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Thank you for helping me with the CSS for my page, where I wanted the personal message colour changed to that lighter tone. I wonder whether it works - do I have it accurate? Bobo . 07:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Mike Dillon said: The CSS at User:Bobo192/monobook.css looks fine for the background-color, but there is no attribute called "text-color"; it is simply "color". You may need to bypass your cache to see the changes.
I knew I had remembered to bypass my cache, that was one of the first things that crossed my mind, but changing the attribute may well have helped it. We'll see. I've just hard-refreshed it through and it should work now. Thank you. Bobo . 14:26, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
I read the conversation at User talk:Misza13. It looks like we may have to live with the protection of {{ WikiProject California}}. If the template needs editing, we just have to add that edit request tag, or bug one of the SoCal admins like Will Beback. I'm pretty close to deciding that I'll run for admin as well, so that'll be one more person who can edit it.
I'm getting closer to what I think the final version of the template should be like. Then I'll talk things over with you to get your views. Then we can make all the changes at once. [Some of the other WikiProjects have templates that are soooo complicated, which I think should be avoided.]
I'm going to try to get a bot run to convert most of the Southern California articles from {{ WikiProject California}} to {{ WikiProject Southern California}}, which will make the template a less vandal-tempting target. That should drop the number of articles with the template by probably a third. Blank Verse 01:11, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
I put a response to my change of colors. Pretty much, I was following the Pantone colors the CA Guard gave out, but I used Adobe Photoshop as my guide. (I personally own California flags and the ones I have are pretty dark in color with the text in black). User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 23:05, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
Increasing performance never (well, almost never) sounds like a bad idea. Is the new code finished, I couldn't find it quickly on the talk page? — Ruud 13:54, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi Mike,
Thanks for your input and my apologies for not managing to respond there more quickly. I left a list of the Firefox add-ons I currently have installed and was about to start disabling them one by one to see if/when the diacritics problem disappeared – if, that is, you reckon it's likely to be an add-on problem...? Regards,
David Kernow
(talk) 15:06, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
...Just to let you know that the culprit was the Redirect Remover add-on; thankfully, its recent update has solved the problem ( this Village Pump (technical) query]). Thanks for pointing me in its direction, David ( talk) 10:42, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Not so much because I think the link is very interesting, but I would like to know why you removed the link to humbolpedia on this page? Thanks!-- al95521 20:29, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Mike, I was doing some research on another matter and stumbled on the following Library of Congress URL:
If I read their page about rights correctly, this map sketch was drawn before 1922 with its rights expired. I clicked on the map and got a decent size picture that I did a screenshot of. I would like to upload the map to Wiki Commons for use in the Sacramento Valley Railroad article (and indicated on its talkpage, that URL as a source.
Do you know what the best licensing I should use? Every time I think I have this figured out, I get tripped up. Another editor deleted one screenshot I did and I want to get this right. Thanks, Ronbo76 16:10, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
I've already suggested a split of "Sound system" from the Norwegian language article on the talk page. Hopefully it'll happen, so feel free to share your opinions on the matter. -- Wiki wøw 21:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Template:Manhattan Streets has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. -- talk to Ytny 02:39, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Enabling HTML in my own Wiki?
Didn't know it was an extension, I had automatically assumed it came with the MediaWiki suite of tools. Thanks for all your help! The infobox works great now. —The preceding
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Sure, Mike . . . not trying to be confusing. I figured that people would respond where they felt most comfortable, and then their thoughts could be collected. Trying to direct Wikipedians is a bit of an oxymoron! You know, like herding cats, etc. Thanks for pointing out a potential source of confusion! btw, you have any thoughts on the questions on the table? Spamreporter1 16:13, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks also for letting me know about WP:COUNCIL which I was unaware of - that seems like a useful place to know about. If you don't mind, I'm afraid I didn't quite follow your train of thought inyour comment about the potential role of WP:COUNCIL in an interesting question like this WikiProject tag issue? If you're interested, could you fill me in on a bit of the background of WP:COUNCIL and what's its role is? If you're too busy - I understand! Thanks again! Spamreporter1 16:35, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for notifying me of that little problem, I'm now fixing it, thanks. .ιΙ Inhuman14 Ιι.( talk | contrib) 15:12, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Sorry to mess up the references, but its hard to work around them and easer for me to add them back when I am done. They greatly add to the discontinuity of the information and I am easily thrown off by the odd text in a sentence. I do not have any more time to work on this page though there is a lot more that could be added, so you can clean it up, since I am genraly new at this and formatting the page is not my strong suit. Hardyplants 03:04, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, Mike, for lending a hand on protecting this article from vandals! NorCalHistory 07:17, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
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Mike, for your efforts within the WP:CAL, throughout Wikipedia and your tutelage of a dumb rock like me, I award The Working Man's Barnstar Ronbo76 05:20, 16 February 2007 (UTC) |
What did you use to make Image:WPNC.svg? - Patricknoddy 15:48, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I am using The GIMP. - Patricknoddy 15:56, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for all of the help that you've done for WP:SOCAL, and Southern California articles in general.
As for my current state of mind and my opinion of the Wikipedia, see my user page, and some of my most recent contributions. Blank Verse 15:58, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
Can you tell me how to modify the current "wgArticlePath.Replace" so that it will link to external sources? ~Step trip 02:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank you so much, I don't know the first infinitesimal thing about JavaScript, however, I'm going to have to make a sub-subpage for all the times that I copied that code ; ). ~ Step trip 02:33, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey Mike, can you help User:KGV out with this request:
"I am currently working on another wikiproject banner in my sandbox here. I am having some trouble:
You can see the word pic' on the top left corner.
- Thanks a bunch, Jh12 18:16, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes thank you KGV 05:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Mike - thank you for rescuing the Lothlorien article from its AfD. Recently, Sherman Hall (University of California, Berkeley) was deleted, and the argument was raised that the other co-op house articles ought to be deleted. I actually kind of agree with that, and have been preparing a revised USCA page which has the relevant house information for all the houses, leaving out some of the unencyclopedic cruft which is present. Finding your Lothlorien page was useful.
Anyway, I was wondering which current or former house articles I should try to exclude from the big mass AfD, once I get the revised article completed. My thoughts are to save Cloyne and Barrington, as the most notable of the houses; most of the rest of them are doomed to be permastubs. Do you see any others which really ought to be left alone, considering that Loth and Sherman were deleted? Αργυριου (talk) 04:45, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
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Do you still need the contents of User:Mike Dillon/Lothlorien Hall? It's been sitting there for several months without being edited. Hosting deleted content indefinitely in userspace violates the "Wikipedia is not a free web host" policy, so if you have no further need of it I can delete it. -- Sam Blanning (talk) 11:10, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
diff. Thank you for your time. S. Miyano 05:02, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
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Mike, you know anything about Bakersfield? It is taking some massive edits from an anon IP. Thanks, Ronbo76 02:25, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for your work in fixing so many users' redlinked categories (language-0, etc.). Surely a tedious and thankless job, but here are one user's thanks. Kyok o 03:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC) |
Indeed, those five usercats you listed on my talk page are all being discussed for deletion right now on UCFD. en-0 is vehemently protested by some people, but there's definitely a general consensus to speedy the others. I think you got the templates spot on, except for Template:User iso15924/category-intro, which still needs to suppress the 0-level's. We definitely don't want to delete any userboxes. Thank you so much. Xiner ( talk, email) 15:26, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Hey thanks. I understood the intent of PatPeter when he deleted nonexisting categories, but he completely messed up the formatting. As for that User:Sadjhds' vandalism, he wrote a page, several times, at Vicipaedia with the content:
Felix longus looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooongus est.
And for the record, I did warn him in Latin (03:25, 21 Martii 2007 (hist) (diss) Disputatio Usoris:75.27.150.231 (Nova pagina: 'Confiteor, risi... at nisi nugas correxeris, te obstruam. Intellegen?--~~~~) (vertex) [reverti])
Thanks for your reversion of vandalism, and your post on his page. Thanks also for doing the (pardon the pun) thankless job of category sorting. Cheers!-- Ioshus (talk) 17:22, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. I temporarily semiprotected the article for a week, which expired on April 9. I suggest to revert and warn users if necessary, and if things pick speed again, request a new protection. -- ReyBrujo 05:08, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
In an answer on my help desk question you said: "Those are done by the rules for .portlet h5 (minus the -moz-border-radius-topright part)." I copied over all the portlet code, but I still don't have the greyish tabs on the menu names. I wonder if we're looking at the same code, because the -moz bit you described is something I haven't come across. What page is the code on you're describing? - Mgm| (talk) 11:54, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thank you for looking into this debate and {{ deleteprotected}}. my problem is not about concensus but about libel - currently a group is being tagged as terrorist while that very designation is being discussed on the talk page. i'm sure it sounds reasonable to remove/slightly change the libeleous designation until a concensus is actually reached. would appreciate you giving it a second look. Jaakobou 06:11, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Oh! I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to say you were wrong or anything. Actually what I was trying to do was post a "me too", and update that things were still broken with Whois. Would it have been clearer if I had matched indent levels? I suppose so. :( It's fixed now. I'm sorry I misspoke. Shenme 04:35, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Your comment at Wikipedia talk:Bots/Approvals group struck me as ... distinctly odd. It's "un-wiki" to point out that hierarchy comes about naturally, and sometimes it's not what you expect?
(In this case: quite a lot of the rows on Wikipedia are due to missing software functions. So many bitter and tiring arguments about administration have been solved by one of our remarkably few developers writing the relevant software. And it's not that the devs are an insular priesthood, we're desperate for new devs - it's that database programming in an underpowered environment where performance must not be affected, in MySQL which is primitive and unhelpful and requires considerable hand-optimisation, in PHP which resembles TRS-80 BASIC, is rather difficult.)
Read The Tyranny Of Structurelessness, one of my favourite essays on emergent hierarchies. Precis: if you pretend there's no hierarchy, one will emerge out of your sight and bite you in the backside. A hierarchy will happen because humans are involved; politics starts with two or more people in a space. When there's 45,000 editors in any given month, it's sometimes amazing anything but politics happens.
Claiming that noticing this is "un-wiki" is not only burying your own head in the sand but insisting others do too. I am quite confident in saying that is a dangerously unhealthy way to work - David Gerard 11:09, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
I have reverted it. Oops sorry. I was chasing something which had made several other pages display as db-author when they had not been speedied. Anthony Appleyard 06:32, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Mike, thanks for removing the Florida user template cat from my user page. I'm embarrassed that I didn't detect that error long ago. Cheers, JGHowes talk - 13:20, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Hey Mike, there has been another vandalism to my page. Can you please revert this? http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User%3AJosh_Rocchio&diff=125074937&oldid=117295232? Thanks.-- Ioshus (talk) 13:56, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Best regards Mads Angelbo Talk / Contribs 14:42, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
Mike, I am a novice Wikipedian and I noticed that you posted on an issue which I have been trying to get info. Although Wikipedia does not have hit counters turned on by default, i have heard that one can easily get this feature to work by editing monobook.php or add it to your CSS stylesheet. This information seems to conflict with the Wiki policy. Also, if it is not at all possible to add the hit counter, could the feature be turned on for a selective time period instead?
The reason that hit counting is important for our set of pages is because many colleagues find it hard to justify investing their time contributing without knowing how many people are accessing the information.
Any feedback would be very appreciated. Best, Airezulian 19:48, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
I appologize for removing he red link. I do not think that there is anything wrong with the Presidential Act that you mentioned, and I'm sorry for removing it. Happyme22 03:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. Why did you change the redirects for User talk:Mike Dillon/Scripts/easydom.js et al to point to my user talk page? Was it just because User talk:Mike Dillon/Easy DOM didn't exist yet? Mike Dillon 01:04, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Nice navbox ;)
I decided to be the one who would "be bold" and added it to a bunch of beer style pages, although I don't think I got them all. Anyway, there's some renewed discussion about the template, esp. on the subject of possibly reworking the layout, for instance as you had initially suggested by including groupings and listing the styles within those groupings.
Also, this is a very minor point, but I'm not sure if the capitalization of the template title is right, and if it's not, I'm not sure whether simply moving the page would wreak havoc with all sorts of pages that include the template.
Oh, and while I'm writing on this subject -- in case you haven't seen it, I also created a somewhat similar navbox that shows the beers of the world by country/region.
Cheers! -- Daniel11 09:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Salut. Qu'est-ce qu'on peut faire?
Your username links from Bendomo's talk page.
He offered a couple of comments about the grunt work I'm currently doing in the series of articles which expand on the Japanese nengō or Japanese era name. Fortuitously, your timely edits having to do with Chōroku led me from his talk page to this one.
Maybe you can help clarify my options in terms of what I might do next. For the past week or so, I've been massaging the articles which are linked to Japanese era name; and you can see Bendomo's comments for yourself by checking out my talk page. His comments have placed me in a happy position because he both under-estimates and over-estimates my sophistication and intentions. On the merely pedestrian level, I was simply massaging the text on each page to make the links work; and these trivial edits in an obscure area captured his curiosity and attention.
On one hand: I was simply trying to make certain that each individual nengō in the 15th-19st century conformed with the list in Japanese era names. And I wanted to do what I could to ensure that whenever anyone entered a plausible nengō without diacriticals, the internal Wikipedia search engine would produce a useable link to an appropriate page. This clearly is a 21st century concern ..., but my plans hope to mature in a direction moving towards the 16th century and further back in time.
On the other hand: I was trying to "fiddle" in advance with what I rather understood as being mere "pigeon holes" in preparation to uploading data from an 1834 French translation of a 1652 Japanese summary of significant events in the reigns of Japanese emperors.
From my perspective, Bendomo's questions about my use of tennō in the nengō-related articles is at once encouraging and on-point. His apparent analysis and perspective underestimates what may be the too-subtle thinking which I would have wanted to underly my long-term planning ... and, regrettably, I know of no other place to explain what I think I'm doing. Perhaps I was simply being too clever by half, but please give me the benefit of the doubt for a moment.
And so, this becomes my first attempt to ask questions in a Wikipedia talk page. I worry (of course) that my prose is too formal for Wikipedia, but there you have it .... Please cut me some slack.
You may not know much about Japanese history or language, but you can appreciate the special problems which arise from a 19th-century French translation of what was probably a Chinese text about a Japanese subject.
From my perspective, Bendomo's observations about "piping" to correct spelling errors in the transciption from Japanese to English is also off-the-mark, but only because he over-values the level of my Wikipedia-related sophistication.
So, I begin to respond to Bendomo by leaving this query for you: What is piping?
More to the point, I don't really care. I just want the links from Japanese era names to each of the "articles" in that longish list to be workable. And I want them to inter-link with each other. I offer no judgement about preferred or less-preferred transpositions or diacritical elaborations. I just want to conform with that presumed Wikipedia standard (which, of course, assumes that each English rendition of each Japanese era name has been standardized) ....
How can I simply go along to get along?
Having said all this: The easy-going flexibility of my stance changes when it comes to discussing my projected uploading of data from an authoritative 19th-century French text (which is itself a translation of Japanese and Chinese versions of an 1652 Japanese text). If you like, you can read for yourself the digitized text of Nipon o daï itsu ran which is today accessible online. At a minimum, even a quick glance at this text will suggest that my enquiries are not really simple or easy.
My question for you is open-ended: What do I need to know?
My plan is to use what I learn from you as a foundation for answering the more difficult of the questions Bendomo poses. He suggests that adding -tennō and the Japanese kanjii for an Emperor's name is not a good thing in nengō articles. I think I understand his argument, of course; but I want to dispute it in the context that the Titsingh/ Klaproth translation requires ... and in the process, I will learn how better to approach the process of multi-lingual metastasis.
In my view, the mere word "metastasis" converts my time in writing this (and your time in reading this) into something plausibly worthwhile.
In order to better understand what I'm asking, and to better understand why I'm wanting to do over the next six months or so, please consider what I've already done:
en:Isaac Titsingh es:Isaac Titsingh de:Isaac Titisngh fr:Isaac Titsingh nl:Isaac Titsingh pt:Isaac Titsingh
af:desjima en:dejima es:dejima de:dejima fr:dejima nl:dejima pt:dejima
In this context, I've just begun reading an unlikely Internet book:
My current plan is to continue the grunt work of posting some of what I learn from the Annales des empereurs du Japon -- probably in nengō-related and in Tennō-related Wiki-stubs in English and French. I anticipate that this project is likely to take take many more months than I can guess.
At the same time, I'm well along in a slow process of selecting and posting relevant material from Timon Screech's, Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. This book is primarily an edited reprinting of another rare book:
A readable copy of this rare book is not yet freely available online; but I see that the copy held by the library of Stanford University was digitized May 22, 2006. In a month or so, I'll probably set aside Screech's book on Titsingh book aside; but I'll probably pick this thread up again when the digitized version of the 1820 original becomes accessible.
I haven't yet decided what to make of the edits I contributed to
I do know that I'm pleased with the Tenmei notes I added to the life of
Now the question becomes: What next?
Je vous remerci?
[FYI: My username, Ooperhoofd, is a mis-spelling of the Dutch term for the chief of the Dutch East India Company trading post at Dejima island in Nagasaki bay between the years 1641 through 1860 ... which only suggests a part of the reasons I'm interested in Japan.]
Ooperhoofd 07:57, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for helping fix Dr. pda's prose size script!
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For your diligent and skillfull help on the bytes quantities templates and associated script - Shmget 02:26, 26 May 2007 (UTC) |
Hi. Could I ask that you clarify what you mean here. Thanks. Adambro 18:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
FYI, all of the code in your username.js can be reduced down to "wgUserName". Also there are:
var skin var stylepath var wgArticlePath var wgScriptPath var wgServer var wgCanonicalNamespace var wgCanonicalSpecialPageName var wgNamespaceNumber var wgPageName var wgTitle var wgAction var wgRestrictionEdit var wgRestrictionMove var wgArticleId var wgIsArticle var wgUserName * var wgUserGroups var wgUserLanguage var wgContentLanguage var wgBreakFrames var wgCurRevisionId
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wgUserName
for the purpose of getting the user who is viewing the page as opposed to the user whose page you're viewing.
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I really don't understand the code...How do I get it to add the purge and the last without replicating the tabs in the toolbox area? - N 15:26, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
Mike, thank you so much for your help, that's great! My computer won't let me download the font, I have tried at the library and it also shows up just as hollow squares there. Could you take a look at the characters in the lower, rounded scroll at the bottom of Image:EthiopiaScoutbadge.jpg and see if you could make them out? Thank you so much! Chris 18:39, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
your argument does take into account that his "common known" name is in use. besides being his 'actual name', it really doesn't make sense to have a dis-ambiguated name for the article. particuarly since each article is piped through to the willie brown name anyway.
thanks for the suggestion, but i've already done that where you are welcomed to add your comments -- emerson7 | Talk 16:23, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
After reviewing the history pages of the user with the screen name Kevin1243, the -repetative process of seeing text changed with small misspellings, then tags added, and finally a nomination of AfD tag added to topics by the user, and the users apparent lack of understanding of the subjects...SNEEKY VANDALISM is what it added up to. Seeking outside observation of user VANDALISM and the need for ZERO TOLERANCE, wondering if you could assist in evaluating vandalism done by User_talk:Kevin1243? The contributions to Wikipedia may be jeapordized if alleged vandalizing of topics isn't stopped. The method used is a serial process. The user is repeating this process on many different articles, including some of mine. StationNT5Bmedia 01:10, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I saw your post at the Village Pump / Technical page. Thanks. I initiated that discussion there. I was a little confused by your reply. Did you figure out a way to do what I was asking? ( ... that is, automatically have the items numbered in a Table/Chart ... much like they can be numbered in a List with the # symbol)? Please reply. Thanks a lot. ( JosephASpadaro 15:33, 10 May 2007 (UTC))
(Undent) Hello. I have put in a proposal at the appropriate place (bug tracker) to add your autonumber tables code to Wikipedia. They would like me to send them the code. Their exact words were: that I need to send them the code in an attachment as a plain text file. So, would you be so kind as to send that code to me, so that I can send it to them? Thanks. I am not sure how that works, so will you need my email address to do this? Please let me know. Many thanks for your help. ( JosephASpadaro 21:10, 20 July 2007 (UTC))
I'm continuing the discussion here, if that's OK with you.
"I guess I was assuming that most biography articles are sorted right, with or without default sort" - I can't speak for defaultsort, but I know that listas (a parameter used at WPBiography) is not as widespread as it could be (though obviously DEFAULTSORT is the really important thing to have). Have a look at Category:Biography articles without listas parameter to see what I mean. I'd like to have an equivalent for DEFAULTSORT. The other problem with assuming that lack of DEFAULTSORT means sorting by article title is OK, is what I wrote at Wikipedia:Categorization#Setting a default sort key: "Explicitly stating a default sort key is preferable to having no default sort key, as this leaves a record of the decision that the title is the sort key. Leaving it blank means that later editors cannot tell which articles have been checked for default sort and which have not." As for whether biographical articles are sorted OK, it is difficult to check because there is no super-category for all biographical articles. There is one for living people at Category:Living people, but all the other people categories are subdivided so you can't scan through them checking to see which are sorted OK. The closest thing to super-categories for biographical articles are the subcategories of Category:Biography articles by quality, but those are all categorising the talk pages, hence it only shows the usage (or not) of listas, not DEFAULTSORT. I and someone else have been trying to lay the groundwork for standardising between DEFAULTSORT and listas. See User talk:Carcharoth/Polbot3 trial run. That's enough for now. If you have any advice, it would be much appreciated. Carcharoth 16:48, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
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Since you're involved with Wikiproject:User CSS, would you enjoy looking at Talk:List of countries by immigrant population and trying to sort out the problem described there? Matt 07:52, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for the category= instead of subst. Can you explain to me when adding this parameter suppresses category information? Miss Mondegreen | Talk 15:10, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the link. (: Bl a st [ improve me 23.06.07 2036 (UTC)