change the visual appearance of a page. A website usually only has one or a few CSS documents (style sheets). Many HTML documents can then share the same style sheet, providing consistent formatting across the site.

The div element has two attributes, class and style, that are linked to the style sheet. The class attribute determines what "class" the element belong to. It is then possible to define a default style for elements of this class in the style sheet .

The style element is what's most interesting here though, it lets you override the default style of an element. So the part within the style="" is actually CSS.

W3C (website) is in charge of the CSS standard and it can be found on their website. Unfortunately, the dominating browser sets the de facto standard so things might not work as expected or even be implemented yet.

The W3C specifications aren't particularly good for learning but they are good as a reference. What you are looking for is probably: .

If you search the webb for CSS you will find countless examples and tutorials. Quick Googling turned up this for example: .

I took the liberty to modify your div tags on this page as an example, feel free to modify and revert as you like. I hope this is somewhat helpful at least. :)
—Apis (talk) 06:39, 3 February 2009 (UTC)_tag_and_Cascading_Style_Sheets"> _tag_and_Cascading_Style_Sheets">

Thanks! William M. Connolley (talk) 20:18, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Reviving Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Physics/Taskforces/Fluid dynamics

Crownest has expressed interest in reviving this. Since you were a member of the FD project (now converted into a taskforce), I'm wondering if you'd be a part of the Taskforce. The taskforce is undergoing a significant overhaul at the moment, and by the end of it, it should be fairly easy to get around and there should be a nifty compendium of useful tools for people interested in FD. Headbomb {_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 10:55, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

In principle, I can help in small ways, though no longer being professionally involved. I wonder if there is an embedded prog taskforce? William M. Connolley (talk) 19:10, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Prog taskforced?Headbomb {_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 04:06, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Current

Ocean acidification

A reader writes:

"Leaving aside direct biological effects, it is expected that ocean acidification in the future will lead to a significant decrease in the burial of carbonate sediments for several centuries, and even the dissolution of existing carbonate sediments. This will cause an elevation of ocean alkalinity, leading to the enhancement of the ocean as a reservoir for CO2 with moderate (and potentially beneficial) implications for climate change as more CO2 leaves the atmosphere for the ocean."

I'm not sure, but it sounds odd. You can beat me to it if you like William M. Connolley (talk) 18:09, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, looks like it was User:Plumbago William M. Connolley (talk) 18:27, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Correctly deduced. It was me. It may not be worded well, but I think that it's factually correct. Basically, as well as its other effects on living organisms in the ocean, acidification is also expected (see the references) to dissolve existing carbonate sediments in the oceans. This will increase the ocean's alkalinity inventory, which in turn increases its buffering capacity for CO2 - that is, the ocean can then store more CO2 at equilibrium than before (i.e. the "implications for climate change" alluded to). As a sidenote, it also means that palaeo scientists interested in inferring the past from carbonate sediment records will have to work fast (well, centuries) before their subject matter dissolves away! Hope this helps. --PLUMBAGO 06:08, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Happy William M. Connolley's Day!

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Good grief! Well thank you William M. Connolley (talk) 07:10, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Double diffusive convection

Bit surprised there is no article on DDC? Has the term gone out of fashion? It was half the course in "Buoyancy in Fluid Dynamics" when I did Part III 23 years ago. --BozMo talk 13:13, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

I remember is was a nice demo on the fluid dynamics summer school DAMPT ran. Not sure I would still be confident of writing it up 10:05, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

I might have to suggest it to Huppert or someone. --BozMo talk 10:23, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

If one of you two makes a stub, I'd be willing to read up on it and make it a longer stub. Awickert (talk) 10:28, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

What a kind offer. I have started here: Double diffusive convection--BozMo talk 10:55, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

All right - I'll get to it (eventually). It's on my to-do list. Awickert (talk) 16:42, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Giano II Wheel War RFAR

I undid your edit concerning Bishonen (see 1). Bishonen is not one of the named parties in this request, thus the addition of that difference was off topic and inappropriate. If you feel there is an issue that needs attention please add Bishonen to the case (if Bishonen is related to the case), start a thread at ANI, or start a separate request for arbitration. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! KnightLago (talk) 03:05, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

I've restored my statement. I've no idea who you are. If you have some authority in this case to make such edits, please tell me what it is William M. Connolley (talk) 07:06, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

I am one of the Arbitration Committee's clerks. KnightLago (talk) 13:49, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Then you should have said so The law of nature excepted, it belonged to the essence of all other laws to be made known to every man that shall be obliged to obey them, either by word, or writing, or some other act known to proceed from the sovereign authority... Nor is it enough the law be written and published, but also that there be manifest signs that it proceedeth from the will of the sovereign. William M. Connolley (talk) 15:17, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Very nice quote. I am going to write it down. One of my favorites is Ignorantia juris non excusat. KnightLago (talk) 18:24, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

It is a good motto, though that page, as it must, contains a discussion of Hobbes's point: The doctrine assumes that the law in question has been properly published and distributed and more William M. Connolley (talk) 07:54, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Canadian Children's Rights Council edits and the destruction of all links to that website on Misplaced Pages

The content of the website of the Canadian Children's Rights Council website is very slanted and it is a feminist tactic to use feminist sources as THE source of authority for their edits.

Both WLU and Slp1 have taken control of the Canadian Children's Rights Council webpage and provided false information because they wish to be destructive. They have refused to provide any meaningful discussion on the discussion page. they have also , over time deleted all contant on the article page for Parental alienation and Parental alienation syndrome. For example the records will show that they took off the link to the Canadian Children's Righhts Council list of Canadian court cases pertaining to parental alienation which is

http://canadiancrc.com/Parental_Alienation_Syndrome_Canada/Parental_Alienation_Canadian_Court_Rulings_PAS.aspx

and they took off the link to various scholarly works becuase they were on our website. They include:

http://www.canadiancrc.com/Parental_Alienation_Syndrome_Canada/Parental_Alienation-Myths_Realities_and_Uncertainties-Professor_Nicholas_Bala_SUMMARY_12MAY09.aspx

and news articles that were in our "Virtual Library" when they copied the articles illegally and put them on other websites and then provided them as the linked source on the Misplaced Pages articles web pages.

Such destruction, done for political purposes undermines good work.

You have placed a lock notice on my talk page and have referred to my reverting copy 3 times in a 24 hour period. Kindly provide the details. I don't get on Misplaced Pages very often.

The website of the Canadian Children's Rights Council is the most visited website in Canada pertaining to the rights of Canadian children and that is a verifiable fact.

S-MorrisVP (talk) 20:32, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure what your question is. Are you unsure why you were blocked? The answer is WP:3RR. Are you unaware of which of your edits were reverts? William M. Connolley (talk) 21:34, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

I find the accusation of not substantively discussing on the talk page not only outrageously hypocritical, but offensive (perhaps a little amusing). The "Bala summary" I have pointed out is inappropriate - the study isn't published yet, and this is a convenience link that breaks pretty much reason to not link to a page. WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 12:34, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Umar

Hi! thanks for your comments on the Umar page .Would you be preared to arbitrate there?

The muslims have made the page a mess with sectarianism but it's gone beyond that and become I feel a propaganda page with academic references being ignored.

However the page is at present inconsistent with the academic references. Need someone to make some decisions without partiality.

--Frank1829 (talk) 03:07, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm not an arb, but I think I know what you mean. You'll need to remind me again in a few days I'm afraid - this weekend is too busy for me to look now William M. Connolley (talk) 07:09, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Guido

ArbCom is reviewing his contributions. If you have any thoughts about it, please send them to arbcom-llists.wikimedia.org Cool Hand Luke 14:06, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Guido - ah, I misread that as Giano and got confused. Guido: I don't think I've seen much of them. Mostly he argues on talk pages. He appears to be claiming contributions of Global cooling and GeoEng. These are trivia William M. Connolley (talk) 21:42, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Puzzle for the world

Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard#Resignation is rather interesting. Naturally, I'm inclined to wonder about the validity of Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Geogre-William M. Connolley. Coren finds the idea of re-considering SB's votes in old cases uninteresting , presumably on the grounds that no conflict of interest could ahve occurred. I shall inquire of C directly whether he stands by that.

The issue of Dbiv / Fys / BS's contributions comes up. http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/Dbiv shows nothing before but this is very clearly wrong. Where have Dbiv's early contribs gone (are they are yet another account names?). Who, if anyone, can remember where User:Irishpunktom comes into this? William M. Connolley (talk) 19:11, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

In olden days when a user was renamed, deleted contributions were not re-attributed to the new name. If a deleted contribution was later restored, the old account would appear to have edits. In all of the edits for the Dbiv account, it appears that the pages were once deleted and were later restored. All of the edits you are looking for should be under http://en.wikipedia.org/Special:Contributions/Fys or Special:DeletedContributions/Dbiv or Special:DeletedContributions/Fys. MBisanz 19:36, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Aha! Thanks. You can't remember the bit about IPT can you? William M. Connolley (talk) 19:41, 26 May 2009 (UTC) Might be stuff like William M. Connolley (talk) 19:44, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry that bit of history is well before my time and I'd hope to avoid having to study it when User:MBisanz#Articles written is still so short. MBisanz 19:56, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I now think it was a red herring - sorry for that William M. Connolley (talk) 21:05, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I immediately thought of that case when I looked at the editing histories of Fys and Dbiv, one of which ends in the frivolous RFC against you. Trying to hide his identity or not, he should have recused in that case and some others. I think Coren is flatly wrong here. Cool Hand Luke 19:46, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

To clarify: I doubt reopening these cases would be helpful (he was not a prime mover in most of them), but I strongly disagree with the assertion that this was proper behavior for an arbitrator. Cool Hand Luke 19:49, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Yes, alas, I can't see his vote as being decisive in any of that. Whether he said anything on the private mailing lists I don't know, but from what I've seen so far in the on-wiki logs I can't see strong grounds for asking William M. Connolley (talk) 19:55, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I immediately recognized the problem with Sam Blacketer voting in your case. This was largely the reason that I felt the situation needed to be addressed ASAP by Sam and the Committee. When I learned of the connection, I did some checking of my emails stored in my gmail account. I've checked emails sent to ArbCom and the old private sitting email list. He did participate in discussions about the case, but I did not see anything that showed him pressing for a harsh sanction or pressing for a particular outcome for the case. His comments were just as you would expect of an arbitrator that was weighing his opinions about a case. They were similar in nature to the comments that he makes in all case by private email and on site. So, while worrying, I don't see evidence of an actual problem of undue influence by him with his undisclosed identity. I'm going to do some more checking, and will let you know if I see anything that I think would warrant reconsidering the case. FloNight♥♥♥ 20:10, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for checking William M. Connolley (talk) 21:05, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

User talk:Plains2007 socking

Since you were the original admin involved, following your 24 hours block of User talk:Plains2007, this new guy decided to do the same thing. There's a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators'_noticeboard#Neutral_admin_needed, but I wonder if you think a further block or just the puppet and a strong warning about avoiding? -- Ricky81682 (talk) 11:32, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

EdJ has given a warning, and that account only has one edit to its name William M. Connolley (talk) 21:40, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

72.10.109.105

Hi, I'm curious on what action I should take with regards to 72.10.109.105. You may remember that this is the user I reported for edit warring prior to the Lebanon article getting protected, and that had been associated with the LebaneseZp account via check user. The user is now edit warring on the Phoenicia article as their IP address and another account, Joetoril, which I believe to be a sock puppet, or a meat puppet at the least (Joetoril only edits the same article the IP address is edit warring over, and only seems to appear when the IP address is on the verge on violating 3RR). Should I file another 3RR (each account has reverted three times in 24 hours), or should I file another check user to try to get the IP address checked against Joetoril, or should I file for a sock puppet investigation, or should I go straight to ANI? Any advice you can give would be much appreciated. ← George 21:28, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

J is a sock, so I've indef'd him. 105 is being disruptive, so gets 48h for now William M. Connolley (talk) 21:50, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Ah, thanks for taking care of this, but it looks like 105 has now switched to the LebaneseZp account and reverted the Phoenicia article yet again. :\ ← George 23:05, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

LebaneseZp

Hi William. He started again on Phoenicia. Dr.K. logos 23:14, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

2009-05-28T02:33:35 Icestorm815 (talk | contribs | block) blocked LebaneseZp (talk | contribs) (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 24 hours ‎ (Edit warring: on Phoenicia) (unblock | change block) William M. Connolley (talk) 08:34, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

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