User talk:Rc2barrington
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April 2023
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Hello, I'm Wesoree. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to Barrington, Illinois—because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. -- Wesoree (talk·contribs) 00:06, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
- Yeah, it looks better. I live in Barrington and have visited the library many times.
- Note that it doesn’t look like it was deleted, just changed a little. So it wasn’t really “reverted” because it’s still there. Rc2barrington (talk) 02:57, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
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TylerBurden (talk) 19:16, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
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17:13, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
Your user page is problematic
[edit]Per WP:SMI you should not have "CSS and other formatting codes that disrupt the MediaWiki interface, for example by preventing important links or controls from being easily seen or used
" on your user page. The table you've used to place your infoboxes means that on the default skin on the desktop site, most of the controls to the right of the page cannot be seen on your user page, such as the user contributions link for logged in users. While I'm technically allowed to fix this myself, I'll leave this up to you. I suggest you simple remove, the table, there's no real reason to use one. But if you want to continue to use a table, please modify it so it doesn't block the controls on the right of the page. You can probably do this by reducing the number of columns but perhaps you can ask for technical help elsewhere for other suggestions. Nil Einne (talk) 09:42, 25 December 2024 (UTC)