User talk:English Lock

Tables
You created List of townlands in County Kilkenny using HTML markup instead of the much more compact WikiMarkup. I've put in a bot request to fix this.

When you use HTML tables on large articles, it makes it very difficult for others to make changes. See Help:Table for help on how to use tables the wiki way. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  02:43, 30 December 2008 (UTC)


 * See also: Talk:List of townlands in County Kilkenny and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ireland. When I made it into a sortable Wikitable, I lost the green headings.  If you know how to put that back, please do so.  Even better if you can split the list into sections.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  04:00, 30 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Any chance you could split this into sections by barony? davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  21:24, 24 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Have done that now.Ω ENGLISH LOCK Ω 20:21, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

CSD
Please mark your pages as patrolled, it saves work for others. Ironholds (talk) 23:00, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Will do. Ω ENGLISH LOCK Ω 23:04, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Dealing with attacks
Hi. You were absolutely right to put on Caroline Kolada just now, but there are two other things to do with an attack page: Another tip: you can save a few keystrokes by using. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:19, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
 * delete the actual text of the attack and replace it with the word "blanked", so that the actual attack is not visible for the time until the page is deleted, denying the attacker the satisfaction of showing his friends (the attack is still in the history if the admin wants to check); and
 * copy onto the author's talk page the warning which forms part of the db-attack template when it is expanded onto the page. That may frighten the author off, and if it doesn't it provides a record which will help get him blocked if he does it again.


 * Thanks for the tip!Ω ENGLISH LOCK Ω 20:21, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Notify Creators
Heya English Lock, great work tagging new pages that are vandalism for deletion, one thing: don't forget to post a note on the creators talkpage notifying them that it has been tagged, do this by copying the part of the speed deletion template the has a white background onto the user in questions talkpage, if you have any questions please ask at my talkpage, again, great work, cheers SpitfireTally-ho! 19:38, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

File source problem with File:1842 Ordanance Survey Ireland of Johnville.jpg
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Quixotic plea
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Wikipediholism test. Thanks. —  05:17, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland 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 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 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. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 05:59, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

New deal for page patrollers
Hi ,

In order to better control the quality  of new pages, keep out the spam, and welcome the genuine newbies, the current system we introduced in 2011 is being updated and improved. The documentation and tutorials have also been revised and given a facelift. Most importantly a new user group New Page Reviewer has been created.

Under the new rule, you may find that you are temporarily unable to mark new pages as reviewed. However, this is nothing to worry about - most current experienced patrollers are being accorded the the new right without the need to apply, and if you have significant previous experience of patrolling new pages, we strongly encourage you to apply for the new right as soon as possible - we need all the help we can get, and we are now providing a dynamic, supportive environment for your work.

Find out more about this exiting new user right now at New Page Reviewers and be sure to read the new tutorial before applying. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:28, 13 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!