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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your user subpage at User:Pediapress/TemplateBlacklist, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's user page guideline. After you look over that guideline, could we discuss that concern here? I'd appreciate hearing your views, such as your reasons for wanting this particular page and any alternatives you might accept.

There are several options available for resolving this matter:

• If you can relieve my concerns through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
• If you decide to delete the page yourself, please add {{Db-userreq}} to the top of the page in question and an administrator will delete it.
• If the two of us can't agree on what needs to be done, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's user pages for discussion, which may result in the page in question being deleted.

Specific questions: 1) What is the purpose of this subpage? 2) When a template is "blacklisted" what does it do to that template? 3) What criteria is used to decide what templates are blacklisted? Thank you.--Tombstone (talk) 12:53, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

They are templates that should be excluded in the export of files using the PediaPress tools. I suspect that they break formatting or cause other problems when creating pdf files. DuncanHill (talk) 13:23, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Then why so random? For emample, Template:Cetacea is on the list, but Template:Mammals is not; yet the templates are in the same series and serve the same purpose. This list seems haphazard. Is it just a test to try it out on a few templates at a time? What purpose does a giant list of random templates do except take up 133 kb (I know, server space is not an issue, but still)? Rgrds. --Tombstone (talk) 13:35, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it doesn't seem to be disrupting anything or anyone. User:Pediapress hasn't edited since October, so I have emailed them to let them know about what has been happening. DuncanHill (talk) 13:42, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DuncanHill: Thank you for your email. I am sorry having missed to set up an email address for this account and to add an appropriate description. This account is a sockpuppet that helps us to test the software we are developing. The blacklist page is a necessary part of these tests. If this subpage does not truly comply with the user page guidelines (although testing is mentioned in WP:UB#SUB), I advocate an exception. More info on templates in relation to print-exports can be found here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Help:Collections#Improving_the_output He!ko (talk) 16:54, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Go ahead, there's no problem with the subpage if you're using it :). -- lucasbfr ^talk 18:06, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I tagged your user page here with the {{User Alternate Acct}} notice so others will know whom to contact in the future if there are questions regarding this acct. If I've overstepped my bounds by doing so, by all means, please feel free to remove it. Thanks for clearing things up. Rgrds. --Tombstone (talk) 13:28, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]