User talk:Pele Rose

Phone Mast Talk

I'm breaking the silence it would seem! Could you drop by the The Mast Talk page and give a quick opinion on a template change. You update the page quiet often and it would be helpful to know your thoughts. --  RoosterDragon  15:42, 23 May 2008 (BST)

A needed change...

And broken once more. The Rooster and I have been working on a scheme whereby mast building statuses are updated with a single added line to the appropriate Danger Reports (like from the Building Information Center), only we've been running into a strange problem. We'd begun to modify/add the new DangerReport pages, and had transfered existing information and signatures from the Mobile Phone Mast page, and it was mostly working, but certain locations were defying all attempts to make them behave properly. I figured out what the problem is—and please don't take it personally—but it's your signature that is breaking our system...

Here's what's going on. This is the code from your sig page:

[[User:Pele_Rose|<span style="cursor:help;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-weight:bold; color:red">Pele</span><span style="font-weight:bold; color:pink"> Rose</span>]][[MalTel|<span style="cursor:help; font-size:70%; vertical-align:30%" title="MalTel Wiki">MalTel</span>]][[User talk:Pele_Rose|<span style="cursor:help; font-size:70%; vertical-align:30%" title="Talk">Talk</span>]]

If we expand that out to make more sense of it, it looks like this:

[[User:Pele_Rose|

<span style="cursor:help;font-weight:bold">

<span style="font-weight:bold; color:red">
Pele
</span>

<span style="font-weight:bold; color:pink">
 Rose
</span>

]][[MalTel|

<span style="cursor:help; font-size:70%; vertical-align:30%" title="MalTel Wiki">
MalTel
</span>

]][[User talk:Pele_Rose|

<span style="cursor:help; font-size:70%; vertical-align:30%" title="Talk">
Talk
</span>

]]

Notice how I've grouped together opening and closing sets of "span" tags. Except that the very first one, "<span style="cursor:help;font-weight:bold">," is missing its closing tag. And that missing "</span>" is what's throwing the monkey wrench into our otherwise fool-proof plan.

But all is not lost! If I could just prevail upon you to make the following change (adding that missing "</span>" back into the picture), all will be well. The following code should work:

[[User:Pele_Rose|<span style="cursor:help;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-weight:bold; color:red">Pele</span><span style="font-weight:bold; color:pink"> Rose</span>]][[MalTel|<span style="cursor:help; font-size:70%; vertical-align:30%" title="MalTel Wiki">MalTel</span>]][[User talk:Pele_Rose|<span style="cursor:help; font-size:70%; vertical-align:30%" title="Talk">Talk</span></span>]]

Or, if you're signing without the extra "MalTel" and "Talk" links, you should be able to use:

[[User:Pele_Rose|<span style="cursor:help"><span style="font-weight:bold; color:red">Pele</span><span style="font-weight:bold; color:pink"> Rose</span></span>]]

Please let me know if you have any other questions, and thank you for your consideration. I know you're one of Malton Telephone's few remaining active employees; I'm sure you're going to be happy about the new system for keeping the list and map updated. --Morgan Blair 05:14, 27 May 2008 (BST)

Doh! I'm so sorry! I admit to being pretty new to wiki coding, so I appreciate you debugging my sig for me. I'll make the changes immediately....as soon as I remember where exactly those two sigs are hiding. *laugh* -- Pele Rose 02:24, 28 May 2008 (BST)

Done. And thanks again for the heads up. Also, I changed all my buggy sigs in the phone mast status screen to be correct. =) -- Pele Rose 02:29, 28 May 2008 (BST)

 :::Hey, thanks for that! You know, in almost all cases, it wouldn't cause any problems, just in this specific one, with this conditions it creates... I had a similar issue with my sig. I used to use a templated sig, and I added to it one time, to make another page link in super text at the end of my name. I copied one part of the code, and replicated it. Well, my original code had been missing a close tag, so when I doubled it... On every page I signed, the time-stamp from my stignature was going in what looked like a

a pre box. All across the page with just my timestampe in it, wherever I signed my name.

So you're not the first! --Morgan Blair 09:18, 28 May 2008 (BST)