User talk:Dbroadwell

Status

There is no status. If you are here because some guy in IRC pissed you off, or you are protesting a block, please consider that the universe does not revolve around you.

Distributeapedia

Pretty much everything I wanted to do weith this will be handled in time with the electronic distribution of the print version ... and my time ran out, so the only part remaining that I'd like to do is a lightweight on demand linkbot. Again, time permitting.

Review and consensus

Use these resources to get a community consensus on an article:

1. Peer review (WP:PR)- currently underutilized but still very useful
2. WikiProject Fact and Reference Check (WP:FACT) - it needs a certain level of correctness
3. Forum for Encyclopedic Standards (WP:FES)- it needs to be an encyclopedia article
4. Featured article candidates (WP:FAC)- which allows articles to become featured (WP:FA)- or that they are the best articles on Wikipedia.

See also

• Wikipedia:Association of Pedantic Wikipedians
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Fact and Reference Check
• User:Andrewa/Wikipedia approval mechanism
• meta:Category:Article_validation

Dev workflow

The core mediawiki devs generally use test machines at home for anything substantial. I'm usually working on scripts related to bulk batch jobs and I do that directly on the main production servers, though sometimes there's enough bulk editing that I do that at home because I have nicer tools there. Any of us with root server access can at times directly patch the production Mediawiki source code on the live site to deal with a problem. We can use a test wiki and/or confine changes to the code to specific servers when we need an isolated test setup. Similarly, for new release rollout, that is set to affect a gradually increasing number of projects as it's rolled out, not all at once. I expect that everyone uses SSH and SCP to copy things back and forth - SSH (Putty on Windows) is mandatory for access to the servers, for security reasons. We simply don't connect without it unless it's completely dead on all servers we can use to get in. And even then we'd likely want to connect via an SSH shell to the console server to get to a plain login prompt via it. Jamesday 02:52, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Silent Mongoose:

Just been busy with school. In my last semester at HCC (fl) and transfering to USF next semester for all of the fun EE classes. Don't worry, I didn't die of attrition. - Dbroadwell 22:58, 10 November 2005 (UTC) P.S. I like the counter vandalism logo, sorry i haven't gotten more of the queued bot processing running. - Dbroadwell 23:02, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Ah glad to hear you are somewhere. :) --Cool Cat ^Talk 12:27, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

Untagged logo

No idea what Image:Nohat-logo-nowords-bgwhite-200px.gif should be tagged with, but it should have something... Stan 05:19, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

vapor pressure

Just to let you know that I've added a few words in response to your question on vapor pressure. Arbitrary username 14:56, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

vandal

Contact an admin then, and I also lack block powers. +Hexagon1 (talk) 05:23, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Brookie blocked him for 24 hrs though. +Hexagon1 (talk) 11:45, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Hello

How do i put my talk after my sig? How do i put other things after my sig? Scoobydude94 22:03, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

You responded to my request for help...

...Just wanted to confirm that you were able to see the edit section lins on my userpage (not talk page). I've tested it in IE and Firefox at two different resolutions, and nothing changes. Thanks, -Reuvenk_{T C E} 01:04, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks anyway. Still no section edit links. I'll try the village pump. -Reuvenk_{T C E} 14:08, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Norbert2000

I've unblocked him since he didn't see the warnings. Thanks for responding to his helpme request. --GraemeL ^(talk) 23:44, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

re: User talk:ThistheWOman

Thanks for the kind words. Jkelly 02:16, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

re: help

I recieved the help i needed, thanx.

Help me

Thank you for your response. I think I understand. How do I fix the template? Parliament of Owls 02:43, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Thank you! I'll try not to do any more "super silly edits," though. :) Parliament of Owls 02:53, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

lol...Thanks for brightening my day! Now, why am I suddenly tempted to make an article about my girlfriend's cat...? *grin* Parliament of Owls 09:40, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

ΨÁŘŇįñĢ

This box raked soon. -- ∞Wirelain 06:19, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Very soon -- ∞Wirelain 06:21, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

If/Then/Else

Oops, I don't think I made myself clear. I was looking for conditional templates that worked in wikipedia. Ones that tested something and output something if it was one thing and something different if it was something else, all within wikipedia. (This has nothing to do with botting and editing) All evaluation occurs as the page is created--SomeStranger (T | C) 03:28, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

• Nevermind, I added my own to the wiki. They work as follows:

{{if|{{ifeq|dog|dog}}|It's equal|It's not}}

{{if|{{ifeq|cat|dog}}|It's equal|It's not}}

See =)

Image:970 WFLA LOGO SUV.jpg

Since this is not directly an image of the logo, but a photo taken by you, there's no need to tag it as fair use, you can instead release it under a different (free) license. See image copyright tags for image creators or ask me on my talk page if you need help. --Fritz S. (Talk) 12:33, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, CC's Share Alike license is perfect. --Fritz S. (Talk) 14:28, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Just wanted to let you know that there's currently a discussion about the legal aspect of photos that feature copyrighted logos here... --Fritz S. (Talk) 16:14, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

thanks!

Hi, thanks for answering my call for help. I'm still not sure what the problem is, so I can't really be sure what I'm looking for in a "template". Can you give me another clue? Thanks again =D --HiTrish 06:38, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

The Tours page, on my browser, is blank except for the bar on the right of the page where the stats live. At least on my browser, I must scroll down to the map, Location within France, to begin reading the text. Thanks. --HiTrish 03:16, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. WinXP 2002 SP2, IE 6.0 --HiTrish 17:03, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Idea

The idea is for a new Wikimedia project that I would help to undertake.

WikiScores...for distribution of public domain Music Scores. GregMinton 02:36, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

And I simply need help as to who to ask about this... GregMinton

Nope, none of those are what I'm talking about. I'm talking about actual scores of music...like a public domain score of Beethoven's 7th, for instance. GregMinton 03:03, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thank you for answering my question. However, is there any software that can convert maths equation to wikipedia language?Fufu Fang 21:01, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Vitsoe

Thank you for the help. I updated the page on a temporary page - why is the copyright page still live? The directions do not show what is needed. I have ensured that all information is owned by us and that the page is not an advertisement. Are there other issues?

Many thanks

Vitsoe 13:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

helpme

When I said "removed", I meant, can I remove it from my log? Green caterpillar 20:01, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Old IfD logs

Why should these be deleted after you blanked them? Maybe we should keep them as logs of old discussions. Kusma (討論) 00:09, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I tried to start a discussion at WP:AN about what should be done and whether the logs that were deleted should be undeleted. Kusma (討論) 00:26, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

I have taken the discussion to the IfD talk page. Kusma (討論) 01:01, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Your mistake was a very reasonable one to make. Thanks for helping with the cleanup! Kusma (討論) 03:57, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the box help

This subject is also being discussed in more detail at the Psychology Wiki.

It looks much better now, and the text wraps properly if I use a boxtop and boxbottom template too. Here is the final version:

Thanks again, Mostly Zen 11:45, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Happy (Belated) Birthday

I present you with these balloons to celebrate your birthday. I hope you have a great day. Killfest2 (Talk)

Thanks

I looked there before but didn't find any information on the issue of color change. thanks for your help anyway. :) --Exteray® 20:58, 26 July 2006 (UTC) Ok I can resort to HTML for colors now. Thanks for you help. :D --Exteray® 01:52, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Lemme try goiing through activevoid 20:09, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Removed reference

Hi, just letting you know that an article you created just had a reference removed (your first version of the article contained this reference). If you can hunt up the actual article, maybe you could re-add it. Badagnani 08:28, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

WikiCast?

Where you aware this still seems to be active, with me leading up a revival attempt?

Your presence in #Wikicast appreciated...

ShakespeareFan00 21:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Orphaned fair use image (Image:Vincent Thomas Bridge Fair Use.jpg)

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Trump Tower (Tampa)

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WikiProject Furry

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Meetup

Wikipedia:Meetup/Tampa -- You're invited! Hires an editor (talk) 13:43, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Henrik's google search

You appear to have User:Henrik/sandbox/google-search in your monobook.js. It now seems to work in the new Vector skin, should that be of use to you. If so, load the updated code from Henrik's page into your vector.js page, clear the cache, and you should be away. --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:37, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

A cup of tea for you!

Appreciate your input on a number of topics. I am looking for someone to help develope a band elimination filter using dielectric resonators, know anyone? Chris Straygrey (talk) 16:27, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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