User talk:Alphax/20050427-02

Your sig (reply &rarr;)
OK, your sig was &#123;&#123;User:SebastianHelm/sig&#125;&#125;. This had in turn &#123;&#123;User:SebastianHelm/sig0&#125;&#125; and &#123;&#123;User:SebastianHelm/sig0t&#125;&#125; in it. Three templates for 1 sig! Big big server load. The markup it produces is S e b a s ti a n  (  T  ) with small gray text following. Now copy that into your signature (minus the small gray text, which could be page breaking if not closed). HTH, Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 14:16, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, for the coloured stuff: "ff0000" == "#f00", "ff8800" == "#f80" etc. Since your colours are all in the form "aabbcc", you can replace them with "#abc". Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 14:28, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * "#abc": Not really. See Help_desk/Archive_17
 * Ah, ok then. If only this allowed bbcode it would be small indeed. [c=#ff00cc]Wooo![/c]
 * This template on which we're writing: It's really a neat idea – i always found the situation unsatisfactory that you never know on whose talk page a talk takes place. But are you aware of the irony? You just added a big (and growing), variable, multi-level template to two talk pages in order to convince me that i shouldn't add smaller, constant, 2-level templates to talk pages.
 * I've currently got one placed on 3 people's talk pages (I started talking with someone, and another person joined the discussion). But the thing is, this will only be included in a few pages, which a sig template could be included in hundreds of Talk:, User_talk: and Wikipedia: namespace pages. It's like Votes for Deletion - many many subpages.
 * "HTH": I believe that you sincerely wanted to help somehow, but i'm afraid i don't see anything helpful in that paragraph. My question was not "How is my template constructed". I constructed my template myself – so i don't need you to tell me the gory details. My question was: "Can anyone provide some numbers?" By "numbers", i did not mean how often you say "big". If you have any information that would allow me and others a sober assessment, please post it under templates in sigs. Thanks, Sebastian (talk) 05:40, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
 * Sorry, don't know the actual resource drain; I believe it would be a (few?) extra SQL queries per page the sig was placed on. You could keep your old sig by just copying the wikitext, and using a raw signature (which I guess you were doing anyway). Anyway, back to other things. Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 06:04, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)