User talk:Brusselsshrek

Ouch!

The text below the photo in the article on blood blisters said it was caused by a pair of long-nosed pliers. How did you manage to do that? Scott Gall 07:42, 2005 May 29 (UTC)

It's in the history if you check it out - IKEA furniture! Though someone thought this detail was not relevant to the entry :-( and removed it. Brusselsshrek 10:26, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RFA

By your request, your RFA has been reinstated. The "snowballing" was done to protect new users from a negative pile-up, not to keep them from running (note that we have in fact lost editors because of their RFA failed). Best of luck. Yours, R adiant _>|< 10:26, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now that you've withdrawn, let me say that I look forward to supporting your next RfA, when you are ready for it. NoSeptember ^talk 21:35, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Though since I've been through it, I've learnt so many new adminie things to "play" with, it'll be a long time before I'm back in RfA! Brusselsshrek 21:38, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki School proposal

This is now on Wiki School

Excellent idea. Good places to start may be Category:Wikipedia maintenance, Category:WikiProjects, and Category:Wikipedia backlog. R adiant _>|< 11:21, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're very welcome. If there's anything else I can help you with, I'd be delighted to do so. James James 12:16, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Am planning to start a counter copyvio unit ala CVU some time next month - this would not require admin abilities, but lots of work would be needed. Would you be interested in joining me on this one?? --Gurubrahma 17:24, 17 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're a good person!

Saw you withdrew your RfA... Hey, it takes a fair bit of courage to decide that withdrawing is the right thing to do. Props to you and best wishes. ++Lar: t/c 21:53, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't let the RfA process intimidate you, and I certainly hope my vote did not discourage you. I really do think you could be a shoo-in, in time. Jonathunder 23:16, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki School

Without wishing to sound rude, when it comes to things like wikis, I'm a fan of finding your own way rather than being drilled. Also, I believe new editors should be encouraged to contribute, rather than to concentrate on "admin-type" tasks. I'm enjoying RC patrol at the moment because I lack time, but when I have more, you'll see me contributing more content.

Does your home town have an article? Can you add anything to it? How about your school (I'm guessing you're at school, my apologies if you're not)? What about the books you've read and enjoyed? The music you listen to? Why not spend some of your time researching and writing about those things as well as trying to do adminny things? You'll pick up the other stuff in time. You don't need a formal course of study. Trust me on that. James James 23:40, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem

If you need anymore help, give me a holler.--Max Talk (add) • Contribs 00:44, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wrapped text in boxes

In response to your question on the help desk, is this what you're looking for?

But what do I do if I want a really large amount of text in a box, because then I would really rather like Wikipedia to wrap the text for me? I know by starting the line with a space I asked it to ignore formating, but how do I get the effect I want?

This is done by putting the text in a table, here is the code:

{| class="toccolours" style="border: 2px solid; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; width: 100%; background-color: white;"

|-

|valign="top"|<center>But what do I do if I want a really large amount of text in a box, because then I would really rather like Wikipedia to wrap the text for me? I know by starting the line with a space I asked it to ignore formating, but how do I get the effect I want?</center> |}

Hopefully, this is what you are looking for. If this isn't what your looking for. It's good idea to ask on the help desk where a lot of expert users answer questions such as this. - Akamad 23:37, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thought I'd experiment myself

But what do I do if I want a really large amount of text in a box, because then I would really rather like Wikipedia to wrap the text for me? I know by starting the line with a space I asked it to ignore formating, but how do I get the effect I want?

Brusselsshrek 23:41, 24 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Random idea on Image:Palm TX.JPG

Brusselsshrek, I saw your Image:Palm TX.JPG today...I had a thought that it would be cute if you were to replace the image with one where the site on the PDA is the Main Page or the Palm (PDA) article. Just an idea :) -- stillnotelf has a talk page 01:30, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately the Wikipedia website looks like a dog's breakfast on my Palm. Brusselsshrek 22:39, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello from Dutch speaker

Hi,

I was quite surprised to see someone taking interest in learning Dutch (usually it's French or German..) I admire your desire as you already seem to speak French (I wish everyone in our country strived for trilinguality...).

I like questions like those, it makes me understand the grammar of my own language (I always diss French for being difficult but things like that inversion demonstrate Dutch can be confusing just as well.)

Evilbu 16:11, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jesli chcesz moge navet movisz po polsku, ale to byloby za trudno dla ciebie chyba ;-) Brusselsshrek 19:29, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Admin school

I was looking into being a coach for the admin coaching project, and noticed that the waiting period was pretty long, even for coaches. So I decided to break the bottle-neck, and dove in to answering questions right there on that page. Pretty soon the effort grew, and before I knew it, I had set up an entire school for admin hopefuls.

Now that the school is set up, I've been working on its curriculum. I was about to start work on the first course's planned "self-assessment" section, and started to research that and came across your User:Brusselsshrek/Wiki School page. I'm wondering if you'd like to work in that wonderful chart of yours as part of the self-assessment section of The Essence of Wikipedia: A Crash Course in Wikipedianism. Or if you wouldn't mind if I did so. I look forward to your reply. The Transhumanist 12:11, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Or something other than admin school?

I also just came across User:Brusselsshrek/Wiki School. It looks pretty dormant. Would you be interested in perhaps a variant of the idea? The TH mentioned self-assessment (to which you've not replied); I think that has a lot of possibilities for regular editors. I'm thinking of a system similar to the self-assessment (userboxes) that now exist for language skills, although with more levels, rather than colored belts (though I like those). Perhaps some sort of point system.

In any case, I think there is a major gap - or opportunity, if you will - to provide something to regular editors that challenges (or teaches) them to be better editors - to use edit summaries and post warnings to vandals and use talk pages and create good citations and help with maintenance -- and a bunch of other things that don't prepare necessarily prepare them for an RfA but do make them much better contributors to Wikipedia. John Broughton | Talk 13:50, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Creating school infobox based on country infobox

I'd like to create a new type of infobox to describe my school. I like the infobox for country, and I'd like to make one school infobox based on country infobox. How should I modify from the country infobox? Please help!! I'd like to add my invention into the list of proposed infoboxes or list of infoboxes for education. (Better leave a message in my talk page) Thanks.--Edmundkh 18:36, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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