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Unified login

Thanks for the message on my talk page. To learn more about UL, take a look at m:Help:Unified login. Basically it is a mechanism that allows you to log into any Wikimedia Foundation project, including all of the various language Wikipedias, with a single user name and password. – ukexpat (talk) 16:52, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Glad I could help - try accessing UL via your Preferences, that may work. Yes lived in Manchester for 30+ years, and my Dad still lives there. And don't forget to sign your messages on talk pages! – ukexpat (talk) 01:08, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

No problem, it's easy to forget. BTW, which userbox put the Wikignome image at the top of your user page? – ukexpat (talk) 01:21, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

No it's not a problem, just curious as to how you put it there. I am from South Manchester, Sale actually. You mentioned images - which ones were you referring to? Thanks. – ukexpat (talk) 01:29, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

OK got it. The images are just thumbnails using the thumbnail parameters: ]. If you want the thumbnail on the left (the default is on the right), you add |left after |thumb. You can also add a size parameter, such as |200px. They key thing is that if you want a caption, it should always be the last parameter. – ukexpat (talk) 01:42, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to WP:GM

Hello, Chaosdruid, and welcome to Wikiproject Greater Manchester! Thank you for your generous offer to help contribute. I'm sure your input will be much appreciated. I hope you enjoy contributing here and being a Greater Manchester Project Wikipedian! As a project we aim to have all our articles comply with the various editing policies and guidelines. If you are contributing to an article, it is good practice to ensure that it's properly referenced with reliable sources, otherwise any contentious content may be removed by another editor. A good starting point for articles about settlements in Greater Manchester is the WP:UKCITIES guideline. If you have any questions, feel free to discuss anything on the project talk page, or to leave a message on my own talk page. Please remember to sign all your comments, and be bold with your ideas. Again, welcome, and happy editing!

Nev1 (talk) 01:51, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: tidies

Hello there! Wasn't sure if you wanted me to reply here or on my talk page, but I thought it easier for you if it's here.

I really hope you enjoy being part of our wikiproject - WP:GM is one of the big successes in terms of a local project in the UK (infact I think we're way ahead of the London and Yorkshire projects!). That said though we're always looking for new editors as our team is quite small, and some parts of the region, like Trafford, tend to get more attention than others (which is still good in a way!).

As for being online, it's unlikely I'm on much tomorrow. I may be on late at night however, but not so much during the day. User:Nev1, User:Malleus Fatuorum or User:Parrot of Doom may be online though (just give WT:GM a nudge on the talk page), I trust their judgement on Misplaced Pages very much. Was there something in particular you wanted help with? I don't know much about Dukinfield (I've passed through a few times), but I know enough that we've got to try and replace that town hall photo! lol --Jza84 |  Talk  02:39, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Stephen Chow and IMDB refs

Sure, take your time! I don't really have the inclination right now to do any major overhauling of the article, so I won't be going in and looking for stuff to change...I only removed that one article because I noticed a formatting problem there during your last edit, and I went there to fix the formatting problem....when I noticed it was an IMDB ref I figured, "well it's going to have to get removed eventually anyway, might as well do it now." But I'm not going to go removing all the IMDB refs right now, so you still have lots of time to look for other refs.

Of course, references outside of IMDB are desirable (and, in the long term, IMDB refs aren't really much good)...but for now I don't think there's anyone who's going to delete stuff from the article right away. At the very worst, people might remove the remaining two IMDB references and replace them with tags while you look for better references...but the facts themselves won't be removed for a while. Politizer /_contribs 05:42, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Stryi River

A tag has been placed on Stryi River, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing no content to the reader. Please note that external links, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article don't count as content. Please see Misplaced Pages:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself. If you plan to expand the article, you can request that administrators wait a while for you to add contextual material. To do this, affix the template {{hangon}} to the page and state your intention on the article's talk page. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Gilo1969 (talk) 12:55, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Many thanks for your message - I have removed the delete tag, and replaced it with stub and under construction tags. Gilo1969 (talk) 13:51, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Help !!

I have been editing the page Stryi and when i put in the first reference, it did nto work properly
The appeared as expected, but the ==Reference== section did not.
I manually added the section, and resaved the link but it still does not work.

If someone could help it would be much appreciated!

I have reverted it to the state it was in before i included the frist reference and hopefully this will cure the prob.

Chaosdruid (talk) 17:21, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Did you add {{reflist}} below ==Reference==? That should make it work. Nev1 (talk) 17:28, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

I fixed it. - Jameson L. Tai 17:29, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Yup, I fixed it.  :) And you're most certainly welcome. Let me know if you need help again. - Jameson L. Tai 17:37, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Stryi

Not necessary. :) - Darwinek (talk) 18:20, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

There are many naming conventions referring to more specific areas of Misplaced Pages. Some WikiProjects also manage them. In this case, the WikiProject Rivers. -- Darwinek (talk) 18:40, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of User:Chaosdruid/sandbox

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If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on ] explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the article or have a copy emailed to you. Chaosdruid (talk) 21:08, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Uh... was this a mistake or did you just want to delete the page? - Jameson L. Tai 21:46, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

You just need to use WP:CSD#G7 by applying {{db-self}}. - Jameson L. Tai 23:18, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that info - I spent about an hour looking through searches and articles just to find the tag I used lol

(and that was after I already found it yesterday !!} I was about to ask you when I came across it again.

What part of robotics do you work in ? It is a fascinating field to be working in these days, I would have loved the chance to work on something like mapping and AI. I cannot imagine how it must be now we have minituarisation of components, like gyro's, and the expansion of processing powers coupled with the understanding of thought processes.

I find the work being done on FMRI quite intriguing, especially one experiment i saw about tonal responses and the surprising directions the pathways interact - keep up the good work !!

Chaosdruid (talk) 23:38, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Wow, another robotics guy. It's good to know when I see people interested in robotics. You should join WP:ROBO. It's a relatively small group of editors focused in editing robotics articles. You should check it out some time! :) Next time instead of researching for hours going fruitless - just send me a message.  :) - Jameson L. Tai 03:24, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Useful books

Thankyou for the links :) I think I've already seen them, but I appreciate you spending the time to link them in my talk page. I already pinched the Radcliffe Tower image from there, hehe :) Parrot of Doom (talk) 00:47, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to WikiProject Robotics! :)

Hi, and welcome to WikiProject Robotics! Our goals are to standardize the structure and content of all Robotics articles, improve Misplaced Pages's coverage of these articles (hopefully propelling them to featured article status), and serve as the central resource for all discussions and information related to Robotics on Misplaced Pages.

A few features that you might find helpful:

• Our navigation box points to most of the useful pages within the project.
• Most important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it.
• The project has a few expanding departments, which handle article quality assessment, member recruitment and project awareness and article improvement collaborations.

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask one of the project participants or post a question on the talk page. We'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! —- Jameson L. Tai 06:23, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK

I'm nowhere near as active on Misplaced Pages as I used to be, but thank you anyway for your comments.

Regarding Wikimedia UK, I am not active in this at all currently, but from reading the mailing list I don't think that paypal can currently be accepted. The information should be somewhere at the WMUK pages on Meta - m:Wikimedia UK. If it isn't there will be contact information there for someone who will know. Thryduulf (talk) 10:42, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Norfork edits

I just did basic cleanup of the article to remove extra blank lines. To see what I did, go to the article, then click the history tab. Look down the changes and select the right radio button by my edit and the left radio button for the previous edit. That will bring up a screen that shows you what I changed. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:34, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

images and things

If the photograph was your Grandad's, its best to put that in the image description, and how you came by it - inherited, presumably. It just stops anyone else asking the same question at some point. I wouldn't upload images to Misplaced Pages - upload them to Wikimedia Commons. You don't have to register, just click 'my preferences' top right of the screen (while on wikipedia, as you are now), and create a global account. Then upload your files there, that image would be 'my own work', but for most other things personally I click 'i got it from somewhere else', and insert the appropriate licence. Always try and be as descriptive as you can, for instance look at the work I had to do to establish copyright on that image :) Always make sure your image is categorised as well, there is a funky little helper on the wikimedia uploader, but I usually search wikim commons first to see if there are similar images, and then see how they're categorised. OS maps are out of copyright after 50 years, the railway map is probably ok, something tells me that because it became government property more than 50 years ago its similarly out of copyright. Parrot of Doom (talk) 01:17, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Just a thought, did your Grandad take the photograph, or simply own it? Maybe his was a copy, and the bloke that took the picture died after 1939 - copyright expires on things like that 70 years after the death of the author or first publication, and if your Grandad isn't the author (merely the owner of a copy) then it may not be public domain. If the photographer is unknown or cannot be established, then copyright usually expires 70 years ago today. :) Parrot of Doom (talk) 01:21, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Nordic music template

How u going to fix it? Article was deleted, Do u know about Valkyria band? —Preceding unsigned comment added by UnholyFreezz (talk • contribs) 15:02, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: 71.246.98.35

Re your message: I already dealt with them. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:34, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Re your message: You lost me there. Reporting him to where? -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:38, 27 January 2009 (UTC)