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Unsigned comment by Jailerdaemon

go away charles —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jailerdaemon (talk • contribs) 19:05, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Who is Jailerdaemon (talk · contribs)? Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 20:21, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

I have removed the name as it could be considered a privacy violation. either way (talk) 22:33, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for stalking me. ;) -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 22:34, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Please remember:

“ Please use the {{Talkback}} template as so: {{Talkback|ElectricRush}} when you reply to one of my messages. I like to receive more messages. Math Cool 10 ^Sign! 01:34, 26 December 2008 (UTC) ”

Also, you said Wikipedia was blocked. How did you manage to gain access? Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 04:31, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, the talkback template causes confusion and trouble. And he unblocked Wikipedia because I needed it for my Islam review. -electricRush (T C) ^Sign! 04:56, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

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monobook.js

You should move

/* <pre> */
 
function welcome() {
 
    // Find the edit box
    var txt = document.editform.wpTextbox1;
 
    //The welcome template you are wanting to use
    var welcome_msg = 'User:ElectricRush/Welcome'
 
    // The code to be added to the page
    var tag = '{{'+'subst'+':'+ welcome_msg +'}}';
 
    // If the edit box doesn't already have this tag...
    if (txt.value.indexOf(tag) == -1) {
 
        // Append the tag
        txt.value += tag;
 
        // Add an edit summary
        document.editform.wpSummary.value = 'Welcome to Wikipedia!';    
 
        // Press the Save page button
        document.editform.submit();
    } 
 
    // If the tag was already there, turn the tab background red to indicate 
    // that the script is functioning properly, but that there is no action 
    // to do.  This doesn't interrupt the user's work like an alert() would.
    else {
        document.getElementById('ca-unverified').firstChild.style.backgroundColor = "#ff4444";
        document.getElementById('ca-unverified').style.backgroundColor = "#ff4444";
    }
}
 
// Create a tab that calls this function when pressed
addOnloadHook(function () {
    if(document.title.indexOf("Editing User talk:") == 0) {
        addPortletLink('p-cactions', 'javascript:welcome()', 'welcome', 'ca-welcome', 'Adds a welcome note to a new user', '', '');
    }
});
 
/* This is to keep track of who is using this extension: [[User:Nmajdan/welcome_newuser.js]] */
 
/* </pre> */

to somewhere like User:ElectricRush/Welcome New User.js, then add

importScript('User:ElectricRush/Welcome New User.js');

(or equivalent) to your monobook.js. This way the monobook.js stays cleaner. Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 05:12, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your suggestion, I'll do that. -electricRush (T C) ^Sign! 05:27, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Signature

For your signature, you could add {{subst:User:ElectricRush/Signature}} or whatever subpage you want for you signature into the signature box in "my preferences," then copy your signature into User:ElectricRush/Signature. This allows you to not have a signature length issue. Keep in mind that signatures should be (at most) 2-3 lines long. Hope you like my suggestion! Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 20:20, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, I will do that. -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 22:28, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Woohoo! Done! -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 22:33, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Seriously, stop imitating everything I do (such as using my warning templates, updating your signature to have your style match mine). It's annoying. Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 03:15, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

For the warning templates, I needed to have a reference. As for the signature, I recall that I had that style a long time ago, other than the Sign! thing. Anyways, you've copied my "Me on Other Wikimedia Projects" design and my bouncy wikipedia logo. -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 03:18, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Actually, I got the bouncy Wikipedia logo from another user's userpage (his/hers had a caption saying "The Wikimedia logo, except it usually doesn't bounce" or something of the sort). PLEASE USE THE {{Talkback}} TEMPLATE! Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 04:35, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Block tempates

I added some block templates that you can use to your user page. Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 20:51, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Block Me

{{helpme}} Could an admin please block me from editing pages other than those on my watchlist until January 17th, if possible? Otherwise, just block me until January 17th as I am not taking my wikibreak as I am supposed to. ;) -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 18:16, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Partial blocking is not possible yet, but check out the Wikibreak enforcer. NuclearWarfare _(Talk) 18:17, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the script! I've added it to my monobook.js. -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 18:38, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Aw... I can't log in now. -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 18:38, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Lol! But how were you able to reply then? Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 20:52, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I was using my IP like I am now. I just copied and pasted my signature. -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 18:38, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

Wikibreak Enforcer

{{helpme}} Hello, this is electricRush. Could someone please remove the wikibreak enforcer from my User:ElectricRush/monobook.js? I am too addicted... I have already contacted several administrators about this but they don't seem to want to respond. Thank you very much! 71.112.82.91 (talk) 04:33, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Are you absolutely sure? This could be your chance to break the habit--Jac16888 ^Talk 04:35, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes I am sure, there have been some edits to pages on my watchlist that I need to take care of. Thanks, 71.112.82.91 (talk) 04:37, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

haha, just went to go do it, turns out it was removed nearly 4 hours ago, [1].--Jac16888 ^Talk 04:40, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Seems like I need to purge it or something... Lol, I tried logging in 1 minute ago and it was still activated. Well thanks anyways. 71.112.82.91 (talk) 04:46, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Hmm... purging won't work. I guess I'll have to wait or try a different computer. 71.112.82.91 (talk) 04:48, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Resolved, thank you all again. -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 05:01, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Science Debate Forum

This invitation you have added to several user talk pages, including mine, is pure spam and not accepted on wikipedia. Please stop. --Bduke (Discussion) 08:00, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

It is not spam, and if you consider it an advertisement, I was informed that they are allowed on user talk pages. -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 22:40, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

It is spam!

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 22:49, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

That is not relevant. It is not spam because it was edited to a user talk page, not an article. -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 22:50, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

See here:

“

Adding external links to an article or user page for the purpose of promoting a website or a product is not allowed, and is considered to be spam. Although the specific links may be allowed under some circumstances, repeatedly adding links will in most cases result in all of them being removed. - Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming

”

Therefore, it is spam. Now please remove your spam! (Though I don't really care) Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 22:55, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Again, you are not being relevant. It states articles and user pages but not talk pages. -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 22:56, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

(reset) A user talk page is a user page. Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 23:08, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

User talk pages are free, you can remove comments but you are allowed to write anything on them other than profanity. -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 01:44, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Please do not add advertising or inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Vsmith (talk) 02:28, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Again, I question your relevance. The template was intended to warn users about placing links on articles, not talk pages. For example, it sates, "If you feel the link should be added to the article," which infers the template refers to the adding of links on an article. -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 02:31, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

ElectricRush, continue adding your spam to user talk pages and you will be blocked. It's that simple. Additionally, take it out of your signature as it is against our signature guidelines to have external links in a signature. either way (talk) 02:33, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Cool, the admin is not only stalking me, but threatening me using his power. ;) -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 02:35, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, that whole "looking at my watchlist" thing is really hard and involved. either way (talk) 02:38, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Well I have no beef with you. I'll stop promoting that board and make useful edits. And, if you blocked me, I would thank you for getting rid of my addiction. ;) -electricRush (T C)^Sign! 02:45, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

MfD nomination of User:ElectricRush/SDF

User:ElectricRush/SDF, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:ElectricRush/SDF and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of User:ElectricRush/SDF during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. either way (talk) 02:34, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Congratulations, you've been selected to receive a free Nintendo Wii. -electricRush | Sign! 02:39, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

I have deleted this page per speedy deletion criterion G11: blatant advertising. No matter how well-intentioned, promoting external websites is not permitted on Wikipedia.--Aervanath talks like a mover, but not a shaker 16:52, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

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Signature

Just to tell you, your signature should only be 2-3 lines long. Yours is 4 lines long, so I recommend shortening it. Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 23:06, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Maybe... -electricRush | Sign! 03:56, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

It's actually only three. -electricRush | Sign! 03:57, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

No, it's four, this is two people telling now that your signature is too long.— Dæ dαlus ^Contribs 09:20, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Well I've removed some useless stuff. Hope it's good enough... in my resolution it's three lines. -electricRush | Sign! 17:18, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

(reset) Move the ''' outside the links like this: -'''[[User:ElectricRush|electric]][[User talk:ElectricRush|Rush]]''' | '''[[User:ElectricRush/Guestbook|Sign!]]'''. Try making a redirect link for User:ElectricRush/Guestbook (such as User:ElectricRush/GB) and adding it to your sig. What's the  for? I don't see a  anywhere. Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 20:12, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the suggestion. -electricRush | Sign! 20:52, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

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AfD nomination of OGame

An article that you have been involved in editing, OGame, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/OGame (3rd nomination). Thank you. --Joshua Issac (talk) 18:34, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Logo

If you put "download" into your logo, why don't you change your name into download? It's not occupied and you can apply for a username change. Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 21:58, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes it is occupied. I have an usurpation request out. -electric Rush | Sign! 22:18, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Talk page archives

I suggest you either follow the directions correctly, or get a different archive bot, because this one isn't working. As you can probably see, your archives aren't archives, but rather a random listing of many, many articles in wikipedia.— Dæ dαlus ^Contribs 22:18, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

I messed it up myself. I'm fixing it. Thanks, -electric Rush | Sign! 22:20, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

You didn't mess it up. I think something's wrong with the bot. Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 22:54, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Yes I did mess it up. I changed a value so it's like it now. I changed it back but I'll have to wait until the bot scans this page again to fix it. -electric Rush | Sign! 23:03, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Re:Removing Name

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Edit notices

Do you like my edit notices (when you edit my user page or user talk page? (Note: use the {{Tb}} or {{Talkback}} notices when you reply on your talk page) Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 23:33, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Sure, keep on using them as I don't have your talk page watched. -electric Rush | Sign! 23:49, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

NO, I meant the stuff that shows up when you edit the page, not the {{Tb}} template. Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 01:52, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Oh, that. I like it, but it's pointless. -electric Rush | Sign! 02:26, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Do you want one? Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 03:48, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Feel free to make one for me if you want, but don't make me scroll down too much and don't make it too colorful. Thank you! -electric Rush | Sign! 03:57, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

(reset) Go to User:ElectricRush/Editnotice or the talk page equivalent to create one. Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 01:02, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Funny stuff

Look at the "funny stuff" page on my navigator. Just go to my user page and click on "Funny Stuff." If it doesn't show up, click the "Purge this page" link. Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 23:46, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

You copied my 'purge this page' link. -down load | Sign! 23:57, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

No I didn't, I had it when I created my navigator. Math Cool 10 ^{Sign here!} 01:53, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Random image

{{helpme}} Is there a way to display a random image, selected from a list of images, every time you visit a page? It would be very helpful for me. Thanks, -down load | Sign! 00:54, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

I don't know of any particular template that does this but here is the link for randomly accessing freely licensed Wikipedia images http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random/Image and here's the one for random Commons images (all 3,841,889 of them): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Random/Image Someone better than me at coding would probably be able to make a template that automatically displays the images each time you visit your userpage. I'll leave up the helpme template to see if someone knows of an existing way to do this.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:35, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Thanks a lot of the insight. It would be very cool if a template could be created that does that. -down load | sign! 01:36, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

(e/c)x2 Since a lot of people have seen this and not answered, I figured I'd do the next best thing. You'd have to go into your monobook and input the code to do it there - yes, it is possible, I just don't know CSS well enough to tell you how to do it. Not {{tl}}'ing this because it is not really answered. — neuro^(talk) 01:37, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Just a question; if I add the code to my monobook.js, is the random image still visible by other people without the code? Thanks, -down load | sign! 01:39, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

I was just wondering about that. A CSS change, I think, would only be for your own display and not allow others to see, which may have been the point.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:42, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

(reset) That was the point :). Well I'll bring this up on the village pump and see what happens. -down load | sign! 01:45, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

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