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User Page In Need Of Graphics

I think my userpage looks too much like an article, and needs some things that make it look better. Like framing things. I could look for them myself, but if you want to do the dirty work, I'd be very happy :) colour probe ^{·Talk·Contribs·@} _RCP 17:47, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Here you can find some things that I might want to add. colour probe ^{·Talk·Contribs·@} _RCP 20:10, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Monobook

They do interfere if the new "edit options" is loaded before my tab function...if you have a main() function that loads "onload" that loads all other functions, make it load last and remove the "onload" from the bottom of the "edit options" script. Likely you do not, so just move the "edit options" script down. As for the "April 9" bug, I fixed that; I was missing nowiki tags. Thanks for pointing that out.Voice-of-All^T|@|ESP 06:22, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

you idiot

however you are you are an a-hole for trying to mess up wikipeda, and it's a shame you have an internet connection. your a disgrace to humanity —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.45.42.27 (talk • contribs) date.

Please do not make personal attacks. It is just plain not nice. Philip Gronowski 20:17, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Uhm, where is this about? Can you give me an edit where I "messed up wikipedia"? color probe ^{·Talk ·Contribs ·@} _RCP 20:28, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Hey CP! Did you revert some vandalism to Teletubbies? Becuase that's the only edit he ever made. :P --—JeremyBanks Talk 18:44, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

I guess so... --color probe ^{·Talk ·Contribs ·@} 18:15, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I checked that too, some time ago. So I guess this issue is solved. --color probe ^{·Talk ·Contribs ·@} 12:58, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Ancient Greek Wikisource

I understand from your userboxes you're interested in Ancient Greek. I've submitted a proposal to add an Ancient Greek Wikisource on Meta, and I'd be very grateful if you could assist me by either voting in Support of the proposal, or even adding your name as one of the contributors in the template. (NB: I'm posting this to a lot of people, so please reply to my talkpage or to Meta) --Nema Fakei 20:07, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Done. color probe ^{·Talk ·Contribs ·@} 17:07, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Image:Cp Wikipedia error2.PNG listed for deletion

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Sure, delete it, I forgot I uploaded it O.o --color probe — Talk — ^Contribs 11:04, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:Cp_Wikipedia_error.PNG)

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As I said in the discussion above, feel free to delete it. --color probe — Talk — ^Contribs 09:27, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

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) 01:42, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Please read this before you get all upset

I noticed your page User:Color probe/Template/Archive1 in the Category:Template loop warnings. So I had a look. And after making a change to User:Color probe/Template:Infobox template it did what I had expected it to do. And I was very happy. Until I saw User:Color probe/Template.

Let me explain. Your template User:Color probe/Template:Infobox template shows templates. That was a very neat idea, and you worked it out perfectly. What I didn't notice at the beginning was that you had made it specifically for the templates in your User:Color probe/Template:name_of_your_template collection. So I changed it to show any template.

At this moment I could of course undo the whole thing, especially since I now know the reason for the template loop that originally was the object of my attention. You can't let a template have a look at itself within the technical atmosphere of Wikipedia programming. But I thinkI would do you a greater service by pointing out the great possibilities that your work has.

You could of course undo my one and only change to User:Color probe/Template:Infobox template. Then you would have to change accordingly, of course. The template loop in User:Color probe/Template/Archive1 can not be fixed, so you could either restore it to its previous state as well and keep it as a reminder for posterities sake not to make template loops, or just delete it.

Alternatively you could change User:Color probe/Template:Infobox template a little more (remove the word "template" in front of {{{1}}} twice and then your template could show anything on Wikipedia. If you choose this alternative you'd have to add the text "User:Color probe/Template:" in front of all the names in yourpage User:Color probe/Template. Even in this case, though, thetemplate would not be able to show itself, in all likeliness, so for User:Color probe/Template/Archive1 there remain thesame alternativesas before, or you could have it show anything you want, even e.g. the {{name-example}} it is showing now in order to avoid the template loop.

The second possibility appeals very much to me, since my mindset likes abstraction and generalisation. However, this is your work. If you would like me to restore everything the way it was, or make the changes I showed you could be made to make your template generally applicable, please let me now. On the other hand I have no doubt that an experienced user as you will be able to do either of these in 2 minutes.

Sincerely, Debresser (talk) 00:16, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

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Motto of the Day Help Request April 2014

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