User talk:42.book.addict

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introductions

Just replying to your message (also dw no big deal for bothering me) You click on your username and there should be an edit box. --1234231587678 (talk) 04:58, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

it says that i dont have permission to create the page…

There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, or search the related logs, but you do not have permission to create this page. it says 42.book.addict (talk) 19:33, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

I think you might have to wait some time (like a timer) until you can edit your own page... I think I only got to edit my page after 1 month of creating my account.--1234231587678 (talk) 21:31, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

ok, thx 42.book.addict (talk) 21:52, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

My guess on where you live is somewhere in the GMT zone, so United Kingdom.--1234231587678 (talk) 03:43, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

nope, im a california girl :) (talk) 05:04, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

lol you never know with utc times --1234231587678 (talk) 16:52, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Depends what you wanted to do...

Is the following what you intended?

	[[This user is trans.]]

...or is even the [[]] part not what you want?

	This user is trans.

As brief a guide as I can manage:

• URL links use []. Although literal https://www.google.com will self-link without any wikimarkup, you probably don't want it to look like that most of the time.
  • Just give the URL, as in [https://www.google.com], to get a [1] (i.e. a reference number), not the best way to do it. It can be organised better with a 'References' section, but we don't do that here (they do on wikipedia, but usually with other bits to it.
  • Better to give the URL and the text to use (after a space, a character that never appears raw in any proper URL). This can be [https://www.google.com Check It Out On Google!] or even [https://www.google.com https://www.microsoft.com (only kidding!)], to give Check It Out On Google! or https://www.microsoft.com (only kidding!)... But perhaps best not to do the latter too much (I really didn't want to post that without the "(only kidding!)" part, in fact.)
• Internalised wikilinks use the [[]]s.
  • Anything that can be found under the title, e.g. "2: Petit Trees (sketch)" (or, because of redirections, "2" and "Petit Trees (sketch)" go to the same spot, so [[2]], [[Petit Trees (sketch)]] and [[2: Petit Trees (sketch)]] gives you the literal links 2, Petit Trees (sketch) and 2: Petit Trees (sketch)
  • Or use [[2: Petit Trees (sketch)|that comic with the little trees]], additional text separated by the 'pipe' symbol (i.e. "|"), to link to that comic with the little trees
  • You can also link across to articles on other 'wikimedia family' sites, but I'm not going to try to summarise that, as the primary reason to do that is to go to an actual Wikipedia article, and there's a template set up to do that very nicely, already (and also a few other places, like Wiktionary, and some not-really-wikis with a similar philosphy like TVTropes). If in doubt, do it as a URL link or find a place where someone else has clearly markuped a link to the same site as you want to link to.
• So, anyway, Wikilink templates use the {{w}}-template, with one or two paramaters (pipe-separated). (It shortcuts the thing you'd maybe use [[]]s for
  • Using {{w|article}} gives you a link to "Article" (it capitalises the first character, even if you don't)
  • Using {{w|article|with alternate text}} gives you a link there but "with alternate text"
  • If the article name has whitespace (or other 'URL-unfriendly' characters) in it, those characters in the URL (which you wouldn't want to use) will be rendered as something URL-friendly. The URL for "Whitespace (programming language)", for example, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language) but you wouldn't normally use that so literally in any case, and definitely not when you can significanty shorten it with the {{w}} notation.
    • What you can do is (without 'alternate link text') render it as {{w|Whitespace_(programming_language)}} - i.e. Whitespace_(programming_language) - but that's not nice to see 'rendered raw' when you want the spaces. You could give it alternate text via {{w|Whitespace_(programming_language)|Whitespace (programming language)}} to give Whitespace (programming language) ...but that's wasteful and unnecessary.
    • Instead, just do {{w|Whitespace (programming language)}} (that's the literal copy of the article's own page title, from the rendered page) - and shows as Whitespace (programming language) - which is good. Although {{w|Whitespace (programming language)|the programming language called Whitespace}} might be the best way to seemlessly link to the programming language called Whitespace ...depends what you want to appear there.
    • And you can link to header anchors pretty much like the URL of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)#History by using {{w|Whitespace (programming language)#History|the history of Whitespace}} to have you show the history of Whitespace or whatever else you might want to use.
  • Also, for the use of a link which is singular but which you would like to include as the plural (usually the "...s" or "...es" version), you could use article-name first parameter and pluralised article name as second, but instead of {{w|Plural|Plurals}}, for a link to the Plurals, you can save yourself a lot of effort by doing {{w|Plural}}s to also give you a linke to Plurals. Magic, eh? And it also works with {{w|Ox}}en to link the different standard plural of Oxen to the article for "Ox" (better than linking to the word for Oxen, which ends up redirecting to Ox anyway).

...so, anyway, that's the basics. And a few not-so-basics. So if the solutions to your tagging issue aren't already solved (or even if they are!), you might have enough info here to kludge it into whatever form of infobox info text you really wanted to use. Ok? Probably far too much info for you to absorb in one go, but covers loads of interesting possibilities. About the only thing you don't want to do is wikilink straight to the word "trans", at that'll be a disambiguation page. And there's also no way (or reason?) to use the terms "trans man"/"trans woman" as the pluralised "trans men"/"trans women" versions via the "directly add the plural suffix" thing, of course. :P Anyway, FYI. 162.158.38.217 20:40, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

oh my god thank you so much 42.book.addict (talk) 19:38, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

You're doing several edits of signed Talk contributions.

Don't do that. Insofar as any edit 'belongs' to anyone, if you write a contribution to a Talk page (or the community portal) and sign it properly, and it isn't actual span or vandalism or similar idiocy, then you don't expect someone to 'correct' what you wrote.

In at least one case, you didn't even understand it enough to correct it (by the standards of your own attempted correction). So perhaps just a better idea not to. 141.101.98.87 22:54, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

I’m cleaning up the maintenance pages and I did those edits so that we don’t have dead links on the wiki. 42.book.addict (talk) 01:07, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

also, I’ve added a comment clarifying the ^{[citation needed]} thread 42.book.addict (talk) 01:26, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

There are plenty of dead links. Sometimes for practical reasons. I note that you have done a lot of editing, recently, and cleaning up articles is good, but I think you're being told that you're taking it too far to mess with other people's words that are supposed to be their own, rather than the more collaborative pages.

For the Citation needed, perhaps the editor did not want that page to have a "Pages with Citation Needed" link to it (could have used the more literal ^{[Citation needed]}, or similar). Or perhaps they didn't even want the meta-tag appearing in superscript and italics at all. You don't know their mind.

For the Padlock, the (apparent) original author came back and corrected your so-called correction back again. Not reason to be edited, anyway, even if they hadn't been sure what they intended. (I note some minor typos in that explanation. But I wouldn't dive in and make such corrections either, in a Talk namespace page like that.) Trivial, and not your concern anyway. 172.70.86.131 07:22, 24 September 2024 (UTC)

Duly noted. 42.book.addict (talk) 17:10, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

CG acounts

Hi 42.

I have now had time to look into the whole CG account situation and have reacted and commented both to them and to the message on my talk page. Thanks for the good work. I will give the CG a week to react. Then I will decide next week what to do about them based on their reactions. You are welcome to let me know if they do something stupid in the mean time and also if you know of more CG accounts than the ones I have been alerted to (as seen in my newest reply.)

I did change your talk page because it was made so it was easy to see what comments where left but hard to find them. And it also hid new edits and I do not think a users talk page should hide what people have written, also not if complaints. Seems you have been editing a bit too much on talk pages... But also that you have learned what not to edit?

Best regards --Kynde (talk) 10:48, 29 September 2024 (UTC

Great-glad that’s resolved. I changed back the “hidden comments” thing because it doesn’t make it impossible to access again-you just need to scroll down and click “old squabbles”. I have made a habit of moving comments out of it whenever I receive a message-that’s less tedious than having such a long and irrelevant talk page. 42.book.addict (talk) 15:30, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

It's apparently that different CGs are in charge of different parts of the wiki. e. g. GonscriptGuide and GonscriptGlossary are for language-related pages. 172.69.194.71 02:53, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

I want to re-raise and join the concern raised by others that the "hidden comments" / "old squabbles" thing is a bad idea, and possibly completely unacceptable. It makes your page hard to navigate and unlike every other Talk page, and generally makes it impossible to find things for anyone not extremely familiar with your particular mechanism, which seems to be unique to you. Even knowing you have an "old squabbles" link to click, I have trouble finding it and get annoyed and frustrated, and that makes me annoyed and frustrated with you, even if I should not be. I do not think you want people annoyed and frustrated with you. I strongly recommend you remove it. Put your "old squabbles" on an archive page or remove them entirely, but please don't veil them in this fashion. Thank you. JohnHawkinson (talk) 21:54, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi, personally I don't really give a shit about the "old squabbles" like I see why people are annoyed by it (see one of the converstions in "old squabbles) but I don't really see why its a a big deal. This is what I'd do. If you REALLY don't wanna get rid of it, I would make it bigger, like a heading, and put it were the "old squabbles" used to be. That way if someones looking for it, the link is obvious and is were the origanals used to be. I think that would be a pretty good compromise, but you can take what I've said with a grain of salt as I'm not one of the people whom have a problem with it. Apollo11 (talk) 14:02, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Alsos just saw your break post, good for you!! :) Apollo11 (talk) 14:07, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Archived. 42.book.addict (talk) 17:17, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Adding the "please sign"/etc comments.

I really wasn't suggesting that anyone go into every Talk page and 'update' it just with the guide comment. It's the kind of thing I have tried to do if I (think I) have good cause to be editing the page (usually to fix someone's very recent non-signing).

Like I said, it's all just a partial/sticking-plaster solution, and often enough seems not to be read/remembered anyway. The returns on blanket-editing pretty much everything are low, probably not really worth spending your time on. (Something else may 'need' to be done tomorrow, which means loads of premature edits were done that could have waited a bit longer and saved server-resources.) You're eager to help, I know that. You might be being overeager. Pace youself, perhaps? ;) 141.101.98.23 18:23, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

didn't your user page originally say she/they?

Why did you remove it Caliban (talk) 06:58, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Does it matter? Anyone can say anything and (page history aside) unsay anything. It shouldn't bother you to have been said, nor to have had it (and anything else) removed.

42: Sorry to interject before you do. You can remove this bit (definitely my reply, if not CC's whole question) if you consider it an issue not worth persisting on your pages. 141.101.99.202 08:23, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

What I put on my user page my choice. I can remove it if I want, I can add things if I want. If you want to know the reason why, please check the editing history of my user page. Thanks, 141.101.99.202. 42.book.addict (talk) 15:20, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

I can't edit it, myself, so...

In this edit, you shuffled up a 'demonstration' version of {{Citation needed}} into the preceding word, as if it were an actual one rather than a demonstrative one. Actually, I think that the proper change would be to (with a space to both sides) make it {{template|Citation needed}}, like I did just here, but I'll let you decide. 172.70.90.108 05:42, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Oops. Fixed now. 42.book.addict (talk) 18:02, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

User talk page deletion

Hi.

Why do you want to delete my talk page? [2] --Pere prlpz (talk) 22:53, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi, sorry. I was looking through Sqrt-1’s contributions since they had a habit of creating pages purely to not have a red link. I was looking though their old edits and tagging any unused and unnecessary user/talk pages with Category:Pages to delete. I’ll revert it, if you wish. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 22:57, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Never mind, you’ve already reverted it. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 23:13, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

11th place

You are almost entering the All Time leaderboard. ChristmasGospel (talk) 20:56, 29 November 2024 (UTC)