User talk:42.book.addict

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introductions

Just replying to your message (also dw no big deal for bothering me) You click on your username and there should be an edit box. --1234231587678 (talk) 04:58, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

it says that i dont have permission to create the page…

There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, or search the related logs, but you do not have permission to create this page. it says 42.book.addict (talk) 19:33, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

I think you might have to wait some time (like a timer) until you can edit your own page... I think I only got to edit my page after 1 month of creating my account.--1234231587678 (talk) 21:31, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

ok, thx 42.book.addict (talk) 21:52, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

My guess on where you live is somewhere in the GMT zone, so United Kingdom.--1234231587678 (talk) 03:43, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

nope, im a california girl :) (talk) 05:04, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

lol you never know with utc times --1234231587678 (talk) 16:52, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

Depends what you wanted to do...

Is the following what you intended?

	[[This user is trans.]]

...or is even the [[]] part not what you want?

	This user is trans.

As brief a guide as I can manage:

• URL links use []. Although literal https://www.google.com will self-link without any wikimarkup, you probably don't want it to look like that most of the time.
  • Just give the URL, as in [https://www.google.com], to get a [1] (i.e. a reference number), not the best way to do it. It can be organised better with a 'References' section, but we don't do that here (they do on wikipedia, but usually with other bits to it.
  • Better to give the URL and the text to use (after a space, a character that never appears raw in any proper URL). This can be [https://www.google.com Check It Out On Google!] or even [https://www.google.com https://www.microsoft.com (only kidding!)], to give Check It Out On Google! or https://www.microsoft.com (only kidding!)... But perhaps best not to do the latter too much (I really didn't want to post that without the "(only kidding!)" part, in fact.)
• Internalised wikilinks use the [[]]s.
  • Anything that can be found under the title, e.g. "2: Petit Trees (sketch)" (or, because of redirections, "2" and "Petit Trees (sketch)" go to the same spot, so [[2]], [[Petit Trees (sketch)]] and [[2: Petit Trees (sketch)]] gives you the literal links 2, Petit Trees (sketch) and 2: Petit Trees (sketch)
  • Or use [[2: Petit Trees (sketch)|that comic with the little trees]], additional text separated by the 'pipe' symbol (i.e. "|"), to link to that comic with the little trees
  • You can also link across to articles on other 'wikimedia family' sites, but I'm not going to try to summarise that, as the primary reason to do that is to go to an actual Wikipedia article, and there's a template set up to do that very nicely, already (and also a few other places, like Wiktionary, and some not-really-wikis with a similar philosphy like TVTropes). If in doubt, do it as a URL link or find a place where someone else has clearly markuped a link to the same site as you want to link to.
• So, anyway, Wikilink templates use the {{w}}-template, with one or two paramaters (pipe-separated). (It shortcuts the thing you'd maybe use [[]]s for
  • Using {{w|article}} gives you a link to "Article" (it capitalises the first character, even if you don't)
  • Using {{w|article|with alternate text}} gives you a link there but "with alternate text"
  • If the article name has whitespace (or other 'URL-unfriendly' characters) in it, those characters in the URL (which you wouldn't want to use) will be rendered as something URL-friendly. The URL for "Whitespace (programming language)", for example, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language) but you wouldn't normally use that so literally in any case, and definitely not when you can significanty shorten it with the {{w}} notation.
    • What you can do is (without 'alternate link text') render it as {{w|Whitespace_(programming_language)}} - i.e. Whitespace_(programming_language) - but that's not nice to see 'rendered raw' when you want the spaces. You could give it alternate text via {{w|Whitespace_(programming_language)|Whitespace (programming language)}} to give Whitespace (programming language) ...but that's wasteful and unnecessary.
    • Instead, just do {{w|Whitespace (programming language)}} (that's the literal copy of the article's own page title, from the rendered page) - and shows as Whitespace (programming language) - which is good. Although {{w|Whitespace (programming language)|the programming language called Whitespace}} might be the best way to seemlessly link to the programming language called Whitespace ...depends what you want to appear there.
    • And you can link to header anchors pretty much like the URL of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)#History by using {{w|Whitespace (programming language)#History|the history of Whitespace}} to have you show the history of Whitespace or whatever else you might want to use.
  • Also, for the use of a link which is singular but which you would like to include as the plural (usually the "...s" or "...es" version), you could use article-name first parameter and pluralised article name as second, but instead of {{w|Plural|Plurals}}, for a link to the Plurals, you can save yourself a lot of effort by doing {{w|Plural}}s to also give you a linke to Plurals. Magic, eh? And it also works with {{w|Ox}}en to link the different standard plural of Oxen to the article for "Ox" (better than linking to the word for Oxen, which ends up redirecting to Ox anyway).

...so, anyway, that's the basics. And a few not-so-basics. So if the solutions to your tagging issue aren't already solved (or even if they are!), you might have enough info here to kludge it into whatever form of infobox info text you really wanted to use. Ok? Probably far too much info for you to absorb in one go, but covers loads of interesting possibilities. About the only thing you don't want to do is wikilink straight to the word "trans", at that'll be a disambiguation page. And there's also no way (or reason?) to use the terms "trans man"/"trans woman" as the pluralised "trans men"/"trans women" versions via the "directly add the plural suffix" thing, of course. :P Anyway, FYI. 162.158.38.217 20:40, 25 May 2024 (UTC)

oh my god thank you so much 42.book.addict (talk) 19:38, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

Welcome back, Tori!

How's life? Caliban (talk) 18:47, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Eh, it’s fine. I just came back from New York on a very stressful flight-missed the original one, did my Language Arts homework on the flight, and came back to California at 2 am. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 16:26, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

Comics with inverted brightness.

At the most arbitrary, I'd suggest that, just maybe, panes with inverted brightness fulfil the category requirements, or perhaps a bit of white text because it happens to be written on a more shaded bit of background, but I'm unsure that the lavatory signs strictly invoke inverted brightness (if real signs exist that are light-on-dark, which at least some of them are, this makes it an uninverted depiction of one of them), and I'm unhappy with your (presumed) linking of this category for a tree silhouette (it shows the perfectly cromulant situation of bright sky behind a relatively dark tree, again not inverted, merely drawn for contrast).

An interesting example is something like 811: Starlight. The stars (white spots on floodfilled black background) really shouldn't be considered inverted (black stars on white sky would be inverted; it's only that the category specifically mentions night and space scenes makes it valid from that perspective), but the text and stickfigures/etc are definitely inverted (all due to the background they're on).

It's just my opinion, but I don't think that any patch of black-floodfill (especially in just a fraction of a pane or two, within an otherwise normal multi-pane comic) around a white detail is automatically ripe for marking as inverted. I'll reluctantly accept "night sky" or "space" (but only with stars... no "entirely featureless black, through a window/porthole") as cause for being classed as Inverted, due to the category explanation. But feel that the true "inversion" is where there is pane inversion which results in white text and/or (character) stickfigures upon black background as a definite contrast to 'normality'. Before you go too far with HotCatting some things that I'd feel compelled to revert (as I'm very tempted with the tree silhouette, and almost certain I should with the Gents-signs, for example...). 141.101.98.119 19:12, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Hey again, I know we have some bad blood but...

Hey 42, it's Z1m. I know we haven't seen each other in a while (who am I kidding, it's a wiki; I meant talked) Can you do the little welcome thing so I can edit my talk page? Thanks! An anonymous Gravity Falls expert (talk) 19:26, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Why can’t you use your old account? 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 21:38, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

I forgot my pass :skull: An anonymous Gravity Falls expert (talk) 22:33, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

SMH. Done. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 22:37, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! An anonymous Gravity Falls expert (talk) 22:42, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

I FORGOT MY PASS AGAIN ASDFGHJK<SAHFJEWIUBEIUWDBHIVHJ

Help :( Help I'm not OK (talk) 18:49, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

sigh 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 19:41, 13 December 2024 (UTC)

I KNOW I'M A DINGUS DON'T LOOK AT ME LEAV EME TO MY BASIC YELLOW DORITO SHAME Do not click on this link if you wish to keep your soul (talk)

Hi (3

Sorry if I'm bothering you too much, just wanted to say hi. -- Definitely Bill Cipher (talk) 15:19, 17 December 2024 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Please sign your comments with ~~~~ 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 16:05, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Sorry A dream demon (talk) 19:10, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

It’s fine, as long as you remember. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 20:51, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

So, uh... do you wanna take this to my talk page and we can talk or... A dream demon (talk) 21:18, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Congrats

I checked and you're the contributor today that has made the most edits. I'm on the leaderboard too, but not in the top three *0(*. Anyway, I just wanted to congratulate you. Talk to me anytime! ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 15:52, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Ok, that’s nice. I’ve stopped viewing Contribution Scores as a measurement of my editing ability-it only measures how many points and how many pages I have edited, not the quality of my edits or how much of an impact they have on the wiki. A bot can spam and get onto the All-Time Top 50 Leaderboard, but that's not reflective of its helpfulness (none). 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 16:49, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

I remain free from all such objectivity by staying firmly off the list. I could flatter myself that I deserve a place, for all my (useful?) work over the last 10+ years, but... no definitive tallying and I don't even fool myself that this statement can be believed. Which is liberating. No temptation to "edit for editing's sake", and remaining blissfully unaware how much time I must have spent not doing other important things. But that's just me (assuming you accept my account), and please don't consider this as downplaying the known-and-named contributors (current and past) who have made a more attributable contribution. Horses for courses. You (both) be you, and who knows where any of us might be in another ten years; hopefully managing to create a net positive outcome for the world, as the only thing that anybody should aspire to.172.69.43.182 17:18, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Bluey news just dropped.

https://youtu.be/ititZcuih8E?si=_9ceRfwc52qfa5Tu Caliban (talk) 20:23, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

NOOOO 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 21:25, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Deleting User Talk Pages

I noticed that you added some user talk pages into the pages to be deleted category. Even if they are an IP address and only have one comment, they still probably shouldn't be deleted. I only noticed because you had marked my talk page. guess who (if you want to | what i have done) 09:19, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

As I commented over on your page (sorry, didn't spot this, yet), I think that it's perfectly legitimate to correct (by requesting deletion) the creation of IP-based User and User Talk namespace pages. The intended source/target can never make any proper use of them, and they are instead left open to disproportionately high chance of improper use.

IPs may have been more reliably associated with particular login-less users (such as myself) in the earliest days of the site, but it's not just the current proxy-provider that makes it likely that anyone coming here is effectively randomised. A 2015-era commentator almost certainly doesn't have the exact same IP from their ISP (which is Cloudflared away, anyway), unless they've taken great trouble to maintain statically upon it, and that's presuming that they haven't switched providers and/or routing hardware in the last decade, to further muddle it up.

So far, I haven't seen any communications to a User Talk:<IP> page that deserves preserving (and User:<IP> stuff tends to be worse, thankfully rarer), but if a named user (who may or may not be currently active, or have had their own Talk page) contributes anything 'untrivial' then you could perhaps copy it to their own (newly created, if necessary?) user-page, or to whatever article Talk page it's identifiably about. Admonations not to delete Incomplete-templates and nice messages of agreement about some Conan-related link-finding are not al all that level of preservable conversation (well, not even a dialogue, as they weren't even acknowledged!), as 'recent' examples.

Anyway, marking for deletion still requires that someone actually deletes them. Currently, '42' can't do that. (They're clearly eager to be helpful, but not yet admin-material.) Realistically, it will need someone else to actually do that bit. And I think the current 'someone else' concerned isn't overly eager to delete things not related to more current unwanted contributions. I'd have done a bit more cleaning up, myself, but by deliberately having kept out of consideration for such responsibiity, it's not something I should actively complain about. ;) 141.101.98.186 13:00, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Hiiiii

Heya, 42! Just wanted to check in because I left for winter break and I thought 'I wonder how she's doing?'

If I'm being annoying, you can just say so and I'll leave you alone.

Anyway, I'm gonna go comic hop. Talk to me anytime! ⯅A dream demon⯅ (Come and talk!) 15:15, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

I’m fine. I went skiing in Tahoe 5 days during winter break and also went to Point Reyes Station. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 22:50, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Cool, if you wanna talk I'm here (3 ⯅A dream demon⯅ (talk) 15:35, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

I heard about the wildfires.

Are you safe? Are you alright? Caliban (talk) 08:43, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

That’s SoCal, not the Bay Area, so I’m all good. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 10:10, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Any luck with Jeff?

It’s been a while since you’ve put up the “banner” on your page. Has he responded yet? Apollo11 (talk) 22:23, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Nope. I’ve emailed Davidy22 and he responded, but he doesn’t have server access. I tried on Gmail, Reddit, X, asked @ActuallyBerg from the old forum who’s apparently a friend with Jeff on both X and Bluesky. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 22:25, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Damn… that’s slightly (very) worrying. Good job for trying tho Apollo11 (talk) 22:57, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Yeah…I’m just going to keep on trying, seeing if I can solve some of the problems remotely. Not too sure what much I can do about the ‘crat situation though. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 22:59, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Well good luck Apollo11 (talk) 23:07, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

WP:REMOVED

kindly stop adding it back. thank you. youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk 15:53, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

very well. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 16:05, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

ok, that's the limit. don't post on my talk page again. if you wish to fiddle with minutae, go to wikipedia, where that sort of thing is appreciated. i'll also note that no one else has complained about my signature, only you. youtu.be/miLcaqq2Zpk 10:13, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

touche. to be honest, grabbing at your throat for a simple signature issue got a bit boring after a couple days. have a nice day! 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 11:28, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Talk Page added to "pages to delete

Hey, I noticed you added my talk page to the "pages to delete" category. Why? I don't really want my talk page deleted. Qoiuoiuoiu (talk) 16:29, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, changed it. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 17:58, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

If you want my advice (no reason you do...), do a little more checking of the page history. And that of the partner page (compare User: <-> User Talk), where it exists. You might find a few of the ones that you marked for deleting weren't created, unused and abandoned, but actually 'in use' (even if not directly).

You're eager, and I still completely support IP-related pages being marked for deletion (remembering that you don't have the power to actually delete them... which is probably a relief to a small handful of actal users, like the above), but maybe dial it back a bit so that you don't make a few more taggings that need to be reverted... Build up a personal 'hitlist', maybe, but do more poking around and keep it down to a handful of the 'best' candidaates that you find, not a couple of a dozen in quick order, which I think you did yesterday.... 162.158.74.25

I did check the Page history of User talk:Qoiuoiuoiu though, and saw that it was created by User:While False. I also checked the User Page, and saw that it was edited slightly to change While False’s announcement. Because the entire purpose of User talk:Qoiuoiuoiu was to presumably reduce red links, I tagged. Checking page history and user pages honestly doesn’t take that much time, and I checked them for every single page (I think). Upon Qoiuoiuoiu’s complaint, I removed the Category and added a comment so that the talk page has a purpose. I believe that I was in the right to tag them in this case, and that is my decision. Although I do like the idea of the “hitlist”, and will create one. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 19:46, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Bluey

I can't believe you watch a children's show like Bluey. You should watch an adult show, like my personal favourite, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic ;). Beanie ^talk 19:38, 11 January 2025 (UTC)