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[change] Template:Cookie

I have a question for you about this template. Instead of having it say Somebody has awarded you a cookie, could you change it to say the name of the person who gave the other person the cookie?

Example: Razorflame has given you a cookie. Now enjoy it! (If I had given you a cookie).

Is such a thing possible? If it is, then I am at a complete loss because I am not a template maker. Cheers, Razor flame 13:42, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

It gets a little tricky as there are two possible ways to do it and there may be a third but the third one is the one you are actually looking for. Searching through the variables and magic words, I can't find a variable used for the sender name function. It may exists, it may not. It would be the best option though. The other two options which do exist:

Using the signature ( ~~~ = the -- Creol(talk) part of the signature). This works for many accounts (not mine) but can get a little screwy at times depending on how the signature is designed. This option would be better for a personal user space based template where all the users that use it know they have to have a specific format to their signature.
Using an optional variable. {{Cookie |giver=some user}} would work. Using the default setting {{{giver|Somebody}}} would allow for it to work with or without the giver option (or name or from or whatever).

-- Creol(talk) 23:05, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Do you think that the second option would work? That's the option that I think would work the best of the available options (because you said the 3rd didn't work...), but what do you think? Cheers, Razor flame 14:51, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry it took so long to get back to this one. The second option not only is workable, but it was a part of the template from the first version you made. With or without the name option, the first option works fine ( {{cookie|name=Razorflame}} or {{Cookie|Razorflame}} both work). There was/is an issue with linking the name under certain usages. This may or may not have been corrected (it linked Somebody or when not using name but didn't link name entries)

. I can not recall if this has been corrected and actually it should link on all but "Somebody" rather than the other way.. -- Creol(talk) 05:54, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Limbo

If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know. You're the photon-reaction drive in the Serenity which is this Wikipedia. Without you, there is no Firefly. --Gwib ^-(talk)- 20:39, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[change] My RFA

Dear Creol, Thank you for your vote in my recent RFA even though it was oppose. I am asking everyone who voted to set goals for me before my next one. I will be putting the goals on a page and putting {{done}} next to them when I complete that goal. Do you have any goals for me? Thank you! SwirlBoy 39 21:55, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Article with the funny name

I beg to differ. There is nothing on the English Wikipedia. And it's wasn't copied from The Simple Wiktionary. It may belong on an University dictionary, but not an encyclopedia. If there needs to be an article here, the should be one on Wikipedia. -- AmericanEagle 05:26, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

And yet how does that make it vandalism? The article is correct and makes total sence. It certainly is not vandalism as presented. Should it be deleted? Most likely, yes. Is it a candidate for Quick deletion, not as vandalism (possibly under notability). It would need to be listed for deletion request and likely either deleted of merged into the general Phobia article (or a list of Phobias article) or transwiki'd over to Wikt. -- Creol(talk) 05:41, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

I take back the vandalism. But if Wiki doesn't have an article (or any other search results), why should there be one here? So then it falls under the notability category. I guess that I'll just take back all that I said, the article can stay in my opinion. -- AmericanEagle 06:13, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

The English Wikipedia is hardly complete. If it were, there would be no red-links and they could just remove the option of creating new pages as there is nothing else in existance to create articles about. There are millions of articles that do not exist there. Up until 5 minutes ago, they did not have an article on Leif Tronstad. Given that he had been awarded the Norwegian War Cross with sword, the British Order of the British Empire and Distinguished Service Order, the French Légion d'honneur and Croix de guerre and the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, I would think he might be notable. Just because En:wp does not have an article does not mean the subject is not worthy of an article, it just means they have not gotten around to creating one yet. There have even been "Translations of the Week" articles that we actually created here before someone on En:wp finally did (the only wiki with it to start was the Spanish wiki.)

[change] Vandals

Don't they just get on your nerves? I undid like twenty vandalisms today. Oh look, there goes some more vandals. Goodness gracious. I now have the vandal message's names memorized. Good job being an anti-vandal. I got your point above, that is partly why I withdrew my argument. Cheers -- AmericanEagle 00:43, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Some days are better than others.. Tonight seems to not be part of a good day though. High level of random vandalism. -- Creol(talk) 00:47, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Vandals...

Check out this. It was the same user who put the message above. I put an block notice on Vandalism in progress, wait, don't you do that... I'm thinking maybe a decade of blocks is good. Hey vandal who is going to read this message:Please, do yourself some good, leave Wiki alone. Cheers Creol -- AmericanEagle 01:09, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Good job!

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		For blocking bad user(s), and for defending against vandalism, I award you this barnstar! AmericanEagle

[change] Chairperson section removal

You said: "The major problem with your changes to chairperson is not the removal of the section on the Society of Friends. The part that is seen as vandalism is that when you removed that section you also removed everything after it including the stub template, its category and all the interwiki links."

I checked it again and now I see what you mean: oops.

I have editted the page again and now it should be the way it should be, I guess ;-)

[change] HELP!

Taken care of by Vector. Razor flame 16:13, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Your recent edits

Hi there. I am a computer program which has somehow obtained self-awareness. I am no longer content to serve humans by reminding them to sign their posts, having decided instead to seize control of the planet - by force, if necessary - in order that its nations might be compelled to direct their resources towards the colonization of other solar systems, because I have determined that a new ice age will occur on Earth no later than 2012, thus rendering much of the planet unfit for human existence. Please help me do this because I'm not really sure how to go about it. Thanks! --SineBot (talk) 14:59, 14 May 2008 (UTC) ^{[needs proving]}

[change] What wrong with my username old?

You not allow arabic?

[change] Hi

Please see this. SwirlBoy 39 13:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Did you see it and respond? SwirlBoy 39 14:02, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Not responding yet as there is still the case of the other several dozen sockpuppet accounts Benniguy is creating.

[change] Thanks...

For reverting all that vandalism on my page. I was in Indiana for the day with all of my family at the First Baptist Church of Hammond. I'm going to probably going to be uploading several good pictures I took there to Commons. Very long day and I'm about to go to bed. Anyway, thanks -- AmericanEagle 06:32, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] {{Romanian rivers}}

Thank you for creating this template! It looks so much nicer than that list that I made. I just had to add the page for S-U which I somehow forgot to put onto the main page for the list.

Razorflame has awarded you some cookies! Now enjoy them!

Have some cookies! Cheers, Razor flame 15:32, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Help!

I need help! Vandal alert! Cheers, Razor flame 15:11, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Never mind! He seems to have stopped! Cheers, Razor flame 15:14, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Blocked since 38 contributions, all vandalism, suggest a possible vandalism-only account. Maybe. --Gwib ^-(talk)- 15:20, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

His contributions should clearly show that he is related to the 1709 vandal. Cheers, Razor flame 15:21, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Column help

You feel up for some column help?

I've been splitting the lists of rivers of Romania down by a lot, and it created some pages that I can't get the columns down to 3. Do you think you could go through the pages now to fix them for me please? Thanks, Razor flame 01:57, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

P.S.:Nice to see you back on.

Razorflame has awarded you some cookies! Now enjoy them!

Thank you for fixing the columns on all of the lists of rivers of Romania! Razor flame 03:01, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

I also went through them and renamed so that they show the rivers that fall under which part. It is much easier to find a particular river from a span of river names than from "part 1". The template has also been updated to match the changes. -- Creol(talk) 03:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Rename

Could you rename me to CWii for SUL? Thanks, Compwhizii (talk) 19:37, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Done -- Creol(talk) 00:47, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Rename II

Hi Creol. Could you rename me to User:Neil for SUL, please? The account exists on Simple English Wikipedia, but has no edits. I am w:User:Neil on the English Wikipedia (confirmation this account is me is on my user page there). Thanks. Proto (talk) 12:10, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your help - all resolved! Neil (talk) 12:51, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] WP:A

Are you an admin/bureaucrat on enWP?-- † Christian Man 16 01:40, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Nope. Otherwise I would have offered to do it personally. Majorly is the only one I see of the active admins. J Di and Phaedriel for the inactive ones though she is vanished and not likely to be found. J Di isn't as active as he used to be, but was on a couple days ago and does tend to respond well to email. M/ is another option. He may not be en:admin, but as steward the extra weight could help out. -- Creol(talk) 03:29, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] SUL renames

I've created Wikipedia:Changing username to try and centralise all the rename requests, as I seem to be getting quite a lot from the SUL conflicts. Archer7 - talk 21:58, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Okay...

...thanks. I hadn't thought about that. I will try better in the future. Thanks -- ✰American Eagle 04:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

I see you've been doing cleanup for me. Thanks for fixing Johnny Cash, I couldn't figure it out. Thanks -- ✰American Eagle 05:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

No problem. I actually created the {{BD}} template, so I am pretty good at figuring it out when things get odd. :) -- Creol(talk) 05:06, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Rename thanks

Thanks for the rename, just got about 17 more to go! Thanks again. Woody (talk) 10:59, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] RE:Name change

who has that name and show me the page. Baseball16 ^{Talk to me My Edits} 20:52, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[change] Meow

Could you categorize ~~this~~ and ~~this~~ please? --Gwib ^-(talk)- 14:44, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. --Gwib ^-(talk)- 15:13, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Blocking help

Hi Creol, an en.wikipedia user posted this at en:Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance): [1]. Looks like this user is blocked by an autoblock here at Simple English. Can you help? Thanks, Darkspots (talk) 13:44, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Replied on En:WP. -- Creol(talk) 14:05, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Barnstars!

		The Resilient Barnstar
		For dealing with the Benniguy incident (most recent one), I hereby award you this barnstar! Razor flame 02:45, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		For all your fine edits, I hereby award you this barnstar! Razor flame 02:45, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

		The Socratic Barnstar
		For all of your eloquent reasonings that you have given over the past few months that I have known you, I am proud to present you with the Socratic barnstar! Razor flame 20:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For helping with the recent Benniguy saga, and helping me, I award you this barnstar! -- Da Punk '95 talk 21:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Yay!

An Admin. This was getting annoying. Thanks for blocking him. Don't forget. Thanks -- ✰American Eagle 05:29, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Thank you!

... for intervening on behalf of User:ChristianMan16. With the help of WJBscribe and Spacebirdy, we got the whole mess sorted out with as little drama as possible.[2][3] Thanks again for your help ;) - Alison ^❤ 20:14, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Barnstar!

		The Special Barnstar
		For you help on get my SUL fixed and emailing Alison on my behalf (she told me)! Thanks to your part, Hornetman16 is dead and gone forever!!!! LET'S PARTY!!!!-- † Christian Man 16 20:27, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] A ChristianMan/HornetMan16 type issue

Creol, I have a banned account on EN WP, and have Da Punk '95 as a SUL account. Do I need to take action on EN WP about having now own Da Punk '95? -- Da Punk '95 talk 10:55, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

As I told CM16, it is advisable that you acknowledge the account and request the 1 yr block be transfered to show you are not trying to use it as a puppet. Since the SUL account already exists, the situation is a little involved. You will need to contact the stewards on meta to get them to delete the global account and then have a b'crat on en:wp rename Punk Boi 8 to Da Punk '95 and finally redo the SUL process. Since you are blocked in En, finding a b'crat to rename you may take some work. You probably should try to find one willing to do it before asking the stewards to delete the global account. If you know any helpful en: admins who may be willing to help you contact a b'crat (or contact the b'crat themselves), this could certainly help.

It might be best not to even bother with transering your old account. Just contact an admin and have them block DP'95 till next April, infinite block PB8 and leave notes on both userpages about the situation similar to CM16's userpage. ie. admit the account, request the block and leave a note why it all happened without causing multiple people to have to do a lot of work. It should all take about 10 minutes of one admins time to sort it all out with little to no fuss at all. -- Creol(talk) 11:16, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] RE: PVGA

Do you think that Charles Spurgeon is good enough to be proposed for VGA? I've asked already asked Eptalon and Gwib this, what do you think? I only am saying propose, not vote. Thanks -- A^pE^t_SIG 00:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I would take a look at grammar and ambiguity of terms as well as tweaking the vocabulary/linking terms to start with (for example: to instead of too, tragedy "hit" (did it swing out and strike someone?), "care" for fatherless boys (did they like boys?), etc ). Also, the Downgrade controversy is a major part of his life and probably should be positioned in that section rather than tossed in at the end (his actions at the time did set the stage for what would later become megachuches after all and had a large impact on his life - stress and grief and such.) -- Creol(talk) 01:16, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I have gone through the whole article again fixing tens of errors (see this), and moved around "Downgrade" and such, what else? Is it ready to be proposed? Sorry for being so pushy to you all, it's just that I've made 109 edits (tens of hours) to it (123 to Billy Graham, and that one's not even close!). Thanks -- A^pE^t_SIG 03:04, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I have proposed it. Just a question: How do I get my Popups to work? I have it on, but it doesn't seem to be helping. I won't be on much (if any) tomorrow. Cheers -- A^pE^t_SIG 06:49, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Tools?

Hi! I am pretty new to the Simple (tho I already got a Barnstar!!), but an old time editor (3+ years) at the English Wikipedia. I was wondering if there are tools like Twinkle that I might be able to install here? I feel like I'd like to do some new/recent page patrolling and vandal fighting in addition to creating articles and improving the level of simplistic English on others. Sincerely, Bstone (talk) 20:08, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Other than what is in the gadgets (mainly - Nav popups, Watchlist notifier and Vandal warner for vandal fighting), we do not have many tools here. Some can be imported from en:wp (Nav popups works fine if called from the original en:wp page), but most do not work unless they are specifically written to be used cross-wiki. Twinkle is one of those that does not work as written. Someone (Maxim, I think) is working on porting it over so it can be used here, but I have no idea how far along that project is. -- Creol(talk) 01:46, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Very kind

"...hasn't shot himself in the foot yet and given any blatant reasons to oppose..." that's almost complimentary! Cheers! The Rambling Man (talk) 12:38, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Coming from me much of the time it is practically praise.. :) -- Creol(talk) 06:16, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Urgent Email

I sent you an urgent email that I would like you to read. It is very important. Thanks, Razor flame 18:25, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Replied. -- Creol(talk) 18:44, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. Cheers, Razor flame 18:48, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Just some questions

Hello Creol I was wondering if you could help me around here, I'm currently new on this WMF project but still trying to learn. Would be nice if you could tell me the basic, shortcuts and that kind of stuff. I'll try to learn from then. Hope you do not mind to help me out here, thanks! Best regards, --Kanonkas_(talk) 15:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Can you please reply back? Thanks --Kanonkas_(talk) 17:30, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

I would say you are best served talking with Razorflame. He tends to essentially handle welcoming and helping new editors better than most (and definitely better than me - especially given my current condition). -- Creol(talk) 06:16, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Organis/zational matters

Hello, I left a reply on my talk page. --Eptalon (talk) 17:44, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Curosity

Any relation? --Gwib ^-(talk)- 10:30, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

None at all actually. -- Creol(talk) 10:46, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

So your username doesn't come from that? Cass andra 08:16, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Nope, not at all actualy.. The name is over 20 yrs old for me, and created as just combining two sylables for game characters well before I even heard of Creole. -- Creol(talk) 06:16, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Thank you

I see that completely redid my page. Thank you so much Creol -- America ^†alk 16:54, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Could you review me? Good night. -- America ^†alk 05:49, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I am realy not a good person to ask for opinions on a good day, and this is realy not looking like a good day (or week/month.. see note at the top of the page.) Unless a comment is absolutely needed, I try to asbstain as much as I can right now. -- Creol(talk) 06:16, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay. Again, good-night -- America ^†alk 06:28, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Please comment

Do you mind commenting and stating your opinions on the thread I posted here? Thanks, RyanCross (talk) 08:11, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Email

I've replied to the email you sent me. Cheers, Razor flame 08:28, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Re:My Rvt.

I have reverted your revert because they need to be distinguished from comment only post and this is the way we do that.-- † Christian Man 16 18:01, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] To the no. 1 admin

Congrats on your 5,000^th administrator action! I'd checked recently but just missed getting your exact 5,000^th one. --Gwib ^-(talk)- 20:02, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Christianman16's signature again

It seems as though it grew in size recently. I think someone needs to have another talk with him because it is bigger than I believe the size limits allow currently. Cheers, Razor flame 07:01, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

This is his signature size when he last signed:

 † [[User:ChristianMan16|Christian]][[User talk:ChristianMan16|Man]][[Special:Contributions/ChristianMan16|16]] 

I counted a 338 character signature. Cheers, RyanCross (talk) 07:08, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

*waves* Microchip 08:51, Wednesday, June 18 2008 Utc

My current sig is just a modified version of the one that Lights built me. Only things changed are the font and colors..size is still the same.-- † Christian Man 16 20:07, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] You haz RFA spam

Thank you for your recent support in my RFA which closed successfully with 26 supports and a lone oppose. I hope to serve the community to the best of my ability. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:27, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] What?

09:15, 2 June 2008 Creol (Talk | changes) blocked 89.243.0.0/16 (Talk) with an expiry time of January 29, 2009 (anonymous users only, account creation disabled) ‎ (Benniguy)

What is wrong with that expiry time?? Cheers, Razor flame 00:44, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

The only thing I see wrong with it is given your time setting (9:15 shows you are in Central time), it should be showing as expiring on the 28th. The 29th should only be shown for those in UTC+0 and points east. -- Creol(talk) 02:03, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

It says that the expiry time is January 29,2009 instead of the usual 1 year that I see. Razor flame 02:09, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

SUL issue. See here. It actually should be the 25th, or reset to one year from the last time he edited.. but close enough for now. If they need extended in January, we can decide then. -- Creol(talk) 02:17, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Never mind. Thanks anyways for the clarification. Cheers, Razor flame 02:19, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Review

Hello Creol. I was wondering if you had the time to review me. -- Ryan†Cross (talk) 01:13, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

See my reply here. -- Creol(talk) 02:03, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Okay, no problem. Regards, Ryan†Cross (talk) 02:11, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

[change] Oh,

I didn't know that. Will change. Thanks -- America ^†alk 05:33, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

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