User talk:Adam660@legacy41957735

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Glitch Pages
Hi Adam, I left a response, regarding the glitch pages we were discussing here, which it'd be great if you could respond to. Regards, --Melchizedek 07:51, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Archiving Talk Pages
Thanks for the advice, and yes I would like some help knowing how to do it (That's archiving my talk page.) Is it simply making a new page, or is their some trick Link to it? Thanks for your help. --Melchizedek 21:17, 1 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey. I'm not Adam, but i still believe i know how to answer your question. First let me do this.....(Thanks, Ando)
 * SEABLUE254'S HOW TO MAKE ARCHIVES FOR TALK PAGES ON THE DANG WIKI 101 !!
 * 1. Make a link to "User talk:Yourname/Archive description" where yourname=your username and description=a descriptionj of the archive (ex:1, Q1)
 * 2. Copy your current talk page or part of your talk page to it.
 * 3. Go to your current talk page and delete whatever you copied.
 * 4. Leave a link at the top of your current talk page to get to it.
 * 5. That should do it!
 * And, you have an archive! --Seablue254 22:22, 1 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for that Seablue254, you're a good friend! So it's just like creating a new page...I want to keep my user talk tidy, but as Adamcox82 has said, it does seem a bit rude deleting it. So thanks again. Regards, --Melchizedek 07:01, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah....i have a question on archiving talk pages. I see on your archived talk pages, at the top it has a link to your page. I open up the edit tab, and i see this div tag with the HTML attributes you told me about before. Question=How does it say that, but there is no text in the whole div tag that says "Talk page:Adamcox82". P.S. Please don't get mad at me! --Seablue254 19:33, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Erm, the  bit only does the formatting (size, position, colour etc). The link is in the normal text below: current talk page --Adamcox82 20:02, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Err, i wasn't talking about the box below it with all the text. I was talking about at the very, very top where in small letters, it says  User :::Talk:Adamcox82 . I was talking about the div tag, because when i get rid of it on your talk page, teensy-tiny piece of text at the top of the page is gone. If you still cannot see what im telling you, i can supply a picture. --Seablue254 20:22, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, now I see what you're talking about. It's nothing to do with the page contents (see Jason's archive for evidence of this). It goes away because you're editing the page, and it doesn't appear in preview. And it shows up automatically on any user talk subpage. Looks like the mediawiki software recognises that, despite the normal rule stating that "User:Adamcox82/Archive 3" would be the main page, this is incorrect, and references instead the correct subject og the talkpage instead in this format. Clever, huh? --Adamcox82 20:40, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, that is pretty clever! I thought that was you because your pretty good at computers! But, however, i am still wondering what the id= stuff does to anything. Please don't be mad!!!! --Seablue254 20:43, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * It doesn't have any explicit or visible function, it's really there for convenience. DIV is basically used to break pages into segments of different styles. You can imaginge that having dozens or hundreds of    all over the place would make things pretty hard to read. So they can be given a unique ID to help identify them (see this for more info.)


 * The reason why it's there in my talk archive is because I took the code from the template used on Angela Beesley's page. This template seems to have been originally copied from here, where it was clearly originally created using a modified version of the stub template. Interesting, but irrelevant! In short, the "div id" has little purpose here at ZW because it's very rare that multiple divs will be used on one page, given that everything normally uses either templates or wiki syntax. --Adamcox82 21:05, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * So if i open up a find box and typedin id="p" it wouldfind it? --Seablue254 21:28, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Yup. Hit Ctrl+U and you can see an example of how they're used ;) --Adamcox82 21:42, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * No offence, Adam, but that was the answer I was looking for! All i wanted to know is what it's good for, and that's an answer! Give that man 10 points! --Seablue254 23:12, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Now i have a question about class on your archives. Not that i'm wondering what it does, i now know that ;), but why is it called "boilerplate metadata"? --Seablue254 12:17, 3 May 2008 (UTC)


 * This will explain in much more detail than I could hope to ;) --Adamcox82 12:21, 3 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Ah. So the boilerplate means that it is finishing the talk page. And metadata means.......that it keeps going? --Seablue254 12:29, 3 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Metadata --Adamcox82 12:33, 3 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Slaps hand to face Duh. --Seablue254 12:35, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Vandalism
I just caught Roofroof vandalizing the page Valoo. I think a block is in order. Care to do the honors?--Matt 01:03, 5 May 2008 (UTC)


 * (I'm, uh, not Adam... but I can still say stuff, yeah?) I was tempted to hit the Block button myself, but I think I'll give him one more chance. After all, he vandalized only a single page. Maybe the fact that we have people here that revert vandalism really before anyone can see it will cause him to second-guess doing it. But one more strike and he's out, at least by my book. --Ando (T) 03:16, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Merged Article Talk Pages
There are few redirects with talk pages that only have the noclog template. These are remnants of the merging process. I don't think that these talk pages are nessisary after the articles are merged. Do you think we should delete the ones for the redirect pages?--Matt 19:08, 6 May 2008 (UTC)


 * The left-over talk pages certainly could be deleted, but there's no real need. Nothing usually links to them, they don't take up a great deal of space, and deleting them seems like unnecessary extra work. If you're really worried about them, I guess you could redirect them to the new talk page? --Adamcox82 19:27, 6 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I guess we could remove the templates and leave the pages.--Matt 19:41, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Ack sorry
Ya I keep forgetting your right I'll try to sign em from now on.


 * Yeah, 'cept you just did it again!  ;) --Adamcox82 17:20, 8 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hey! Just wanted you to know, we got UB2R-B0T on #zeldawiki! Come see him, just enter the chatroom! Also, if you don't know what he is, it might be a good idea to enter, too. --Seablue254 00:01, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Reverting many many edits
So is there this magical "revert a whole bunch of edits at once" button that I'm missing or are you just editing an older revision and adding the "Reverted edits by [blank]" text yourself? Still can't believe he comes in here and starts screwing with the Sheik article one minute after I leave. Everyone waits for me to leave to start having fun. Jerks. --Ando 19:28, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

(I'm not Adam, but close enough ;)) Ok, the revert text magically comes there when: This means that you "reverted" the edit to an earlier point in time. As for a button, considering I'm not a sysop, I can't help you there. And, yup. There are sysop hating jerks out there, i'm afraid. --Seablue254 19:36, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) You open up an old edit
 * 2) You click "Edit page"
 * 3) And you hit save


 * Well, it's sorta "magic-ish"... First, just view the most recent change, or a bunch of changes from the history/advanced recent changes which ends with the Current Revision. Then, if you use the "rollback" button it'll undo every change by that user and revert back to the last version before they edited it, automatically patrolling all the intervening edits at the same time. So potentially some vandal could make 467 edits to one article over a period of several hours, which you can then instantly revert with one click ;) --Adamcox82 19:46, 14 May 2008 (UTC)


 * HAHAHA. Oh man. That's awesome. I just used the rollback button to see what it did, but I only did it with one edit. Your explanation explains when it would actually be useful. So cool, man. Thanks. --Ando 19:49, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of an Image
Would either you or another sysop please delete this image. That image is just not appropriate to be on this site. The user that uploaded it vandalized several articles on the same day. He was also blocked indefinitely on that day too.--Matt 23:40, 14 May 2008 (UTC)


 * You've already added the delete tag. That's perfectly sufficient. At some point one of us will clear all the content to be deleted from that category; I don't see it as an urgent delete request. --Adamcox82 17:09, 15 May 2008 (UTC)