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AD&D Userbox

so um does that mean it no longer works till i fix it, that everyone has to alter their pages to get it to work again? that i need to somehow inform people where to find and how to use it now?

i never knew where to put the darn thing and just followed what instructions i found for creating one, but as long as it works and people can still use it without any special attention from me each time someone wants to use it i don't really mind where it is. rather pleased actually that after all this time someone has taken the time to at least inform me where user created userboxes go, or that a usebox policy change may have occured that i may wish to look into and learn about the changes. shadzar|Talk|contribs 20:53, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Userbox link with text change...

I may have misunderstood your question on the Wikipedia_talk:Userboxes/New_Userboxes page, but I posted up the following response:

"Isn't that done by putting a separator between the link phrase and your desired text, thus - '''[[Grammar Nazi|Grammarian smarty-pants]]''' = Grammarian smarty-pants ? Now someone can help me by telling me which keys on my PC keyboard produce the separator - I'm fed up with having to copy and paste. Thanks."

Hope this helps, but I'm sure you must have meant something else. Drywontonmee 00:54, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

I think I got what you meant. Does this look right? 63.172.28.121 20:03, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
This user is a grammar policeman!
Hell yeah! Thank you, Anonymous! :D --coldacid (Talk|Contrib) 16:56, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

RCAC userbox

No sweat, I was just trying to help out - many userboxes have non-free images that get deleted leaving them bare, as a member of Wikiproject Userboxes one of the things I do is try to fix them up. Usually that goes over well, but if you want to protest Wikipedia's fair-use policy then by all means go ahead! - Ahunt (talk) 12:18, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Toastmasters International

If you're excessively interested, here is a praising review of a book that contains information on the organization. Could be a good bet as an RS for the article. Someguy1221 (talk) 04:44, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey, thanks! Now I just need to convince my local library to get a copy. It'd be great to finally start getting some sources for the article that aren't from TI. --coldacid (talk|contrib) 04:48, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Editor Review

I just wanted to say thanks for the review! TNX-Man 03:03, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Assessment

Hey there! I've written an response to your request on my talk page. — OranL (talk) 16:20, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Encyclopedia Dramatica

It came to my attention that article's talk page is being reverted all the time by walking with the devil user, again claiming non-sense like personal attacks. It seems he is part of ed group. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Controlworx (talkcontribs) 01:21, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

It seems the page is going down, jerx cant find dough? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Controlworx (talkcontribs) 16:59, 2008 August 8 (UTC)

Hi. Gene Poole and I are both supporting closing the above AfD as soon as possible because we think that Adam233 is likely to be either a sockpuppet or a single-purpose account. Could you please leave a short comment on the page to support closing the AfD, if you support that? It will help us get this AfD closed and see if Adam233 is planning anything else. Thanks. Onecanadasquarebishopsgate 14:13, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

If you could keep an eye on Adam 233's user page and restore the sockpuppet warning if he tries to remove it again I'd appreciate it. Time we knocked this one on the head. --Gene_poole (talk) 01:23, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
I'll try, but I'm eating soon. What's the procedure for reporting a user for blocking or banning? We might want to take that path, especially now that he's moved on to 3RR too. --coldacid (talk|contrib) 01:25, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Now that the AfD is closed, I'd be very happy to just forget that any of this happened. All I wanted to do was edit and improve my own articles, now I'm again questioning whether or not I'll stay on Wikipedia. Thanks to everyone involved. --coldacid (talk|contrib) 03:32, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Coldacid, thank you for signing my final comment in the AfD debate. A simple oversight made late at night.

Adam233 is very clearly a sockpuppet or single-purpose account of an experienced user. He's also a quite effective troll. I'll look into what can be done to see justice ultimately prevail. Don't be too discouraged by the opinion of Bidgee, he clearly hadn't read into the background of the dispute. Even good admins have their bad days. - Dalvikur (talk) 19:41, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Somebody has to fight off the (signature signing) bots.
I'd like to give Adam233 the benefit of the doubt, but considering there's been no further edits or activity from that account, I'm still sticking with my SPA theory. If it were an IP editor who wanted to do AfDs and further edits, then we'd see more activity at least. I try to adhere to WP:ASSUME, but yeah, there's nothing but evidence that supports only a bad view of the account.
I may disagree with Bidgee's view, but he makes a good point for someone who is an outsider to the entire case. And he at least dealt with it well. I've got nothing against his view. barneca's accusation of gaming, on the other hand...
I don't think I'll be going away (gotta get the Toastmasters article to GA!) but it's become yet another reason for me to be pissed off with Wikipedia, as if I needed another. --coldacid (talk|contrib) 21:47, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Hey there! Your photo for the Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park article is great! For someone who gets to spend some time every year on one of the many lakes within the park, I'm curious to know where you took the picture, in case it's within hiking or canoing/portaging distance from Loon Call Lake (near Wolf and Anstruther Lakes). It probably wouldn't hurt to add some more specific locale information to the photo's page on Commons, either. Thanks! --coldacid (talk|contrib) 01:50, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

  • Thanks for your commendation. This pond is located along Anstruther Lake Road, before Wolf Lake. -- P199 (talk) 17:41, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
    • Which would explain why I haven't seen it; I almost never go further than the public access for Loon Call Lake, and even then just for the annual corn roast. I've got to get a bike up to the cottage so I can ride up to Anstruther, and all points in between... --coldacid (talk|contrib) 03:28, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Le Parc Downsview

Okay, I was going to write this entire passage in French but I relented (LOL). I know the Downsview Park very well as I have a connection with the Toronto Aerospace Museum. However, please do change the note to whatever is proper, but "official names" probably should predominate in the first instance, and then familiar names after. FWiW, I currently work with a high school program in Commercial Aviation, the school: Collége Sturgeon Heights Collegiate (just the way of the world in Canada, hard to go against the official nomenclature, sorta like pushing water uphill...) Bzuk (talk) 11:58, 22 August 2008 (UTC).

BTW, I wrote the de Havilland Canada articles quite a long time ago, so they only appear on my watchlist, and I have long since left them behind. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 12:00, 22 August 2008 (UTC).
I'm not going to change it back to my edit. It's just really annoying to see the bilingual names pushed, when the plain and seperate English and French names are every bit as official. BTW good thing you didn't write it in French, because I wouldn't understand it. I got my grade nine French credit on a technicality, I never actually passed the class. And those years having to learn it in school, those have amounted to nothing. I know more classical Latin than I know French. I'm just a curmudgeonly English speaker I suppose. :p --coldacid (talk|contrib) 12:13, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Just remember that it's not just the "bilingual" name, it's actually, in many cases in Canada, the official or formal name that is in use. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 12:21, 22 August 2008 (UTC).

Sockpuppetry

Hi. Just thought you might want to be aware of this. --Gene_poole (talk) 22:39, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Because of the stress it caused back in August, I've pretty much dropped the whole thing. --coldacid (talk|contrib) 23:23, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Wilderness Diarrhea Article Getting Killed

coldacid: perhaps this is of interest to you. A couple of zealots are merging Wilderness Diarrhea into Travelers Diarrhea for obscure reasons. The article is comprehensive and dull, and useful to those interested in the topic. After a couple of weeks of calm discussion, I went ballistic and no longer wish to participate. It might be helpful if there were some reasonable voices arguing in favor of a backpacking-related perspective. Calamitybrook (talk) 17:36, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

My solution to all this bullshit zealotry is find someone to bankroll a fork of Wikipedia aimed toward people who don't act like such idiots. Seriously, this stuff is really pissing me off, and I doubt I could provide such a rational voice. --coldacid (talk|contrib) 22:34, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Mmmm, too bad. Best not to get pissed. Not worthwhile, and probably hopeless. Thanks anyway.
My personal take on Wilderness diarrhea is that there is way too much hype around the topic. I'd added to the article a wide range of studies, the best of which seemed to demonstrate this. I'm afraid I pissed off a small cabal of failed medical doctors, because I told one that his notion of "writing so high school students can understand" is the wrong approach and disrespects the reader.
They decided to teach me a lesson (at the expense of Wilderness Diarrhea) with merger to Travelers Diarrhea. Purely spiteful.
Anyway, if you'd like to read a very thoughtful NYRB article on Wikipedia "deletionists" that would seem to confirm your view, see this link: [[1]]. Calamitybrook (talk) 22:51, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Good article, thanks for the link! Now if only we could chase off all those deletionist pricks. --coldacid (talk|contrib) 01:17, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

ADR microformat

Please note this edit; the test {{#ifeq:{{{inadr|+}}}|{{{inadr|-}}}| is positive in the earlier version, where the parameter is present, but the value is empty. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:03, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

By design, because at the time I got adr working with {{Infobox Organization}}, we had an adr nesting inside another one. Your change to {{Infobox Organization}} means that the inadr parameter isn't needed for articles using the infobox any more, however. It wasn't the most obvious setup, but it worked... --coldacid (talk|contrib) 21:25, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
The docs for {{User:Coldacid/Templates/mf-adr}} explains the purpose of the hack. --coldacid (talk|contrib) 21:28, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

You maybe interested in the Article Rescue Squadron

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Casa Loma

Hey there; I'm not overly familiar with the process of copyvio (in fact, I just intended to mark it with a header template, and didn't expect it to blank the article, but once it did, I just decided I ought to leave it. I had done major weasel-word removal, and removing of like 5 entire paragraphs that were virtually duplicated in the article itself (once in 'History' and once in a separate section after that). After reading all that, it seemed pretty obvious this was copied from some sort of promotional site. I found a lot of it on the casa loma official site (as mentioned at Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2009 March 6. You could especially compare it to the history before I edited it. Even as it is now, parts are copied: "Net proceeds from the operation of Casa Loma support a wide range of the Kiwanis Club's charitable works." is copied directly from this page just to point out one sentence. In fact, I believe that ENTIRE page was verbatum copied into the article before I killed weasel words (that was pretty much before I realized it was copied verbatum). If you go back to history page 5, you will also find that page titled "The years in between". That is exactly what the section in the article was called circa this edit, which makes it obvious that the 'today' section is ripped from the same-titled section of page 6.

If you want to split stuff out of the copyvio, you have my blessing, but you should check out the site I cited on that copyvio page first. I did 'change' a little bit of the text that was in the article to de-weasel, so its obviously not going to be a direct port anymore, but without that site even being cited, I don't think that kind of change is valid enough to claim copyvio has been eliminated, you know? TheHYPO (talk) 08:47, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, I'm going to restore the infobox, but as I mentioned before on your talk page, that opening sentence is a bit trickier than I care to chance with. --coldacid (talk|contrib) 09:31, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

My bad; thanks for fixing that up. TheHYPO (talk) 20:32, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

User:Coldacid/Templates/oldmergefull

I bypassed considering User:Coldacid/Templates/oldmergefull for re-Cat'ization to a sub-Cat of Category:Article talk header templates; you may want to look at the new subCats i created & use one of them. Tnx.
--Jerzyt 16:28, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Microformat templates

You may be interested in WikiProject Microformat; and my rough working at User:Pigsonthewing/hcard. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 08:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Sure, but I probably won't do all that much. --coldacid (talk|contrib) 03:57, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
No worries. In answer to your question on TfD (and I'd be grateful if you'd reverse your comment there, to "delete", so that we can get rid of an aberrant template which helps no-one), please see my thoughts at the above page. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:33, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Microformats

FYI: Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#Microformats. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:54, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Those deletionists and their bullshit are why I rarely ever bother with editing Wikipedia anymore. Thanks to them, this site has gone to crap. --coldacid (talk|contrib) 20:14, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

User:Coldacid/Templates/mf-adr

Would it be possible to either move this to template space, or replace the transclusions? Using "userspace" templates in mainspace is typically forbidden. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 00:48, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

Done. --coldacid (talk|contrib) 03:01, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

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mIRC and IRC

Hi, I saw your change on the occupy article. The FT source does make a big point out of saying mIRC is their favoured means of communication. I was camping at St Pauls this weekend. Granted I was more interested not in IT, but in finding out about the protestors political motivations and understanding the various power plays from interests trying to co-opt the movement for their own ends. But I did poke my head into the "Tech Tent" (it was too crowded for me to go in) and all the chat screens I could see did seem to be mIRC. I think chats have a unique flavour if everyone uses mIRC, its part of the shared communal experience which the movement seems very keen to maintain. So there is a case both from the sources and actuality to say mIRC not IRC. But I understand your point that IRC is in a sense more technically correct (there has to be some using other IRC clients) so will leave it up to you. FeydHuxtable (talk) 11:45, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

I'd say leave it as IRC. Chances are they didn't say mIRC, but most journalists only know about the client, not the actual technology, and I'd take it that the source misheard. mIRC is probably the least secure client for anyone to use, anyway. --coldacid (talk|contrib) 21:30, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Yeah, I notice journalists make that sort of mistake about half the time they write on something ive inside knowledge of. But never from an FT journalist and I read FT almost every day. But you could be right so no objection. I didnt know about mIRC being the most insecure. If its true its their favoured client it will be an interesting parallel to their political attitudes where they seem to have a self defeating distrust of the major parties, including ones that share many of their values. FeydHuxtable (talk) 15:34, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Toastmasters

Hi Chris I'm Angelo Mascaro, the president of the Italian MilanEasy Toastmasters club. I translated the page to Italian http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toastmasters and I'd like to insert the logo and your image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Toastmasters_curriculum.png in my page, but I'm not able to reference to them. Problably I have to add to the Italian Wikimedia, but I don't know what I have to specify about the license.

Could you please help me?

Thanks, Merry Christmas (a little bit late) and Happy New Year! --Angelo Mascaro (talk) 19:58, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

I've gone and moved the file over to Wikipedia Commons, which should take care of the licensing issue for you. It should also be usable from it.wikipedia without having to upload it there; if I recall correctly any images on Commons can be linked to by any of the language Wikipedias. --coldacid (talk|contrib) 23:59, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much Chris! It worked at once. Now I just miss the logo :-) I'm going to ask for it as well. Enjoy your holidays. --Angelo Mascaro (talk) 09:00, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

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When those who whistle up hordes of accounts to try and neuter the decision put down their favorite tool of disruption I'll consider extending more good faith, not before. Hasteur (talk) 19:59, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
@Hasteur: You sir, are a partisan and a scoundrel. Begone with you. // coldacid (talk|contrib) 20:47, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

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