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Thanks, and regards, --MZMcBride (talk) 05:10, 16 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

Contributing to this wiki edit

I assume you're the person behind contributions such as this. A quick primer on MediaWiki discussion pages follows.

  • Always sign posts by appending the string ~~~~. This will add your username and a timestamp. There's a helpful button for this above the edit window.
  • Replies are generally indented using ":"s at the beginning of a line. Each subsequent ":" is a level deeper. For example:

Hello there. How are you? --User1 05:10, 16 February 2012 (UTC) : Hi! I'm good, you? --User2 05:11, 16 February 2012 (UTC) :: Pretty good. Thanks for asking. --User1 05:12, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

produces...


Hello there. How are you? --User1 05:10, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Hi! I'm good, you? --User2 05:11, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
Pretty good. Thanks for asking. --User1 05:12, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

That way it's much easier to identify replies. For multi-line replies, there are two syntax choices:

: Hi! I'm good, you? : This is a paragraph at the same indentation level, see? --User2 05:11, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

or...

: Hi! I'm good, you?<p>More text will follow in the next paragraph now. No need to close the p tag. --User2 05:11, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Hope that helps, --MZMcBride (talk) 05:17, 16 February 2012 (UTC)Reply


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user page from meta edit

Hi. FYI, your meta user page would be displayed here if your actual user page were deleted (not just moved/blanked). If you would like that done let me (or any sysop) know. --Clump (talk) 21:11, 19 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! I requested a deletion here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Synchbot#Ottomata_(migrate_to_global_user_page)

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