User talk:Parliament of Owls/Archive

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Hello, Parliament of Owls, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  --Merovingian {T C @} 01:55, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, you're off to a fantastic start. Other advice? Well, just make sure you keep a cool head ("assume good faith"), and don't be afraid to take a chance "be bold". --Merovingian {T C @} 02:09, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Any time. I haven't seen that bar myself, since I'm using a different page style.  :) --Merovingian {T C @} 02:15, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

helpme

I meant to edit an article I was looking at, Passage on the Lady Anne (The Twilight Zone), but it says I edited "Template:TTW episode details." Why did this happen? Parliament of Owls 02:24, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Because the code for the page says that section comes from the template. If you want to edit the page, please edit page, not edit section (for that article) ... if you look at the edit page, you will see that that part iof the data is template generated. -- ∞Wirelain 02:40, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

I fixed it up for you, now it should display nothing if the template does not have all of its variables set.--SomeStranger (T | C) 02:47, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't know that that was the issue.

To fix the template, you would need to revert. Now the template is fixed ... but ... to do a revert; open the history of the page in question, click the version you want to revert to, edit, type in a good description 'reverting to last version, was super silly edit' or some such, click save. -- ∞Wirelain 02:51, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Don't worry too much about super silly edits, how were you to know about generated template sections? In any case, I recommend reading the 'editing help' link that appears in the save page button row ... visit WP:NUH, welcome to wikipedia! -- ∞Wirelain 02:59, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

No problem, let me explain what was wrong with your edit. Wikipedia uses "templates" which are articles that have information that can be placed on any page. They are used for repetetive tasks. Templates can have variables which are identified by the {{{variable}}} tags. If a template has an undefined variable on a page then it will show up as {{{variable}}} unless a default has been set. As far as your edit goes, when templates are placed in that have sections, clicking the edit section link will edit the template instead of the page, therefore changing every page that has the respective template on it. In the future make sure to check that the page you are editing is the one you intended to. Don't worry about it though, you're still new and wiki syntax can be complicated.--SomeStranger (T | C) 03:35, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

And as proof that you are not alone; WP:DUMB *grin* -- ∞Wirelain 06:01, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

O RLY?

Shogun 06:21, 27 June 2006 (UTC)