User talk:Johan Lont
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This is a bit late, I'm afraid, so you'll doubtless know all the above — still, better a late welcome than no welcome at all. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 13:29, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Your comments will be noticed much quicker if you place them on my talk page on the Dutch language Wikipedia. Johan Lont 09:27, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Dates
Those date formats work if they are properly linked. For example: 2007-04-02 is today's date but I wrote "2007-04-02" (yyyy-mm-dd) in brackets. What you saw appears to be misformatted. It's probably done either in reference templates to avoid a lot of typing or in the article to avoid a dating dispute (though in American topic articles it's clear what date format should be used). Hope this helps. - Mgm|(talk) 10:52, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you for your remark. I'm affraid it does not help a lot. In your example, I just get to see 2007 (blue, underlined) - 04-02 (blue, underlined). What do you mean by "What you saw appears to be misformatted. ? Who misformatted it? The wiki-software or some editor?
- For myself, I do not really care, but are you sure that others will not get to see the same as I do? Johan Lont 11:17, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
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- Actually, if you go to "my preferences" at the top of the page, and then click the "Date and Time" tab, you will see that you can change the settings to how the date and time are displayed when you are logged in. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 14:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you for the tip. I got the same tip on another page a few hours earlier. However, I generally prefer to keep the default formatting. In that way, I will be able to see what my edits look like to the ocasional user. Johan Lont 10:53, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
- Actually, if you go to "my preferences" at the top of the page, and then click the "Date and Time" tab, you will see that you can change the settings to how the date and time are displayed when you are logged in. − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 14:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Templates
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed maintenance notices from Steven Soderbergh, even though required changes haven't been made. If you are uncertain whether the page requires further work, or if you disagree with the notice, please discuss these issues on the page's talk page before removing the notice from the page. These notices and comments are needed to establish community consensus about the status of a page. Thank you. Matthew 11:50, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry if I did something wrong. I do not see how the trivia template can be needed to establish community consensus about the status of the Steven Soderbergh article. Anyway, I thought, I just followed the suggestion done in the 'maintenance notice' itself. I explained my action on Template talk:Trivia#Reducing the trivia section. Johan Lont 12:12, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- To alert everybody, the template is ugly.. yes, it's more likely with the template that somebody (even a reader) will integrate content or remove junk. Matthew 12:41, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you for your clear answer. Johan Lont 12:48, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
- To alert everybody, the template is ugly.. yes, it's more likely with the template that somebody (even a reader) will integrate content or remove junk. Matthew 12:41, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
