User talk:Aleta Curry/Archive 5

 Where Aleta lives it is approximately: 09:10

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Aleta stops into the forums somewhere between 0630 and 0900, and works on the wiki between about 1200 and 1500, time and weather permitting.

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Aleta Curry

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Archive 1, Archive 2, Archive 3, Archive 4, Archive 5, Archive 6

Oh Recipes!

Please have a look at CZ:Proposals/Recipes_Subpage_and_Accompanying_Usage_Policy#Concrete_Steps_Ahead and kindly do the needful. Supten Sarbadhikari 22:24, 2 March 2008 (CST)

Getting in early

Hi Aleta

Another bad timing month for me puts me into Berlin all week from tomorrow, with limited internet access. So want to send my apols early. Next one. Promise. --Ian Johnson 09:44, 3 March 2008 (CST)

Awww...what? They don't have computers in Berlin?

Guess I'll have to let you slide.

Well, it's nice to know you didn't forget. See ya soon!

Aleta Curry 18:09, 3 March 2008 (CST)

Template:EZnotice

I created Template:EZnotice with three variables, school, subject, and enddate. Have a look see and tell me what you think. --Robert W King 11:48, 3 March 2008 (CST)

That's fab! Well done. Aleta Curry 18:13, 3 March 2008 (CST)

input requested on naming convention proposal

Please check out CZ:Proposals/Naming Conventions for Biographies#Final review? and respond there; if there is agreement, this proposal will move on to the next stage of adoption. Thanks, Anthony Argyriou 13:52, 3 March 2008 (CST)

There's been a significant suggestion for a change to the proposed policy. Please look at CZ:Proposals/Naming Conventions for Biographies#Poll regarding suggested change and respond there. Anthony Argyriou 14:04, 12 March 2008 (CDT)

inclusion

Here is an example of inclusion, Atom/Catalogs/Magnetic_nuclei. This table actually lives at NMR spectroscopy/Catalogs/Magnetic_nuclei but can be seen in the Atom cluster. A reader would not know this unless they tried to edit the table. Chris Day (talk) 14:28, 4 March 2008 (CST)

Write-a-thon theme

Hi Aleta, is there a theme to the current write-a-thon? Meg Ireland 16:57, 4 March 2008 (CST)

Yes! This month's theme is: "Something you absolutely love!"

Wobbly table

Happy parties, as the Brazilians say at Christmas, & thanks for the note.

I wonder if you can diagnose what's wrong with my table at I (that's as slim a blue link as one will ever see). I'm very new to tables: there must be a missing ingredient to explain why it won't 'take'. Thanks - Ro Thorpe 17:41, 4 March 2008 (CST)

Darlin' I know less than you do about tables. By the time I figured it out, Rob, Joe or Steve would have made short work of it and created lasting world peace. You can contact one of them, or Chris or Matt. I'd just put a "HELP!" note at the talk page; somebody will. Aleta Curry 17:56, 4 March 2008 (CST)

Thanks, I'd already put a note on the talk page: let's hope that'll do it - Ro Thorpe 18:01, 4 March 2008 (CST)

Led Zeppelin

Thank you. I'm absolutely humbled by the experience. I didn't expect anyone to vote for it. Meg Ireland 19:05, 4 March 2008 (CST)

Thanks

For the invite - regretfully I was unable to attend - my long suffering girlfriend proposed on Feb 29 and is now to be long suffering fiance - so we were whooping it up at a real party. kind regards --Russ McGinn 03:49, 5 March 2008 (CST)

Oh! Congratulations! Aleta Curry 04:11, 5 March 2008 (CST)

Hi yourself!

Hi, I think you're gonna have to add me to whichever category you think fit. I've been busy all day, and am now really burned out, and don't feel up to emitting coherent prose at this point today. The good news is I'm somewhat caught up on other areas of my life, and hope to be able to write tomorrow (although I'll probably be working on internal stuff first, alas - no fun writing articles for me :-). J. Noel Chiappa 20:45, 5 March 2008 (CST)

Ha! Sounds like you're entitled to a rest! Take a load off. Aleta Curry 21:29, 5 March 2008 (CST)

Spanish Translation

Aleta, I'm hoping you can lend a hand over at the Calcidius article. We have a Spanish speaking author who has attempted to translate an article from Spanish to English, but the prose is a bit shaky. I know you've been pushing the international thing, so I am hoping you have an idea as to if we have a Spanish speaking citizen with a better grasp on English so we can get a smoother translation out of it? I imagine a non-Spanish speaker could do this, but I fear the quality of the article would suffer. So if you can point me in the right direction, that'd be great. --Todd Coles 21:37, 6 March 2008 (CST)

After more digging, I found the CZ:International list and messaged Ro about this, so hopefully that will help and you can ignore this message unless you have someone in mind. --Todd Coles 21:48, 6 March 2008 (CST)

Recipe formalization

Hi, please have a look at CZ:Proposals/Recipes_Subpage_and_Accompanying_Usage_Policy#Concrete_Steps_Ahead and let us complete it so that it can be formalized and moved to the next stage quickly. Supten Sarbadhikari 21:46, 6 March 2008 (CST)

Help archive, please

Okay so where do I put this? user talk:Aleta Curry/Archive 2

and how come it isn't in the little archive box at the top like a good little...whatever it is?

You can just look at my contribs to see what I did to do this it for you. Stephen Ewen 04:00, 9 March 2008 (CDT)

I wasn't sure how to do this either (but don't need to archive for a while yet, anyway), so I took a look at how you did that, too. Thanks Stephen. Louise Valmoria 04:13, 9 March 2008 (CDT)

There are two schools of thought about archiving talk page; one moves the old page to the archive, so the history of those changes goes with it; the other does a cut-and-paste (as here). Each has their plusses and minusses. I wonder if we should have a project-wide standard for how article talk pages get archived? J. Noel Chiappa 09:27, 9 March 2008 (CDT)

Timeline templates

Aleta-

Would you mind testing out a timeline template I've created? It comes in two parts: {{Timeline}} to establish the timeline field, and {{TLevent}} to add timeline events. You can even change the colors and widths and stuff. Let me know if you come across any issues. --Robert W King 17:02, 9 March 2008 (CDT)

Short answer: no (I wouldn't mind at all)

Longer answer: I have no bloomin' idea how to make this work.

Sorry, I tried at: User:Aleta Curry/sandbox but no can do, kimosabe.

Aleta Curry 01:13, 10 March 2008 (CDT)

For what it's worth, (I spotted you talking to yourself in the recent changes section and was dying to know why you were worried about blowing up CZ): an 'em' is a font thing--you can use it to change the width and length of tables and such in whatever scale the font settings already are in.

Try changing the width using percentages (40%) or, I think, pixels (100px), which can give you an exact width, but doesn't scale as well. If someone had a really wide screen resolution, 100px can look really small, but if it was 40% the width would take up 40% of the available space for the table. Louise Valmoria 02:35, 10 March 2008 (CDT) (who will stop nosing around the recent changes page now)

The "em" unit is not only for fonts; it is a valid CSS unit for just about anything. The width is adjusted in percentages (37%) or in em (100em). If you use pixels, it will probably not line up. --Robert W King 08:26, 10 March 2008 (CDT)

Nose around all you want--I need all the help I can get! I suppose I'll come back to this later, right now I'm catching up on Proposals and things while they're all sleeping in the good ol' USA...and trying not to burn my husband's dinner as I do it. Good thing he's a bangers-n-mash kinda fella, just in case.... ;)

Aleta Curry 03:05, 10 March 2008 (CDT)

itsTallong story

see me. D. Matt Innis 12:20, 13 March 2008 (CDT)

BrE & AmE but not (as yet) AuE

Hi, Aleta, have a look at Hayford's talk (Autre...) please & let us have your opinion. Ro Thorpe 19:03, 18 March 2008 (CDT)

Further to your note chez Hayford, would you like to add something re Commonwealth English to the introduction to this? I tried, but am not quite sure how to phrase it. Ro Thorpe 16:16, 20 March 2008 (CDT)

Sure I'll take a stab at it, not because I'm an expert, but because I believe so strongly that it is needed.

Where does "it" live?

Aleta Curry 17:45, 24 March 2008 (CDT)

Red links

In the early days on Wikipedia, we found it was better to leave links as red, rather than redirect them to something which was only vaguely useful (as with African-American -> Soul food). In part, you see it blue, then if you don't check, you think 'ah, good, don't need to do that'. Also there's a function Special:Wantedpages which redirects also make not work. J. Noel Chiappa 14:18, 25 March 2008 (CDT)

Ah, sorry, I see, you were trying to redirect African-American cuisine, and apparently suffered a typo. Never mind! J. Noel Chiappa 14:20, 25 March 2008 (CDT)

Ooh--took me several passes at this (with husband glaring impatiently over my shoulder because he wants computer to check out BBC news for some reason) to figure out what you were saying.

You're right--typo caused by piped link, I think.

I think I now need to ask someone to delete African-American so that it still shows up as a red link.

Aleta Curry 17:50, 25 March 2008 (CDT)

Just throw a {{speedydelete|<your reason here>}} on any page you created in error and want deleted. Every so often a Constable comes along and janitors them all off to the trash. J. Noel Chiappa 19:43, 25 March 2008 (CDT)