User talk:Fattyjwoods/Archive 1

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Seige of Tainan

Ok if you really want to save that article. You need to get to work on it pretty quickly. I think it can be turned into a decent article but at present it is only a cut and paste job. We don't do it like that on Wikipedia. You need to research the topic and write it with a bit of style. See what you can do, but don't leave it like it is as it will get deleted. Oh, and please don't message me on my user page. Use my talk page instead. Sting_au Talk 07:29, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, Ill try my bestFattyjwoods (talk) 07:31, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

I've removed the tags. I'll do some work on it (you can too!). Please sign your talk posts with four tildes. Sting_au Talk 07:36, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

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Wiki-Stripe

For tagging and assessing 250 articles, I hereby present you with this Milhist Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 06:44, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Help

{{helpme}} Hi, Im having some problems structuring my work (on my user page), it jumps around the page. I think I need help on how to justify, center align (horizontally and vertically). If you can help can you also tellme how to add backrounds, please! Also different fonts if possible. Thanks, Fattyjwoods (talk) 07:38, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

This here is a prime example, this help templates jumping beside the stripe award and it's annoying, can you solve it and tell me how so I can do it myself in the future, Thanks, Fattyjwoods (talk) 07:40, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

• Easiest way to deal with pictures is to put them in a gallery.

• Easiest way to deal with awards is to put them in a two-column table, thus:

The Wiki-Stripe For tagging and assessing 250 articles, I hereby present you with this Milhist Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 06:44, 5 December 2007 (UTC)]]	This editor is a Novice Editor, and is entitled to display this Service Badge.

• I checked the wikicode for the Wikistripe you got and it was all correct, except it was right-aligned, and as images are programmed to do in Wikipedia it behaves by having the remaining text on the page cut around it - which is what got you that horrible result. The workaround is to change it from left-align to center-align. Now if you don't want it in the center and particularly want it left or right, you can try putting it in a table - and then left or right aligning the table - but I haven't tested this Rfwoolf (talk) 12:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

But my question is can you tell me how to left align, right, vertical, horizontally align. Is there some kind of code. Sorry if I'm a pain. Fattyjwoods (talk) 03:29, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

{{helpme}}

Help I need someone to tell me how to left, right, centre, vertically, horizontally, etc, etc align. If you can’t could you possibly fix up User:Fattyjwoods/Other Stuff, including any awards so that it isn’t bunched up together. Thanks! Fattyjwoods (talk) 03:43, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

I can't tell what you want it to look like - I've edited the page, is this what you want it to look like? —Random832 03:56, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Could you put it side by side? Great though, how did you do that? Fattyjwoods (talk) 04:00, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, what do you mean "bunched up together"? I'm confused how that is different from "side by side". 04:08, 6 December 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Random832 (talk • contribs)

Don't worry about it then can you just tell me how to left align, right, vertical, horizontally align. Then I can do the rest. Thanks for your help!! Fattyjwoods (talk) 04:11, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Fattyjwoods. You can horizontally align things by adding align="left" or align="center" or align="right" to the appropriate HTML tag. Note the American spelling of center. Using centre won't work. For example,

 <div align="center">''Your text here''</div>

Vertical alignment is done with valign instead of align, with the values [top, middle, bottom].

Alternatively, you can specify alignment in the style attribute:

 <div style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top">''Your text here''</div>

I'd suggest finding an online tutorial on HTML and/or CSS, which will help you learn more about this stuff.

—P^urpleRA^IN 16:02, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Help (Again)

{{helpme}} Sorry, I need a little bit of help (again..) but I would just like to know why there is a white borderlike thing around the game ad and the status bot thing. If it was all even it would be great but it isnt. A bit is wider then the wider. Thanks!!! Fattyjwoods (talk) 06:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

That's because there you created tables. These tables are objects with a background of their own. The pictures within the tables do not cover the whole table, therefore the rest of it is shown in the original color. All you had to do, was to tell the program, which color you want. To show you, how to do, I have done it. Please see Help:Table for more information on tables. Happy editing. --Thw1309 (talk) 07:46, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

It was a pleasure to help you.--Thw1309 (talk) 07:56, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Help (Third time, *sigh*)

{{helpme}} Hi guys, I need a little bit of help. Is it possible to make a signature, that's like fat in the middle and thin around the outside – like a roughly shaped oval ball? That’ll be so cool cause by username’s Fattyjwoods. I know that you can’t have giant signatures but if it’s possible my signature won’t have to be giant! Also, if it’s possible could the helpful person add the count page or the contribution page or whatever you would like to call it. (http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/Tool1/wannabe_kate?username=Fattyjwoods&site=en.wikipedia.org) so that it’s included in my signature? And finally could you link the Special:Contributions page to the signature as well? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Fattyjwoods

So a example would be (without the fat “Fattyjwoods”bit) Fattyjwoods Talk Count Contribution

Thank you very much! Fattyjwoods (talk) 05:26, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

fattyjwoods

Sorry. Best I could do for now. It's already 3-4 lines long, so I don't want to make it even bigger by changing every letter, I don't know how to remove the arrow, if I can. Might want to try asking for help at the help desk from here on. People at WT:SIG might be able to help you refine the signature too (I believe there's a Wikiproject for that somewhere). The Evil Spartan (talk) 07:57, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Your Report at AIV

I noticed that you said that Thirdman was posting short articles about English villages. That actually isn't against the rules (although that can be argued), even though it has no context. However, you could mark the article with an SD template, because of this "little or no context clause". I believe that he's just introducing the article, not trying to spam us here at Wikipedia. Elenseel (talk) 06:10, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Ok, Ill do that soon, thanks! Fattyjwoods (talk) 06:33, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Wait a sec, SD template - do you mean Speedily deletion template, I've already done that, but a admin took it down and said that the articles were "far from being empty" and said it would be fine. Should I put it up again? Thanks! Fattyjwoods (talk) 03:58, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Fattyjwoods (talk) 23:09, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Award (plus neater version of your last one)

		Military history service award
		For tagging and assessing 250 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 19:21, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

		Military history service award
		For tagging and assessing 500 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 19:21, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks, and a very happy New Year, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 19:21, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

PS: If you want to carry on tagging, we're extending the drive for already registered editors only until 31 January. You might be able to get another 1,500 done by then ... Thanks again for all your help so far, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 19:26, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Sure, I'll probably get another 1000 done by then, merry New Year to you too then.Fattyjwoods (talk) 23:09, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks and Happy New Year

Firstly, let me wish you a very happy New Year and thank you for all your help in the Milhist Tag & Assess 2007 drive.

Secondly, although the Tag & Assess 2007 drive is now officially closed, you are very welcome to continue tagging and assessing until 31 January 2008. Any articles you tag and assess during this time will be credited fully to your tagging tally for further award purposes.

Thirdly, if you can find the time, it would be good to have your feedback/comments on the drive at the Tag & Assess workshop

Thanks again for your help, --ROGER DAVIES ^talk 10:55, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Byeboerdery and CSD A2

Hi, I'd just like to remind you that CSD A2 applies only to articles that are verbatim copies of an existing article on a foreign-language Wikipedia. (A Google search can be useful for verifying this, or you can just check the appropriate Wikipedia directly if you recognize the language.) Foreign-language articles such as Byeboerdery which do not (yet) exist on another Wikipedia should be tagged with {{notenglish}} instead. Thanks, and have a nice day. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 11:02, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

sorry, my bad - but just wondering, why was it deleted then from the English Wikipedia if it could be translated? Thanks Fattyjwoods (talk) 01:30, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter — Issue XXII (December 2007)

The Military history WikiProject Newsletter Issue XXII (December 2007)
Project news The Intelligence task force has been created. The contest department has completed its ninth month of competition. The top scorer this month is Blnguyen, with 22 points, followed by Dreamafter, with 8 points, and Redmarkviolinist, with 6 points. Blnguyen also remains the overall leader, with 162 points in total. All project members are encouraged to submit the articles they're working on as entries. Help with converting deprecated infoboxes is needed; any assistance is welcome! {{WPMILHIST}} now supports an explicit tag (class=DAB) for marking disambiguation pages.	Articles of note New featured articles: Battle of Albuera Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081) Battle of the Gebora Constantine II of Scotland Francis Harvey Vasa (ship) Wulfhere of Mercia New A-Class articles: 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing Evacuation of East Prussia
Current proposals and discussions A discussion about minimizing terminological ambiguity has begun.
Awards and honors Blnguyen has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his efforts in improving the quality of articles related to Vietnamese military history, including the creation of numerous A-Class articles. Woodym555 has been awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of his outstanding work on topics related to the Victoria Cross, notably including the creation of featured articles, featured lists, and a featured topic. For their outstanding efforts as part of Tag & Assess 2007, Bedford, TomStar81, and Parsival74 have been awarded the gold, silver, and bronze Wikis, respectively.
Tag & Assess 2007 Tag & Assess 2007 is now officially over, with slightly under 68,000 articles processed. The top twenty scores are as follows: 1. Bedford — 7,600 2. TomStar81 — 5,500 3. Parsival74 — 5,200 4. FayssalF — 3,500 5. Roger Davies — 3,000 6. Ouro — 2600 7. Kateshortforbob — 2250 8. Cromdog — 2,200 9. BrokenSphere — 2000 9. Jacksinterweb — 2,000 9. Maralia — 2,000 12. MBK004 — 1,340 13. JKBrooks85 — 1,250 14. Sniperz11 — 1100 15. Burzmali — 1000 15. Cplakidas — 1000 15. Gimme danger — 1000 15. Raoulduke471000 15. TicketMan — 1000 15. Welsh — 1000 15. Blnguyen — 1000 Although the drive is officially closed, existing participants can continue tagging until January 31 if they wish, with the extra tags counting towards their tally for barnstar purposes. We'd like to see what lessons can be learned from this drive, so we've set up a feedback workshop. Comments and feedback from participants and non-participants alike are very welcome and appreciated.
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Adoption

I accept, thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeffreh172 (talk • contribs) 00:53, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the Adoption

Thanks! I really appreciate this. Any and all insight is greatly appreciated! To be honest, I really have no clue what to do on here.

Cdngirl31 (talk) 15:21, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Image!

I got the image from John Logan Campbell. It's right here[1]. Thanks! - Ohmpandya ^{We need to talk... ♦ contribs} 18:45, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar! - Ohmpandya ^{We need to talk... ♦ contribs} 02:10, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Image tagging for Image:JLC.jpg

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Thanks for the welcome!

Thank you for the welcome message! I've used several of the resources already! -TopherGZ (talk) 17:12, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem! Happy to help Fattyjwoods ^{(Push my button)} 02:14, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

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Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For your work on improving Boston Red Sox (added a "films" section), I award you the Original Barnstar. Good job!   jj137 (talk) 02:09, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

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OhanaUnited's RFA

.: Thank you! :.

Thank you for participating in my 2nd RfA and supporting me! My RfA passed unanimously at 79 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral. I would like to take this opportunity to thank AndonicO and Rudget for nominating me. I also want to thank LaraLove for persuading me to keep going after I failed my first RfA. To be really honest, I am surprised that my RfA passed without any oppose or neutral. Being an administrator means more responsibilities, especially when I'm now an administrator on both English Wikipedia as well as WikiSpecies. I promise everyone that I will use the tools effectively to serve the community. If you need help on anything, don't hesitate to leave me a message on my talk page and I will get back to you as soon as possible. Last but not least, remember the motto for Ohana: "When it comes to family, nobody gets left behind." Once again, thanks for placing your trust in me to help the community. OhanaUnitedTalk page 18:14, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Award!

User:ComputerGuy890100/Fooled — ComputerGuy890100 02:03, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Here's your award for finding my secret page:

User:ComputerGuy890100/HiddenLinkAward — ComputerGuy890100 04:11, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Hidden Page

It seems that I am the first to find your hidden page. Can you find mine? Basketball110 _{what famous people say} 05:34, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

	The Laughing (at you) Barnstar
	This user has been tricked by Basketball110's "Tricked" page.

	The Hidden Barnstar
	This user has found Basketball110's secret hidden sub page! Can you find it?

Basketball110 _{what famous people say} 15:46, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

		Milhist Coordinator elections
		Thank you very much for your support in the recent Military history Wikiproject elections. I went into it expecting to just keep my seat and was astonished to end up with the lead role. I anticipate a rather busy six months :) --ROGER DAVIES talk 13:26, 29 February 2008 (UTC) Haut-Koeningsbourg castle, Alsace.

Request for template posting bot

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