Help talk:Editing

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I need some help. How do you make a picture outside the wiki on there? 209.104.139.221

Huh? On where? I'm confused on what you're asking. Oh, and please post all your other questions on the The FAQ Talk Page next time. Thanks. —FireBird|Talk 20:27, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

New editing problems

How do you create blockquote SBEMAIL styles? And Tables?

For tables, look here as linked in the article. For the email styles, click "Edit" on an email page to see how it was done:

<blockquote class="tandy email">
email text<br />
Second line
</blockquote>

<blockquote class="compy email">
email text<br />
Second line
</blockquote>

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>Subject: Example</div>
email text<br />
Second line
</blockquote>

--phlip ^T_C 02:11, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Quite sunny, actually

That example link to "The weather in London" is causing no end of pain as clueless people and trolls actually attempt to make the page. I'm half-tempted to make it a fake link (as in, artificially red and underlined text that doesn't do anything if you click on it.) --Jay (Gobble) 02:51, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Really. This is getting to be a problem. --Jay (Gobble) 22:36, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I don't think it's to big of a problem, seeing as how deleting it isn't extremely difficult, but I see where you're coming from. Would putting some <!-- invisible --> action work in there without actually creating the page? —FireBird|Talk 22:47, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Nope, to put a comment in there the page would have to be created and the link would turn blue here. I vote for the Fake link plan, with a comment in the source of this page explaining it (like was done with the headings). But then again, it might give people the wrong idea, that you can't actually click on the red links, just the blue ones. Hmm... Can you protect a page that doesn't exist? --phlip ^T_C 02:04, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The reason that link is like that is because we want it to be an exact example. Fooling people isn't a good way to teach them something. "Oh, so when I see red text that's underlined it's a new page that hasn't been made yet. Okay, but when I try to click on it nothing happens. What's up with that?" Same thing with protecting it. Same thing with anything other than what we currently do. Having to delete the page every once in a while is perfectly fine. Heck, it even shows that people are actually reading the instructions. -- Tom 02:49, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Picture Text

On my user page, I'm trying to get the words "One of My Favorite Game Consoles" underneath a picture of a Nintendo DS and the picture appears, but it has no words under it. Can someone help?? --~Rebecca~ RJMT 20:32, 4 Aug 2005 (UTC)

The easiest way is to include thumb as one of the attributes, plus a few other things. See your page for the adjustment I made. See also my talk page for a more lengthy explanation, plus links to way more info than you probably need. If that doesn't help, post here again and I'll try to explain it better. — It's dot com 20:39, 4 Aug 2005 (UTC)

I'll go ahead and explain it better here:

• thumb – Makes the image a thumbnail, and includes the caption.
• none – Makes it so the text does not flow around the image. Other choices for alignment are left, center, and right.
• 300px – Specifies the width of the image.

It's dot com 20:47, 4 Aug 2005 (UTC)

I changed it a second time. Check your page history, and revert if necessary. This time, I moved the picture to the top of the section and made it a normal thumbnail (I took out the none and width attributes. Then, I inserted a special line (<br style="clear:both">) to keep the next section from starting too soon. — It's dot com 20:57, 4 Aug 2005 (UTC)

That's awesome! Thanx! --~Rebecca~ RJMT 03:14, 5 Aug 2005 (UTC)

No probalo. — It's dot com

Boxy Thing

Ok, in the Sandbox, at the bottom I put the new messages box at the bottom and i want to put that on my user page, but the second code thingy, the thing with the "/" is wrong. What's the code? --~Rebecca~ RJMT 03:46, 26 Aug 2005 (UTC)

You forgot to close up your </small> tag. Check the sandbox and copy it now; I fixed it for you. —BazookaJoe 03:47, 26 Aug 2005 (UTC)

All these "newline"s

It's really two words isn't it? "New line" appears several times all squooshed into "newline". I'm not going to try to edit the edit page which I went to for help editing. But it was bothering me. Tracey

That's good careful reading, but you shouldn't be bothered. In computing, newline is essentially the name for the character that is input when you press Enter, and it has a different meaning from the phrase "new line." Thanks for pointing out what you thought was a mistake, though. — It's dot com 02:42, 13 Sep 2005 (UTC)