User talk:Smurrayinchester/Archive 1

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Ermmm...
Ermmm....Hello?  smurray  in  chester (User), (Talk), (Recent Contrib.) 16:09, 10 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Hi. Nice signature. ;) Where'd you get your username? Just curious. ;) Don Diego(Talk) 16:23, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
 * S Murray - Name
 * In Chester - Hometown! Ps. Do you mean the Green Signature or the current 'Hallowe'en' one?  smurray  in  aHauntedHouse ...Boo!(User), (Talk) 16:43, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Infoboxes
This is based on a comment on my User page (see under Infoboxes). Please leave the comments here:  smurray  in  chester (User), (Ho Ho Ho!) 08:16, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

British TV Channel WikiProject
Hey smurrayinchester. All you have to do is add your name to the list of members with the 3 ~s. Thanks for wanting to help out! Wikiwoohoo 16:12, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks....
.... for the barnstar. I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of needy ASUE articles, but it's nice to know my efforts have been noticed. TheMadBaron 17:30, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Hello
You are a new editor who actually has the ability of admiting you might be wrong at times? Wow, I didn't know they still made those. In case you have any doubts or issues during your stay on the Wikipedia, feel free to contact me. Regards, --Sn0wflake 22:30, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Hello there
Well, I must say, that's a nice user page you've got there, considering the short time that you've been on WP. And the signatures are quite jolly, too. All I ever see on WP are red or blue signatures. Igor the Lion 21:25, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
 * De gustibus non est disputandum is Latin for "There must be no discussion regarding tastes," or, "There is no arguing taste". Taste is supposed to mean a personal point of view (correct me if I'm mistaken), so de gustibus non est disputandum should be NPOV. To summarize: There were two friends on the same side of a stream. One was wearing red-tinted glasses, while the other had green ones on. The first friend said, "Look at that crimson stream!" The other replied vehemently, saying, "That's not red, that's the greenest stream I've ever seen! You must be blind!" And so the two friends went on, arguing about the true color of the stream and not bothering to take off their glasses (POV) and look at the stream without being influenced by the shades (impartial judgment). As you probably realized, they got nowhere. That's why, there is no arguing about tastes. Glad to have met you. Igor the Lion 16:02, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Snicket WikiProject launched
Seeing as you seem to have shown an interest in A Series of Unfortunate Events related articles, I thought you might want to know about a new WikiProject that I have started up, on the aforementioned topic. Please see it here! If you wish to help out, please sign up in the Participants section. Thanks! --Cel e stianpower háblame 19:59, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

Japanese font install
Thank you for your help with Japanese fonts with Windows and FireFox! --Quasipalm 22:19, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

BBC Weather
Got back from an overseas visit and got over the jet lag. Your effort on the BBC Weather article is superb. It looks great! Wikiwoohoo 18:22, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Merry Christmas...
...and a Happy New Year! (But let's save that for next week.) Wishing you a blessed Christmas - Igor the Lion (Roar!)  05:38, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:BBCweatherlogo.gif
Hi Smurrayinchester. I was thinking with the above image that now there is Image:BBCworldweather.jpg on the BBC Weather article that the logo from the website isn't needed. I've removed it from the article but won't add it to WP:IFD just yet. Just wanted to see what you thought since you uploaded it. Wikiwoohoo 16:34, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Your message
Thanks! I think I will, well, I'd better - it's an eight month placement! Jokes aside it's a beautiful country. Wikiwoohoo 16:49, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Hiding lines in templates
Hi sorry for not getting back to you sooner. The way I had done it has now been depreciated, so there are two competing ways of doing it, and I am currently having a bit of an edit war/discussion as to how it should be done. One way (my way) uses complicated code to produce simple, always working, markup; the other uses less complicated code to create more complicated markup that sometimes breaks. Two different styles of writing/thought processes. I will let you know how it pans out and what is the accepted method to use. – Mr Weeble  Talk Brit tv 12:13, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Welcome to Esperanza!
Welcome,, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member you should read the guide to what to do now or you may be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. Redwolf24 runs the spam to keep members up to date. Also, we have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

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Thank you. ➨ ❝ R E  DVERS ❞ 19:17, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Chester Racecourse
Thanks very much! for expanding on Chester Racecourse. I was interested in the bit about Shrove Tuesday and the "Chester Bells". Originally there was a football match see.. http://www.bwpics.co.uk/roodee2.html

Talskiddy 21:04, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you very much for my barnstar - my first ever! Cheers, CLW 20:03, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

DYK
Hi, I was about to update User_talk:Talskiddy about the Chester Racecourse appearance in DYK and I found that you've beaten me to it. Thanks for the same and for expanding that article significantly. --Gurubrahma 06:52, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks...
for the barnstar! – ClockworkSoul 13:34, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

De gustibus
Hi! I noticed you put the "de gustibus" phrase as my quote. I don't know if you're aware, but it's an old saying (see here) that was created quite some time before we were born. Belated Happy New Year, by the way! (Thought I greeted you last week) Keep smiling! ;p Igor the Lion (Roar!)  11:56, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

WP:CCW
Hello,Welcome to the Catholic Church of Wikipedia!Let me know if you need anything.

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Edit tools box
Hi, I was just wondering if the edit tools box is working properly for you now, giving you Welsh letters when you select Welsh, Spanish letters when you selected Spanish, and so forth. --Angr ( tɔk ) 09:25, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * That's annoying. It works fine for me. Anyway, the place to bring up problems is MediaWiki talk:Edittools. --Angr ( tɔk ) 12:36, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks a ton...
...for the barnstar. Ability to update DYK was one of the things that drove me to seek adminship. I've been at it for just a tad over a month though and hope to keep doing it in the company of other regular updaters of DYK such as nixie. btw, from your user page I am guessing that your user name is an amalgamation of "S. Murray in Chester." ;-) --Gurubrahma 16:20, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

My user page...
I dunno really, it just doesn't look great to me. To me, it just seems like, "colored box, colored box, colered box, some links, some links, user page tag." You don't think it looks boring? I don't know. Sorry for the delayed response, normally I answer more expeditiously. Cheers. -- LV (Dark Mark)  16:48, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, perhaps dark, but really, just something that stands out. I have seen so many user pages that look exactly the same, and while not totally bad, would appreciate people looking at my page to say, "Wow, that's new", or "I'll remember this for sure." Now, I know this is tough, and should probably be doing it myself, but if you wanted to take a few minutes trying to come up with something, I sure wouldn't complain. :-) If you don't feel up to it, just let me know. It's no big deal either way. Cheers. -- LV (Dark Mark)  16:57, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Not too bad... I might play with the colours some to make things more readable, but generally okay. Thanks for the platform. -- LV <sup style="color:#3D9140;">(Dark Mark)  18:04, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

After consideration, I feel I am going to change it back to what I had for now. No offense, what you did was good, it was simply a little too hard to read. I will probably use some of your ideas at a later time, if you don't mind. I am sorry you spent so much time, but hope you don't feel like it was wasted time. Thanks again, and sorry. -- LV <sup style="color:#3D9140;">(Dark Mark)  20:08, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

RFA
Thanks for the explanation. I will withdraw my vote. User:Zoe|(talk) 23:44, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

New Users
There is a new users log; Special:Log/newusers The magical Spum-dandy 14:33, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar
I thought you may be interested to know that the Template Barnstar, which you supported is now a barnstar. Mind you, looking through your contributions, you deserve one too, so here you go! <font style="color:#00BB55"> smurray <font style="color:#00AA77"> inch <font style="color:green">e <font style="color:#00AA77"> ster <font style="color:#00AA77">(User), (Talk) 22:33, 18 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you! I changed the date of introduction to January 8 (because that's when you posted the proposal).  Thanks again!  &mdash;David Levy 22:45, 18 January 2006 (UTC)