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#Lists of townlands. 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 {{db-attack}} on Caroline Kolada just now, but there are two other things to do with an attack page:

• 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.
  

Another tip: you can save a few keystrokes by using {{db-atk}}. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:19, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

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 Spitfire^Tally-ho! 19:38, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

File source problem with File:1842 Ordanance Survey Ireland of Johnville.jpg

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