User talk:Sean ODuibher

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[edit] LOCE review for USS Siboney (ID-2999)

Thanks for taking the time to review the article. I've replied to your comments at the article's talk page. — Bellhalla (talk) 22:37, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] LOCE request

I was wondering if you had the time, any time really, to take a look at Friday the 13th (franchise)? I don't know if you have any interest in such topics or not, so it's cool if you don't want to review it or don't have the time. Anyway, I'm directly requesting assistance because the article has been on the request page since December 2007. I want to get the majority of the page c/e'd before the last few minor subject additions take place, so that the FAC process will go smoother when the article is finally ready for that stage.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 02:29, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Appreciate the copyedit.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 00:57, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
LOL, waiting a day is nothing compared to the four months that I waited before. Thanks again.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 03:53, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adoption

Hey there! I noticed on your userpage that you are looking to be adopted - have anybody offered yet? If not, I'd be interested in adopting you, if you are okay with that. Just leave a message for me here. TheMoridian 20:16, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


Hi again! I have added the adopter template to my userpage, I notice you have added the template to your userpage, so... you have now been adopted! I've never actually done this before, and I'm still relatively new myself, so I don't really know where to begin. I guess the first thing is: if you want to ask anything (absolutely anything), just leave a message here, and I'll reply as soon as I can. I'm usually on wikipedia at least once a day, so I should reply fairly quickly. Secondly, if you get into any sort of crisis, leave me a message in the same place (here), and I'll help out. Finally, the adopter resources section recommends that I set you assignments to complete - I think this is a little too formal, but if you want to do this, I'll set you some tasks - the choice is yours. If prefer the informal approach, the usual things that new users do are:

1. Join a couple of wikiprojects and start contributing to them.
2. Learn a bit about coding.
3. Make a nice, finished, low-maintenance userpage.

If you want, I can help you with these things - it's up to you now on how to want to progress. Leave me another message on my talk page (here) on what you want to do, and we can get started straight away!! TheMoridian 14:10, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adoptee-ness

1. I've joined something like 4 wikiprojects, but I find this too much, and it takes too long to check each project for new updates .etc. If you're already part of WP:LOCE, I'd suggest maybe picking one other that is your main specialty. You can always join more later - this is the thing that I forgot!
2. Sorry, here's where I get confusing - what I mean is basically learning little tricks that you type that help out greatly. For example, adding double square brackets [[ ]] around something makes it into a link - and typing <br> adds a line break. I don't mean to sound patronising, its just my ICT knowledge is extremely poor - if you already know these things, just ignore me... :D
3. You're right, the coding stuff really does link to the userpage - I learnt and experimented on my userpage, which helped a lot. I just remember reading somewhere that the userpage is the thing that most editors turn their attention to eventually.
Sorry for being confusing, hope this is a little clearer. TheMoridian 16:18, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


By the way, have you decided whether you want assignments or not? TheMoridian 13:29, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assignment 1

OK then, your first assignment is... to create a nice new userbox for yourself :). Use this template if you want:

{{Userbox |id = [[image|pixel size]] |id-c = colour |info = message |info-c = colour |info-fc = colour }}

ID = the picture to go on the left hand side.
ID-C = the colour of the picture box on the left hand side.
Info = the message on the right.
Info-c = the colour of the message box on the right.
Info-fc = the font colour of the message.

Here's an example:
{{Userbox |id = [[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg|40px]] |id-c = Black |info = This user really isn't that evil. |info-c = Black |info-fc = Blue }}
 To create:

This user really isn't that evil.


Once again, sorry if I sound patronising, if you can already do these just ignore me (I'm just pathetic with computers).

You don't have to do one like this if you don't want to, you can do a double picture one if you want. I've not tried them yet... hey, that can be my assignment! TheMoridian 14:31, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I've glanced at your userpage, and its looking better already! I've just found one of these, and I think they're really cool, so:
Award of First Success
Well done for completing your first mini-task! TheMoridian 09:04, 2 May 2008 (UTC)


What you can do next, if you want, is 'finalise' the userbox you made. To do this, create a subpage from your userpage by typing the address in the address bar (for example, one of mine is 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Themoridian/SWTFUbox), and then copy and paste the userbox code from your userpage into the new page. Then, to display the userbox, you just type {{User:Sean ODuibher/subpagename}} on your userpage and the box will be automatically inserted!!

I think a progression from here is to continue jazzing-up your userpage (you can experiment with adding borders, images/captions, more userboxes .etc.) - if you need any help/ ideas just give me a shout! Also, if you want another assignment, see if you can make a major edit to an article (or create a new article altogether) - have a look in your wikiprojects in the to-do lists. TheMoridian 09:17, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi again, I don't know if you noticed, but your the image in your userbox has been removed by a bot because the copyright doesn't cover userspaces. I didn't realise that could happen, as it just has with all of my userboxes - so I apologise. You'll have to try and find another image for the userbox that doesn't have copyright issues. Again, sorry! TheMoridian 07:50, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Yep, sure, you can use this to make bordered boxes:

<div style="padding: 0px; background: #0000CC; border-style: ridge; border-width: 5px; border-color: #000000;"> <table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="2" style="background: #0066FF"> <tr><td valign="top"><div style="background: #0000CC; border-style: ridge; border-width: 2px; border-color: #000000; padding: 1em; text-align: left;"></td></tr></table></div>
This gives:


This is a piece of code for a large box - once you have changed the colours, border thickness .etc. I use this on my userpage. If you want it to encompass the whole userpage, just put it at the top and leave the </td></tr></table></div> bit at the very end of the page. If you want to add mini boxes within that for text .etc. you could use this: {| border="1" cellpadding="10" width="70%" |align="center" bgcolor="#3F84EB" width="80%"| <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><font-size: x-large>'''''TITLE'''''</font-size></span></span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: arial"><span style="color:black"><!-- <big> -->BODY TEXT<!-- </big> --></span></span> |}
All you have to do with this is change the colour, the title, and the body text to your own preference, put it inside the first piece of code, and you'll get something like this:

About Me

Hi there! My name is...


The mini box expands across the page as you put text in it. This is the code I use on my userpage, as I find it the easiest one to work with. Also, if you add <br> at the end of the mini box code, you can copy and paste the mini box code to give a second mini box underneath!

Hope that helps! TheMoridian 09:26, 10 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Shinto Wedding Picture

Good eye! Actually, the photo does appear to be the same, but the BBC credits Doug Bowman as the author; Doug Bowman is the photographer of the image at Flickr, as well. There the image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. See the actual image page here on Wikipedia: [1]. Also, please see the BBC page: [2]; underneath the photo (which has been reversed) you will see "A Shinto bride ©." Click the copyright symbol and that will take you to a list of credits that include Doug Bowman, along with a link to his Flickr account. Also, note how when you float your mouse over the copyright symbol it says Doug Bowman. So, the image is not copyright by the BBC, but Doug Bowman. They probably saw the image here on Wikipedia and decided to use it on their site, since it is freely licensed. (Mind meal (talk) 23:09, 8 May 2008 (UTC))