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)