User talk:Jonathan Drain

Hi Jonathan, and welcome to Wikipedia.

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-- TPK 20:34, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Derrycity.gov.uk

Wonderful. I found the site in google and faithfuly transcribed its name into wiki a minute later - and still managed to get it wrong! I stand corrected, thanks. --Red King 11:57, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Di Gi Charat

Hi, a while ago, in fact over a year ago in May 2005 you added some information to the Di Gi Charat article concerning its history. That information is still in the article basically left intact. I think that this is very valuable information to the article and I'm wondering if you remember where you got it from so I can add references in the Di Gi Charat article. --Squilibob 10:07, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Other than watching the series and catloguing my own music collection, I got a lot of character information from the Di Gi Charat Theater books.

Lupus

G'day Jonathan,

You just added House to the Lupus article and I just removed it, but I wanted to let you know why. As of now there's a generaly consensus from the regular contributors that the addition of House won't add much to an already long article, particularly because it is never actually used as a diagnosis, only as a potential diagnosis. I started on the article because of the special feature on the 2nd season DVD where it talks about the number of times Lupus has been mentioned. However, the wikipedia manual of style does support the inclusion of cultural references in articles if there is a point in the article itself (rather than a section solely for cultural references) where the inclusion is warranted. If you could think of a place to insert the link to House, then we'd finally have a place to put it.

Thanks,

WLU 17:45, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's never Lupus. --Jonathan Drain 19:14, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of animated gif

This is a good call[1], it was slow to laod and unattractive. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 17:24, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Banners

Hi. You tagged Banners in Northern Ireland as having disputed neutrality, but didn't provide any explanation on the talk page saying why you think the article is not neutral or might be seen as non-neutral. Could you please do this so that I can improve the page? Ta. --Helenalex (talk) 04:54, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Historical inaccuracies in the film Zulu

Concerning the comment "", yes I would appreciate it being left in place, since it corrects certain problems in rendering which are seen only under Internet Explorer and not under other browsers. I can be more specific if you like, but that's its purpose in a nutshell. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) ^{(talk / cont)} 02:49, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can you be more specific? I can't seem to replicate the error in Internet Explorer 6. --Jonathan Drain (talk) 05:41, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, without the spacing, the lede paragraph (or the final paragraph of the lede section) is so close to the table of contents that it's visually annoying, and makes reading the lede more difficult. The same is true of the external links section (or whatever the last section of the body of the article is) in relation to any navboxes that may be at the bottom of the article -- they "bump up" against the navboxes in a way that provides no visually separation and is not conducive to easy reading. (This is under IE 7) Other browsers provide just enough separation between these elements, but IE doesn't, hence the spacing. I've checked the effect of it under Safari and Firefox, and, while the spacing isn't necessary with these browsers, the effect is not bad, and contributes to a better visual balance in the page overall. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) ^{(talk / cont)} 11:01, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I understand. Perhaps this is something Wikipedia administrators could address in an IE-specific CSS update. Something like "#toc {margin-top:1em;}"? --Jonathan Drain (talk) 19:15, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That would be great. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) ^{(talk / cont)} 22:30, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Priest black

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D&D articles for Wikipedia 0.7

Hi there! :)

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CfD nomination of Category:Recursive categories

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Barnstar!

		*The Bon Mot* Barnstar**
		For this excellent comment. Cheers! //roux 22:55, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale for File:Sapphireandsteel.jpg

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Freedman

Hi, I dropped by this article to Stub-sort it, but found that it isn't a stub: if you want to show that a section needs expansion, the tag to use is {{expand|section}}. But have you noticed that there was a chunk on Ancient Rome until June 2008? Removed in this edit. No comment at the time, but perhaps there should have been? PamD (talk) 07:34, 29 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Australium

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