Editing User talk:Jon

Want to leave me a message? Just click edit, and type it in below. At the end of your message, please include the following text as your "signature": <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki>. It will automatically get converted to your signature, including your name and the date. That's two dashes, followed by four [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde#Tilde_with_keyboards tilde characters]. Thanks! --[[User:Jon|Jon]] 17:33, 10 July 2009 (MDT)


==New spambots==
Jon...  we seem to have a major spam bot attack [[User:Crosley|Crosley]] 06:23, 4 May 2011 (MDT)
:Thanks, looking into this. --[[User:Jon|Jon]] 09:28, 4 May 2011 (MDT)
::'''also....'''  I now see how to locate this talk page for you.  Link was right in front of me...  it is rough getting worn out , old and being a tech idiot
:::No problem, that's an easy one to miss. A user page is for info about the user ("Hi, I'm Jon...", etc.), and the user "Talk" page is for discussions with the user. It's definitely very different from a discussion forum. --[[User:Jon|Jon]] 10:10, 5 May 2011 (MDT)


Jon,  I have been watching the "who's online'' page.  I see user names that were banned some weeks back. I guess the spam bots can visit , but no posting. [[User:Crosley|Crosley]] 22:34, 8 August 2011 (MDT)
:Interesting, thanks, I'll look into that. I made another adjustment today that should cut down on the spam bots, but we'll see.--[[User:Jon|Jon]] 23:01, 8 August 2011 (MDT)



==Category tags removed==
Jon ...  I have noticed on some edits I make to articles, there seems to be some parts of the articles that disappear without me doing it.  Recent edit on "Thermostats Explained" as an example. I removed some words in ALL CAPS. A few days later I notice the listing tags at the bottom of the page had disappeared.  The tags that would place the article in "good article" list and the "cooling" tag for that list,  both had disappeared.

This will happen when I am on the Mac Mini with Safari browser. [[User:Crosley|Crosley]] 22:49, 30 September 2011 (MDT)
:That's strange; if you look under that page's "history" tab, there's [http://www.crankshaftcoalition.com/wiki/index.php?title=Thermostats_Explained&diff=19574&oldid=17324 this edit], which shows you as having fixed the all caps, and deleting the category tags. Browser glitch maybe?--[[User:Jon|Jon]] 22:59, 30 September 2011 (MDT)

Jon... that is the edit that caught my eye on the disappearing category tags. I would not remove the tags from an article unless it was an obvious item that needed attention. I went back later and corrected(I thought) the article till I saw cobalt327 added back another category tag

I edited an article weeks back (I forget which one)... I then recheck my edits and about 3 paragraphs had disappeared below grammar and spelling corrections I had made.

Perhaps a glitch in Mac software I guess.  I am a tech idiot.  [[User:Crosley|Crosley]] 07:26, 1 October 2011 (MDT)


Jon, I appreciate your article on keeping your stove bolt in your hotrod! I purchased a 1948 chevy fleetmaster last fall. I drove it home and it is original except the orange paint. It needs some body work but it is not bad at all. I have been strugglin back and forth with keepin the stove bolt 216 or swappin out with a small block. I have wrestled with it because I plan to make this an everyday driver. It was this week infact that I decided I wanted to keep the stove bolt but It needs the babbit bearings replace and I hope to do that this winter. I need advice on how to go about it. I am working out of my garage on my home so this is a shade tree machanic here. No lifts or all the goodies found in a speed shop. I also want to go to double or triple carbs and dual exhaust. I agree this is a cool way to go but my only concern is right now is 55 mph seems to be the max this old girl wants to put out.
By the way Dewey here from Iowa


'''Jon..''' is it better to have thumb nail photos than full size on the pages for speed of loading the page? Some of my transmission pages are heavy with photos [[User:Crosley|Crosley]] 09:42, 7 January 2012 (MST)
:Depends on the situation, but, usually, I would say full-size. If it's a gallery (like [http://www.hotrodders.com/scratch-built/Body:_A_Gallery_of_Scratch-Built_Cars this page]), then thumbnails. If "fullsize" is huge, you can always "thumbnail" them to a large size; you can play around with the sizing to see what you like best for a specific article. One thing I would definitely do is caption all of the images.--[[User:Jon|Jon]] 11:45, 7 January 2012 (MST)