Wikipedia talk:Community portal/Archive 10

message: Hey, I use IE 5.  There are companies that repair and sell used computers. Lots of people probably use IE 5.  I did a little studying of this page and found commands in the Community bulletin board section that conflict with the pink box.  They cause IE 5 to see a 6- foot- wide page.   Furthermore, those commands make the area to post notices messy & somewhat confusing.  My design of the Community bulletin board section eliminates those problems, making IE 5 users able to read the page.  Check it out.    —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chuck Marean (talk • contribs) .
:The problem is, your fix makes it look bad for the other 99% of us. (between 1% and 4% of people use IE5. But that includes ie5.01 for windows and mac, and ie5.5 for windows. the mac version was the best of the 3. If you are using win95, you're probably using ie5.01, which was the worst of the bunch, and is used by about 0.02% of the internet surfing population.) You're welcome to voice your concerns here, but PLEASE STOP trying to fix the actual pages yourself, using the broken, old tool that is ie5, and your lack of wikicode experience. You're just stabbing blindly in the dark. -Quiddity 00:14, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: moving the following comment here, from CBB template talkpage. -Quiddity
This template currently distorts Wikipedia:Community Portal  in IE 5.   I was almost able to correct the problem, and I've only taken one computer course in my entire life.  So, surely you computer science majors are able to get Wikipedia:Community Portal  readable by IE 5.  It is not the fault of IE 5.  I found that the tags trying to put columns at the bottom of this template, if removed, prevented the distortion but then the table of cotents didn't work.  IE 5 not being able to read Wikipedia:Community Portal  is a major problem with this template & not to be dismissed any mature editor.--Chuck Marean 01:22, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

text: It's fixed now. or should be. -Quiddity 02:13, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll check to see if it is in a little while. I figure it can be, because I think it was working fine a few weeks ago.--Chuck Marean 05:11, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool it's been repaired.  I can read it. It's an important page. --Chuck Marean 06:42, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Chuck, IE5

message: Because of a dearth of notices lately, the 'New pages seeking contributors' section is starting to encroach upon the Wikipedia Signpost. Either we should generate several lines of news, or fix the problem :) -- Mithent 13:10, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page layout issue (not under Win95!) 

message: I would like to add the Computer Science Collaboration of the Week, Programming language.  Ideogram 00:13, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It already is, in the list on the right. Wikipedia:Community Portal#Collaborations. (The "new pages" list in the Bulletin Board is for a completely newly created subject proposals to start a cotw.) -Quiddity 23:53, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  how to add collaborations? 

message: Where can I find information on Operation Enduring Encyclopedia? 63.23.82.33 21:12, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Go to antivandalbot's page.  I think you answered the question in your edit summary.--Alphachimp talk 03:23, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: Why does this page have a capital "P"?  Dragons flight 20:10, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it refers to the Community Portal, not community portals generally, but only one. This one.--Commander Keane 10:51, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Being singular or having a definite article doesn't automatically entitle one to be a proper noun: e.g. the jar of honey, the solar system, the United States capital, the village pump, the administrators' noticeboard, the five pillars, the community bulletin board, the arbitration policy.  Obviously, I could go on and on all day because most things in Wikipedia are named without extra capitalization (some exceptions being Main Page and Arbitration Committee).  However, the portal caught my eye in particular because "Community portal" is actually the Mediawiki default, not "Community Portal", so I am wondering why it changed, and if it should be changed back.  Dragons flight 13:31, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal or portal 

message: How can you expect newcomers to read the countless pages of rules you have posted for them. It's ridiculous. I came here and naively believed the front page proclamation "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." So I began editing. At first my minor corrections to grammar and spelling in articles were graciously accepted but when I started adding some links to pages I was attacked and banned. Adding RobertZubrin.Com to a page on Robert Zubrin was called "spam" by a guy calling himself Reaverdrop or some such nonsensical handle. He has been harassing me every day and I'm sick of him. I started an article on 'amateur spaceflight' which I thought quite good. Others agreed and yet it was simply deleted for some absurd reason. Not long enough or sounded like an advertisement or whatever. As if I own a bloody spaceship company. I thought others were supposed to help expand on articles but all they seem to do is delete other peoples work. Wikipedia is a joke. Nobody is allowed to edit it except longtime members who have dictatorial powers over everyone else. Its false advertising to lure people here on the pretense that they will be allowed to participate when clearly its just spam. A way of getting people to visit and push you up in the search engines. I see now that all the bad press about Wiki and its charactor assasination of innocents is perfectly true. I have now rejoined yet again under a new name because of being banned for imagined crimes. Wiki sucks. Universedaily 00:30, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We have "countless pages" on that too...--HereToHelp 00:37, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Well when you delete something that says "Please leave this line alone" , what do you expect?--HereToHelp 00:47, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." You must be joking! 

message: Can someone please help me?  I have been searching for this book for years & have had no luck.  
It is a fictional book about a man who is a nighttime bartender.  He later finds out he is a descendant of Dracula.  I don't remember much else about it, other than that Dracula is resurrected towards the end.  I swear "BLOOD" was in the title, but I could be wrong.
Please email me at KrisTheSlayer@verizon.net    Thanks!!
Kristina —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kristheslayer (talk • contribs) 01:40, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not the place to ask these, lease instead ask at the humanities reference desk. LC@RSDATA 17:18, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looking for a Fiction Vampire Book 

message: Why is this being done? It makes the wiki very hard to read. Can someone tell me what's going on? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bremen (talk • contribs) 02:18, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It sounds like a potential browser stylesheet problem (fairly common). Just empty your browser cache, or do a full page refresh (ctrl-F5 or shift-F5). That should fix it. -Quiddity 06:03, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Or you could have ticked one of the check boxes in Special:Preferences. LC@RSDATA 09:39, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: perhaps your connection could be the problem? Dure 03:28, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red links crossed out? 

message: Hi everyone, I just created my first new page Anasarca (band) and want to check to make sure if I'm going to attempt to create new articles, that I'm doing it right and not breaking any rules. I also noticed that in creating the page, Anasarca was already existing, so I added the template to the top saying "this article is about blah blah blah, if you're looking for blah blah blah, go here" since there's only 2 articles regarding Anasarca. 
Please check it out and leave me a note on my talk page to let me know how I did, any constructive critisism would be welcomed. I've been spending numerous hours trying to get the whole format down and wiki markup - so any help would be appriciated.
Also, I don't know if this is the right spot to leave a note like this.... so let me know about that too!
Thanks! --Keitaro 02:17, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  First new page... 

message: I have used Wikipedia for some time now and find the code a bit of a problem sometimes, is there any software that would help make it easier and less time consuming to get the design looking good on pages.
pjb007 11:58, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: answered at userpage. -Quiddity 20:08, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editors 

message: Hello from Wiktionary.  Looking at this page, it is not at all clear where (or if) I can announce the ongoing activities for a new logo for Wiktionary.  meta:Wiktionary/logo could really use some collaboration from sister projects, I think.  --Connel MacKenzie -  wikt 01:03, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where to add a link?