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You sign your talk page and forum comments by adding four tildes afterward, like this: ~~~~. Those tildes will automatically be replaced by your username and the date and time of your comment, as the end of this comment demonstrates: jSarek 02:44, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
Cool, thanks. Zinthematrix 02:48, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
- In all honesty, for infoboxes and the like, normally I find one that looks close to what I need, copy the code from the edit page and paste it where I need it, and then tweak it, using the "Show preview" button to make sure I'm not screwing it up too badly. As for individual userboxes, you can find them here. jSarek 03:41, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
- Infoboxes templates are, by their design, set to go on the right side of the page. For them, just fill in the relevant information in the spots where it goes, and the template itself will do the best. For userboxes, on the other hand . . . I have no idea. I don't get heavily involved with them, and my own userpage keeps them in a column on the right by using code I copied without fully understanding. jSarek 05:54, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
- ok wait, so what is the diff. between an infobox and a userbox? Zinthematrix 05:59, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
- An infobox is what you see on the right of articles (and occasionally userpages), which has a big picture at the top and a list of important information underneath (e.g. the thing you see on the right of Cane Adiss's article). Userboxes are small, colored boxes people use to tell a single fact about themselves on userpages (e.g. this userbox from my userpage which indicates I've made over 4,000 edits). jSarek 06:08, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
- ok do you said for infoboxes you just copied the code from another page and bent it to your will? (changed info to suit you.) but if you do that, how are you going to be sure you can find one the right size with the right stuff? what if it has more or less stuff than you want to alter? just delete it? Zinthematrix 06:18, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
- There's an infobox for pretty much every class of thing you might need one for. So if you want to do an article on a particular ship, you might use {{Individual ship}}, {{Individual_ship}} for a class of ships, {{Galactic Empire character infobox}} for the obvious, and so on. All the infoboxes are in Category:Infobox templates. If you have the right infobox, it should have all the fields you need, so you shouldn't need to add anything; ship ones will have stuff like shields and speed, characters will have births and deaths, and so on. As for fields you don't need, they're programmed to automatically hide anything that isn't filled in. So if you don't know, say, when a character died, leave "death" blank and it won't appear. I don't know if this helps with what you're wondering about. - Lord Hydronium 10:09, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
- ok do you said for infoboxes you just copied the code from another page and bent it to your will? (changed info to suit you.) but if you do that, how are you going to be sure you can find one the right size with the right stuff? what if it has more or less stuff than you want to alter? just delete it? Zinthematrix 06:18, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
- An infobox is what you see on the right of articles (and occasionally userpages), which has a big picture at the top and a list of important information underneath (e.g. the thing you see on the right of Cane Adiss's article). Userboxes are small, colored boxes people use to tell a single fact about themselves on userpages (e.g. this userbox from my userpage which indicates I've made over 4,000 edits). jSarek 06:08, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
- ok wait, so what is the diff. between an infobox and a userbox? Zinthematrix 05:59, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
- Infoboxes templates are, by their design, set to go on the right side of the page. For them, just fill in the relevant information in the spots where it goes, and the template itself will do the best. For userboxes, on the other hand . . . I have no idea. I don't get heavily involved with them, and my own userpage keeps them in a column on the right by using code I copied without fully understanding. jSarek 05:54, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah that's perfect. That's exactly what i was wandering. Thanks. Zinthematrix 17:27, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
So you know
Just so that you are alerted to it (if you aren't already watching my talk page) I answered your questions there. Please leave any other responses on that page rather than here (I just wanted you to see a new message) to keep conversation intelligible. Hope my suggestions help, let me know if I can be of any more assistance. Wildyoda 03:10, 14 August 2007 (UTC)