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All in all, good luck, have fun, and be bold! SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:26, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

TBF Avenger

Good work on the Paul Neman cite. However, no one had ever added the ref tags to the References that allows the sources to be listed. An article this long should have had more cites than this already anyway. There was another footnote already there, and that editor had not checked for the tags either. This is not your fault in any way; it's just a good idea to check when you add references to see that they'll display. On an article this size, they'll usually be there already.

The newer method for listing out the sources is to use the {{reflist}} tag. This is easier to remember than the old method, which was more complicated to type out. I've made minor edits in the article several times before, and never noticed the ref tag was missing then. I only found it because I wanted to read your souce in full (just for fun, not to double-check you!) Again, good job. - BillCJ 06:50, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback, Bill. I'm fairly new at this and the learning happens a lot quicker with good coaching. ChrisnHouston 22:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

October 2007

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Irrational number, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are already familiar with Misplaced Pages:Citing sources please take this opportunity to add your original reference to the article. Thank you. Besides the fact that your paragraph is unsourced, irrational numbers mean non-rational, simply, it doesn't mean they don't exist. And imaginary numbers don't exist -- but that doesn't mean they aren't useful. If you disagree, discuss on the talk, please. Gscshoyru 16:43, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Comment on userpage

Just a quickie - I noticed that you left your message for User:Gscshoyru on that user's userpage, rather than their talk page, so I've taken the liberty of moving it over for you. Giles Bennett 19:25, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Can you fix this?

... I really hate this image's layout. Can you stack the two halves top-bottom instead of having them side-by-side? Foofighter20x (talk) 06:34, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

That's a very simple edit, Foo, that you can do with an app like MS Paint.

Step1 - Open in MS Paint.

Step2 - Select: Image > Attributes

Step3 - Double the image height

Step4 - Select All (CTRL-A)

Step5 - Paste

Step6 - Move pasted image to bottom half (centering the right map to the bottom)

Step7 - Do: Image > Attributes again

Step8 - Cut the image width in half

That's it.ChrisnHouston (talk) 07:17, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Alternatively, you can use ImageMagick using the following commands:

convert 2004CampaignAttention.png -crop 50%x100%+0+0 lh.png
convert 2004CampaignAttention.png -crop 50%x100%+676+0 rh.png
montage lh.png rh.png -tile 1x2 2004CampaignAttention_new.png

More reliable and less "by eye" judgement needed. Faster, too, if you already have ImageMagick installed. Orpheus (talk) 21:15, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Cool. Thanks for the tip. ChrisnHouston (talk) 03:53, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Operation Entebbe

Hi Chris. I just wanted to inform you about the changes I made to the Operation Entebbe article. Kind regards, LouriePieterse 18:05, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

That is very considerate of you to post this message. I would be interested to know your reason for removing the German flag. ChrisnHouston (talk) 15:53, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Global warming conspiracy theory

Thank you for your contributions to the encyclopedia! In case you are not already aware, an article to which you have recently contributed, Global warming conspiracy theory, is on article probation. A detailed description of the terms of article probation may be found at Misplaced Pages:General sanctions/Climate change probation. Also note that the terms of some article probations extend to related articles and their associated talk pages.

The above is a templated message. Please accept it as a routine friendly notice, not as a claim that there is any problem with your edits. Thank you. -- TS 03:10, 20 February 2010 (UTC)