Sacharin

Commentary about blocks

Block notices should be phrased neutrally and avoid personal commentary. The tone of this note [1] isn't appropriate. — Carl (CBM · talk) 15:24, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Request for help

{{Helpme|I am interested in making a few templates for use on the Wikipedia Mainspace - how do I go about making one, and what are the necessary procidures for submitting them?}}

Hi Sacharin. I find that the best way to make templates is to find a template that is for a somewhat similar use and tailor the text and markup for another. Then take the text and save it at an intuitive name, which must begin with "Template:" so that it propogates into the template space. You can explore existing templates at Wikipedia:Template messages. See also WP:UTM. I have made many, many templates (see my userpage) and will help if you need assistance with the technical markup; just ask me on my talk page. The question is what specific tasks are you seeking to make templates for? Have you searched to make sure no template already exists for your intended use? As for approval, I know of no formal centralized process and it depends on the type of template but often you make a template and then submit it to the talk page of an associated process for discussion. For example, user warning templates can be made and then proposed on Wikipedia talk:Template messages/User talk namespace. The only templates I can think of offhand that require approval are stubs, which are proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. Otherwise, they can be created, and users don't think they are useful or appropriate they can ask you to request deletin as the author, or they can be nominated for deletion at WP:TFD. Note that we have a place to request template creation at Wikipedia:Requested templates. This is for users who don't wish to make them themselves.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:59, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Okay. Among a few other tweaks, I have added a parameter so that if a user types {{name of template|Name of article}} they get the name of the article they edited set out in the text, and if they don't, it still makes sense. My question now is why is this template needed? It seems to me it's fully redundant with a host of particularized templates at WP:UTM (and the many at the deprecated but still useful ocassionally, Template:TestTemplates) and is too generic (we want to inform users exactly what they did). For example, for plain vandalism we have {{uw-vandalism1}} which is a template series like many there; just change the 1 to 2, 3 or 4 ({{uw-vandalism2}}, {{uw-vandalism3}}, {{uw-vandalism4}}). For particular types of vandalism we have numerous templates, many of them escalating series as well. For example, for blanking content {{uw-delete1}}, for tests we have {{uw-test1}} and so on. There are a huge host for all manner of particular conduct. Don't mean to be discouraging, but I don't see it's usefulness given what we already have. But of course, I'm just one opinion. By the way, if you decide not to bring it into the template space, you can keep that article in your own namespace and access it from there (just type {{User:Sacharin/Sandbox}} and it will place the template.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 18:35, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Transclusion suggestion

I just noticed this edit where you transclude a personalized warning from your sandbox. Personalised messages are fine. The only problem is that if you change the content of your sandbox, the warning on the IP's page will change, too. To get around that, be sure to substitute the transcluded page. This is done by putting subst: before the page title in the curly brackets, e.g. {{subst:User:Sacharin/Sandbox}}. There are also pre-existing warnings for use available at WP:UTM. -- Flyguy649 ^talk 08:44, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Help

{{helpme|Are there any archives of the main page?}}

There is no archive of the main page, but there are archives of the single parts. At the end of each section, you can find a link to it's archive. If you are looking for changes of the page structure, you can look at history, on top of the page.--Thw1309 (talk) 13:32, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

User:USHMMwestheim

You just placed, I recognise in perfect good faith, a tag on this user in WP:UAA. Did you read the user's discussion page? If not, please do so and then consider if tagging username is appropriate. --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 11:50, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

January 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Pete Doherty, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Wwwhatsup (talk) 13:39, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Duxfordtransporter.jpg

Image Copyright problem

Thank you for uploading Image:Duxfordtransporter.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the image. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 18:22, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Blocked

Blocked: for abusing multiple accounts proven by checkuser (Sacharin and Joshuarooney). Indefinite pending further investigation and considering any explanation or mitigating factors either way (such as previous blocks). Thatcher 14:40, 14 March 2008 (UTC)