User talk:72.75.78.69

My reasons for not registering are not a topic for conversation ... I will simply let my edits speak for themselves ... besides, registering with a username will not make me any less anonymous ... so please, just cut a "recovering Wikipediholic" some slack, and MOVE ON.

BTW, until the recent service interruption, my Verizon DSL IP username was .

Happy Editing! &mdash;  20:29, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Watchlists and Sandboxes

 * See User talk:72.75.89.38 for archived discussions

My current sandbox

Wikipedia meetup
As someone who may live or work near Washington D.C., you may be interested - if you've not heard already - about the meetup scheduled for Saturday, May 17th, at Union Station. For details, please see Meetup/DC 4.

You are receiving this automated message because your userpage appears in Category:Wikipedians in the District of Columbia. Addbot (talk) 21:45, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Oldprodfull
I was BOLD.  MBisanz  talk 23:05, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thnx for adding it ... I'm in one of those transition phases between cycles, and didn't trust my own judgment, so I figured it would be better to let Some Other Editor be WP:BOLD regarding this edit. :-) Happy Editing! &mdash;  10:06, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: WP:FLAG-BAND
If you want to put these articles into Wikipedia: space, simply move the essay from your userspace to (for example) Flag band. This will also create a shortcut WP:Flag band, which you can then put into the essay template as. Any other shortcuts can then be made as if starting a new article, such as FLAG-BAND, and then you can insert  at the top of the essay's raw text. Hope you understood all this, I may not have explained it as well as some others might be able to! -- Matthewedwards (talk· contribs· count· email) 00:18, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thnx! I'll take care of adding all of the Flag templates for deletion warnings as soon as the mood-elevators kick in ... maybe this weekend. :-) &mdash;72.75.78.69 (talk) 03:29, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, I tried adding the following:


 * to the beginning of each article/essay, which was named Wikipedia:FLAG-xyz ... and I'm not sure if that was the correct thing to do, i.e., giving the article/essay the same name as the shortcut. On the other hand, what's in a name? Besides, I have a feeling that unless they are added to List of shortcuts, I fear that they shall languish in oblivion, anyway.  Happy Editing! &mdash;  02:49, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * OK ... I think I've got it figured out ... I was getting frelled because I forgot to clear my cache, so the browser wasn't seeing the changes on a REFRESH ... User error ... using the  was redundant ... I've REDIRECT'd the old user sandboxes, so legacy threads on talk pages should still work ... still not sure why some show up on CAT:SHORTFIX, but I've been at it for a few hours now ... time to sleep ... Happy Editing! &mdash;  03:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, well ... the spurious CAT listing must also have been a cache refresh problem, because they're no longer listed ... it all seems to be working now, and I even fixed the WP:FLAG-BAND snafu ... I also modified Template:Oldprodfull so that it recognized shorter argument names, e.g.,  instead of  . :-) &mdash;72.75.78.69 (talk) 18:16, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

New IP address
Well, nothing lasts forever ... see y'all at my new IP ... Happy Editing! &mdash;  00:29, 1 June 2008 (UTC)