User talk:Claude A. R. Kagan

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I see you've copied and paste it on to the page, most likely this will be complained about and removed, due to the formatting. I'll work on it in my sandbox, and get it into the same format as all the other pages. The way to stop wiki code functioning is to use the <nowiki> to stop it to start it again</nowiki>. Philc _T^E_C^I 14:21, 2 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

These thing don't show up on the page, if you click edit, to show everything including wiki-code things, you will see them at the beggining and end of the piece below. Philc _T^E_C^I 20:13, 6 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's come out fine below, where is the problem?

Ok, one thing is that once the tildes are converted to date and time etc. that is permanent, adding nowiki does not change it back, you have to put the nowiki things in place the first time you add the text. If you do this, it should come out fine. Philc _T^E_C^I 16:12, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've spoken to the user who proposed the article for deletion, it think he did it because he didnt realise you had removed the sentences that he was concerned with. We'll see how things pan out. Philc _T^E_C^I 16:21, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Claude, you're hitting all the keys to the right of the one you want. So all I'm geting is gibberish, e.g. from claude reads as gtp, v;sifr. Philc _T^E_C^I 17:38, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Blue links link to another article, red links link nowhere, which means either the article hasnt been created, or that it has a slightly different name. Philc _T^E_C^I 20:10, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

-Algorithms in Sam76

Claude, I have removed the {{prod}} from the article. And I have extended a thank you to Philc_0780 for reminding me about assuming good faith. Again, my apologies for jumping the gun. I'll add a few more constructive and appropriate tags to the article. I'm sure it will improve over time. -- MrDolomite | Talk 19:18, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Using Images

Ok there are two steps to using images. If you want to use an image already on wikipedia somewhere, and uploading your own images.

Uploading Images

This article is more comprehensive (Wikipedia, Uploading images) but I'll give you the basics.

When uploading images it's important that you are allowed to. If you took a photo, that is yours, and you can upload it. However images you find on the internet are generally not usable, and screenshots are allowed if they contribute well to the article, with accompanying text. If you want to know the case on a specific image, just ask for help.

Top upload an image in the toolbox bar on the right hand side of the page, click Upload file, or this link:Upload. Click browse and find the image, type the name you want it to have on wikipedia, the name should be either what it is, or what it will be used for on wikipedia, but keep it short, if you have something longer to say about the image, type it in the box marked Summary (author, source URL, {{tags}}, etc.) also type in that box, anything else you know about the image, eg the things mentioned (Summary, source). And select the appropriate liscence from the click down box, most liscences are pretty self explanatory.

Once you have uploaded the image, keep a note of its name, though if you forget its name, you can always find it by looking through here special:contributions.

Preferred formats are .svg and .png whilst .bmp does not work and .jpg or .jpeg is discouraged. Other extensions, I'm not sure about.

Using images in articles

To incoparate an image into an article is quite simple. Clicking the image button on the toolbar produces this code [[File:Bad Title Example.png]] which gives this image

An image of the wikipedia example image, to show your image just type the name of the image you want use (including file extension) in between the [[Image: and the close brackets ]].

You can manipulate images in certain ways, here are some examples

adding |thumb before the close brackets puts a small box around the picture
- subsequently adding | and any text puts a caption in that box
adding |20px before the close brackets limits the size of the image to a width of 20 pixels, change the number to whatever you want
adding |left or |right before the close brackets puts the image on the left or the right of the page.

here is a table of example codes and the images produced.

Image	Code
	[[Image:Example.jpg]]
	[[File:Bad Title Example.png\|150px]]
	[[File:Bad Title Example.png\|150px\|thumb]]
	[[File:Bad Title Example.png\|150px\|thumb\|right]]
caption text	[[File:Bad Title Example.png\|150px\|thumb\|right\| caption text]]

If you have any further questions, or need some specific help, or anything in fact, just contact me and I'll be happy to help. Yes, I see you noticed my love of football, I am addicted, it consumes a lot of my free time, I live to play it. And the recent world cup, is the higlight, but also a heartbreaker as england lost out on penalties again. Hope this all helps!Philc _T^E_C^I 00:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Globotype Message

Re: Your concerns about the message (in red) that I removed from your Globotype article:

The message was a reference to a deletion template (empty). "subst:empty template|You forgot to subst this template. Replace {{prod|reason}} with {{dated prod|concern = {{{concern|reason}}}|month = July|day = 13|year = 2006|time = 00:42}}"

I have copied ONLY the line of text that I deleted here and the template is also displayed. It was part of the deletion messages, and wasn't a reference to your jpg.--Dogfish 00:42, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS I just noticed that this may be taken as a valid proposed deletion of this page. Please delete it after you read it or I will remove it myself in a day or so...--Dogfish 00:46, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I escaped the template tags with the <nowiki> tag, which should take it off of the proposed deletion list. —C.Fred (talk) 05:04, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Fred... but now the message (in red) that he was concerned about (and would recognize) isn't displayed either. No need to put it back however... I think he's clear, if not I will show him in a sandbox when I visit him, sometime soon.--Dogfish 03:56, 15 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

hey claude

you still about? I havent heard from you in a long while. Philc _T^E_C^I 10:58, 25 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Rest in peace!

Rest in peace! Thanks for all your contributions! --Tito Dutta (contact) 00:01, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am years late. I feel sad how no one else ever came here, may you find peace. 125.63.125.252 (talk) 05:56, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Same here. Thanks for everything you have done, even if it has been a decade. The Corvette ZR1 (talk) 20:16, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]