User talk:Jackmcbarn

Just a note
Hi Jackmcbarn. Thanks for your help in getting rid of nonsense pages on this wiki. Much appreciated. :) Trijnstel (talk) 12:43, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

User→User talk fix
That's the second time I've done that recently despite the fact that I've been editing various wikis for years. I think I'm losing it. Thanks for the spot and the fix! – RobinHood70 talk 07:06, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

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If you take a look at this discussion at Talk:Flow you will see that this page is indeed part of a sandbox experiment. I'm not just creating nonsensically named pages for fun -- the Flow software is creating these pages. By all means delete and protect it if you see fit, but it is part of the evidence I am putting reporting for a possible bug. Deltahedron (talk) 06:44, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
 * As a side note: similar discussion on my talk page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Florianschmidtwelzow (talk • contribs) 07:04, 22 September 2014‎ (UTC)
 * Replied there. Jackmcbarn (talk) 11:58, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Identity theft
Hi Jack,

seems like the content you were referring to has been deleted, but thank you for noticing :)

Ahh I see now, if you view the revision history you'll see that the user has copied and pasted my user page, not with bad intent, but rather to copy the layout, rather than my info, you just stumbled upon it before he was able add his own info.

Lee Miller 21:39, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

Extension:PipeTo
The debate over small tools to accomplish well-defined tasks vs large tools that can be adapted to do "anything" will probably rage on forever.

My specific usage case is a generic set of templates for constructing tables. Articles provide subpages (ie Article/TableStart, Article/TableRow, Article/TableEnd) which are transcluded via the generic templates. The problem is that cannot intelligently pass parameters to the transcluded/subst'ed Article/TableRow using any combination of transclusion and substitution without complete substitution, which makes article editing very difficult.

On the matter of it being "hacky", that is why we've been blessed with version control and bug trackers. In keeping with Open Source tradition, criticism in that vein is not very helpful; patches are welcome.

Finally, if you are so inclined, you can always tag it for deletion and we can discuss it there. Ironiridis (talk) 15:22, 3 October 2014 (UTC)