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Newegg

I had to undo one of your edits to the article Newegg. The reason is that the date used in the {{fact}} template should be only the current month and year, no past or future dates. On top of that you should spell out the name of the month, not abbreviate it. All of them should have read {{Fact|date=March 2009}}. Debresser (talk) 22:59, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Gotcha, thanks. I'm new to this. LobStoR (talk) 13:30, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

You can just leave the date out if you like. A bot (usually SmackBot I think) comes by and adds dates to Fact and other tags. -Fnlayson (talk) 04:29, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Dab pages

I have no interest in causing a revert war or anything, and it's a fairly minor point, but in the interest of preventing possible future problems and gaining a better understanding of guidelines (since you're clearly trying to learn them anyhow, yay!), have a peek at this link (and the whole rest of the page), specifically the "Switch" example a few paragraphs down. The disambiguated word/phrase should not be piped, however links that appear anywhere in the explanation should be (assuming there even needs to be an additional link). That is why I had Incubus piped, but removed the pipe in a few other places. The other part of the edit is mainly a preference thing, I think, but the guide might have something about how explanations should be phrased, too. Not a big issue, in any case, since there's a link if people are actually that confused. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask, and I'll do my best to answer them! -Bbik^★ 22:53, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

I will read through this. Thanks for explaining. LobStoR (talk) 22:55, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Dynamic IP sockpuppet

{{helpme}} I am having a revert war with the same editor, but they access the internet with a dynamic IP. I know it's the same editor because they keep re-adding the same information, and their IP is always owned by Vodacom UMTS Gauteng INTERNET APN in South Africa (situation is similar to battling a sockpuppet, I guess). I am still new to Wikipedia policy, and don't really know how to deal with this - how would you recommend approaching this situation?

1. just keep reverting their edits, and hope they read my comment why
2. semi-protect the article
3. (something else?)

Thanks. LobStoR (talk) 13:23, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

The first thing is that you cannot just keep reverting. You must read and understand the three revert rule. The edits are not blatant vandalism, so if you just keep reverting them, you could be blocked for violation of 3RR. This is just a content dispute. I don't see any evidence that you have tried to explain why you consider the edits unconstructive - citing relevant policy or consensus. Have a look at WP:DR for tips on dealing with content disputes. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 14:17, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying. Just an afternote: I am reverting this page (on average) 2x daily (grey area, as far as 3RR goes?). And also, this user was told exactly why their edits are being reverted, in a revert by user SkyWalker:

• 00:24, 14 March 2009 SkyWalker (talk | contribs) (3,877 bytes) (Reverted to revision 276865035 by LobStoR; Please don't add Weapons, Units. It is a game guide and fails WP policy. Suggest you to add in WIKIA.. (TW)) (undo)

I added a note to the talk page for the article - but based on the fact that this editor ignored all previous warnings, I doubt they will heed a comment on the talk page. LobStoR (talk) 14:42, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

The part of 3RR that says "The rule does not entitle editors to revert a page three times each day. Administrators may still block disruptive editors for edit warring who do not violate the rule" is important to understand. I saw the edit summary note, but it didn't cite the policy. Even WP:GAMEGUIDE is very vague about what exactly constitutes a game guide. The more detail that is provided and the more it is clear that an effort was made to communicate, the more likely action can be taken against an editor that is disruptive. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 14:56, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your time in explaining this. I think that I understand some of the policies a little bit better, now. LobStoR (talk) 15:32, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Reference Desk

Please don't accuse people of trolling if there's no real reason to. [1] There are plenty of Macs that don't have iDVD pre-installed. There are plenty of people who have Macs who don't know how to use iDVD. One could easily suggest iDVD as an answer without being nasty about it. I removed your unnecessarily unpleasant response and replaced it with a more civil one. --98.217.14.211 (talk) 15:20, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Must've been tired, and feeling a bit snarky. I'll keep it more civil in the future. LobStoR (talk) 15:35, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

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(have since requested deletion, was using it for a sandbox experiment) LobStoR (talk) 23:19, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

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(have since requested deletion, was using it for a sandbox experiment) LobStoR (talk) 23:19, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Your {{helpme}} request

Note: Place the tag here only, not on Templates. The {{helpme}} tag is only for use on talk pages :). Also, forgive me if you've already been contacted about this. The other editor removed your {{helpme}}, but I can't see where (if?) they've responded, so I'm assuming they've forgotten. Cheers — Deon555^talk_{I'm BACK!} 13:45, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

I understand, I gathered that from the editor that removed the helpme tag. Thanks. LobStoR (talk) 13:50, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Warning

Just so you know, all your editing of those templates has messed up the formatting on every page they're used on. So now every external link section is missing a *. I'll let you revert yourself when you see the mess you've created.--Otterathome (talk) 13:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

You came off rather harshly - in my efforts to improve dozens of low-medium use templates, I made a few small mistakes. It's not nearly as much of "the mess" that you describe. Chances are high that other editors will identify this, as well, and re-add the bullets, but I'll skim through my edits and identify missing bullets, when I get a chance. LobStoR (talk) 14:11, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

You are not suppose to mess up thousands of pages and expect other editors to fix them all, you'll just end up annoying everyone and risk being blocked for disruption. Especially when editing widely used templates, you should seek approval on the talk page before making changes.--Otterathome (talk) 14:17, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

I didn't set out to "mess up" templates, it was an inadvertent mistake - everyone makes mistakes sometimes. As I said, I intend to fix it in the very near future. WP:GOODFAITH. LobStoR (talk) 14:28, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

I have created Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Mass_template_editing in order to attract more experienced editors to deal with the problems you've created.--Otterathome (talk) 14:32, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

The only "problem" created was that *some* of the templates that I edited (from hardlinks to calling on [{Template:Wikia]]) had bullets in their start. I will check through them, as I expect it is only a few templates... the sooner I stop spending my time discussing this, the sooner I can get to action. LobStoR (talk) 14:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

I hope you continue to try and change the Wikia template, as I strongly agree with what you are trying to do.--Otterathome (talk) 21:23, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: Request unprotection

{{Memoryalpha}} was protected because it is subject to a high risk of vandalism. Any change to that template would be replicated in thousands of transclusions, so all suggested changes to the syntax should be thoroughly tested before deployment. Please discuss the changes you want to make at template talk:memoryalpha along with {{editprotected}} and an admin will review them.

I've also reverted your changes to {{wikia}}, for the reasons given in the edit summary. If you're going to alter a large number of templates, it is a good idea to test all changes by using a sandbox. Regards, ˉˉ^anetode╦╩ 14:33, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 08:43, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I concur with deletion, since most of the new features I wrote for the fork have been back-implemented onto Template:Wikia. LobStoR (talk) 20:29, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Wikia template

Looks like a virus issue at Wikia wikis gave somebody a wake up call at Template:Wikia and they're finally changing what you tried to change back in April. See Template_talk:Wikia#External_instead_of_interwiki_links.--Otterathome (talk) 15:26, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

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User: Jrcreekside

I believe Jrcreekside has been up to more vandalism despite your warning. I have just reverted changes to Tanya Rivero. MMetro (talk) 13:15, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Very large images

Hello. I expanded the note on the smaller image:

Note: This is a smaller 3500-pixel-wide version of the original map. The original map on the Commons is 8,264 × 10,696 pixels and has a huge file size of 53.3 MB. This 3500-pixel-wide version of the map is 5.54 MB. A warning on the page for the larger image: "Some browsers may have trouble displaying this image at full resolution: This image has a large number of pixels and may either not load properly or cause your browser to freeze."

Larger and smaller version of the image:

• File:Greater Jerusalem May 2006 CIA remote-sensing map 3500px.jpg
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Each image links to the other on its description page. So people who want to view the larger or smaller image can do so. 53.3 MB would take a long time to load with dial-up internet access. --Timeshifter (talk) 21:55, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

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