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Hello, Jnk, and welcome to Misplaced Pages! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Duke Ellington

I'm afraid we seem to have just collided on this article; I didn't get an edit conflict, but it looks as though my changes overrode yours. I'll go back to the article and try to put your copy-editing back in. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:44, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

That's OK; I was happy with either version, so yours is fine with me. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 19:16, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

AP Psychology

My main problem was not the risk that something similar was offered elsewhere, but that the article did not describe where this was taking place at all, as if North America is the universe. As it was originally, it reminded me of a one-sentence article I saw some time ago that went something like this: "Holy Trinity Church is on the corner of Bledsoe Lane and Tunlaw Drive." By the way, trademarks are not automatically global, and I doubt the College Board applied for a European trademark -- in which case they need to establish that they are actively doing trade under that mark in Europe. --Lambiam 22:23, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Koingo spammer

Thanks for your efforts on reverting this person's spam. Reyk _YO! 22:30, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

re: ER / WP:MOSDAB

<rant>Argh, I wish the MOS: prefix would die. People get to make up whatever random shortcuts they want. I'm going to start creating I: shortcuts to my pages, just for the hell of it.</rant>

Anyway. Sorry about that.  :) Yes, ER looks great. I'm not an expert at WP:MOSDAB myself... I think it's hard to do a really really good job... but since like 80% of disambig pages are done totally the opposite of WP:MOSDAB, I think it's hard to focus on really refining them, since there's thousands of pages that still need to be fixed. Anyway, it's good to hear others are picking up WP:MOSDAB. --Interiot 01:31, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, being new to Misplaced Pages I sometimes wonder why we aren't able to restrict modes of editing pages in various namespaces a little bit better. (Like, can't we make talk pages more like phpBB... why doesn't it know that my post needs to be signed, why can I edit the text of someone else's post on a talk page, or edit the comments on a section that's marked as an archived vote with a decision already rendered. I know it's easy enough to revert the edits, but still...) At the same time I think that it's the total free-form nature of the wiki that makes Misplaced Pages what it is - on some level I think you can't have the restricted interaction and the free-form collaborative editing at the same time.

Anyway... rant totally understood. I was looking for ER the TV series and I had trouble finding it on the ER dab page at all. After going through all of the edits I think the most important guidelines for a readable disambig page are: one link per line, no piping, and no bolding. Thanks again. —Jnk 02:11, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Yup, that's the core of it. Also, generally add a {{wiktionary}} or {{wiktionarypar}} template, and remove dictionary definitions (eg. lines that have zero relevant links) or move them to wiktionary.

For talk pages... *shrug* One thing is that wikis in general have a 10 year long history, and most wiki software is far less complicated than MediaWiki, and wikis have always used a sort of free-form discussion page like this, so that the software can be kept really simple. Also, among the development staff for mediawiki specifically, there's a pervasive idea that... HTML is generally complicated, and it's gentler on new people to just teach them wikitext (which is true), but then the whole making-due-with-simpler-tools thing goes too far, and sometimes I think it would save new people time if the software did more complicated work (with the complex stuff hidden away from view), as that would sometimes simplify things for the end user (such as a different format for talk pages). But the talk pages thing in particular would take a ton of work, and most of mediawiki has been built by free labor so far, so it's a bit hard to complain... --Interiot 02:38, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Gartner

Please define consensus. Also, I believe it is the first time that isolated change has been made based on my review of the history files and it has yet to be reverted until you just did it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by IKnowUthink (talk • contribs) 11:08, 10 May 2006 (EDT).

Re: Template:Infobox University

I think you have this the wrong way round: I changed the class from "infobox" to "infobox bordered", a format which is more common among infoboxes and for the most part more attractive. I won't pursue the matter however. Happy editing, --cj | talk 05:01, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Wisconsinite

You a wisconsinite like me? :) Tonetare 23:53, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Copy & paste did not work

I understand your concern about my recent revision to ExxonMobile. I was trying to correct the word, "larget," which missed an "s." For some reason, all content after the first paragraph was missing from the edit box. I apologize for any inconvenience. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.160.188.210 (talk • contribs) 12:46, 1 June 2006 ET.

Not a problem, I had already restored the content that was accidentally removed. It happens to the best of us, but it's easy to look back in the page history and restore the old version! —Jnk 19:37, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

My RfA

Thank you for the trust that you had in me when you supported my Request for Adminship. The nomination ended successfully and I am actually overwhelmed by the support that I received. Thanks again! -- Kim van der Linde 07:07, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

city infobox

Hi - Can you please comment on this thread? Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 15:49, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Name

Your name in real life doesnt happen to be Micheal does it?--Gephart 21:50, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

User:Boothy443

Thanks for telling me about Boothy being on a personal attack parole. I wouldn't have known otherwise. I didn't increase the length of the block, but I logged the block here. Cheers. AnnH ♫ 15:31, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Erie

Thanks for fixing the Erie page. I am not yet well-versed on Wiki stuff and it was bothering me that no one else got to it.

The map with the state and the red dot of Erie did not show up. But if I click on the area, it'll open a in a new browser. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bobbycherry2 (talk • contribs) 00:07, 13 June 2006 (UTC).

Strange that the resized map wouldn't show. I changed the width slightly and now mediawiki is generating the image alright. Maybe tomorrow it will work at 250px again, who knows. I've seen a few other people complaining of auto-image resizing problems lately. —Jnk 03:42, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Map Sizes in Idaho city articles

Ah, that works great. Thanks for your help! --Faustus37 04:11, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Template Infobox City

Thanks for putting up that template warning tag on the Template:Infobox_city. I was thinking of adding one myself last night due to all the erroneous edits recently, but couldn't find the right one. Dr. Cash 04:35, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

infobox formatting

Hi - What do you think of the current template:Infobox Country? I'm working on a simpler alternate, see User:Rick Block/Template:Infobox Country. The primary difference (other than the padding, that I can't quite seem to get worked out - any ideas?) is the length of the horizontal lines between groups of cells. The current version embeds a borderless table in a 1em larger rectangle so these lines are not full width. I think this is fairly stylish looking, but (AFAICT) can't be done as a style for a simple table. Utlimately, I'd like to unify the look of template:Infobox City with the country version as well as the numerous country-specific subdivision infoboxes, like Template:Infobox U.S. state. Consistency across all of these may be too much to ask, but it seems odd to me that there are three very different looking infoboxes for a city and the state/subdivision it's in and the country. Please let me know what you think (and if you know how to fix the padding issue, feel free to fix it in User:Rick Block/Template:Infobox Country). Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 21:37, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Standardized look for geographical infoboxes

Hi - I created a proposed guideline for geographical infoboxes I expect you might be interested in, please see Misplaced Pages:Geographical infoboxes. -- Rick Block (talk) 00:57, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

City infobox problem

Hi. I am sorry I use this way but I am not sure which one could be better. With a great pleasure I used the infobox when starting work on my article on city of Příbram, Czech Republic. It however inserted a link next to coordinates that points to a statistical office - source for the number of citizen. I cannot figure out how to repair it. Please help me. The article is Příbram. Thanks, Okino 23:42, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Please help - inclusionism is "absurb" now

Sorry to bother you, but as an things are getting desperate and I need to appeal to your for help. We are facing a situation where a deletionist admin is free to declare inclusionist arguments "absurd" and ignore them at will. If you don't agree with this situation, please share your opinion here. Kappa 02:34, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

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