Tolerant666

Welcome to Wikipedia!

Hello, Tolerant666, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. My name is Hdt83. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to the free encyclopedia anybody can edit. If you have any questions about Wikipedia, feel free to leave me a message on my talk/chat page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages to help you. The left column contains tutorials and introductory pages while the right shows ways to help out Wikipedia.

Introduction  5    The five pillars of Wikipedia   How to edit a page   Help   Tips   Manual of Style

Write an article   Fight vandalism File:Exquisite-gphoto.png   Improve illustrations and upload new images   Perform maintenance tasks   Become member of a project that interests you   Fun Stuff...

Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. I hope you like the place and decide to stay.

Again, welcome! :) -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 23:23, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Response to question on help desk

If you're on a school or public computer, you can stop receiving messages for that IP address by signing in to your account. Once you sign in to your own account, you will not receive messages meant for other users of the public computer's IP address. Hope that answers your question. -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 23:25, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Also, it's possible for administrators to block the IP except for registered users; therefore, if vandalism from your school or public computer becomes too bad, it's possible to block it in such a way that the other people there can't edit but you still can. --ais523 16:17, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Userboxes

Hi! The banners on my userpage are called userboxes. You can learn more about them here: Wikipedia:Userboxes. There are also a whole gallery of boxes for almost anything that can describe you here: Wikipedia:Userboxes#Gallery. To use them, just copy the code for the box from the gallery or other people's pages on to your userpage. For example {{User_en}} would give

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

If you need any more help than don't hesitate to contact me via my talk page. :) -- _Hdt83 ^Chat 23:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Reply to questions

Hello, here are some answers to your questions:

• You do not usually check the minor edit box when editing talk pages. Also, you do not have to post a notice of every single edit you made to an article on its talk page, only if the change was a major one should you post a notice about the change.
• No, you don't have to ask a user permission to use their userbox. The slashes on a box shouldn't be affecting the display of them. {{User:UBX/photography}} should give you
  This user enjoys photography.

--_Hdt83 ^Chat 19:50, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Tolerant666. You have new messages at Wikipedia:Help desk.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--Jayron32 21:03, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Regarding your old username. Do you believe that the username has been compromised? If you can positively say that other people have made edits with it, and that they know your password, I can "block" the account. If no one has ever used the account besides you, then abandoning it can be safe. If you can point to edits in your editing history (see "my contributions" above) which you did not make, then let me know, and I can block the account. Otherwise, it would be safe to abandon it.

As far as changing your username, its pretty easy. There are a set of instructions at Wikipedia:Changing username. Look under the section that says "instructions" and start the process by clicking the link that says "click here to place a request" and follow the instructions. When you change your username, the old account is moved to the new username, and the old username is effectively deleted. It is the only way to "get rid" of an old account; the old username disappears from the database, but all of its information is preserved in the new account. If this seems satisfactory, you can do that. Otherwise, just abandon this account. If no one has, before now, ever used it besides you, then its probably safe to abandon. You can periodically check in on its contributions even with your new account, if it ever becomes active without your authorizatuon, you can always buzz me or another admin, and we can block it for you. --Jayron32 23:37, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Book creator

It doesn't work for me either. You can click the "Edit" tab on a saved book and edit it as a wiki page. Create chapter headings by placing a semicolon in front. See how it looks by clicking Edit on for example User:Tolerant666/Books/Massive independences. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:56, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

helpme

I still consider myself a new user even though I've been browsing Wikipedia since 2007 or, more likely, since 2005-2006. Anyway, I don't know where to start -- I don't know anything about Wikipedia other than what I see as a reader, not an editor. Most of the Wikipedia:___ pages are unknown to me. Almost everything about Wikipedia besides the articles themselves are invisible to me (although I do know a few, like Wikipedia:LEW. If I have one question it's this: Where should I start? --Rourke (talk) 00:32, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

The best place to start is with your welcome message, above. It's got all kinds of juicy links in it, including an Introduction, The five pillars of Wikipedia, How to edit a page, Help, Tips, and the Manual of Style. Just click on those links and you'll learn how to do all kinds of neat stuff.

Happy editing! Dori ☾Talk ☯ Contribs☽ 01:39, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

product research

Hi Tolerant666! I work for the wikimedia foundation (wikipedia). We are working on a tool similar to the books tool that you used to create: User:Tolerant666/Books/04-10 unfinished. Would you be willing to have a quick chat with me or answer a few questions via email about the feature? I am mostly curious to hear about your experience creating a book (what you were trying to do, whether it was easy/hard, and whether or not you felt it worked well). If you willing to talk a bit more, you can grab my email here. Thanks! Jkatz (WMF) (talk) 21:58, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:09, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Women in Red World Contest

Hi. We're into the last five days of the Women in Red World Contest. There's a new bonus prize of $200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale!