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Main Talk • Locations • Suggest • Signature • Templates Navigation • Playpen POV Sug • Image Archive Archive Page This page is an archive page of User Talk:Boxy. Please do not add comments to it. 2009 2009 Subpage I was seeing what would happen if the slash was the wrong way round, because usually you use a backslash "\" rather than a forwardslash "/". --RahrahCome join the #party!09:34, 5 December 2009 (UTC) As you can see, it doesn't make a subpage, it makes a "nonexistent user" page. It needs to be deleted -- boxy talk • teh rulz 11:32 5 December 2009 (BST) Hyperbig I'll take care of the template, in a way you'll enjoy too!-- SA 23:17, 3 December 2009 (UTC) As long as it, or other similar templates, are not used to stuff up pages, I'll enjoy it -- boxy talk • teh rulz 12:05 4 December 2009 (BST) This is weird http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php?title=Category:Suggestion&action=edit - The only link to a non-existent category, is a non-existent page... What now? --Haliman - Talk 17:26, 28 November 2009 (UTC) http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php?title=Category:Suggestion_10_February_2007&action=edit - And here. --Haliman - Talk 17:28, 28 November 2009 (UTC) Two points to someone who can dig up the link that (I think) Ross gave when I asked this a month ago... --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 04:14, 29 November 2009 (UTC) Category:Confirmed groups What's the protocal for removing the tag from protected groups? Do we file a request on A/PT, or just make a note of it in retrospect?--~ Red Hawk One Talk | space for lease 07:05, 23 November 2009 (UTC) I don't think there's a need to make note of them all on a/pt, as long as you make it clear in your edit summary why it is being made -- boxy talk • teh rulz 07:15 23 November 2009 (BST) The DHPD and Conndraka Hi boxy. A public statement from the DHPD around Conndraka's recent actions on the wiki, as per http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/UDWiki:Administration/Protections/2009/October#The_DHPD_know_how_to_use_headers... has been posted to our section of the wiki at http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Dunell_Hills_Police_Department/Policies_and_Procedures#DHPD_Stances Given that you were involved in the original discussion, can you please advise if we should be posting this to any other sections of the wiki and/or letting anyone else know about our decision? It'd be great if you could reply to my talk page. Cheers. -- Sanpedro 23:18, 8 November 2009 (UTC) Cheers - I was wondering if you would mind calling past our forum so that I we can confirm this? I also have an unrelated question that I would like to ask out of the public eye 1 Sanpedro 00:04, 24 November 2009 (UTC) I signed up as "boxy". Anyone who wants to contact me privately can click on the email user link on my page -- boxy talk • teh rulz 01:13 24 November 2009 (BST) Cheers - have PM'd you there Sanpedro 22:49, 24 November 2009 (UTC) Wiki Questions#Template parameters Answered. If there's anything you're unsure about, I would gladly explain. --RahrahCome join the #party!21:07, 4 November 2009 (UTC) Good to know your 11 month old and already solved question is now finally answered, eh Boxy? :) Pay more careful attention to timestamps, Rory! --  RoosterDragon  23:11, 4 November 2009 (UTC) Go this Go this Any idea about this? Seems to be a ghost page? --RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 09:50, 9 October 2009 (BST) Yep, but no idea of a fix. Cheese and DDR have had a go at this stuff -- boxy talk • teh rulz 09:54 9 October 2009 (BST) Special:Uncategorizedpages, same deal as ghost images. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 09:56, 9 October 2009 (BST) Confirming Groups I'll admit, in retrospect creating the new pages wasn't the best idea, since they're liable to drop off at any moment. the category, however, was for sorting purposes; about two thirds of the groups in the origional don't belong there anymore, so I found it would be easier to sort the actual stat-page groups out than the other way around. The groups are free to be deleted; the category as well (once I finish, of course). Sorry if this seems like unnecissary mess.--~ Red Hawk One Talk | space for lease 19:01, 7 September 2009 (BST) It's probably going to get messy, and be a neverending job. Frankly, I'd just get rid of the confirmed group category all together. It's a remnant of a passed wiki-era, when defunct groups got crit 12 speedydeleted. It has no real function any more. I'll put those group pages up for deletion, if they're still around -- boxy talk • teh rulz 10:29 8 September 2009 (BST) Janitor If you're around, I have a quick task for you to do. Template:Group contact= and the similar pages (check either user contribs or "whatlinkshere" from the actual image) should be in namespaces/recruit formatting/deleted, whatever suits. I'm at uni and don't have the time just now so if you're on today, to give it a go, I'd appreciate it. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 04:41, 11 August 2009 (BST) I think I got it worked out -- boxy talk • teh rulz 07:43 11 August 2009 (BST) Thanks. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 09:17, 11 August 2009 (BST) Thanks for the info Makes using the wiki a bit easier.--Degree7 05:11, 10 August 2009 (BST) Welcomenewbie Template Hey Boxy. Wanted to ask: why is the {{subst:WN}} version of the Welcomenewbie template is protected, while the main one isn't?--User:Axe27/Sig 21:26, 23 July 2009 (BST) To prevent newbies from editing it by following header links like from this page. Here's the protection request -- boxy talk • teh rulz 22:31 23 July 2009 (BST) Ok, thanks. I had forgotten about that protection request. --User:Axe27/Sig 22:47, 23 July 2009 (BST) Yap You're right. Why I did that, I have no idea.--Mr. Angel, Help needed? 18:38, 23 July 2009 (BST) >.> Dam your on a roll http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/Special:Contributions/Boxy --DOWN WITH THE 'CRATS!!! | Join Nod!!! 10:45, 21 July 2009 (BST) Didn't you know? It's his way of mind-controlling the users of UDWiki, some sort of conspiracy, I bet. --ϑϑℜ 10:48, 21 July 2009 (BST) Yes, well that's quite enough of that, for now ;) -- boxy talk • teh rulz 11:12 21 July 2009 (BST) Recategorisation I remember you had a spree of edits a while ago that was you recategorising certain images. Assuming you didn't finish, is it anything I can help with? DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 16:27, 26 June 2009 (BST) Oh, I work on Category:Page Elements every now and then. Trying to separate out all the sub-category images that should be in Ribbons, Icons, Emoticons, Group Images, Maps, Screenshots, etc. It's become a sort of a catchall category, full of stuff that should be elsewhere -- boxy talk • teh rulz 11:37 27 June 2009 (BST) I absolutely agree. The system fails because those extra categories aren't features on the Template:Image Categorisation, imo, thats where most users learn. I may fix it up later on. DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 13:43, 27 June 2009 (BST) Thanks Thanks for helping on my Beginners Guide. -Poodle of doom 01:15, 19 June 2009 (BST) EVIL IS GOOD This user or group believes that the bad guys can sometimes be the good guys. Zombies Ate My Neighbors This user or group is pretty sure that Zombies Ate their Neighbors. AH Historic Re-categorization May I ask why the old AH page now indicates that Axes High is inactive? I created that page to archive the activities of Axes High before the massive wiki history cleanup... Axes High is still very much active, and I would appreciate a reversion of the article to its prior state. Thanks, Hardcore Rockabilly, Retired FAE Axes High AH RR RRF The old AH page already specified that it was inactive. Boxy just got rid of the historical template and added the inactive one. Being a historic group means it is inactive anyway, and because he only made the change on Axes High (Historic), it never affected the new AH to start with. DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 08:34, 28 May 2009 (BST) The historic groups category is for inactive groups who have been voted historic. I edited a lot of pages that weren't supposed to have that template on them. All of the others (hopefully) were inactive. Sorry about that, I've removed the template altogether -- boxy talk • teh rulz 08:34 28 May 2009 (BST) Hmm. I thought they were different groups. DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 08:36, 28 May 2009 (BST) Ah, they could well be... but I've had enough of UD history for the moment ::) -- boxy talk • teh rulz 08:40 28 May 2009 (BST) There is no "new" AH, as it's been the same group with a constant (though occasionally small) membership since its creation. If you'd like, I can have Tenk pop on over and back this up... There's the current page and the historic one (having a 3.5 year-old group neccesitates preserving at least a minimum of historic info when a history wipe rolls around). I don't know why it was listed as "historic", as when I created the page it was a subpage of the AH page (Axes High/Historic). Hardcore Rockabilly, Retired FAE Axes High AH RR RRF That's where it should have stayed. All this time, I've read the historic one thinking it was a separate historical group and your Axes High was just a new-age clone under separate command. Either way is fine though. DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 08:49, 28 May 2009 (BST) If it's their page then it wants to be moved into their group space properly, Axes High/Old for instance. -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 08:53, 28 May 2009 (BST) The page logs don't list any page move from Axes High/Historic, but I've moved it there now -- boxy talk • teh rulz 09:00 28 May 2009 (BST) BBSC Ya I am the same person. I have 3 accts on ud, one of em is bonghit420... i had like 4 people in that group BBSC one was true blood... he is my brother in rl.. now he does not play ud n e more and the other two people that asked to join never showed up... so I have made a decision to end that group, plus its name was to stupid. and i am starting a new group called My School... it is going to be a group dedicated to fucking up schools. and anything else lol... But for now i just wanted to get that page down because it was a work in progress that i just did not feel like finishing... to prove i am the same person just email me at scar3crow36@yahoo.com and i will respond that i have lost my password for my other acct on here Jock Horror when i cleared my cookies... so its no big deal..--Jhorror 06:59, 25 May 2009 (BST) -Well if changing my group to batshit insane is not enough then i dont know what is. I will not change my UD profile just to remove a page... so i guess whenever you do the group clean up thing and never get a responce from me then it will get removed right? Like i have said before, you can email me and i will respond there. You have my word that I am who I say I am.--Jhorror 00:35, 26 May 2009 (BST) De-categorization Just wondering why you did this? --Midianian¦T¦DS¦SP¦ 14:07, 16 May 2009 (BST) I'm trying to unclutter that category, although it looks like that one should go back it. Good to see you're watching... yeah, that's it, I was just checking to see if you were watching ;) -- boxy talk • teh rulz 07:52 17 May 2009 (BST) I've got over 300 pages on my watchlist. I'm always watching :D. --Midianian¦T¦DS¦SP¦ 11:03, 17 May 2009 (BST) I have 1,340 on mine, which is why RC is now my watchlist. DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 11:07, 17 May 2009 (BST) My RC shows the last 2500 edits. I just bring up interesting diff links in new tabs at the start of the day, and continue through out it. :) --Mr. Angel, Help needed? 15:00, 17 May 2009 (BST) How do you manage that? DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 00:39, 18 May 2009 (BST) Go to my preferences, click the Recent Changes tab, then put in your desired number. 750 will actually do most of the time, if you check at least once every day and a half or so. But on periods of long removal, I tend to amp it up higher.--Mr. Angel, Help needed? 00:43, 18 May 2009 (BST) Lawl. You guys are lightweights. 3,559 pages on watchlist. --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 01:26, 18 May 2009 (BST) Watchlists are for incompetent and inferior fools who cannot remember to check things at a later date.--Mr. Angel, Help needed? 01:30, 18 May 2009 (BST) Yeah, well what about if you're gone for a few days, what then? --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 01:41, 18 May 2009 (BST) Increase the size of the RC list.--Mr. Angel, Help needed? 02:24, 18 May 2009 (BST) It only goes to 500. --  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 02:30, 18 May 2009 (BST) Actually, via preferences, you can increase it to a base of 2500. I think with some browser tweaking though, you can increase it up to 5000. Not sure yet. Never had to do it.--Mr. Angel, Help needed? 02:37, 18 May 2009 (BST) So it can, if a bit slowly. But can your "watchlist" remove the boring stuff, leaving only the important things behind? I think not!--  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 02:40, 18 May 2009 (BST) It's only slow because your internet/computer sucks. And also, it can, because my brain is notorious for not caring about things that aren't captivating. Also, my watchlist is now empty, because I cleared it and decided to stop adding everything I edit to it. Now, it's just going to be unused.--Mr. Angel, Help needed? 02:43, 18 May 2009 (BST) Anything that takes longer than a second to load is too long for me. Have it your way, heretic! ;P--  AHLGTG THE END IS NIGH! 02:47, 18 May 2009 (BST) You speak to me of heresy? You who has unleashed dozens of distorted copies of our glorious simulation? It is YOU who conducts heresy!--Mr. Angel, Help needed? 03:11, 18 May 2009 (BST) User:Boxy/Sandbox/Unused Images Would it be okay if I deleted the code using the three deleted images in that gallery? It is permanently keeping Special:Uncategorizedimages from being pretty. DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 00:32, 31 March 2009 (BST) Really? You think you can rid us of the "Ghost images"? --RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 21:39, 31 March 2009 (BST) By god, I'm gonna try! DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 03:39, 1 April 2009 (BST) Category:Human Groups I wanna get rid of this category and move all pages manually to Category:Survivor Groups. If I list all the protected pages that need moving, would you be able to change them over for me? DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION (TALK | CONTRIBS) 23:15, 11 March 2009 (UTC) Template Question I'm trying to figure out how to display the month in which a page was last modified in named form. I know {{REVISIONMONTH}} exists, but it displays the month in numeric form. This would work, but having both a date and month expressed numerically can be confusing, as their positions are interchangeable in common usage. Anyway, I tried to create a template {{REVISIONMONTHNAME}} by using code from wikipedia and {{REVISIONMONTH}}. This has failed and I can't figure out how to get it to work. Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated. --Zarneverfike 07:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC) What do you need it for? The revision date is at the bottom of pages for me, already. For example, "This page has been accessed 15,589 times. This page was last modified 07:44, January 6, 2009" is at the bottom of this page -- boxy talk • teh rulz 10:26 6 January 2009 (BST) I wanted to use it in another template: {{Mobile Phone Mast Coverage}}, based on the Monroeville and Borehamwood population templates. I wanted to include a last revised date on the template, so it would be convenient to see how current the network coverage number was. Using the revision templates would make updating the mobile coverage template slightly easier, as only the % number would have to be updated. Like I said, {{REVISIONMONTH}} would suffice, but I think having the month in named form is potentially less confusing, and also, in my opinion, looks better. I tried playing around with the {{REVISIONMONTHNAME}} template a bit, but its above my wiki editing skill level. Oh, and yes, if templates created for this little project fail / aren't used a speedy deletion will be their ultimate fate. --Zarneverfike 22:17, 6 January 2009 (UTC) I'd guess that the problem is that we don't have parser functions installed in this wiki (I think). Pity really, because I could use it in one of my projects -- boxy talk • teh rulz 10:03 7 January 2009 (BST) I think I may actually have gotten it to work. Turns out {{switch}} was used prior to parser functions on wikipedia, and was a valid template here. Anyway, I'm almost certain {{REVISIONMONTHNAME}} works properly now (though I guess I won't know for certain until February.) Anyway, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Also, I'll submit the two unused templates created in the process: {{MONTHNAME}} and {{MONTHNUMBER}} to A/SD. Thank you again for your help. --Zarneverfike 11:01, 7 January 2009 (UTC) Edit: Given further thought, {{REVISIONMONTHNAME}} is useless, as it would only display when it was last revised. Its code is now directly included in the mobile coverage template I was working on. {{REVISIONMONTHNAME}} will join its cousins in the speedy deletion queue. Thanks anyway for the help though. --Zarneverfike 11:17, 7 January 2009 (UTC) You might also want to put that failed template up for A/SD by the way. Unless you can change it over to something useful or that works.--– Nubis NWO 11:32, 6 January 2009 (UTC) I made something to this effect in ProjDev. Just haven't quite bothered finishing it yet. Depending on how soon it's needed and how major a part of the project it is I could always fast track it for you.--Karekmaps?! 06:46, 9 January 2009 (UTC) Well, it ended up working, but not as I intended. All the revision templates called the final page they were included on, and not the phone mast template. It would be slightly preferable if I could figure out how to make them work how I want them. In the mean time, I've resorted to tildes (which work fine, but are an extra step for anyone updating the template, and produce a more precise, but less aesthetically pleasing result.) --Zarneverfike 13:58, 10 January 2009 (UTC) Info Locations Why this and this? I was wondering, can we do redirects for categories (for this problem)? For example, redirect 'Category:Police Dept' to 'Category:Police Department? --Janus talk 21:01, 5 January 2009 (UTC) No, redirects don't put the pages into the other category -- boxy talk • teh rulz 07:01 6 January 2009 (BST) I see. What was the problem with the old system? --Janus talk 14:16, 6 January 2009 (UTC) The DRAMA! Wow, I've only been gone since November and it seems in that time span the whole place has gone to hell! J3d got demoted and A/VB is full of trolling! The whole place is falling apart. How did it happen so quick?--SirArgo Talk 06:57, 5 January 2009 (UTC) Two months is a long time on teh interwebs -- boxy talk • teh rulz 10:14 5 January 2009 (BST) No more trolling than is usually done. :) -- dǝǝɥs oʇ ɯɐds: sʎɐʍ1ɐ! 11:17, 5 January 2009 (UTC) Signing Thanks, are you refering to anything specific?--Captain Rickety 00:20, 5 January 2009 (UTC) Not really. I was going through your contributions to see what was going on when you broke the STARS redirects, and noticed that a lot of your talk page contributions weren't signed. It makes it very hard to work out who said what unless you sign (and timestamp) your talk page posts -- boxy talk • teh rulz 00:23 5 January 2009 (BST) 2008 2008 2007 2007