User talk:Savlonn - Misplaced Pages

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Welcome!

Hello, Savlonn, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Misplaced Pages:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! ·:· Will Beback ·:· 21:29, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

PS: Thanks for registering. It's nice to have some kind of name that we can use, instead of having to say "hey you" or "82". ·:· Will Beback ·:· 21:30, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Yay! Good move and look forward to your contributions. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 22:17, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks as well, I actually had to ask who you were before I knew who you were, I'm glad you registered :) Steve Crossin (talk)(email) 23:55, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Savlonn don't know if you've caught up with how the mediation of the Rawat articles is going but there's a potential change, see http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2008-04-20_Prem_Rawat#Upgrade_to_Formal_Mediation.3F As an active editor your input is sought.--Nik Wright2 (talk) 12:13, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Done! Thanks for the heads-up.Savlonn (talk) 18:55, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Windows_XP#Third_opinion

Would you be so kind as to check the above talk page? My questions are languishing and I'd like to bring the issue to a close if possible. Urhixidur (talk) 18:12, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

If I had a Barnstar...

For Command of Civility, I'd give it to you, but I don't think anyone's giving me any to pass along any time soon. :-) Nicely explained and refuted, regarding the "neutral lede" discussions. -- Maelefique 23:53, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Thanks - this is the first time that I've been complemented on Misplaced Pages - I really appreciate it. --Savlonn (talk) 12:11, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

How do I put graphics on my talk page?

Can someone please explain (or point me to a self-training page) how I can put some of the tags that I see on other's user pages; for example that identifies them with a partiular interest, communal membership or denotes what languages they have? I'm not after anything fancy, but just want to know how I can put more than plain text on my user page.

Many thanks!

Please visit Misplaced Pages:Userboxes. If after exploring that page you still need help, post a new helpme template. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:16, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for that Fuhghettaboutit! - That has completely answered my query - and fast!

lol! - I just saved the above request for help and lo and behold I was shocked to see a tag magically appear. I copied in the helpme text that I noticed on a 'welcome to wikipedia' page, thinking that it would somehow send a message to others that I was looking for help, and of course when I saved the page and saw the result, I immediatley understood that this is actually a pointer to a prepared tag.

This is fantastic, but I wish someone had told me about this feature of Misplaced Pages a year ago, or it was placed somewhere obvious for newbies! I did read all the five pillars, etc material when I first registered, but there was absolutely nothing there about this magical automatic tag stuff. Does anyone know if Misplaced Pages has a 'suggestion box' where I can make a suggest to start a newbie FAQ?--Savlonn (talk) 12:23, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Aha! You are unfamiliar with templates. Quick lesson: A template (as the name implies) is an automagical feature that places pre-made text in various ways. The first thing you should know is that most template pages (with userboxes being an exception) are named template:NAME (just as all userpages are named User:NAME, their talk pages are User talk:NAME, and most internal wikipedia pages are named Misplaced Pages:NAME ). Second, to have a template place somewhere, you enclose it inside of curly braces (these {{}}), and—this is crucial to not get confused over—when you are placing it, you don't use the prefix "template". To give you an example, If I wanted to welcome you to Misplaced Pages (as someone already has above using a template) I might use the template, Template:welcomeg. That is the name of the template itself, and by linking to it, I am pointing the link to its page but I am not using the template; that's a link to the template itself. If I want to place the template on your page, I could type just {{welcomeg}}, but—and here's here's another confusing part—some templates such as the one I just talked about should be "substituted." Substitution means that instead of the template staying in its original form after you type it on someone's page and displaying the template's text ("tranclusion"), you tell it to import the text it contains to the page it is applied to. Some templates are meant to be substituted and break if they are not, and others should never be. To substitute any template you prefix "subst:" inside the template code. So, to substitute the welcome template example, you would type {{subst:welcomeg}}. For more information, please see Help:Template, and for the big list of templates, see Misplaced Pages:Template messages. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:41, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Brilliant! That is exactly what I what I needed to know, and have just succesfully done a tranclusion from another user's tag. Thanks again for all your help - much appreciated!! --Savlonn (talk) 12:50, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Glad to help. If you have any other questions about anything, feel free to contact me on my user talk page| (though I'm leaving for work right now). Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:53, 2 July 2009 (UTC)