Hotclaws**==

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Signature

Hi there! I see you've been quite active on the Reference Desk - great to have you around! Just one small thing - could you please sign your posts using four tildes (like this: ~~~~)? That will produce an automatic signature like the rest of us use (such as mine at the end of this message), with a timestamp (so we know when you wrote your message), and a link to your user page (so people can easily leave you messages). You can always customise your signature if you don't like the default one, check out Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages for more info. If you've got any questions, don't hesitate to drop by my talk page and leave me a message. — QuantumEleven | (talk) 17:00, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Well hiya, i saw some of your editson the ref desk and found your answers very amusing or insightful. I asked the question on how to cantact you. So here i am. I dont have a talk page as i cant sign in so... But was just wondering what country you were in? hope your camomile lawn does well this summer, take it easy lady. Anton 14:43, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

already have a fiancee

but for other wikipedians, I think it would be useful to talk a little bit about yourself, as far as a potential spouse/partner. Yours sincerely.

Note on posting comments

I have noticed that you have been posting comments on the reference desks, but you have not been using bullet points. Unfortunately if you do not use bullet points or leave a blank line between the last comment and your own, the two comments merge and it becomes difficult to see who has left which message.

• To leave a bullet like this, please leave a star * at the start of the section of text.

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If you have any questions about this message, please let me know. Happy editing. :) Road Wizard 19:02, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

I know someone

Who might be in need of some help. Do you know anything about Satanism? NinaOdell | Talk 16:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Your signature..

Would you be willing to change your signature, to exclude the two = signs? The reference desk archival bot, reads your signature as if it were a question title, and indexes your username, along with the other question titles (: as you can see here --VectorPotential^Talk 22:57, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

• Even better, would you consider changing your signature to this: hotclaws**== , that way it would appear the same, but without the extra set of consecutive = signs, the bot wouldn't mistake your username for a question title--VectorPotential^Talk 14:32, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

• Please go into Special:Preferences and paste [[User:Hotclaws**==|hotclaws**=<b></b>=]] into the Signature box, then check the Raw signature box, finally scroll down to the bottom and hit save, thank you--VectorPotential^Talk 23:04, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

• This is a very minor change, and your signature will appear exactly the same, the advantage being that I won't have to manually correct every single archive page to remove your signature from the index of question titles--VectorPotential^Talk 11:16, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

The problem with your current signature is that RefDeskBot (talk · contribs) interprets 2 sets of == signs as a question title, and so adds your name to the list of question titles--VectorPotential^Talk 13:07, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

How to change it..

Go into Special:Preferences, and copy/paste

[[User:Hotclaws**==|hotclaws**=<b></b>=]]

into the signature box, then check the box underneath it, that says 'raw signature', press save, and that should be it--VectorPotential^Talk 13:07, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

• Like so

  File:Hotclaws.jpg

  Screenshot of Special:Preferences, specifically the signature field

  --VectorPotential^Talk 13:18, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

test. hotclaws**== 11:56, 5 May 2007 (UTC) test. hotclaws 11:58, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

the factory

I'm impressed! :) Perry-mankster 08:20, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Code

You answered a desperately wordy and convoluted series of questions on the Ref Desk (Humanities) as follows: tl;dr. I get the joke about contrasting brevity, but can't work out what the code might mean (somewhat like the question, which may be the point, now that I consider it). If there is a "long form", I would appreciate a translation. Thank you ៛ Bielle (talk) 19:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Ahh, perhaps "Troll; don't reply?" ៛ Bielle (talk) 21:41, 10 February 2008 (UTC) Too long;did not read

Reductive star

		The Minimal Barnstar
		For your unique talent for reductive RD answers that see it all in a dewdrop and how well it works, I award you Hotclaws**== this, the minimaliser's Barnstar. Julia Rossi (talk) 09:00, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Block quotes

... I think that's what you call them! Your recent (pithy and witty) edits to the reference desk seem to show up as block quotes (with broken lines around them and what not) I have no idea how to fix them :-) but I reckon It's to do with not using colons to indent the comments. It could, of course be just my browser (Firefox).Fribbler (talk) 00:28, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

It's because he/she puts a space in front of every comment. The edits are not really pithy or witty, by the way; don't you have anything useful to contribute? Adam Bishop (talk) 04:46, 12 May 2008 (UTC)