User talk:JBW

This account was previously known as JamesBWatson, but was renamed to JBW on 19 September 2019. James B. Watson is not my real name.

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IP block

Thanks for blocking that IP just now. Would you mind also blocking 82.71.12.76 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RDNS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) as well and revdelling their edits? They are clearly either same person as the previous IP or working with them. Thanks, SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 22:14, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@SpicyMilkBoy: Before seeing your message here, I had already come to the same conclusion, and blocked the other IP address too. However, Wikipedia:Revision deletion is pretty strict about what edits can be subject to revdel, and I don't see anything in any of the criteria that this case fits, so unless you can point out a reason I have missed we will just have to settle for ordinary reversion of editing. JBW (talk) 22:20, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, some of their edits were calling a (presumably) living person a "cuckold" - I thought that might qualify. If not, all is well. Thanks for the block. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 22:24, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Messages from Coolmichael12

Hello JBW, thank you for your tip in May 2020. I hope you have a good future. (CoolMichael12) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coolmichael12 (talk • contribs) 19:40, 14 May 2020 (UTC) Hello again JBW, I need help on inserting a userbox. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coolmichael12 (talk • contribs) 20:48, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Coolmichael12 I'm probably not the best person to ask about that, as I have much less experience of user boxes than many editors, and what experience I have was many years ago, so that I've probably forgotten most of what I knew. However, if you tell me exactly what it is that you want to do, I'll help if I can. However, I will be going offline soon, so any message you post here may have to wait quite a while before it gets answered. Another thing that may be worth trying is posting a message on your talk page, and put {{helpme}} above it. That will add your talk page to a list of pages with requests for help, and if you are lucky someone who can help you will see it and answer you. JBW (talk) 21:04, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your feedback JBW! I need help to add a userbox to my sandbox page, what would I need to type in order to insert the sandbox. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coolmichael12 (talk • contribs) 22:05, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Coolmichael12: I'm not sure what you mean by "insert the sandbox". Do you mean insert a user box into the sandbox, or do you mean insert the sandbox into your user page? However, either way, what you want to do is to get a copy of one page to show up in another page. That is called "transclusion", and the way you do it is to put the name of the page you want a copy of inside {{ }} brackets in the page where you want it to show. For example, if you want the user box that says "This user is a native speaker of the English language" to show up, that user box is at Template:User en, so you would type {{User en}}. If you want a copy of the page User:Coolmichael12/CoolMichael12 to show up in your user page User:Coolmichael12, then you need to type {{User:Coolmichael12/CoolMichael12}} in your user page. (If a page that you want to transclude is a template, you don't have to include "Template", so you can write just {{User en}} instead of {{Template:User en}}, but for other pages you need the whole of the page name, for example you need to include ''User:'' for a user page.)

I hope that tells you what you want to know.

One other point. Whenever you post a message on a talk page or any kind of discussion page (but not in an article) you should finish your message with four tildes, in other words ~~~~. That will automatically be converted to a signature, which, as well as showing who wrote the message, will also contain links to your user page and talk page, which can be helpful to other editors if they want to contact you. JBW (talk) 22:37, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, Thanks!!!Coolmichael12 (talk) 23:14, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]