User talk:Aurumdog

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hey carter, W.carter thanks for explaining things , aurum Aurumdog

hey carterW.carter, all right then. the 4 squiggles it is. - aurum Aurumdog (talk) 18:49, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures

I like your user name, "Gold Dog" ^^, here are some pics if you want to spruce up your crib here at the Wiki. Best, w.carter-Talk 10:35, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

hey cart, nice try but this would be more accurate -

what do ya reckon? c ya, aurum

Aurumdog (talk) 23:02, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Code

	Welcome to the Matrix
	You now know the first part of The CODE. w.carter*-Talk* 19:58, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    ...Why? Oh, why? did I ever take the blue pill ???...

Adventures found upon the journey

.... sorry technical diffs

Welcome to The Thunderdom

thanks, but no thanks... my mind is still young and impressionable

New trick

Hi again Aurum sorry to bother you, but you might be interested in this: Instead of writing cart W.carter, you can add one more | and put the nickname inside the brackets, and then the nickname becomes the blue thing instead. Like this: cart. Cool huh? :) I did the same with your name at the beginning of this post. Happy wanderings, w.carter-Talk 13:40, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

hey cart, cool trick! I should of checked the red box thingy. anyway, live and learn, aurum Aurumdog (talk) 16:39, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How to insert a pic in an edit

Here is a help that another user has written that explains some more: User:Yunshui/Images for beginners When we want to try out things and just muck about with the code to see how things work we each have a page called a "sandbox".... Hope all this made any sense. :) Best, w.carter-Talk 18:16, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

hey cart, still working on it - hope you don't mind the streamlining, it was a preemptive strike - i'll say more when I know more - live and learn, aurum Aurumdog (talk) 21:54, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Aurum, you can do whatever you want on your page. :) Most of us don't delete stuff from the page, you have probably seen all the messy stuff on my talk page, instead we let an automatic program archive the older stuff. If you want to I can set up such a thing on your page as well. You can decide how old stuff have to be before it is archived. All the resulting archives are totally accessible all the time so that you can go back and check out things if you want to later. Best, w.carter-Talk 23:35, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

hey cart, no mate - I like streamlining stuff - it can be real fun as long as no one gets offended. Plus I like the idea of taking the fun away from an auto. arch. prog. - Oh, yeah, the reason I ask about editing pics is because I have come across one of yours, before, and now I am not sure where I found it. Also, while I am at it what does "Sankt Olofs kyrka i Gamla hamn" translate to? and do you have any other pics of it (Sankt Olofs kyrka i Gamla hamn). - c soon, aurum (talk) 05:19, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

Hi Aurum! If you want to get hold of a pic that you know the name of, most of the times you can just put that name in the searchbox at the Commons and it pops up. Like this. The pic is this:

"Sankt Olofs kyrka i Gamla hamn" translates to "Saint Olof's church in Old Harbor", the church is now demolished. It is not my pic. I have looked. Btw, if you want something translated Google have a page where you can translate anything to most languages. It is here. I'm at work now, but I'll be back later tonight. Best, w.carter-Talk 10:23, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

hey cart, bumber about Saint Olof's church, would of loved a nice pic of it in autumn. About inserting pics into edits - I got the https:// thingy, but don't know how to turn that into a pic in my sandbox. help apprec. as always, aurumAurumdog (talk) 01:33, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Aurum! Ok, let's start with having a look at what pic it is and where you found it.w.carter-Talk 10:06, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Aurum. First things first. When I post on your own talk page it does not make any difference if I write just "Aurum" or all the Code Aurum, you should get an automatic red square in any case, there is nothing I can do to "fix" this. But automatics sometimes malfunction and don't work, as I have noticed many times. If you have a conversation with someone it is always wise to check that page now and again just in case. As I have said before: it is an imperfect site.

So, the pics. First of all you have to get hold of the proper name for the file. With the dogs that was easy since that was the last part of the https: "Tesem_couple.png". I entered that in the searchbox at the Commons and came to this page. Then I click on the picture and come to this page. On that page is the "real" name of the file that you need to turn it into a pic: File:Tesem couple.png . If you take that name and put it into double brackets it becomes a pic, BUT you also have to add |thumb| otherwise the pic will be in the original size which is often way too big for the page. Like this:

If you want some text you add it like this:

The pic of the sun was a bit tricky since the place that you found it had converted part of the File-name to machine-code. But I found it for you. It is here, and I'm taking the File-name and make a "pic-name" for it the same way as with the dogs, but I am making it show up on the left side of the page just to show you how it's done. Best, w.carter-Talk 17:22, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

hey cart, sorry mate - it is not just "an imperfect site," but an imperfect world; that is

its very perfection - which means that imperfection is included under perfection - and if we could understand this there would be more peace in the world - also, it says something about humanity. - ok, let's c if I can make the pics work - thxs mate, aurum Aurumdog (talk) 23:14, 1 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]