User talk:JP585

Templates
Is there a specific use you're creating these for? Perhaps if you put that info into the categories that would be good. --Guppymomma 05:35, 4 May 2006 (PDT)


 * Look to the Left of Your post and the Right of Mine. This is one of the many things you can do with the Align templates.--JP585 08:38, 10 May 2006 (PDT)


 * I know exactly what aligning is. I'm asking is there a specific planned use?  Just FYI, we have  already.  Generally we've avoided aligning TOC's to the left because it doesn't look very good and frankly the centered TOC looks downright awful.  Images already have embedded left/right align coding.  Beyond that, I'd discourage centering text due to the visual style of the default skin. --Guppymomma 14:51, 10 May 2006 (PDT)

TOC
There's a reason we had the TOC below introduction paragraphs. (Means people who only want the absolute basics don't need to scroll down.) --Ponytailguy 09:43, 10 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Permission to revert? Nevermind, I'll do it anyway... --Sagacious 09:44, 10 May 2006 (PDT)

JP, I realize you're just doing what you think is best for whatever reason, but in the case of these TOC's, the formatting looks best as it was before, not to mention the Recent Changes spam is quite annoying. --Rixation 09:53, 10 May 2006 (PDT)


 * Sorry That is why I am marking all my edits as minor from now on. I happen to have Wiki:Asbergers. I notice most things after I submit them. I'll try and cut back.--DruidJoshua (aka DruidJP585) 13:31, 10 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Uhh this linky? And you should use Minor edit marker for minor edits, such a spelling/grammar fixes. Anything that has significantly changed the appearance of the page should not be marked minor - at least that is how I see it. --Sagacious 13:34, 10 May 2006 (PDT)

But when you work in a community environment like this, you have to work as a collective. Changing how every single puzzle's page is formatted is a signifigant enough change to merit some discussion of it before actually doing it... likewise for changing the file format of half the images on the wiki. Nobody's pissed off with you, and if they are, they shouldn't be, because it's quite obvious that there was no malicious intent here. But you know the story about the bull in the china shop ;) --Ponytailguy 13:39, 10 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Edit: Uhh. Minor should be used for minor changes in general. Just because you've changed the appearance of a page doesn't mean it's automatically a major edit; when I added the puzzle category boxes, I marked all my edits minor, because they were all preapproved by the community (yay for silence implying consent!) Likewise, when somebody adds or fixes an infobox, even though that greatly affects the form of the page... it's still minor. Anyway. --Ponytailguy 13:39, 10 May 2006 (PDT)

Pirate songs and shanties...
Currently this page contains no encyclopedic content - and therefore shouldn't be in the main namespace. Ponytailguy already moved it to the Art: namespace temporarily so it doesn't clog up the search index. Until we've properly discussed this page - please leave it at its current location: Art:Pirate Songs and Shanties. If you wish to discuss the page - please use the talk page. Thanks --Sagacious (talk) 14:10, 11 May 2006 (PDT)

Hmm?
Is there some reason in particular that, when you purge old comments from your talk page, only the comments with people correcting you (read: trying to help you) are getting deleted? You do realize that trying to sweep mistakes under the rug at a wiki is kinda pointless, right? ;) --Ponytailguy 06:50, 12 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Someone suggested that I clean up my talk page since it was getting cluttered and that the issues were dealt with.--DruidJoshua (aka DruidJP585) 06:52, 12 May 2006 (PDT)
 * By that, I meant - cleanup the content boxes at the top etc. Messages should never probably not be permanently deleted from yer User talk: page. It's generally treated as the wiki form of a 'permanent record'. Archive into sub-pages - see my talk page ;) --Sagacious (talk) 07:14, 12 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Oh, archiving is totally fine. But check the history... the only comments that got removed were the ones pointing out errors and making corrections. That's what's setting off my alarm. --Ponytailguy 07:19, 12 May 2006 (PDT)
 * If a user wants to delete everything from his or her Talk page, that's the user's prerogative. Sagacious, please don't make sweeping statements with words like "never" unless there's actually a policy underlying it.  --Barrister 12:52, 12 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Fixed - I try to avoid using strong words in messages - this one slipped the net :-/ --Sagacious (talk) 12:55, 12 May 2006 (PDT)