User talk:Bill
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Hey there Bill. Glad to have you aboard. I know Rogue Leader has already welcomed you, but I also want to drop a note to say hi. It looks like the information below is the beginnings of a page that you plan on creating. If that's the case, then I have a suggestion for you: You should build pages on a user subpage (for example, "User:Bill Martinson/Prank Calls"), and then when you're ready, use the move button at the top to transfer your page to its final home. The advantage to using a subpage is that this page can be used for user discussion, such as this message. Incidentally, I learned something about "comprise" today, and I have you to thank for it. — It's dot com 18:17, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for the tip ... I was actually building the real page with its actual title, but naturally I didn't want to actally save it until it was finished. Your way is much better, as I can save periodically while I'm working, and (as you point out) I can benefit from others' feedback. Thanks! — Bill Martinson 18:47, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
- So now I have User:Bill Martinson/Reference and User:Bill Martinson/Obviously Phony Aliases ... is there a way to automatically include a list of all my subpages? — Bill Martinson 18:51, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
- I'm not aware of a method to automatically list subpages. If, however, you happened to forget what they are, you could look them up in Special:Allpages under the User namespace. This link would take you straight to them. But as far as listing them here in your user space, you'll have to do that manually. By the way, once you create a user page, your subpages will automatically have a backlink to your main page. — It's dot com 19:44, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Category listings
New Question: I moved my page from User:Bill Martinson/Obviously Phony Aliases to Obviously Phony Aliases, but the category pages (for Running Gags and Lists) still point to the original page (which is now a redirect). This works, of course, but it looks thoroughly awful in the category lists. I tried to fix this by looking for the right templates to edit, but the categories mechanism doesn't seem to use templates (as best I can tell). So it would seem that either the move function is not really the best way to do this, or there is something about it I don't understand. — Bill Martinson 20:38, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
- Found the workaround: delete the category tags from the article, save, then put them back in. I guess in the future I'll have to keep such tags as plain text until I move the article to its final destination. — Bill Martinson 21:06, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
- Hmm. I know there's a simpler way, but when I tried to test it, I couldn't recreate the situation (even though this has happened to me before). Oh, well. As long as it works now. Rock, rock on! — It's dot com 21:43, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
