Some time ago you helped improve the article Photosynthetic reaction centre to bring it to featured article standard. The article never became featured, probably because it's too obscure, so now I want to merge it with photosynthesis and then eventually rewrite that whole article. Few people have heard of reaction centres, but the majority of people have heard of photosynthesis, so this is probably a better candidate for a featured article. I just wondered if you would like to help merge the two articles appropriately.
Thanks. --Miller17:05, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, Smurrayinchester, nice user/talk/quote page. You really do seem to have a knack for creating original and catchy userpage designs. <Not meant sarcastically, by the way. :)> Anyway, I'm back from Wikibreak and I didn't know who to tell. Hehe ;). See you around! Igor the Lion(Roar!)23:50, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
P.S. Incidentally, what's your name? So I don't have to type SMURRAYINCHESTRER every time I write you. Hehe :) Not that you have to give it if you're, um,... secretive about it. It's just, you know, like - ach! You get the point.
By the way, you can put your sig in your userspace (ex. [[User:Smurrayinchester/sig]]) and instead of typing all those lines of text into the signature box in Preferences, you need only input {{User:Smurrayincheter/sig}} e voila! No more four lines of code that eat up space in text boxes. Igor the Lion(Roar!)23:56, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oh my, Wikipedia never stays the same, does it? You're right about the sig - didn't notice that. Though it is quite cumbersome to view or scroll down four lines of code. After all the fuss they made last year about long sigs, you'd think they'd have thought up new ways to shorten them. Oh well. Gotta move on. :) Igor the Lion(Roar!)13:20, 13 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Must... fight... intertia. 'I hope that it's not discouraging to see yourlittle seed of a DFA nomination just lying there, unloved. There appears to be some underlying level of opposition that I hadn't counted on in light of how minor an item it is. I'd still like to see you put through the wringer on this, so if you're keen and your nominator's didn't mind, getting them to contribute (or copy/paste even) would be great. I'm going to continue trying to see this get a decent try-out rather than seeing it simply wither on the vine. - brenneman{T}{L}03:47, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I see you've been modifying Upawinner to get it so that a user's real name appears on their talk page and not just {{PAGENAME}}. I just thought I'd add a couple of comments:
I've got another problem, which has been bugging me for some time, but up to now, it was not so immediate; now, it is. The navigation thingummy at the top of my pages doesn't seem to want to let itself be centered, no matter what I do. Could you help me with that?
I'm short of time, so I've fixed the box on some of your subpages, but on the others, just "align=center" to the line of code that controls the white box around the contents ("<table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="2" ''add the "align=center" here'' style="background: cornflowerblue; position: relative; float: center; align: center">"). That should fix it. smurrayinchester(User), (Talk)08:23, 15 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, I'm in the middle of creating a bot and designing its userpage. To keep with the theme, I'd like to change around the heading CSS and possibly add a form box to my talk page, so that comments get added in a unique way. Are either of these possible? - ElAmericano (dímelo) 19:05, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The problem I'm having is that—because my talk bg is semi-transparent black—I can't see any headings (h2, h3, etc.). Also, I'd like to get rid of the line below them and make the font about equal with the text font. As to the form box, what I had in mind is that the user enters his comment there (like he was "cat"ting or appending his message to the terminal), and it appears on the comment page, maybe even without a subject. Is this at all possible? - ElAmericano (dímelo) 20:05, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hello Smurrayinchester, it is my apologies to bring you that I've withdrawn my RFA. Due to the lack of experience, I would go under admin coaching first before trying again later. I would thank you for your vote in this RFA whether you voted support, oppose or neutral for me. I appericiate your comments (if you do have) you made and I hope to see you here in future. --Terence Ong14:28, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! As your RfA is closing today and it doesn't seem like a hundred anti-Smurray activists will be marching into your nomination page, I'll take the liberty of saying Congratulations! ahead of time. May you have many happy returns to this day! Make sure to abuse use your power at every opportunity wisely; now you can start making life terrible for newbies vandals! Hehe :) Way to go! Congrats once again! Igor the Lion(Roar!)12:51, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations. I've just seen one of your thank you banners at User_talk:Pegasus1138 and unfortunately you've been linking to your old RFA which did not succeed! You also didn't sign. I thought you might like to know, perhaps a sly correction would be in order :) --kingboyk19:27, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Although I didn't make my feelings known (because, as I said at DfA, we haven't interacted and I just didn't know enough), congrats and best wishes just the same. No reply necessary. ++Lar: t/c20:36, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! -- Francs200017:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations! I've just remembered, you asked for me to look at your CSS - I'll let you know my thoughts. Another thing - I've asked a few people for this but they all seem to be away! I'm developing my caction JS and need the source code that admins get to give them protect, delete, block etc. buttons on a page. Could you please point your browser at a user page, view the source and e-mail me the code from <div id="p-cactions"> to the end of that div? Many thanks. haz (user talk)e20:01, 19 March 2006
Congrats from me, too. If you need any help wielding the mop, don't hesitate to drop me a note - though I'm sure you'll be a great admin without any help! Grutness...wha?06:08, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
That should give quite a nice effect. Otherwise, pretty good! (I would steal it, but I'm using IE...) haz (user talk)e20:28, 19 March 2006
Version 2 of my caction tool has now been released for admins (with your help - thanks!). To change to the new version, add the following lines to your monobook.js
{{subst:js|User:Haza-w/cactions.js}}
var ctIsAdmin = 1;
and then purge the browser cache by hitting Ctrl-F5. Please report any bugs to me. Thanks.
Also, could you please do one more favour for me? On protected pages, such as the Main Page, does the "protect" tab change to "unprotect" or not? Also, what about semi-protected pages, such as Wikipedia:Hangman? Thanks again! haz(user talk)13:56, 20 March 2006
Hi Smurrayinchester. I think you reported the "whitespace" bug in the caction tool, whereby a large blank area was added at the end of every page. I'm glad to inform you that the bug has been fixed. If you find any more bugs, please report them. It may help to check the buglist at User:Haza-w/Caction tool. Thanks again. haz(user talk)16:45, 20 March 2006
One final request. Could you please go to a page which has been deleted, such as User:Haza-w/cactions_lowres.js, and e-mail me the source code of the cactions toolbar (<div id="p-cactions" etc.) to include the undeletion tab? (Assuming of course that admins get one. It's really hard developing for something you can't see!)
Also, I didn't really understand your feature request about editing section 0. Please explain it more simpler! (Layman's terms always work the best in my case, especially on a Monday.) haz(user talk)21:11, 20 March 2006
I fixed the watch button bug in the last 30 seconds (!) after Nightstallion reported it. Ctrl-F5 should do the trick. Cheers ;-) haz(user talk)11:00, 21 March 2006
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Hey Smurray, (or whatever you're nicknamed : P) just dropped by to congratulate you on your recent promotion to admin, good luck with your up mop! I also came by to say thank you for helping with Portal:Pokémon FPC, it's much better thanks to your help, Thanks much and good luck, Highway00:16, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Time to test that "delete" link! Now that the new script has been rolled out, could you please delete User:Haza-w/Interiot2.js? Thanks! (Stayed up 'til 2 last night doing English language coursework... ¦-Ozzz ...) haz(user talk)11:12, 22 March 2006
Hi Smurrayinchester! Thank you for supporting my RfA. It passed at 105/1/0, putting me in WP:100 - I'm delighted and surprised! I'm always happy to help out, so if you need anything, please drop me a line. Cheers! ➨ ❝REDVERS❞19:58, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi! I'm new to wiki-formatting and wanted to jazz up my user page somewhat. I was going to ask you to help through the project at Esperanza, but wanted to learn a bit of mark-up myself - in the end I took the code for your page and played about with it to see how it worked, and made the page at User:Aquilina/Sandbox. I just wondered if you minded me temporarily using this as my userpage until I learn more and can alter it more for myself? I've changed a few things, but it's still noticeably from your design. If I did use it, I would put your name on it for due credit! If you'd rather I didn't use it though, that's absolutely no problem - I learnt a lot by experimenting! Many thanks, Aquilina20:25, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Many thanks! I've got the user page and talk page up and running now with a few extra modifications, I'll do the rest in the next few days. Thanks again! Aquilina13:12, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Greetings, Smurrayinchester/Archive 4. The judges would like to announce that the winner for the Esperanza User Page Contest has been chosen. Congratulations to Sango123 for winning the contest. The winning entry can be found here.
Thanks for updating DYK, but from watching the process as a non-admin, I think you're supposed to work backwards from the older stuff on the waiting list. Also, I had deliberately created two of swimming articles on different days so that they could both included, because the guidelines suggest that one shouldn't have two articles of the same topic in the same update, but you included Frank Beaurepaire and Michelle Ford, both which I created as swimming bios in anyway :) ! Cheers.ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me00:53, 3 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Aww thank you, you've brightened up my day Smur. I've seen you around as well, I hold you in high regard. If you need any help with Nintendo articles, or anything else, just message me. Thank you again, HighwayRainbow Sneakers21:19, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
