User talk:Puppy/archive

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You're winner!

Con-aristo-grats! Your victory in [category] sure was(n't) earned[!/?]

	Aristocrat en Regalia This person is a winner of the Aristocrat's Ball, which they won for their article: [[{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]

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Nice one

Congradulations co-winner. ROCK AND ROLL!!!! --ShabiDOO 23:05, December 15, 2011 (UTC)

The forum

I'm glad to see someone has a little common sense. I like logging in to this place, but to write and to create, not to delete! If the award never sees the day, I'll make sure to help articles that people want to delete like Final Fantasy VIII which I saved from ICU today. Ironic that that forum was started by the most hated and lazy admin around isn't it? I am not scared to say he is the only person that doesn't help the wiki, and to have the nerve to start a forum condemning our "inaction" is so disgusting! We have to be more tolerant to "average" articles. Thank you for agreeng with common sense I guess! BTW, do you wield a banhammer? I don't even know! Oh and MerryChristmas! 04:36, December 26, 2011 (UTC)

I had a banhammer once, but could never work out how to use it right. As for the rest - if a page is listed on Vital Pages, we should have it. If thee is not an equivalent Wikipedia article (excluding direct parodies such as UnTunes), then I'd rather delete than try and salvage a lacklustre article. But I see the growth of page numbers as a good thing in general. Having said that, most of the Games pages can be whittled down dramatically - a project I really should get back to at some stage. Given that the idea of RWotM is yours, I'd suggest you'd be the best to make sure it's maintained. I'm happy to start putting together thingies for it, but I need to have time to do it - a luxury I rarely seem to have. Pup 05:32 26 Dec '11

Oh, you also really want to get TKFs input on this as well. What he doesn't know about this wiki could fit in a matchbox. (Maybe one of those extra-long matches boxes, but even so...) Pup 05:34 26 Dec '11

I have to say I like tkf as an admin, enough drama, I hope you continue to contribute, Puppy! Mattsnow 06:17, December 26, 2011 (UTC)

NOOOOOOO U

NO U GET IT RIGHT! ~Sir Frosty (Talk to me!) 09:21, December 27, 2011 (UTC)

YEAH GET IT RIGHT LOLZ! OMG!!! It`s Cat the Colourful, Jesus Christ!!! 10:31 27 December 2011

But I'm left wing! Pup 12:38 27 Dec '11

Tripped face first into a bar

Hello Puppy. Thanks for votes and kisses, they've made my day. And... This is a note to lots of people, asking them to join into a Walk into a bar collab (and if Iz missed you, you are more than welcome to "Walk into a bar" too!). If you want to join in, make up your best "Walk into a bar" jokes and we will have the bestest "Walk into a bar" page on the innernests! Aleister 16:00 27-12-'11

There now. Pup 10:38 28 Dec '11

Hi! You asked Lyrithya a question...

...unfortunately, she seems...uh...indisposed. I swear I don't have her tied up in my basement. *Cat-that-ate-the-canary grin*

Anyway, about your question: you wanted to know if you could make a template for figuring out the featured/not-featured status of an article. I whipped the following code together, using the {{#dpl:}} function (like you mentioned). I have no idea if this can be done without dpl, or even if it's a good idea to use dpl at all (I'm told some dpl queries are resource-heavy). Also, I only tested this a LITTLE, so I can't guarantee that it won't catch fire and assplode. Use at your own risk:

{{#ifexist: {{{1}}} | {{#if: {{#dpl:debug=1|category=featured|title={{{1}}}|mode=inline}} | {{{2|Yes, the article is featured!}}} | {{{3|Baww, nope, it ain't featured.}}} }} | {{{4|That article don't seem to exist!}}} }}

{{{1}}} is the article title...and I bet you can figure out what {{{2}}}, {{{3}}} and {{{4}}} are, from the text. :D  ~ BB ~ (T) ~ Thu, Dec 29 '11 19:29 (UTC)

I've also heard the dpl resource heavy whine before. I have played with it a little until I managed to create a query that caused a page to stop working. That was using some really over the top dpl queries. I never really bothered with them so much after that. The problem is that there is no way I can see this being done without dpl, as it is asking to return category data on a page. Other than dpl I have no other possible way in mind. Pup 12:27 30 Dec '11

Vital

A mystery (and a great category and project by the way). I saw you included Marilyn Monroe, and the link on the category page flows to her, but the category itself does not show up on her page. A mystery wrapped in an enigma dunked in soup and eaten warm. Aleister 2:57 30-12-'11

It's what's referred to as a Hidden Category. Sneaky, isn't it. (Now I only have about 1000 odd other pages to go...) Pup 03:03 30 Dec '11

While I think about it though, Stanley Kubrick needs an article, and I can't think of anyone who would do it justice more than yourself. Pup 03:15 30 Dec '11

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