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Welcome!

Hello, Chameleon3322, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I will be happy to consider the adoption, but first, if you don't mind, let me know a little more about the type of help in which you are interested. I want to be sure that I am a good "fit" for your needs. Regardless, you are always welcome to ask me questions. :-) --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 02:35, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Formatting Explanation

Hi again.

I will be happy to adopt you, assuming you are not upset with me for tweaking your user page. :-)

I know it's generally considered very bad form for one editor to tweak another editor's user page without being asked, but I kind of took your adoption request as an implied request. Please feel free to revert the changes if you like.

Here are some tips that you might find helpful in editing Wikitext:

When creating wikitables, you do not specifically use the word table in it (table is implied when you use {|, so you shouldn't include it):

{|table style="foo"
{|style="foo"

Don't forget to close your tables after you start them. That was the most frequent problem I saw.

|}

Dang. I just got called away from the computer. I'll be back in a while and finish explaining what I changed and why. Take care. --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 23:23, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. And continuing on...

Wikipedia makes being forgetful about closing tags a pretty forgivable sin, because it closes up the ones you miss. Unfortunately, that can cause seemingly random mess-ups in formatting if/when other text is inserted. Aside from closing several tables, you also missed a couple of other tags (</h2> and </div>). It's so easy to do, and I've done it myself on several occasions.

It looked like you were trying to set the quote from Emerson (a quote a really like!) in the comic sans font (font-comic sans: sans-serif), so I changed it so it worked (font-family: 'Comic Sans MS' sans-serif;).

I also changed the font size from pixels (font-size: 23px;) to points (font-size: 14pt;) and adjusted the line spacing to work with the new font size (line-height: 16pt;). Why points instead of pixels? Well, pixels do not scale well on different output devices. For example, 23px always takes up 23px of space, whether it's displayed on a 72dpi monitor (making it 23/72 or roughly 1/3 of an inch tall), a 300dpi printer (making it 23/300 or roughly a very small 1/13 of an inch), or a 1200dpi imagesetter (23/1200 is a microscopic 1/50 of an inch!). Points, on the other hand, are defined a little differently. Without getting into all the details, there are 72 points to an inch, regardless of the resolution of the output device. Therefore, 14pt text generally looks the same size no matter what the resolution. There are actually two other ways of specifying sizes that are even more universally usable and scalable. They are "ems" (think of it as the amount of space the lowercase letter "m" occupies, with 1em being "normal", 2em being twice normal size, and 0.5em being half sized) and percentages (100% is "normal", 200% is twice as large, 50% is half, and so on). These are preferred in many cases, because they work the best in a variety of situations, especially for people with visual difficulties. I've done a lot of graphic design and Web design work throughout the years. I generally stick with points (pt), mostly because it's the one with which I am most familiar, and it seems to work pretty well with most in a wide variety of situations (including for a blind friend).

I also cleaned up the "Stop Violence in El Salvador" userbox. It was apparently substituted into your page, but one (or more) of the braces ("{" or "}") must have been deleted or an extra one added. In any case, it was rather hopelessly messed up, so I just removed the unnecessary parts, and left you a working userbox. I choose not to subst: my userboxes. I know it puts a minor amount of extra work on the Wikipedia servers, but I feel my sanity of trying to maintain my page in a usable fashion is a bigger concern. :-)

Well, there you have it. Those are the various changes I made to your user page. I hope you are not offended. I hope you actually learned something from my (unfortunately) rather technical explanations. I also wrote that stuff not knowing how knowledgeable you are about any of the topics I discussed (so I might have been either too advanced or too basic, sorry). I made the assumption that you are definitely beyond the novice level, and tried to aim for a middle of the road explanation. If anything I said was unclear, please ask. If you are very experienced in XHTML and CSS, and you feel I stated anything incorrectly, I might have. I might also have been trying to keep the conversation simple and would normally do things a bit differently. Mostly, I was trying to keep true to what I thought the intent of your original design was, and not make any terribly drastic changes. I wanted you to have a page that worked and reflected well on you and also reflected your style (not mine).

Okay. I'm going to shut up now. I've "lectured" way too much. Sorry about that.

I have been very interested in Latin America for a long time. I had a good friend who was a foreign exchange student from the Honduras. We briefly hosted an exchange student from Brazil. I have friends originally from Columbia and also from Chile. In one of my classes, I used to talk to a fellow from Ecuador. I can't recall ever talking to anyone from El Salvador, and I admit to knowing very little about the country. Hopefully, our interaction can be educational for me, too!

I hope that what I wrote was somewhat valuable, and most of all that I did not offend you. Take care! --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 07:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I responded on my talk page to your question. I'm glad you were not upset by my edits. I hope you found my explanations useful. Anytime you have a question, feel free to ask -- even after "graduating" from adoption. :-) --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 03:23, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your infobox

Hey! I'm Ace Fighter, yeah thanks for the infobox for the characters section of The Sinbad Show. I'm not sure it was needed, but thanks! Ace Fighter 02:08, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Heyy! it's cool, but what if you changed the format? The format that the Beavis and Butthead article uses a good infobox, but requires pictures. But thanks anyway! The article needs some work done to it, I'm trying to expand it. Ace Fighter 00:15, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Heyy! good job on the description of the Settings. I made it, it wasn't that great. But you fixed it up really well. Good job!

Citation templates

Hi. I left a longer response on my talk page. In a nutshell, take a look at WP:CITET for common citation templates. Cheers! --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 01:40, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

As usual, I left you a long message on my talk page. I reverted the current vandalism for you, and I will also be notifying the user of his/her inappropriate behaviour. Good luck. Let me know if you need any help. --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 03:05, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, the user is at warning level 3 now and was blocked last month. I left him/her a personal appeal to hopefully "see the light" and become a constructive and helpful editor instead of a vandal. Hopefully that will happen. If not, add the {{test4}} tag and then report him. It probably won't help that much, but eventually he/she will get bored or will end up with a nice long block. Cheers! --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 03:19, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. The vandal decided to retaliate against my talk page and also vandalized another article (which I see you very competently reverted, congratulations! :-) The only other thing you should have done would to have added the {{test4}} template to the anon's talk page and then report the incident. I have done both of those. Feel free to add your own comments to the incident notes. Best thing to do now is pretty much ignore the person now and keep updating the noticeboard if more actions occur. If it's happening pretty close to real-time, then WP:AIAV is the place to report it, and reference the current incident at incident notes]. Have a great day! --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 00:13, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sinbad Show

Hey, Chameleon, good work on the Sinbad Show. How about you add an image to it? If you know how, but don't ask me I don't know how. Ace Fighter 18:52, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, go to Wikipedia:Wikiproject Television and it gives instructions were images are placed. Ace Fighter 21:50, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, a picture of the cast is best suited for somewhere in the Characters section, but the logo, if not that a picture of the opening credits were the name of the show is. Later. Oh yeah, and your style of posting you name is cool. Ace Fighter 23:58, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there!

I just dropped by your talk page to let you know that I'm still alive and well. I also wanted to thank you for the greeting on my talk page. I hope things are going well for you here. I'm sorry to have abandoned you (as an adopter) like that. Please know that you can keep in touch by e-mail if anything comes up. Take care! --Willscrlt (Talk) 11:31, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Motto of the day

Hello, I notice you're using one of the {{motd}} templates, run by Wikipedia:Motto of the day. You may have noticed that some of the mottos recently have been followed by a date from 2006, or on occasion simply "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". The reason for this is that Motto of the day is in some very serious need of help. Participation in the project, which has never been especially high, has dropped considerably over this past summer, to the point we have had several days where no motto was scheduled to appear at all. Over the past several weeks, I've been the only editor scheduling mottos at all, but there aren't enough comments on some of these mottos to justify their use. If we do not get some help - and soon - your daily mottos will stop. In order for us to continue updating these templates for you, we need your help.

When you get a chance between your normal editing, could you stop by our nominations page and leave a few comments on some of the mottos there, especially those that do not have any comments yet? This works very simply; you read a motto, decide whether or not you like it, and post your opinion just below the motto. That's it - no experience required, just an idea of what you personally like and what you feel reflects Wikipedia and its community. If you do have past experience with the project, then please close some of the older nominations once they've got a decent consensus going. There are directions on the nominations page on how to do this.

If you have any questions, please let me know, or post on the project's talk page. I'm looking forward to reading your comments on the suggested mottos, and any additional suggestions you'd like to make. Until then, happy editing! Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 01:48, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Adoptee! What's new?

Hi Chameleon. How have you been? It has been a long time since you requested adoption from me (2 years in fact). Sadly, I see you have only made one edit since 2007, and then only once in 2008. I hope you haven't given up on Wikipedia. I took a lengthy wikibreak myself after becoming overly active in Wikipedia and somewhat burning out. If that happened to you, I encourage you to make an edit every so often and ease back into it again. We could use more of your help with articles and there are a lot of friendly people here. If you have any questions or comments, please leave me a message on my talk page. I am going to remove you from my list of current adoptees, but I am always happy to help or mentor you anytime you need it. Take care, and I hope to see you around again, soon. :-) —Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 23:57, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, impostor!

— Chameleon 05:00, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

April - National Contribution Month

Good day Chameleon3322,

During the month of April, Wikimedia Canada is preparing the National Contribution Month, and we are looking for experienced contributors to organize a contribution day (or half-day) in their region.

Contribution days are activities where Wikipedia's contributors, students, or anybody interested in contributing to Wikipedia meets together to collectively improve a predetermined theme. This meetings generally take place in library where references are easy of access, but can be organized in any communal room. Beside improving articles, a goal of this participatory workshops is to initiate neophyte in the cooperative contribution of Wikipedia.

If you are interested in organizing or participating in a contribution day in your region, communicate witht he national team on the project's talk page. The exact agenda of each local event is left to the discretion of the organizer. Help is available for the organization from contributors who already organized these type of days, so don't be worried. If you have any questions or want more information, don't hesitate to contact us.

Amqui (talk) 00:38, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Motto of the Day Help Request April 2014

Today's motto...

→ In the dime stores and bus stations,
People talk of situations,
Read books, repeat quotations,
Draw conclusions on the wall.

Nominate one today!

Motto of the Day (WP:MOTD) is in a state of emergency and really needs your help! There are not enough editors who are reviewing or nominating mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review, and this probably means that you will notice a red link or “This space for rent” as our mottos for the next weeks and months.

Please take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/'Specials. Any help would be appreciated! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:13, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This message has been sent by pjoef on behalf of Motto of the Day to all editors of the English Wikipedia who are showing MOTD's templates on their pages, and to all the participants to MOTD: (page, template, and category).

New mailing list for Wikimedia Canada

Good day, this message is to inform you that Wikimedia Canada has created a new mailing list operated by Mailman. This mailing list is for all discussions related to the Wikimedia movement in Canada, in both English and French. Announcements from Wikimedia Canada will always be bilingual, but you are welcomed to discuss in any language of your choice. The old google group will be abandoned. To join this mailing list, please go to [1]. To send messages to the list, write to general(at)discussions.wikimedia.ca. Also, please forward this message to anybody who may be interested. Thank you and do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. JP Béland (WMCA) (talk) 13:55, 22 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]