User talk:Wodgester/Archive 1
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Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (November 4)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Center Parcs Sherwood Forest (December 29)
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October 2018
Hello, I'm L293D. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to 25th Armoured Engineer Brigade Royal Engineers— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help Desk. Thanks. L293D (☎ • ✎) 18:34, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
- Really sorry, that was my bad. L293D (☎ • ✎) 18:45, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
- Right-o, thanks for the quick response. I don't suppose you could possibly explain to me what "self-closing the nowiki tag" means? Wodgester (talk) 18:51, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
- The
<nowiki/>
is an HTML tag that disables MediaWiki automatic formatting. The idea of a HTML tag is that you wrap text between, say<small>....</small>
tags that looks like Text instead of Text. There's an opening tag (<small>
) and a closing tag (</small>
). a self-closed tag is a tag that closes itself (<nowiki/>
), notice the difference in the placement of the/
. I know I don't explain very well but its complicated. PS: the wikicode I've typed to explain is full of nowik and code tags to try and make it clearer, don't try to understand it from the code view. L293D (☎ • ✎) 02:12, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
- The
- Right-o, thanks for the quick response. I don't suppose you could possibly explain to me what "self-closing the nowiki tag" means? Wodgester (talk) 18:51, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
- Really sorry, that was my bad. L293D (☎ • ✎) 18:45, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
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Your submission at Articles for creation: Paul Gitsham (June 26)
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Law of triviality
Re: [1] can we spend six months and involve a hundred editors in discussing whether that's the right image of a bike shed to use? Maybe we can go to arbcom with it! :) --Guy Macon (talk) 08:21, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
- Take it all the way to the Supreme Court, I reckon. Reading that article, talkspace tomfoolery suddenly makes a lot more sense...! Merry Christmas, friend (if that's your cup of tea). Wodgester (talk) 14:51, 17 December 2020 (UTC)