User talk:Hamamelis/2010
2010 ARCHIVE :
Rollback?
- Hi Maedin,
- My apologies for not replying to you more promptly, and thank you for your confidence and positive statements.
- If you can confirm that no harm is done if the only time the rollback function is used is when reverting 2 or more clear examples of vandalism in sequence, than yes, please sign me up. I'm only feeling cautious because, in reading rollback, I'm having difficulty comprehending all that it entails; for persons of a certain generation, the article is piled high with a sort of new-speak, and I don't want to slip-up and use it improperly.
- Most sincerely, thanks again. Hamamelis (talk) 19:36, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Hamamelis, no need to apologise, :)
- Just to try and clarify some points:
- yes, rollback should only be used when the edits are clearly vandalism. If you suspect that the edits may have been made in good faith or were an attempt to be helpful, you should "undo" instead. Rollback is often seen as a bit bite-y and it doesn't allow you to leave an edit summary of your choosing, so that's why it should be used for vandalism only. (Editors who abuse this and rollback inappropriately can have the tool removed; but don't worry, I'm sure you know the difference and won't have any trouble there!)
- Rollback can only be used on the latest edit(s); either a single edit, or a series by the same user.
- Rollback is useful even for single edits because it's faster than "undo"; it automatically clears the edit once you click "rollback", no more work required, :)
- Hope those points help a little, and of course, feel free to ask anything, :) I'll go ahead and enable rollback; if for any reason you decide you'd rather not have it, then please just let me (or any other admin) know, and it can be removed in a jiffy.
- As a side note, the rollback link will be added to the latest edit on every page history and also to your watchlist. I find the links distracting on my watchlist, and if you think the same thing, I can show you how to make the links hidden. Just say if you find that it gets in your way.
- Keep up the good work! Maedin\talk 20:07, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks Maedin! Hamamelis (talk) 22:59, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Inedible Maclura
- Ha! Not that I've ever been tempted, but the unfortunate deer's example shows us the way. Hamamelis (talk) 22:56, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
- Some people might consider the deer to be an inspiration, but I am not one of them. Nadiatalent (talk) 01:36, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Multicolumns
Hi, Hamamelis!You don't have to apologize for the inconvenients of your system...
I have some questions for you, regarding to your problems:
- There are different templates and different options to apply to these templates. So, we could use the proper one to solve your problems. But, is not very clear for me what is exactly the problem: the template columns-list crashes your system? If this is the problem, there are a lot of different templates that you could try instead a table, such as "multicol", "col-begin" and others.
- I changed your option "font-size" to "small" because I thought it was the recommended to indicate the authority of the genus. At least, is the most used along the Wikipedia, but maybe is not exactly the recommended, I'm not sure. So, you have problems to see pages with the "small" option applied? This is crazy, man!
- My recommendation is: revert my changes if you are actively working with this pages. I don't have any problem with that, of course. But, you should try to improve your system in the future, because other people like me is coming to apply this kind of changes, I guess. So, this is gonna be the real problem for you: the other people that is working following the same guidelines than me!! :(
I apologize for the problems that I caused to you (and for my english too) ;) Flakinho (talk) 18:24, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
- Sounds good!
- Good luck and Peace ;) Flakinho (talk) 19:08, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Magnolia subgenera and sections
- I appreciate your thoughts. Obviously, at this point, there's no hurry: we as editors in 2010 have a great luxury to have so much to choose from to work on, there is so much yet to fill in, all over. It's what keeps us all editing. Have fun and keep up the good work! Thanks! (: Hamamelis (talk) 12:21, 2 May 2010 (UTC)