User talk:John Reaves

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Please don't add delete templates to non-existent user pages since this creates the page and makes that term show up in searches. Angela talk 21:34, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

You can't delete users. These people hadn't edited here anyway. Special:Listusers shows everyone who ever edited any wikia. See Special:Activeusers for people who have edited the Harry Potter wiki. Angela talk 22:41, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh, I thought it was for this Wiki only. Sorry about that.  John Reaves 22:47, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Signature
What? It's not long at all (it's actually shorter than yours, because I don't include the date in mine) and "Send an Owl" is basically saying send me a message (which is why it links to my talk page).

Oh ok. Thats why I made it a "template". All I type now is

Thank you for the help!--AngelicDemon92 17:25, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

CharInsert added
See w:Forum:Redirect_button. --Splarka (talk) 02:42, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism
Thank you for letting me know that, I was unaware, good to know :) I was wondering if I could do something like that.I felt weird editing your user page, so I just deleted the vandalism, which unfortuantely was the only thing there. I felt better nothing, than what was there. I don't understand why people act that way, but that's a different discussion. :) Thanks again, for letting me know, I kind of looked at the diff page for each of them and hand corrected or copy/pasted how it was. Checking out the admin idea, and I agree we do need one.

Bonnie Wright
I don't see what I did there.

Adminship

 * Hey, congradulations about your promotion!! And nice job on all the work! —Animagi/Prongs 02:42, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * BTW, could you fix the link to the community portal from Harry Potter Wiki:Community Portal to  Harry Potter Wiki:Community portal on  MediaWiki:Portal-url, because it currently redirects.. —Animagi/Prongs 01:24, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Sig
Yes I'll do it, but would you be able to tell me how to do so please? - N ighthawk L eader    07:52, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I think I've already done it. But if the coding is getting annoying on the pages I can always just type in a link to my userpage though. -Nighthawk Leader
 * I did have SUBST: in the signature box from when I set up a signature on another Wikia, but I've changed it now so that it doesn't include the SUBST and there is still no difference. But I'm fine with just typing in my username. -Nighthawk Leader
 * Oh wait sorry. I've been signing my name with the four tiles and I think that's why the coding is shown. Sorry for the inconvenience.
 * How do you clear the cache? (sorry not too experienced with this coding)
 * Oh that cache sorry :). I'll try that now. Thanks for all your help - N ighthawk L eader    08:25, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Well it doesn't seem like it worked. Oh well thanks anyway. I've put the userboxes that I had on my userpage into templates and copyed an age userbox across from another Wikia as well. I might try and fix the signature again tomorrow. Thanks again,

RE: Show/hide
I know how, but I will have to search around a bit for the formating... —Animagi/Prongs 03:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * There is the NavFrame from Wikipedia, the one placed on templates, but that is not a good idea... Do you remember the [dismiss] thingy during the fundraiser on wikipedia? I am trying to find the sourcing for it and the MediaWiki page should be MediaWiki:Sitenotice close... but there is no source coding... —Animagi/Prongs 04:10, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, I have found what we need. Read over Forum:Show-Hide button and Forum:ShowHide content on Wikia, and then install the Template:Hidden here. Then, install source coding for MediaWiki:Monobook.css from here, and the coding for MediaWiki:Monobook.js from the same page but at the javascript section. —Animagi/Prongs 04:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * BTW, could you update the MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning to a new formating, perhaps the one below:?

—Animagi/Prongs 04:44, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, now create the MediaWiki:Sitenotice close page with the text dismiss. Maybe after creating it, the dismiss function will appear... but I don't know, will look up later.. —Animagi/Prongs 05:10, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks...
...for the welcome, even if it was a form letter. :)

Spoiler now is now unlinked from public space, and can be deleted.--Todd Lyons 00:43, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Film Pictures
Hello. I noticed that you had been doing some editing recently, so thought you might be a good person to ask: what is the position here on including screenshots from the films in the articles?

p.S. There are still copyedit errors in the Harry Potter wiki:copyrights page, which I was reading. 08:50, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for keeping this wiki alive and updated while all of us admins were gone. I'll be happy to help out again once I get myself re-oriented. The  Chosen  One  (Choose me!) 09:47, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Sure, I'll check if the e-mail addy is correct. I don't recall receiving anything while I was away. Anyway, the reason behind the absence was that the wiki experienced a shortage of editors around early 2006. At that point, most of the regulars dismissed the wiki as hopeless. I tried to manage it on my own, but soon after, we had to move house, and I forgot all about the project. Now, we've pretty much settled down, so I have time again to work on the wiki. The  Chosen  One  <font color="#3D9140">(Choose me!) 13:04, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Identity
yes, that's the same Sandpiper, although I discovered just the other day that there is now a sandpiper2007 or something like that on wikipedia. The editing pattern is probably the same too, my favourite articles. I wasn't sure quite what tone to take in the articles, but I took the spoiler tag placed at the top of each page seriously, and went at it.

I noticed that the Severus Snape article is listed on the community portal page as a stub. I couldn't see how to change that or I would have.

I havn't noticed reams of ref tags all over the place either. while I am not necessarily a great fan of these, sometimes they can be helpful. Do you have a preferred method for inline referencing? Sandpiper 18:10, 21 February 2007 (UTC) I took out the repeated word from the HPW copyrights page. The rest seems to make sense, but, of course, I have no idea what it is meant to say. Sandpiper 18:22, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

message
I'm afraid I hadn't really noticed how the old one looked, so hard to compare them. I did notice a very odd thing though. The message bar appeared at the top of a new page, I scrolled down the page, then scrolled back up. This time I didn't see the bar, just a little bit of text. I opened your user window, then clicked back on the window with the mmessage bar and it had reappeared. Scrolled down and up, and it went back to text. Odd. Never seen that happen on wikipedia.

Now, the bit I think I need to word carefully. I'm not sitting that close to the screen, so I didn't see the detail in the image at first. The owl is quite small, and on a patch of background. What i noticed initially was the shape of the background, which looked at first glance like a fancy shirt draped over a chair, with a patch of decoration in the centre. A formal dress shirt, if you see what I mean. I had to get in closer to see the owl. I picked up a copy of the owl pic to look at, but I stupidly saved what i was editing...so the message bar disappeared and I can't look at it now.

However, my very first reaction to the bar was, 'hey, someone's trying to make it look better'. So I hope this is not discouraging. Sandpiper 20:02, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I had some more owls, so looked at the image again. i was thinking that it would be better if the background of the image was transparent, so that the box colour showed through and surrounded the owl drawing. At the moment there is a rather odd squared off white section. Such things are posible in word, etc, but I don't know if they are here. Sandpiper 11:13, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * My recollection of doing this is that the background colour in the original image file has to be specified as 'transparent', but it is a while since I tried doing that and I don't recall precisely. It still might depend on the wiki software. Sandpiper 22:38, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

User list page
have you looked at the user list page? It seems to start with a collection of obscenities and peoples addresses, where some bright spark has had the idea of creating names which will appear first iin the list. Should they be removed? Sandpiper 00:04, 28 February 2007 (UTC)