User talk:Countdowner

Welcome!

Welcome Countdowner to the Countdown Wiki. Here, you can edit virtually any page you like, including episodes, contestants and guests. Before starting, please read Countdown:About to learn how to edit this wiki.

Cheers, Mglovesfun 09:19, 3 April 2009 (BST)

Series 60

Thanks for your edits to Series 60, however you accidentally deleted all the categories, so I 'reverted' and added the scores myself. Don't worry too much, wiki-syntax is pretty complicated, see the links in blue above this message. Mglovesfun 09:40, 3 April 2009 (BST)

Supreme Championship games

Hi, I noticed that on some contestant pages you've been changing letters in the episode type column to uppercase.

These are deliberately lowercase, because they refer to the groups of the Supreme Championship. If we wrote these group letters in uppercase, CQF/CSF would clash with Championship of Champions games, and GF would clash with Grand Final. -- Smjg 16:23, 15 August 2009 (BST)

'Save page' vs. 'Show preview'

Hi Countdowner,

Thanks for your interest in and contributions to this Wiki. Whilst your enthusiasm is undoubted and very much appreciated, I've noticed that when you're editing a particular page, you have a habit of making many small changes and saving the page in between. Whilst this ensures that your work is not lost, working in this manner has the effect of clogging up the list of recent changes - at the last count, 43 of the 50 most recent edits belonged to you, though you've only actually edited five pages!

Don't worry - I'm not telling you off and you've not really done anything wrong. It's just harder for other editors to track the changes made to the Wiki when there are so many from one person. In future, when you are making a series of edits to one page and you want to see how they look, please don't press the 'Save page' button every time. Instead, if you press the 'Show preview' button in between smaller edits you can build them up into one big edit and just press the 'Save page' button once at the end. This will keep the page history clearer and easier to read and avoids upsetting other editors.

I hope I've explained this clearly. If not, please feel free to leave me a message on my talk page.

Best wishes, Chris 'Crispy' Philpot 23:01, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi from me too. Can I add my welcome to that of Crispy. It's always good to see contributions from those who are keen. Everyone makes mistakes at times - we all do, and one of the benifits of Wikis which allow multiple editors is that when someone sees an entry that has been made incorrectly, it can be quickly corrected by anyone who notices it. So I hope that on the odd occasion that you've put something in wrongly, you'll not mind it being corrected. Good to see you here. Drawoh 05:34, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply, Countdowner. I hope you'll continue to enjoy contributing to the Wiki. Whilst I have your attention, you might like to know that there is a problem with your signature. When you type ~~~~, your username 'Countdowner' is not linked to your user page as you would expect. Instead, it goes to the Countdowner page, which is an automatic redirect to Contestant. To fix this, visit your preferences page and change the link in your signature from [[Countdowner]] to [[User:Countdowner|]]. This will give: Countdowner.

Best wishes, Chris 'Crispy' Philpot 11:28, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Signing your work

Hi Countdowner,

I noticed you have been having some problems signing your submissions on the talk pages. Well, there is an easy way to do it - if you look at the top of the box there are several buttons, such as bold and italics. The one on the second from right signs your text for you. --Vande 22:32, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Average petitions

Type your username and time that you think average's should be added average's to the seed table:

I have decided to stop this petition because not even one person has agreed to having average's on the seed tables.

Sorry for any inconvenience I have caused.

This plan has been a terrible disaster for me. Countdowner

Well, I'm for it. The Doctor 14:38, 21 July 2010 (BST)