Hello, Hotclaws**==, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! — QuantumEleven | (talk)17:00, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi there! I see you've been quite active on the Reference Desk - great to have you around! Just one small thing - could you please sign your posts using four tildes (like this: ~~~~)? That will produce an automatic signature like the rest of us use (such as mine at the end of this message), with a timestamp (so we know when you wrote your message), and a link to your user page (so people can easily leave you messages). You can always customise your signature if you don't like the default one, check out Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages for more info. If you've got any questions, don't hesitate to drop by my talk page and leave me a message. — QuantumEleven | (talk)17:00, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Well hiya, i saw some of your editson the ref desk and found your answers very amusing or insightful. I asked the question on how to cantact you. So here i am. I dont have a talk page as i cant sign in so... But was just wondering what country you were in?
hope your camomile lawn does well this summer, take it easy lady. Anton14:43, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I have noticed that you have been posting comments on the reference desks, but you have not been using bullet points. Unfortunately if you do not use bullet points or leave a blank line between the last comment and your own, the two comments merge and it becomes difficult to see who has left which message.
To leave a bullet like this, please leave a star * at the start of the section of text.
To leave an invisible bullet point, place a colon : at the start of the section of text.
Finally, to start a numbered list, place a hash sign # at the start of the section of text.
Would you be willing to change your signature, to exclude the two = signs? The reference desk archival bot, reads your signature as if it were a question title, and indexes your username, along with the other question titles (: as you can see here --VectorPotentialTalk22:57, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Even better, would you consider changing your signature to this: hotclaws**== , that way it would appear the same, but without the extra set of consecutive = signs, the bot wouldn't mistake your username for a question title--VectorPotentialTalk14:32, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please go into Special:Preferences and paste [[User:Hotclaws**==|hotclaws**=<b></b>=]] into the Signature box, then check the Raw signature box, finally scroll down to the bottom and hit save, thank you--VectorPotentialTalk23:04, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This is a very minor change, and your signature will appear exactly the same, the advantage being that I won't have to manually correct every single archive page to remove your signature from the index of question titles--VectorPotentialTalk11:16, 26 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
into the signature box, then check the box underneath it, that says 'raw signature', press save, and that should be it--VectorPotentialTalk13:07, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You answered a desperately wordy and convoluted series of questions on the Ref Desk (Humanities) as follows: tl;dr. I get the joke about contrasting brevity, but can't work out what the code might mean (somewhat like the question, which may be the point, now that I consider it). If there is a "long form", I would appreciate a translation. Thank you ៛ Bielle (talk) 19:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
For your unique talent for reductive RD answers that see it all in a dewdrop and how well it works, I award you Hotclaws**== this, the minimaliser's Barnstar. Julia Rossi (talk) 09:00, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
... I think that's what you call them! Your recent (pithy and witty) edits to the reference desk seem to show up as block quotes (with broken lines around them and what not) I have no idea how to fix them :-) but I reckon It's to do with not using colons to indent the comments. It could, of course be just my browser (Firefox).Fribbler (talk) 00:28, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
It's because he/she puts a space in front of every comment. The edits are not really pithy or witty, by the way; don't you have anything useful to contribute? Adam Bishop (talk) 04:46, 12 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
