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RE: putting userboxes in tables

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Yeah, I keep meaning to get around to putting them in tables. Tables are one part of HTML (as well as Wiki language) I haven't really played with much, so I'll definately take the code from your page and work with it. Thanks for the offer! C4bl3Fl4m3 23:12, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

User satanist

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Do you have the code for this userbox or can you describe what it was? —David618 t 03:24, 31 May 2006 (UTC)Reply

Nope, sorry; I formed my opinion entirely on the discussion at TfD. I'm sure someone could chop together one rather easily- it's more of a fairness issue to me. --Disavian 03:27, 31 May 2006 (UTC)Reply
Thanks. I already saw it on WP:DRVDavid618
Yeah, it comes and goes there. --Disavian 02:02, 2 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

For my own ref, the template is:

This user is a Satanist.


notability

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you'll want to subst the template user no notability pretty quickly incase an admin deletes it for no reason again. -- Chris Ccool2ax contrib. 21:54, 1 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Looks like I looked too late - didn't realize it was being deleted. Might be able to go back in google's cache and subst it from the source there. --Disavian 23:13, 1 June 2006 (UTC)Reply
That's actually not quite true... I first read about the template on the TfD page, I just didn't realize it was going to be speedied. -_- Disavian 07:03, 2 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Userfying Userboxen

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Thanks for userfying all my userboxen for me! I really appreciate it! (You're a sweetheart, btw.) <3 LaMenta3 04:35, 7 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Not to pick nits, but I wanted to make you aware that I have requested, on my userpage, that userbox templates not be userfied or otherwise changed. I'd like it if you respected that in future editing decisions. I simply want my userpage to show the marks of the continuing "one-box-at-a-time" userbox deletions, becaue even more strongly than I believe in keeping userboxes, I believe that we need to decide on the subject once & for all & put it behind us. Thanks for your consideration.--Ssbohio 03:20, 8 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

I set AWB to exclude pages with the string "Ssbohio" -- that work for you? --Disavian 03:23, 8 June 2006 (UTC)Reply
And what's so hard about reverting your page? The original boxes are getting redirected to userfied ones anyway, it's the same difference.--Disavian 19:27, 9 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for fixing mine, too. I corrected the spelling of "necessarily" on a couple of the boxes on your page--they had "nesassarily" instead. --Grace 05:29, 8 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thankyou, as per above, for dealing with my human form userbox. It is greatly appreciated. Dev920 09:35, 8 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Userfying?

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What exactly did you do to my userpage, by doing this? I don't really care, but would like to know.MollyBloom 22:30, 8 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

There's been a big deal about userboxes that say anything that could be remotely construed as divisive; thus, people have been putting userboxes in "user space," e.g., a subpage of a userpage, where it's okay to have them. I've stored a copy of several userboxes that could possibly be deleted at random by anti-userbox admins, and have gone through userpages, making particular boxes point to the version I have, instead of the official version. See WP:TGS for more on this, as I don't feel like I'm explaining it correctly. --Disavian 22:35, 8 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Mirror of your userbox page

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I mirrored your userbox page at User:Rickyrab/Userboxes. Hope you don't mind. — Rickyrab | Talk 17:21, 13 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

That's cool :) I've actually taken a couple days break from all that, as I've got homework/lab due tomorrow, and a test on thursday. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 18:32, 13 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Check AWB settings

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Hi Disavian, please check your AWB settings. This one [1] didn't take. :-) Regards, Rfrisbietalk 03:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for pointing that page out. I knew that I had accidentally missed it, but I just forgot about it when something else came up. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 04:01, 14 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Userboxen

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I've restored the histories of the userboxes; however, I would think it better to move them rather that cnp-move. Do you mind if I migrate these to your userspace for you? AmiDaniel (talk) 06:22, 18 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

That would be delightful. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 06:58, 18 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Wow, that was a bigger bitch than I thought it would be =D. You can check my move log if you have any question about where they wound up, though I kept the namings all as logical as possible. Let me know if I missed anything. AmiDaniel (talk) 07:41, 18 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Deletion review

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Hi. It's been 5 days since User:Dtm142/User no evil boxes and Template:User gangster went up for deletion review. I have restored and userfied them. Template:User gangster has been userfied to User:Dtm142/User gangster.

I'm just wondering if you would like a copy of user gangster in your directory. I'm also wondering if I can put User:Dtm142/User no evil boxes back in the Wikipedia directory. Thanks. Dtm142 16:44, 18 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

I'm not sure what to do about gangster... I'll pass on it, for now. But you can restore User:Dtm142/User no evil boxes however you wish, as it is your box. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 01:50, 19 June 2006 (UTC)Reply
Okay. I'll put them both back on Wikipedia:Userboxes. Dtm142 18:16, 19 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

Userboxen in your user space

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Dear Disavian;

I am currently cleaning up Category:User templates, and I see a lot of duplicates from your user space in there. Would you be so kind as to check to see which are the duplicates and get them deleted from your user space to help in the over all effort to clean up that category and the sub-categories? It would be really appreciated.
&#151;Lady Aleena talk/contribs 18:56, 4 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

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Disavian, would you mind hosting a link to the Political Compass userbox on your political userboxes list? It's starting to get popular, but was recently removed from the main userboxes listing.

{{User:The_Thadman/Userbox/PolCompass}}

Peace! אמר Steve Caruso (desk/poll) 20:01, 4 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Wait a second, how would this work? Are you asking me to adopt a userbox, or simply point to yours in my list? Actually, I've got a lot of work I need to do on all this userbox stuff, but school has kept me busy :( —Disavian (talk/contribs) 03:34, 5 July 2006 (UTC)Reply
The latter. :-) I'm trying to see if fellow Wikipeidans are willing to host a link to it as the main templates page is no longer holding userfied userboxes. Seeing that it is already userfied, "re-adopting" (as it were) it would be a bit redundant. :-) אמר Steve Caruso (desk/poll) 14:14, 5 July 2006 (UTC)Reply
For consistency, a userbox User:Disavian/Userboxes/PolCompass that redirects to User:The_Thadman/Userbox/PolCompass might be a good solution. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 02:30, 6 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Userboxes

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Hey, I noticed you've done a lot of work on getting userboxes out of official project and template namespaces. Wikipedia:Userboxes and all of its subpages are going to be deleted soon as the final part of the German solution, so I was just giving you a heads-up to make sure that you have all of your relevant infrastructure or whatever hosted entirely in userspace. You may want to pass on this message to other people involved in this area; I must confess, I no longer keep enough tabs on this issue to know who they are. --Cyde↔Weys 17:37, 6 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the heads-up... I've actually been on a bit of a wikibreak for maybe a month, so I haven't done much in that category lately. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 23:59, 6 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Thank you!

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Thank you, thank you, thank you for saving my userboxes! I'm amazed by the scale of this initiative. I have been away from Wikipedia for most of the past couple of months for various reasons. The selfless community spirit you've shown here (and are continuing to show) has been a major factor in my deciding to return. Thank you for that. --Chips Critic 03:30, 24 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Political Compass Userbox

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{{User:Disavian/Userboxes/PolCompass}}

How do yo make it display anything but complete neutrality? Scottandrewhutchins 18:06, 24 July 2006 (UTC)ScottandrewhutchinsReply

Go to User:Disavian/Userboxes/PolCompass and it's got instructions there. You have a point, tho: I should try adding one other than (0,0) to the page it's listed on. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 05:49, 25 July 2006 (UTC)Reply
Okay, it's fixed. If you go to User:Disavian/Userboxes or User:Disavian/Userboxes/Political, you'll see the examples there with the listing. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 06:03, 25 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

Possible Userbox Solution

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This is a form letter, please don't reply directly. Do, however, feel free to discuss this solution I've come up with.


I've made an unofficial place for all User Boxes (hopefully) safe from overzealous Admins. Feel free to add any you like, edit any there, or just list your already made userboxes there. Also feel free to edit the main page (the user page) in any way that you think might help. Please note, however, that this is a user page and not an official Wikipedia page, so almost any User Box will be tolerated as long as it's within reason. UserBox 03:15, 6 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Fair use images and orphaned status

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Greetings; I'd like to take a moment to talk to you about some issues raised by your edits here and here. First, fair use images are not permitted to be used outside of the main article namespace per terms of Wikipedia:Fair use criteria item #9. This precludes their use on templates, such as userboxes. Second, an image that is tagged as a fair use tag that is not used in the main article namespace is subject to deletion, per terms of Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#Images.2FMedia item #5. If you have any questions about these policies, please feel free to ask me. Thanks, --Durin 18:36, 16 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

If you're going to remove the image, fix the template; give it a replacement image or put some appropriate text in there. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 18:49, 16 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Please see User:Durin/Removal_of_fair_use_images#Why_didn.27t_you_replace_the_image_with_something_usable.3F. --Durin 18:53, 16 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
You seem to have all the answers :) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 19:28, 16 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Only because I anticipated some, and got questions from other users and thus had a canned response from it. :) --Durin 19:43, 16 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Are you sure that rule applies to userspace? —Disavian (talk/contribs) 21:01, 16 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
Well, I added the pic to Triforce, so it's being used in an article now. :) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 21:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Userfication bad

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The userfication of userboxes is really bad...just take a look at how horrid the code looks for the copy of the Stargate box you have in your user space. Which looks better?

{{User:Disavian/Userboxes/Stargate|SG1|SG1glyph|Human}}
or...
{{User Stargate|SG1|SG1glyph|Human}}

See just how much better a Template space box looks over a userfied bow? It is shorter so that it won't word wrap in categories either. That is why I started this in the first place. After sorting through the 1,000s of user boxes, I saw just how much an eyesore the user template categories where with these templates in user space. Instead of...

Template:User A foo Template:User B foo Template:User C foo

we have...

User:User bar name 2/Fooboxbar/User B foo User:User example name 3/Exboxex/User C foo User:User foo name 1/Fooboxfoo/User A foo

The above are long and counter-intuitive. They would also wrap in the category lists, which makes looking at categories even harder. I know you have a lot of boxes in your space, but that is not where they should be, IMO. Hope I didn't offend. - LA @ 22:49, 18 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

-_- —Disavian (talk/contribs) 15:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Userboxes

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Thanks for adopting many userboxes into your user space! However, I don't think ISO language userboxes are being userfied: they are of clear encyclopedia value. —Mets501 (talk) 15:40, 3 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

Does that nessasarily prevent me from userfying them? What if I want to have them anyway? —Disavian (talk/contribs) 01:52, 6 September 2006 (UTC)Reply
I'm just letting you know that there's no need to userfy them. —Mets501 (talk) 01:58, 6 September 2006 (UTC)Reply
Oddly enough, the ones I did userfy dissapeared. I was just wondering about it. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 04:22, 6 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

German Wiki

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http://de.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:L%C3%B6schkandidaten/24._September_2006#Kategorie:Wikipedian_unterst.C3.BCtzt_Lesben-_und_Schwulenbewegung_.28gel.C3.B6scht.29

Some people try to delete category:Wikipedian support gay community: please helpGLGerman 14:05, 24 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

Userboxes

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I noticed you've got a Userbox for single Wikipedians, but what about those in a relationship? Is there somewhere I could find other userboxes of that sort? Feel free to reply on my Userpage (if you'd be so kind =]), as I won't remember to check here. Mientkiewicz5508 21:49, 8 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Look at the list at User:Xaosflux/UBX/Sexuality. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 16:45, 13 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Pixel vision

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I'm looking at a number of userboxen & seeing some really interesting "sidebar" imagery. Is there a way I can lift them to attach to custom userboxen of my own? Danke schön! Trekphiler 15:40, 8 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Are you talking about using code from current userboxes, or images, or both? You can feel free to use anything from any userbox you wish, as all Wikipedia contributions (even unencyclopedic content such as userboxes) are licenced under the GFDL, as far as I know. Just go to what you want to copy, hit edit, and copy it. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 16:12, 8 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

ally ubx

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I added what I thought was an appropriate link to one of your userboxes.[2] Revert if I've inadvertently narrowed the intention of the userbox. coelacan talk22:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Thankyou

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Hey, thanks Disavian, I completely suck at making userboxes so Id like to thankyou for them. HB4026 23:38, 24 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Sandbox

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Hey, I just wanted to tell you that you don't need to do {{user LOTR}} because I've already done it. Ok? I'll probably end up taking the other LOTR ones too. -Royalguard11TalkMy Desk 19:03, 27 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

I guess I'll tell you that I've done {{user HarryPotter}} too. -Royalguard11TalkMy Desk 17:38, 28 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
I guess I should tell you I'll end up taking the Harry Potter Houses too. -Royalguard11TalkMy Desk 01:14, 30 August 2006 (UTC)Reply
That's fine. The sandbox is more a list of what I've copied than anything else. Nothing prevents you from copying everything listed into your own userspace. (Besides, I'm on a wikibreak of sorts; it's been a while since I've really cared about userboxes) —Disavian (talk/contribs) 13:16, 30 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

User American English

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This page is not an encyclopedia article and has been marked for deletion, please move it. -23PatPeter* 21:19, 13 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

No, I was not yelling at you in the least, I am not one of those Wikipedians. I saw that you were the founder of this template and would have moved it back into your userspace but where? The only thing that matters is that it is in the right place. -23PatPeter* 21:28, 13 March 2007 (UTC)Reply
Yay! -23PatPeter* 21:30, 13 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

Evolution

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Am I allowed to use your "this user understands biological evolution" temlate?Meson man 01:00, 30 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

Yes. The userboxes are for anyone to use. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 01:19, 30 March 2007 (UTC)Reply
thanks!:-)Meson man 03:08, 30 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

Green Energy

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Hi Disavian, could you please either (re)create a Wikipedians category page for Green Energy, or remove the empty link to that page from the userbox? Many thanks. Rubywine 17:53, 6 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Instead of deleting Category:Wikipedians who support green energy, I changed the box and created Category:Wikipedians interested in green energy. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 18:02, 6 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Black on black violence

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Hey, your Nuclear Energy userbox was messed up by a guy who changed the color of the radiation warning symbol-- he turned it black & now it disappears into your black background... But u may wanna take this oppty to create a different NE box. We supporters of nuclear energy aren't too keen on having the radiation warning symbol as a symbol for the technology. One reason I'm for N Power is that, if new plants are finally built in the US, it will radically cut down on combustion of fossil fuels, leading to reduction in greenhouse gases, cutting down on global warming etc.,. Maybe a closeup of the distinctive curved lip of many Nuclear Power plant cooling silos, with birds perched on the edge.. you get my drift. JDG 16:50, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

What do you think of User:Disavian/Userboxes/Nuclear Power ? —Disavian (talk/contribs) 18:21, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Help me please.

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Hi Disavian. Last week I made a userpage for myself, and have began by adding userboxes. I've made some myself, and am using some from your archive and the user:uxb. However, I'm unsure as to whether I should be "migrating" those to a archive page in my userspace. I'm also getting confused by the instructions of how to do it from the WP:GUS page. Lastly, I've read that fair use images aren't allowed, but then I've used some for some boxes I've made. I think. If you go to my userpage, you can see them there. There's a dr. pepper one, a coke, and some bbc ones etc. Maybe you would know better if they're not good, in which case I can change them. Thanks. -- Matthew Edwards 17:03, 29 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Userbox: Separation

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Hello. I was hoping you might reconsider the Christian cross (standing alone) in that separation box. When I came across it as linked to someone else's page, I was offended by the obvious anti-Christian bigotry it emits out. How is the concept of separation of "religion and state" objectionable? And if it isn't, why isn't a more diverse and inclusive symbol in that userbox more fair? It seems to single out hatred for only fundamentalists/reactionaries of the Christian religion. How can it be diffused to represent what we are talking about, which is separation of religion and state. I hope you see my point on trying to be fair, and didn't create the userbox to attack Christians and Catholics. Thanks.Farinessplease1 (talk) 23:41, 1 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

User:Disavian/Userboxes/No Ads

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Hello. Could you update the link on the userbox at User:Disavian/Userboxes/No Ads? I noticed that it links to a now-defunct page. I suggest linking to Wikipedia:Advertisements.

By the way, there is now a userbox for optional ads too. See Wikipedia:Advertisements#Status. --Timeshifter (talk) 13:14, 21 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Fixed. Thanks for the notice. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 19:34, 21 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

User:Disavian/Userboxes/Peace Drugs

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You didn't create this userbox—you're hosting it per GUS—but I imagine that you ought to be alerted in any case that it is at MfD. Cheers, Joe 17:50, 11 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Hi I just came here to mention it and discuss it with you.:) If it is per GUS, who made it, don't know if that matters. I just think on such a subject it needs to be worded in a clearer way, I mean people can enjoy drugs or something but not "urge" others to do something as regards an illegal act. It is also a subject which can provoke intense 'debate' as you know. Don't know if this is your fault if it's not really yours, but the userbox is still 'dodgy' as it possibly 'urges' (its word) people to do drugs, which is illegal in the state wiki is in and in most of europe/the US. So please consider rewording it or not hosting it anymore. Pretty please, it is giving me a coronary lol (not really.) :) Merkin's mum 19:17, 12 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
Some of the userboxes about drugs are not offensive, by the way, just so you know I don't object to most of them so much, at least, I'm not on a crusade. Squeakbox had one on his page once I think that wasn't so bad, but I rightly hate something that might be so worded as to encourage people to do something illegal. Merkin's mum 19:20, 12 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

AfD nomination of User:Disavian/Userboxes/No Evil Boxes

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I have nominated User:Disavian/Userboxes/No Evil Boxes, an article you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/User:Disavian/Userboxes/No Evil Boxes. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Tohd8BohaithuGh1 (talk) 19:28, 11 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Were you trying to be ironic? —Disavian (talk/contribs) 20:08, 11 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Regarding Userboxes

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Notice: All of your Userboxes should be placed underWikipedia:Userboxes#Gallery and in the sub-article accordingly. Wikipedia categorization isn't reserved for your own personal use, please stop wasting Wikipedia resources. Thanks. --Ramu50 (talk) 02:39, 24 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

I'm not sure how I'm wasting Wikipedia's resources; remember WP:NOT#PAPER. They're just transcluded on a couple pages, nothing more intense than their intended use, and a good display of what exactly is in my userspace. Although with all the crap I've gotten for helping with WP:GUS, I almost wish I hadn't bothered. Userboxes aren't especially effective at communicating, anyway. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 04:53, 29 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

A beer for you!

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  Thank you ठिस बुढा (talk) 19:09, 16 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Please check these

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Some Maltese vandal has been going around vandalizing people's userpages but also making these template changes to a couple userboxes. I don't know enough to tell whether these are useful or not, so would you mind talking a look. Thanks, — Scientizzle 15:20, 17 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

That looks fine to me. I wouldn't call them a vandal, it just seems to be a minor edit to clean up the code a bit. Disavian (talk) 17:42, 17 August 2012 (UTC)Reply
Thatnks. The vandalism comes from the other edits by 80.85.109.10 (talk · contribs), 213.165.189.181 (talk · contribs) & 78.133.115.83 (talk · contribs) -- all the same person. — Scientizzle 18:02, 17 August 2012 (UTC)Reply

Icons

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The icon for “Gender Equality” is utterly wrong and offending to those who really want gender equality as the icon for woman is dominating the icon for man in it. mirabilos (talk) 20:24, 13 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

A barnstar for you!

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  The Original Barnstar
Love your userboxes! Andrew Bullock - GLTHS 15:21, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

User:Disavian/Userboxes/Alignment

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Hi Disavian, I think your page User:Disavian/Userboxes/Alignment is a copy and paste fork of the old Template:User alignment, which I had userfied a long time ago to User:Xaosflux/UBX/User alignment along with the original attributions, any objection to redirecting to the single page? — xaosflux Talk 03:09, 2 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

Sounds fine, go for it. Disavian (talk) 03:58, 3 November 2019 (UTC)Reply