User talk:Earldouglas
Welcome!
[edit]Hello, Jamestastic, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially your edits to Monad (functional programming). I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Problem with your custom signature
[edit]You have a custom signature set in your account preferences. A change to Wikipedia's software has made your current custom signature incompatible with the software.
The problem: Your preferences are set to interpret your custom signature as wikitext. However, your current custom signature does not contain any wikitext.
The solutions: You can reset your signature to the default, or you can fix your signature.
- Solution 1: Reset your signature to the default:
- Find the signature section in the first tab of Special:Preferences.
- Uncheck the box (☑︎→☐) that says "Treat the above as wiki markup."
- Remove anything in the Signature: text box. (It might already be empty.)
- Click the blue "Save" button at the bottom of the page. (The red "Restore all default settings" button will reset all of your preference settings, not just the signature.)
- Solution 2: Fix your custom signature:
- Find the signature section in the first tab of Special:Preferences.
- Uncheck the box (☑︎→☐) that says "Treat the above as wiki markup."
- Click the blue "Save" button at the bottom of the page.
More information about custom signatures is available at Wikipedia:Signatures#Customizing how everyone sees your signature. If you have followed these instructions and still want help, please leave a message at Wikipedia talk:Signatures. 19:04, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
Special:WantedTemplates
[edit]Hi, I have been helping with an effort to clear up false-positives in Special:WantedTemplates and found that 22 of the entries can be traced back to User:Earldouglas/vis.js. For example, if you check Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Dom: Object, domProps: Object, emitter: Emitter, you will see that the server is reporting that vis.js is transcluding that template. Clearly this is a quirk in how the backend software parses javascript pages, but it makes it harder to find the real problem pages. It would be great if you could put
// <syntaxhighlight lang=javascript>
at the top of the script and
// </syntaxhighlight>
at the bottom of the page. Since these are commented out, it won't break the javascript, but it will prevent the backend software from parsing the {{dom: Object, domProps: Object, emitter: Emitter}}
as a template transclusion. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:43, 3 February 2021 (UTC)