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My formatting skilz r teh suxxor

{{helpme}} At home, on my MacBook, my userpage looks neat and appealing, and fits my internet browser (Safari) window. At school, on my PC (Firefox), my userboxes stick out over the side of the border, and I have to scroll to the right to see the whole userpage. Given that I don't really speak hmtl or wikimarkup fluently, can someone give me a hand in working out (a) why and (b) how to make my userpage look nice from anyone's computer? -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 20:59, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe make that box thinner, I have a problem formatting my page too.--res 2216 firestar 21:05, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks fine to me in firefox. It is your screen size at school. There is nothing in Wikipedia to change. You need to change the screen at school (which I doubt they allow). Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 21:06, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Echoes of Gtstricky...in 1280 x 800 in Firefox it is fine for me... ^-talk- the_ed17 ^-contribs- 22:29, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Looks fine to me too in Firefox. JamesBWatson (talk) 22:10, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Kernow FYI

I added some additional info to Kernow's unblock request. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 21:51, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Once I looked a little closer, I saw that it was not a case of your making a mistake. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 22:02, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

At least he spelled it correctly

penis — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobsacket67u (talk • contribs)

A fine future Wikipedian. I've seen so many misspellings, it makes me depressed for the future vandals of the Wiki-world. "Mariwana" appeared recently, and there's always "masterbate". Acroterion _(talk) 23:53, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I get really depressed when they misspell "fuk." It's not a long or difficult word. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 23:54, 18 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree: short words ought to be easy, but someone recently claimed that one of their little friends was a "rappist". Acroterion _(talk) 00:00, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See, and you're just assuming he meant 'rapist' and not 'rapper.' Whatever happened to assuming good faith? -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 00:01, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

True, he could have been entertaining small children with music. At least, I hope so.

I believe we've been sufficiently coarse to give Mr. Penis-word second thoughts. 00:07, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Meh. I was just waiting for him to do it again so I could block him. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 00:07, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks To The FisherQueen

Thank you very much for your kindness and support. You or you and some of the other magic Wiki-elves jumped right in and performed miracles on our article. We Really appreciate It! Can you guide us to how to place category listings at the bottom of an article. In our case we think it should be: Musicians, American Session Guitarists, Guitarists, etc.(we don't know all the categories yet). Right now our only category is: AfD (woe are us). By the way, I think you should know. Back when we got ourselves into this jam by removing citation templates and AfD templates etc., we had no idea what was going on. We just thought we were randomly being attacked by any one who decided to hate and destroy us with far superior computer and internet skills. Of course now we see this intricate system of checks and balances in the grand Wiki- beehive. It is truly amazing to us. Your credentials as AfD administrator, Recent Change Patrol etc. (we can't see the titles right now as we type) are very impressive! We think you are a genius, seriously. Here we were thinking we were trying to battle with unseen spammers and hackers or whatever and it was really Big Brother and Sister (in the good sense- not like the evil "1984" sense) trying to monitor the lost and confused primitive earthlings before they blew up the Wiki- universe. Some very gracious anonymous computer pros have added things to our article that we wouldn't have known how to do. Maybe you can let us know how to connect with them. Sorry this note is so long. It started out short. We hope you figure out how to get the PC at school to work right for you. THANK YOU!, Sincerely, Archivist, Archiveula, and the Mike Hamilton (guitarist) group.Archiveula (talk) 11:09, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Wikipedia's rules are pretty complex sometimes, but it's a system of checks and balances, so to speak, that helps us keep the encyclopedia at its best quality. It's taken me years to learn my way around these rules, and there are corners where I still am uncertain- image use policy, for example, still sort of baffles me. If you're adding categories (which is a very good thing), you might find this tree of all the existing categories helpful. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 11:14, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Random Question...

When you edit an article and there is numbers beside it such examples as (-5) or (+5), green means good and red means bad, but what do they actually mean?

HairyPerry (talk) 14:27, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Red means removing and green means adding, and the number is how much was added or removed. So when I see something like (-15000), I know that someone has removed a huge chunk of an article, and can check to see who removed a large section and why. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 14:52, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, ok that makes much more sense now, thanks and happy editing.

HairyPerry (talk) 16:22, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your unblock denial of possibly suicidal editor

You properly asked User:Oxyman42 to seek help.[1]. However, if I'm correct, "911" doesn't work outside the U.S. and Canada and a few other places, and this user geolocates to the London area. I think the EU standard number is "112," see 9-1-1. --Abd (talk) 19:20, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually it's 999. Given that the user appears to be UK based; as am I and there is some identifying information in their user page history I have taken it upon myself to report it, as indicated on Wikipedia:Responding to threats of harm --Blowdart | ^talk 19:56, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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	You properly asked [[User:Oxyman42]] to seek help.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Oxyman42&diff=prev&oldid=239785566]. However, if I'm correct, "911" doesn't work outside the U.S. and Canada and a few other places, and this user geolocates to the London area. I think the EU standard number is "112," see [[9-1-1]]. --[[User:Abd\|Abd]] ([[User talk:Abd\|talk]]) 19:20, 20 September 2008 (UTC)		You properly asked [[User:Oxyman42]] to seek help.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Oxyman42&diff=prev&oldid=239785566]. However, if I'm correct, "911" doesn't work outside the U.S. and Canada and a few other places, and this user geolocates to the London area. I think the EU standard number is "112," see [[9-1-1]]. --[[User:Abd\|Abd]] ([[User talk:Abd\|talk]]) 19:20, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

			: Actually it's 999. Given that the user appears to be UK based; as am I and there is some identifying information in their user page history I have taken it upon myself to report it, as indicated on [[Wikipedia:Responding to threats of harm]] --[[User:Blowdart\|Blowdart]] \| [[User talk:Blowdart\|''<sup>talk</sup>'']] 19:56, 20 September 2008 (UTC)