User talk:Bigearedtiger

Welcome![edit]

Hello, Bigearedtiger, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! —Crowstar^{Vaseline-on-the-lens-Jitsu!fwends!} 00:56, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

August 2007[edit]

Welcome, and thank you for your attempt to lighten up Wikipedia. However, this is an encyclopedia and the articles are intended to be serious, so please don't make joke edits, as you did to 2007. Readers looking for serious articles will not find them amusing. If you'd like to experiment with editing, try the sandbox, where you can write (almost) whatever you want. THF 00:57, 3 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How to add "Today's featured picture to your userpage[edit]

{{helpme}}

I need help on posting daily pictures on my user page.

Copy the following source code to your userpage:

The result should look like this:

Today's featured picture

George Washington is a 1780 oil-on-canvas painting by John Trumbull, depicting George Washington, the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and later the first president of the United States, standing on a bluff above the Hudson River. His enslaved personal servant, William "Billy" Lee, is on horseback behind him. The view across the river encompasses West Point, New York, with a red-and-white striped banner – possibly the Navy ensign adopted in 1775 – flying atop the fortress. Trumbull served on Washington's staff as an aide-de-camp early in the American Revolutionary War and painted this portrait from memory about five years later while studying in London. It was the first authoritative representation of Washington available in Europe and was soon copied throughout the continent. The painting has been in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City since 1924.

Painting credit: John Trumbull

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Shalom ^Hello 19:42, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to post a different set of pictures to your userpage, ask me specifically. For example, if you want to post the comic at Portal:Comics to your userpage, I can help you with that. Shalom ^Hello 19:44, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bigearedtiger, it's pretty simple to do. (I assume you mean that you'd like to show the current Featured picture of the day on your user page.) You can add it to your userpage by including the right on your user page. (Basically, when you include a template, you ask the Wiki software to include the text of another page in the current one.) The template in this case is called POTD; to include it, simply place this text on your userpage:

{{POTD}}

This version will include something that's a little smaller than Shalom's solution. Iknowyourider (t c) 19:46, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and there's also {{Pic of the day}}, which is a bit in-between in size. Iknowyourider (t c) 19:47, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Shalom and Iknowyourider! I have now successfully put on the picture of the day. Thanks!