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My page

I noticed my user page is blank and boring and yours is really cool i was wondering if you could help spruce mine up i probably don't need to but was just wondering--P-Real DA deal 05:01, 9 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by P-Real DA deal (talk • contribs)

See the userpage guidelines and the userpage design center. More information on your talk page. The Earwig 13:27, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

I am having a little trouble i am not so good with codes and stuff in fact not good at all and i wanted to make my page have the drop down box's like yours has and don't know how to put the box's and things on there a little help would be nice :)--P-Real DA deal 19:22, 9 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by P-Real DA deal (talk • contribs)

award

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
thanks for helping out a newbie i really think its nice of you P-Real DA deal 19:28, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks! It's very much appreciated! The Earwig 19:29, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

status

I added a status thing to my page the same one you have and it says i am lost but i am not lol how do i change it to what i want?--P-Real DA deal 20:16, 9 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by P-Real DA deal (talk • contribs) I did it but i still wont work what do i do?--P-Real DA deal 20:30, 9 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by P-Real DA deal (talk • contribs) Ok i did the cache thing and then i tried clicking on one of the links and it takes me to a page i can edit but doesn't change my status--P-Real DA deal 20:38, 9 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by P-Real DA deal (talk • contribs)

edit

So how do i go about getting things changed on locked articles? the one i want to make a change to is locked i put it up on the discussion board. is that the way to settle it when its locked?--P-Real DA deal 20:58, 9 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by P-Real DA deal (talk • contribs)

I'm assuming that, by locked, you mean protected. As a new user (no offense, really) you are unable to edit semi-protected pages, but after being on Misplaced Pages for four days and having made ten edits, (you've already done the second one, now you just have to wait for the first) you'll be able to edit them. For the time being, you can request a change to be made by entering the text {{editsemiprotected}} at the top of the discussion page, and writing the requested change, in detail, below it. Don't worry, you won't have to do this once you have been here for four days (this is called being autoconfirmed). The Earwig 21:06, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
One more thing: our protection policy has details on why a page would be protected. The Earwig 21:14, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

wiki

I have a question before i created my account every-once and a while me and my freinds would vandalize pages (please don't be angry i have changed) and was wondering if that would ever affect my standing here on wiki--P-Real DA deal 21:27, 9 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by P-Real DA deal (talk • contribs)

No problem, I'm not angry. As you can see on my userpage, I encourage the peaceful correction of vandals. The question you've asked is rather complex, so while I can answer it, I'm afraid that you might be a little confused. If you want something explained in more detail, just ask.
Assuming that you did the vandalism before you created an account, it will not hurt you at all, unless you get into some serious trouble in your new account (which is unlikely). When a user is not registered and they edit Misplaced Pages, they are not editing under a username, but rather under an IP address. An IP address is basically a bunch of numbers with dots in between them, like this: 192.64.3.114. A user's IP address contains information such as where they live and who their internet service provider is, and when you create an account, for privacy, that information becomes hidden. As long as you never reveal your IP address to anyone, no one will know anything about the vandalism you have made.
Of course, if you make vandalism under your account, that's a different story. Chances are that it will not affect you, unless you do something that puts you under heavy scrutiny, such as running for adminship or requesting permissions. Now, the only way your IP address can be discovered is if you get under serious trouble under your current account, such as sock puppetry (making other accounts to influence discussion, and pretending that they are someone else). Someone with CheckUser abilities (a heavily-trusted member of Misplaced Pages who is over eighteen) may be able to trace your IP, but I'm getting ahead of myself. The simplest answer is no: you will not get in trouble. The Earwig 21:41, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Reward Board

How do I accept your offer? Please reply on my talk page. --Abce2|Howdy! 22:00, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Oh, ok. Thanks for telling me! Just a quick question, but why does the editor status indicator thing say that your offline? --Abce2|Howdy! 22:09, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
Well, because I was about to log off, and then you asked me a question, so I had to answer it! You kind of held me up a little bit, but no harm done. The Earwig 22:11, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm working on it, but I don't know how long it will take. Is there some kind of time limit of something? --Abce2|Howdy! 23:54, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

2nd Award

The Adopt-a-User Barnstar
For be the coolest and most helpful adopter out there! P-Real DA deal 00:40, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, again! The Earwig 01:48, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

More Help!

I have been making my user page but i cant make the boxes show up under each-other like yours do can you help me because i have no clue how to do it its the boxes that say wiki stuff and about me--P-Real DA deal 02:05, 10 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by P-Real DA deal (talk • contribs) and one more question when i sign my name how come it doesnt put a link to my page and talk page like yours does? how do i do that and i always says its unsigned —Preceding unsigned comment added by P-Real DA deal (talk • contribs) 02:10, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Question 1: Why don't you look at my userpage and try to figure it out? What you need to do is add this text above both of the boxes:
{{Userboxtop|toptext=]}}
{|align="right" width="160px" style="background-color: transparent;"
|-
|<div>
and then this text below both of the boxes:
</div>
|}
{{Userboxbottom}}
Question 2: You're signing your name with four ~'s, right? The problem is probably in your preferences. Go to Special:Preferences, and under "signature", make sure that "raw signature" is unchecked, and delete all of the contents in the signature box. I hope that helps! The Earwig 02:15, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

I got 1 more thing i have been going around the talk pages i patrol and removing urls to leaked music and pictures and put url removed like you siad but i also put that it was removed by me it looks like this (url removed by P-Real DA deal (talk) 02:23, 10 May 2009 (UTC)) should i do that? P-Real DA deal (talk) 02:23, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

That's a good idea, but it would be even better if you put <small> before and </small> after the notice that you removed the URL. That will make it look smaller, like this: (url removed by P-Real DA deal (talk). Just remember not to do that on article pages! The Earwig 02:29, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Article

i want to make a article on a video game and was wondering what your thoughts or ideas are or if i should get familiar with wiki more first P-Real DA deal (talk) 02:50, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Go ahead! Actually, one thing you can do is make the article on your userpage in a new section. That way, you can develop it first without worrying about it getting deleted if you put it as an actual article. When you're done, you can simply copy it to a new article. Does that sound like a good idea? The Earwig 02:53, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Sounds great i will find a game and get started!--70.176.63.140 (talk) 03:20, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

I have been having trouble finding a game to write a article about most have already been written have any ideas? P-Real DA deal (talk) 19:13, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

If the article is short, expand it instead of creating it. Otherwise, pick a different topic to write about. What else are you interested in? The Earwig 19:15, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

I really like history that is my favorite class anything about that i could write i also like animals my favorite is the elephant but i am sure wiki has a large article about those but i am up for anything if you have any ideas of needed articlesP-Real DA deal (talk) 19:19, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Check out Misplaced Pages's requested articles. I'm sure you'll find something. The Earwig 19:23, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Vandal

One of my favorite cars lamborghini has been having its article vandalized 3 times in the last 30 min so im on the look out!P-Real DA deal (talk) 04:08, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

What's the article? If the vandalism continues, check out this page to request that the article be protected from editing. The Earwig 04:13, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

The main lamborghini article and the 350gt and the 350gtv article some guy kept putting that it ran on cheese and coke and pieP-Real DA deal (talk) 04:14, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

I have been looking at the recent changes article and am finding it fun to revert vandalism and uncostructive edits should i keep this up?P-Real DA deal (talk) 04:33, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Of course you should keep this up! This is wonderful; reverting vandalism is an excellent skill for any user to have. I strongly suggest reading WP:TWINKLE— that could help you a lot when reverting bad edits. The Earwig 04:35, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Twinkle

I installed the right script but i don't see anything i don't think its workingP-Real DA deal (talk) 19:27, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Did you remember to refresh your browser's cache? The Earwig 19:29, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

NICE! that was it now i got all my tools thanks!P-Real DA deal (talk) 19:34, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

User page

I think here is something wrong with the script on my user page but i cant figure it out the boxes don't work what do you think it is?P-Real DA deal (talk) 19:43, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Bot

Thanks for the note. Won't the log page always be at User:EarwigBot II/Logs. If so, why do you need to pass that as a parameter to the template? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:06, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

 Fixed. Thanks. That simplifies the code a little. The Earwig 20:07, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Looking good. I'm wondering how to avoid this - note they just copied |ts=TIMESTAMP|u=USERNAME|ns=5 ! Probably not worth worrying about as it won't happen often. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:48, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Yeah, the user fixed that soon after, so I doubt that it could be a problem. I don't see any way, via parser functions or magic words, to make the editintro automatically have the data in it, unfortunately. It's not that big of a loss, though. I think that after almost ten revisions to the code and many more to the template, the bot's pretty well integrated into AfC now. Because of the blacklist, the bot can now run on it's own without making me worry about it screwing up. I still need to write a python script to remove logs from the report page, but this is of lower priority. The Earwig 21:00, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
Agreed. And good work! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:28, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
The Articles for Creation Barnstar
Congratulations for testing your bot so thoroughly and for getting WPAFC a great new tool. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:46, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Well now for the next job? :) I've populated Category:Undated AfC submissions with all the submissions without a timestamp. (Most of these were from before the timestamp existed, but some will be there because the reviewer removed it by mistake.) Would it be feasible to run a bot (once only) and add the creation date to each, in the form ts=YYYYMMDDHHMMSS? Of course, the ideal solution would be a magic word like CREATEDATE but this doesn't exist yet. Let me know what you think. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:57, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar! I'll start working on the next bot task after I finish a few things involving the current bots I have running. I still have to configure the time script for EarwigBot II, making it automatically start every thirty minutes. (I was unable to do this yesterday when the bot was approved because I was quite busy). I'd also like to finish up EarwigBot I's third task, which has about 1,000 checks remaining on its counter.
Now for the bot idea you've suggested. It definitely seems doable with the conditions you described, but the only problem is probably the creation date. Making it get the time of the last revision would require so much less code than getting the time of the first revision (magic word {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}), but I suppose that getting the creation date is feasible. I'll have to look at the code for this in depth a little more to make a decision.
Regardless, I definitely think that this is a good idea. One more question: are you sure this should be a one-time thing? Of course the 2,000+ pages in the category right now will be done in one session, but would it be a good idea to have the bot run a check of the category, maybe, every week, and do more timestamp-adding if there are pages in the category? Having it run once might not fix the problem if more reviewers/submitters mess up the timestamp. The reason I want to know this is because I need to decide whether to have the task run as EarwigBot I Task 4, or EarwigBot III. What do you think? The Earwig 20:35, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
I was thinking that after that category is cleared out, we can display a big red angry warning if the timestamp is omitted, and hopefully people will get the message and we don't have many. Then it should be easy to clear out the category manually. So no, I'm not sure if it's worth running continuously. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:15, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Makes sense. I guess I'll do it that way. The Earwig 21:17, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

An update: EarwigBot II is finally ready to be used without me worrying about it! The bot no longer makes duplicate logs like this, which was its only major problem. Also, EarwigBot I's third task has about 500 edits remaining in the queue, down from over 1,000. At this rate, this bot should be ready by the weekend. The Earwig 21:11, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

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hey i have a guestbook i would like you to be the 2 signer only if you want too!P-Real DA deal (talk) 20:56, 12 May 2009 (UTC)here's the link

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