User talk:Vdanen

here’s an interesting wiki with some nice plugins we may want to look at later: http://creationwiki.org/Special:Version

Display of page name

Hi Vince,

Can you change the skin so that the page name displays lower down, like it does on Wikipedia? I note that you re-typed the page title at the top of the Bible software pages between single = marks. This looks fine but allows for potential confusion if the page is moved, and seems unnecessary to me. - N Reid 10:57, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

This is doable, but this prevents us from being as free as we want. I.e. we could use the name, for example, "Adding_Ram" as the page name but use "Adding Ram to an OS X Computer" as the page title by using the single = marks. I've always done it like this because it adds more flexibility, and otherwise if you want to just rename/rephrase the title of a page, you don't have to rename the page itself. In light of that, WDYT? --Vdanen 14:48, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Fair enough. It looks fine on pages with only the main heading or a couple more. But once the TOC appears, can you stop the main title being in the TOC, and the remaining headings being indented? e.g. this permalink. Or should the title be at the same level as the other headings like this? - N Reid 18:27, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

We can do what I do on my other wiki: http://annvix.org/index.php?title=Documentation&action=edit where the title uses a template (i.e. { { title|Documentation } }) --Vdanen 18:51, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Fine, that's neat! I've added a br/ tag a the end of template:title to force a line break in case editors don't leave an empty line below it, like my user page. - N Reid 19:31, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Doesn't look like it. You'll need to leave a blank line or it will think it is 'wiki-style'; i.e. for separate paragraphs, you need to have a blank line between or it will think they are the same paragraph

kinda like this

That's exactly what I'm getting at. It worked yesterday using the Title template with the br at the end (before you removed it), and this test version works on my talk page: N Reid (permalink) 18:31, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Weird... it didn't seem like it was working. I put in a double-br now, so it'll work... might look off if people put in a blank vs don't (an extra space) but at least it works now. It didn't look like it had worked with just a single br, but maybe I'm losing my mind =)

Partial deletion request

I should not have added the original version of the remote control article without the original writer's consent. If I have admin privileges here, I'm not aware how to use them. I don't know how easy it is to delete page history, but please could you remove the history from that one?

Alternatively, if you simply delete the whole article, I'll re-add the current version as I've taken a copy elsewhere. - N Reid 20:55, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I don't think this will fully work. I deleted it and restored the last revision, so there are 7 edits that are removed. I don't know if it's because I'm an admin, or if any logged in user can see it, but I can see the old revisions when asked if I want to restore them. As an anonymous visitor in a different browser, I can't see the deleted history. There is this note, however:

If you restore the page, all revisions will be restored to the history. If a new page with the same name has been created since the deletion, the restored revisions will appear in the prior history.

That makes me think at we should then not use names at all when we post things unless the author specifically requests attribution... it's easier to add later than it is to remove. Something for your policy page perhaps?