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To send me a message, click [http://www.mafiascum.net/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:LyingBrian&action=edit&section=new here.]
 
 
== re: userpage vs username page ==
 
Mainly, it's because I cut my teeth on MediaWiki/Wikipedia, where userpages are strictly separated from "articles". But I also think it makes sense
 
And, you may have noticed, but you get a screaming orange bar when someone leaves you a message at <nowiki>[[user_talk:LyingBrian]]</nowiki>. Not so much for [[LyingBrian]]. I like your italic hack for this, but ideally I'd like to see people move their userpages to the user namespace. I don't expect this to happen anytime before JEEP implements a unified login, though... :/ -- [[User:Mr. Flay|Mr.]] [[User_talk:Mr. Flay|Flay]] 10:05, 13 August 2007 (MDT)
 
Heh, no problem. Yeah, what I mean is that userpages should ideally be at [[User:Whatever]], with a redirect/link from [[Whatever]]. For the old wiki, there were no namespaces to worry about, so everybody got into the habit of making their page at their name, and that's how they got moved over. The terminology I'm using is far from precise, it's not your fault. (I'm trying to use "userpage" for [[User:Whatever]] and "username page" for [[Whatever]]). -- [[User:Mr. Flay|Mr.]] [[User_talk:Mr. Flay|Flay]] 15:22, 13 August 2007 (MDT)
:So, what you're saying is that UserPages should actually be in the User namespace, rather than in the Main namespace where the majority of them are? This is going to take a while to fix! [[User:Somestrangeflea|Somestrangeflea]] 15:45, 13 August 2007 (MDT)
::It's okay, once you're logged in it's fairly straightforward with the [[help:Move|Move]] command, and even the page history gets saved, and the old name ([[somestrangeflea]] in your case) becomes an automatic redirect. It's not as bad as it sounds... [[User:Mr. Flay|Mr. Flay]] 16:11, 14 August 2007 (MDT)
:::Oh I know, I meant it'll be hard on the large scale. (ie. everyone on MS to move!)[[User:Somestrangeflea|Somestrangeflea]] 17:24, 14 August 2007 (MDT)
::::They don't really have to do it ''themselves''. Any account with Move privs could do it in a matter of hours, and then JEEP just has to add "User:" to the tag in profiles/signatures... -- [[User:Mr. Flay|Mr.]] [[User_talk:Mr. Flay|Flay]] 17:26, 14 August 2007 (MDT)
 
== Conversation about {{tl|gamebox}} and categories ==
 
Check it out when you get a chance: [[Category talk:Games]]. -- [[User:Mr. Flay|Mr.]] [[User_talk:Mr. Flay|Flay]] 21:26, 14 August 2007 (MDT)
 
== sysop? ==
 
Hey, since you do so much on the wiki and have obviously proven yourself trustworthy, is there any reason not to grant you the sysop tools? It'd help with spam, you could delete pages if you have to move over them, etc... if you're not comfortable with it yet, I can give you the crash course tutorial, but it's hard to permanently eff anything up, even with the extra tools. Let me know.. -- [[User:Mr. Flay|Mr.]] [[User_talk:Mr. Flay|Flay]] 07:08, 16 August 2007 (MDT)
 
== signature ==
 
In preferences (at the top of the page), click 'Raw Signature' and enter something like this:
<pre>&mdash; [[User:LyingBrian|Lying]][[User_talk:LyingBrian|Brian]]</pre>
That's it! (it'll of course only affect signatures you make from here on out, unlike the forums) -- [[User:Mr. Flay|Mr.]] [[User_talk:Mr. Flay|Flay]] 07:04, 17 August 2007 (MDT)
:Not to butt in or anything, but I noticed your follow-up question on Flay's page ;). The preferences aren't the most intuitive thing, but you want to put your desired signature in the 'Nickname' field. Checking the raw signature box just changes how it interprets it, when you add your signature (no check, you get a wikilink pointing to your userpage, with the text as a piped label; check, it just outputs whatever you happen to put in there). --[[User:YYCguy|YYCguy]] 08:20, 17 August 2007 (MDT)
 
== deleting pages ==
 
Don't worry about deleting redirects from misspelled/miscapitalized names - they still can help sometimes with searches, and redirects are *extremely* cheap, CPU-wise. Deletion probably actually costs 10-100x more. :) Also, remember that redirects aren't just for links within the wiki, but anybody misspelling something in the [wiki] tags in the forums...  -- [[User:Mr. Flay|Mr.]] [[User_talk:Mr. Flay|Flay]] 07:34, 17 August 2007 (MDT)
 
== changing page names ==
 
To preserve the edit history where you might expect it, try using the Move function instead of redirecting the old title - the copy-n-paste thing obscures where some of the old syntax/edits were if you ever need to go back and revert something. -- [[User:Mr. Flay|Mr.]] [[User_talk:Mr. Flay|Flay]] 01:44, 18 August 2007 (MDT)

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