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The Novels WikiProject Newsletter - Issue XXII - March 2008

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The Talkpage Barnstar

It is with some trepidation that I thank you for awarding me the Talkpage Barnstar with regards to my activity on the 'Ignore all rules' talk page. Having subsequently read about these Barnstars, and mulled the notion over, I feel that it was a very kind and encouraging gesture, for which I thank you unreservedly. However, I can see an element of peril in the award; having received one Barnstar, there arises, in the murkiest chambers of my heart (specifically the right ventricle), the seeds of a ruthless and manic ambition to collect them all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sixtyninefourtyninefourtyfoureleven (talk • contribs) 19:43, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Secret pages game: reply

As requested, my reply to your message at User talk:AGK:

It's a pretty easy case of noting down the missing letters and appending it to User:Microchip08/ in the URL bar. No, it's probably not easy, I just get quite addicted to games.

— User talk:AGK

AGK (contact) 21:37, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Your edits

In the past three days, you have solely been working on the massive amount of pages in your userspace and not a single article. Please edit more articles than your personal subpages, or they may face deletion and you may be blocked from editing.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 22:26, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Signature

I would really rather you didn't. If you would like me to make you a signature, I'd be happy to, though. I just don't want people to steal the ones that I created. If you do want me to make you one, let me know :) FusionMix 22:56, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

<removed> microchip08 (find my secret page!) 17:49, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Secret page

Is the secret page the one with the green template that says "well done!"? STYROFOAM1994^{Don't age bias me!} 17:52, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Not fair. No. Not fair in the slightest. Grrr. At least use the proper barnstar award.... that one's there so that I can easily reply to messages.... DO LEVEL TWO!microchip08 (find my secret page!) 17:57, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Secret Page

I'm on Level II but confused on what to do --Juthani1 (talk) 21:06, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Found it without cheating. You should at least have a barnstar added to it.--Juthani1 (talk) 16:51, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Which list should I add it to? The cheater list? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Juthani1 (talk • contribs) 21:43, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

go ahead

it's just standard CSS code. I think I copied it from someone else. —Random832 19:27, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, but no thanks. (I actually had that code at one point, I think) There was a lot of debate (much more than it's worth) back in 2007 about this, and one point of contention was that having the actual CSS class there can cause technical problems for some bots. Plus, the fnord only works with the orange color scheme. —Random832 19:48, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Sig

Sure! What do you want it to look like? FusionMix 13:52, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Alright. I'll try to have it done by this evening. FusionMix

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Redirect

You redirected the IAR/Workshop to WP:Ignore all rules. What was your reasoning for doing this, I cant find any discussion of this redirect, or why you think it is a good idea. Thanks --Newbyguesses - Talk 20:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Take a look at the actual IAR/Workshop page; I've not deleted any posts. I felt that it would be better, and more centralized, if everything was on the one page. microchip08 ^{Find my secret page!} Talk to me! I feel lonely! 20:17, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Well, I am very muchly in favour of centralized discussion also, but the /Workshop was in use as a place to try out possible drafts of IAR. I will have a look as you say. Not sure if there is a problem here, or maybe a solution, things are a bit confused, though that is not unusual. --Newbyguesses - Talk 20:32, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Re:

Hi there, thanks for correcting the mistake on my talkheader hadn't noticed it until you've corrected it. Terra ^{What do you want?} 20:42, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Glad I could help. microchip08 ^{Find my secret page!} Talk to me! I feel lonely! 20:44, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Your VandalProof Application

Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Microchip08. As you may know, VP is a very powerful program, and in fact the just released 1.3 version has even more power. Because of this we must uphold strict protocols before approving a new applicant. Regretfully, I have chosen to decline your application at this time. The reason for this is that:

You do not yet have enough edits in the main namespace.

Please note it is nothing personal by any means, and we certainly welcome you to apply again soon. Thank again for your interest in VandalProof. Ale_Jrb^talk 18:23, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Done

I had these done last night, but neglected to give them to you, sorry about that. Here we are.

Because the whole 'my preferences' thing never tends to work properly, my chosen method of using a sig is to create a subpage called 'sig', paste the code to the sig you want there, and then type "{{SUBST:User:Microchip08/Sig}}" in the little signature box. Then, when you want to change your sig, merely exchange the code in the 'sig' subpage to something else. FusionMix 19:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Microchip08

_microchip⁰⁸

Mⁱc_rochip⁰⁸

You're very welcome! :) FusionMix 19:53, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

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National Amateur Light Heavyweight Champions

Care to explain your revert rather than the moronic - "erm no!"--Gueracuco (talk) 19:11, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Apologies. It looked, on my screen, to redirect to a redlinked page. Therefore, I reverted it. Mⁱc_rochip ⁰⁸ 21:09, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Re Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Joan of Arc Statue

Hi Microchip08,

I noticed you 'Speedy closed' Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Joan of Arc Statue.

Other than exceptional circumstances, for a speedy close to occur one user should vote for a Speedy close, and if there are no objections within approx. one day then it can be closed early. In the Joan of Arc nom, no one had nominated for speedy close (one user had mentioned it in their oppose vote), and you then closed it just over an hour afterwards.

Sure it wasn't going to pass FPC, but it didn't obviously fail all criteria, and was providing the nominator with valuable feedback, so was doing no harm in being there.

Cheers, --jjron (talk) 03:23, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

BAH!

{{helpme|How do you do #switch?}} Mⁱc_rochip ⁰⁸ 16:00, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

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Comment

I will leave a comment idea on the hidden page. Spencer^T♦C 19:48, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Ribbons

I'm still having errors..the ribbons aren't appearing at all :( [1] There's something still coming for you, I have't forgotten :) Steve Crossin (talk to me) 20:44, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. Mⁱc_rochip ⁰⁸ 20:48, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

• Err, could you have another quick look? Sorry, I'm useless with codings/templates :( Steve Crossin (talk to me) 20:50, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

There is no doubt you have earned this one:

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		For your hard work on all my user pages, (they now look great :D), I award you the da Vinci Barnstar. You have most certainly earned this one :) Steve Crossin (talk to me) 08:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

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Saskatchewan Highway 16

User talk:Microchip08/Archives/2008/March/header Thanks for the answer to my help me....To try to explain further. I have used the citation, but using it a bizillion times makes the text hard to read, and every time I say a town is ...this big...population I state as of 2006...which is also breaking up the reading...and then the footnote. Is there anyway to say the whole entire article populations are from the 2006 census and the citation once at the bottom of the article or paragraph or whathaveyou. I notice if one states town blah is 126,493 people (2006) with no citation and no (2006) it gets a tag, but when an article has many many places, the (2006) and citation get wearisome to the prose. SriMesh | talk 21:20, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

I've referred this to another user. Mⁱc_rochip ⁰⁸ 21:30, 30 March 2008 (UTC)