User talk:Abarratt

Welcome!

Hello, Abarratt, and welcome to Wikipedia! 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 Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{helpme}} before the question. Again, welcome! Remember (talk) 18:54, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Dictator_novel[edit]

Amanda, I think the "to do" list on Talk:Dictator_novel is a great idea! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 07:24, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And also a great idea to seek collaboration at the Literature Project page. If you guys can get help from other people, all the better! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 07:36, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Markup[edit]

Hi! Hope you don't mind me dropping in. I'm one of the editors that have agreed to help out with your WikiProject, and came by to leave a welcome message (but saw you'd already been welcomed). However, I noticed you've been experimenting with tables and userboxes on your user page, and things have got a little messed up. I know it's not really related to WP:MMM, but if you want any help I'd be only too happy. You can leave me a note on my talk page or here, I'll catch it either way ;) All the best, EyeSerene^TALK 19:25, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I suppose i'm mostly learning from trial and error at this point!

How do I change the colours of say the drop-down box? Also not sure how to make the margins on something smaller. Like say if I wanted the drop down box higher on the page but not overlapping with the user box? Thanks for your help!!--Abarratt (talk) 03:13, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's the only way to learn ;) You're coming a long way in a remarkably short time - it took me ages to work out how to hide/show sections :P

The easiest way to get the effect you want is to enclose the sections in a table. Rather than edit your userpage (which is considered a bit of a breach of Wikiquette), I'll post the code below for you to copy/paste:

{|
| style="width: 100%" valign="top" |
<div class="NavFrame collapsed" style="border-style: none; padding: 0px; font-size: 100%;">
<div class="NavFrame collapsed" style="border-style: none; text-align: left; border: #3232CD solid 2px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; padding: 5px; font-size: 85%;">
<div class="NavHead" style="{{Round corners}}; background: #dcc5fc;  text-align: center; padding: 2px; font-size: 160%;"><font face="arial" color="#6B00A8" size="+0"><b>Helpful Links</b></font></div>
<div class="NavContent" style="background: #EEEEFF;font-size: 100%;">
- a list of pages I will will need to work on Wiki
*[[WP:DEV|Developing a page]] 
*[[WP:HEAD|Headers]] 
*[[Help:Wikitext examples|Editing Help]]
*[[Wikipedia:Citing sources|Citation on Wikipedia]]
|
{{Userboxtop |My Userboxes!}}
{{User UBC}}
{{user collstudent minor|Anthropology|Latin American Studies}}
{{Template:User Canada eh}}
{{Template:user BeachBum}}
{{User:UBX/Dog owned-by2}}
{{Userboxbottom}}
|}

Hopefully you'll be able to see how I did it; it's basically a two-column/one-row table with the Helpful links in the first column (vertically aligned to the top of the cell) and the Userboxes in the second column. The pipes '|' separate the columns (apart from the first, which sets attributes for the row, such as the vertical-align), and you'd use a pipe-hyphen '|-' on a new line to start a new row. There's more on tables here if you're interested.

Regarding the colours, the code uses hex triplets (hexadecimal values for the colour's red, green and blue components) to set colours. These are the values like '#dcc5fc' and '#6B00A8' in the code. Changing the colours is just a matter of changing these values (as you can see, upper/lower case is unimportant). This page and this page might be useful to you; they have lists of popular colours with their relevant hex triplets.

Hope all this helps. Feel free to rip code from my page if you like - like you said, trial and error ;) - and there are Wikipedians (eg User:Phaedriel) who will custom-design userpages on request. If you need anything else, don't hesitate to shout! All the best, EyeSerene^TALK 18:33, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels[edit]

The Novels Project is a Wikipedia group dedicated to improving the quality of articles on novels. If you would like to help, please consider joining: seeWikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Members. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 15:54, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiquette[edit]

Hi! Just to let you know, striking out comments on a GA review is usually best left to the GA reviewer - if a comment has been struck out, it indicates the reviewer feels it has been satisfactorily addressed. Editors striking the comments is a bit of a breach of wikiquette, because the reviewer may not agree that an issue has been resolved.

Thank you for your work on the article - you write well, and it's been a pleasure to review ;) EyeSerene^talk 09:05, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I realized that yesterday and made a comment on the talk page. Sorry about that! We really appreciate all the editors who've been helping us! Couldn't do it without you. Thanks for taking time to review this article. :D--Abarratt (talk) 14:27, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do you want me to remove the ones I did cross out?--Abarratt (talk) 14:36, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I do apologise, I didn't notice the talk page comment! There's no need to remove the strikes for those issues you've addressed - I'll double-check just to satisfy myself, but I believe you've dealt with them perfectly well ;) If there are any further comments, I'll just post them underneath. You're more than welcome, by the way; we're having a lot of fun working with you all, and it's a real pleasure to see the huge improvements you've made on these important articles. All the best, EyeSerene^talk 16:25, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dictator novel[edit]

Thanks for your message. I've looked things over again, and I'd say we're very close now. There's only a few minor issues remaining, so I'll keep close tabs on the article and look forward to passing it in the next few days. Great work! EyeSerene^talk 07:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Quotation[edit]

See Quotations (MoS). Changes should be minimal. You can make alterations as long as you make it very clear and it does not change the meaning whatsoever. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 20:30, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. You can remove a bit of text and add a word as you did: e.g "...[and]". Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 20:33, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tip :D--Abarratt (talk) 20:34, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA pass for Dictator novel[edit]

Thank you for your hard work on Dictator novel. I have now passed this article as a Good article, and updated the various talk page templates to reflect this.

That also means you get one of these:

This user helped promote Dictator novel to good article status.

which you may like to place on your user page (or somewhere suitable) by copy/pasting {{User Good Article|Dictator novel}} into the page code.

It's been a real pleasure working with you, and I'm very pleased to see that you've caught the wiki-bug! I'm delighted to be able to award you your first GA userbox, and for an editor of your quality, I'm certain there will be plenty more to come ;) Well done! EyeSerene^talk 21:35, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, congratulations! :) --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 04:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes[edit]

You can! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 11:28, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Interview[edit]

Hi. Over on Wikinews they are conducting an interview about our project. Some of the questions are directed specifically at me, and some specifically at those who edited El Señor Presidente. But there are others for any student in the class. I thought you might want to participate.

You will have to set up a new account on Wikinews. Drop a line to Brianmc who can guide you through the technicalities.

It would be good to have an opportunity for you to have your say! --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 20:42, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Big thanks![edit]

		The Original Barnstar
		This is for going beyond the call of duty and helping out on I, the Supreme and saving me the trouble of looking for references myself in the process. Much appreciated!!! Acer (talk) 20:29, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Was just procrastinating studying for a final :)--Abarratt (talk) 01:40, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vancouver meet-up[edit]

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