User talk:RockOn72

Something Quite Useful

Rather than mess on with userboxes like a certain someone, I have found something that is actually useful. A piece of javascript which generates a pop-up preview of a page (provided it is a link to another article), along with other useful links, such as the relevant talk or history page.

To implement this, copy the code of User:DTR/monobook.js to User:RockOn72/monobook.js.

Also, I found the userbox regarding the vabbs phenomenon quite amusing.

I am going to watch [A new episode of] Ugly Betty now on E4, and no doubt you will be watching Grand Designs and Desperate Housewives.

--Dave the Rave (DTR) 19:45, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

A new and somewhat pointless userbox series

I have created a series of template for determining how hard a user is:

{{User:DTR/user hard-0}}
{{User:DTR/user hard-1}}
{{User:DTR/user hard-2}}
{{User:DTR/user hard-3}}
{{User:DTR/user hard-4}}
{{User:DTR/user hard-5}}
{{User:DTR/user hard}}

--Dave the Rave (DTR) 19:15, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

d-d--d-d-d---Linux (Ubuntu)

I have spent an afternoon configuring linux, and the result (of which I am quite proud) you can see (if you are bothered/interested) here, --Dave the Rave (DTR) 20:34, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

What was that? Was that a Mega Userbox Creator-5 called DTR? Oh, I thought so.

As promised, here is the long awaited userbox war userbox:

War!	This user is participating in a Userbox War with RockOn72 and this user is now winning! War Status:Green

{{User:DTR/userbox war|RockOn72|winning|Green}}
The fist parameter is the name of the enemy; the second is the victory status (i.e. winning/losing), and the third is the war status. The colour of the mini-box will change with the war status providing the status is a colour.
No doubt you will not be reading this as I write this as Ugly Betty is on Channel 4 once more. --Dave the Rave (DTR) 20:25, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:Five.svg

Hello, RockOn72. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:Five.svg) was found at the following location: User:RockOn72. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media was replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 04:06, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

L Clock

Did you get L Clock to work? --Dave the Rave (DTR) 16:37, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

more userboxes

{{User:DTR/user what was that|a userbox made by that fine userbox creator, [[User:DTR|DTR]]|red|pink}}, Which is now implemented on your page.

Also, see this link here, containing the poshest, Vista-compatible icons and the said icons in SVG format, of which I am quite proud.

On the subject of Improved Icons

Back at that strange web page directory http://www.billinghamcampus.stockton.sch.uk/home/drobe03e/Other/Icons/ there is a set of better-than-last-time and polished off icons, some of which feature rotations of the Office Icons. There also some new icons, and I am particularly proud of the ZIP icon, because I am sad and spent far too long creating it.

Re: Posh rounded and fixed toolbar

Right: to implement the said feature (i.e. rounded things and fixed toolbars) add (i.e. don't overwrite the popup script) the following to User:RockOn72/monobook.js (or your relevant skin js file):

/* Move top tabs inside body content */

addOnloadHook(function () {
    content = document.getElementById("column-content");    // Find the main content column

    footer = document.getElementById("footer");  // Find the footer
    footer.parentNode.removeChild(footer);    // Remove the footer from the global wrapper
    content.appendChild(footer);    // Place footer at the end of the content column;

    tabs = document.getElementById("p-cactions");   // Find the top tab list
    tabs.parentNode.removeChild(tabs);    // Remove the tab list from the side column
    content.insertBefore(tabs,content.firstChild);    // Place tab list at the beginning of the content column
});

---

Next, add this to User:RockOn72/monobook.css (or your relevant skin css file):

/* Fix the sidebar's position while you scroll */

div[id=column-one] {  /* Using the attribute selector hides this from IE */
    position: fixed;
    height: 100%;     /* If you shrink the browser too small, the side column will */
    overflow: auto; /*   become scrollable, so stuff is always accessible, albeit ugly */
    z-index: 2;
}

#p-lang .pBody ul{    /* Sets the language box to a fixed height and scrollable if too long to fit */
    height: 10em;
    overflow: auto;
}

body {                /* Fix the background image, too, so it looks nice as you scroll */
    background-attachment: fixed;
}

#footer {             /* Fix the footer so it looks nice and doesn't overlap the sidebar */
    margin-left: 13.6em;
    border-left: solid 1px rgb(250, 189, 35);
    /* Uncomment this if you use rounded edges: */

    -moz-border-radius-topleft: 1em; 
    -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 1em; 

}

#column-one {
    padding-top: 100;
}


/* Transform the user toolbar into a sidebox */
#p-personal {
    position:relative;
    z-index:3;
    width: 11.6em;
}

#p-personal .pBody {
    width: 10.7em;
    border: none;
    margin: 0 0 0.1em 0em;
    float: none;
    overflow: hidden;
    font-size: 95%;
    background: White;
    border-collapse: collapse;
    border: 1px solid #aaaaaa;
    padding: 0 0.8em 0.3em .5em;
}

#p-personal ul {
    line-height: 1.5em;
    list-style-type: square;
    list-style-image: url("/style/monobook/bullet.gif");

    font-size:95%;
    margin: 0 0 0 1.5em;
    padding:0;
    text-align:left;
    text-transform: none;
}

#p-personal li {
    display: list-item;
    padding:0;
    margin: 0 0 0 0;
    margin-bottom: 0.1em;
}

/* suppress the person icon by your username */
/* needed if not already in place */
li#pt-userpage { background: none }

/* make a few corners round, only supported by moz/firefox/other gecko browsers for now */
#p-cactions ul li, #p-cactions ul li a {  
  -moz-border-radius-topleft: 1em;
  -moz-border-radius-topright: 1em;
}
#content { 
  -moz-border-radius-topleft: 1em; 
  -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 1em;
}
div.pBody {
  -moz-border-radius-topright: 1em;
  -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 1em;
}

/* same following the css3 draft specs, any browsers supporting this? */
#p-cactions ul li, #p-cactions ul li a {  
  border-radius-topleft: 1em;
  border-radius-topright: 1em;
}
#content { 
  border-radius-topleft: 1em;
  border-radius-bottomleft: 1em;
}
div.pBody {
  border-radius-topright: 1em;
  border-radius-bottomright: 1em;
}

Note that you could change the things in the CSS to modify Wikipedia to your liking. ALso Note that for the changes to the CSS/JS to show, the borwser's cache must be bypassed/cleared/purged (Ctrl+Shift+R in FireFox)

Notability of Tees Valley Youth Wind Orchestra

A tag has been placed on Tees Valley Youth Wind Orchestra requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not indicate the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable. If this is the first page that you have created, then you should read the guide to writing your first article.

If you think that you can assert the notability of the subject, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm the subject's notability under Wikipedia guidelines.

For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. -WarthogDemon 18:50, 17 March 2008 (UTC)