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21:45, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
You should check out the military project and see if you want to help. - ApolloCreed 22:29, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
You can use the {{main | foo}} tag if you'd like to indicate on the page for .50 cal rounds to point at the BMG. However, as the BMG has a rather large article already, and a much storied military history (as opposed to say the .50 alaskan, .50 AE, .500 S&W, etc). As such, I don't think it's a good idea to merge them. If you'd like to discuss it, please post there, or there's also Wikipedia:WikiProject Weaponry. xoxo, Avriette 21:52, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I noticed you're filling in the table at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. states. Can you let me know where you're getting the data from? I think we'll ultimately need to cite the source. Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 19:28, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
I see you are American. I know in the US there are still lots of people who think in terms of acres, particularly in rural areas, that's why I thought it would be interesting to have the figure expressed in acres as well. It seems to me sq. miles don't mean much to many Americans (at least for small surfaces), whereas acres are more easily understood. What do you think? Hardouin 14:42, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey MJC, your amendments to New Zealand created inconsistencies in measurements, such as using kilometre in full but mi for miles. I have reverted to the consistent version. Cheers. Moriori 19:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
In response to your comment on my discussion page from 19:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC): I can see why you may think that both measurements should be abbrivated for consistency, but it is just not correct according to the manual of Style. Here is what the wikipedia Manual of Sytle WP:MoS has to say:
Conversions should generally not be removed. If editors cannot agree about the sequence of units, put the source value first and the converted value second. Spell out source units in text. Use digits and unit symbols for converted values and for measurements in tables. For example, "a pipe 100 millimetres (4 in) in diameter and 10 miles (16 km) long". MoS section on Measurements. That being said-I'm reverting it back. Thanks. MJCdetroit 21:12, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
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For your tireless and commendable efforts to have all country articles use {{ country infobox}}. Keep on rocking! Glad someone else here is for standardization. — Nightst a llion (?) 21:05, 10 March 2006 (UTC) |
Sorry I wasn't able to respond. I took a rather unexpected wikibreak this week (it was spring break). I tried to change France over months ago and it didn't work! I'm glad you were able to.-- naryathegreat | (talk) 00:34, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Please, could you reply in the topic Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Conversions. Thanks, -- tasc 17:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. Jkelly 21:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I note that you added English units to this page (and I guess others as well). Given that the source units were originally metric, and that Iceland is a metric country, shouldn't the sequence be km first with miles following in parentheses, rather than the other way around? I think this also conforms to the MOS. What do you think? Nelson50 12:33, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Sorry about that, I didn't mean to revert your edit. I've put it back now. -- Vary | Talk 04:07, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
The MOS says "may" which means you may choose to use it or not. Commas in Canadian mean the same as a period because Canada is bilingual with commas in french meaning period. To avoid the misunderstandings, commas are not used. -- Jeff3000 02:09, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
You wrote:
The problem was that the portal link did not show below. It was showing to the left of the infobox. Today I see that the arrangement is OK in Republic of Moldova. Someone simply placed {{ portal}} above the infobox. `' mikka (t) 17:49, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Template:Country infobox data Hong Kong has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Hunter 16:06, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
can you tfd this redundant orphan Template:Republic of China infobox after you moved the contents into the article? SchmuckyTheCat 21:32, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I saw the update to the template that put the governor and senator in the same box, and updated every state to get rid of an extra blank line. While doing this I noticed some of the state infoboxes had gotten considerably wider than they used to be, at least in some cases due to the addition of the highest point. It took quite a while to figure out what to do with this (I'm not really a css expert). I think the newer version of the template is better - multiline table entries that are supposed to align is really pretty bad form (although I've done this myself). Doing this was interesting, I learned something. -- Rick Block ( talk) 00:06, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I say merge the two infoboxes (given that now they have almost the same layout and content). However, I tried to deprecate the US city infobox, but Boothy443 vehemently objected to the inclusion of a skyline image within the infobox (it seems that he has recently relented). Have you asked him about it? Pentawing Talk 02:34, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
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For chasing down and adding US measurements to every state's infobox! Rick Block ( talk) 05:00, 27 May 2006 (UTC) |
BTW - would you have any interest in being an admin? I'd be happy to nominate you. Just let me know. -- Rick Block ( talk) 05:00, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
I've updated template:Infobox Country so visual rows are separate TR rows. I've noticed there are a couple of params that include BRs. Other than leader_titles/leader_names (for which I added params) and established_events/established_dates (for which I didn't - yet), do you know of any other params like this? Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 19:05, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
{{#if:{{{conventional_long_name|}}}|<br />'''{{{conventional_long_name|}}}'''}}
{{{capital}}}<br /> <small>{{coor dm|{{{latd}}}|{{{latm}}}|{{{latNS.../small>
{{{sovereignty_type}}}'''<br />{{{established_events}}} (which you said you know about)
{{{population_density_rank}}}]])<br />{{{population_densitymi²}}}/sq mi
Hope this helps.— MJCdetroit 12:42, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I just updated template:Infobox City in much the same way as the recent update to template:Infobox Country. I won't be logged in this evening - if you could watch for breakage complaints and try to fix any issues anyone notices I'd appreciate it. I'll leave a similar note for user:Harpchad (although I don't know timezone he edits from - looking at his contribution history I suppose he's someplace in EST). Hopefully, at least one of you will be around. Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 23:35, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
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On this occasion, your request for adminship was not successful. I hope that you will continue your useful contributions to Wikipedia, and may consider standing again in future. Remember, many of those voting against are just waiting to see more of your work! Warofdreams talk 19:33, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for the compliments regarding the United States article.-- Ryz05 t 18:25, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
I have initiated deletion review of our favorite template.
Nova SS 03:02, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Is User:MJCdetroit/Template Sandbox2 closer? The shading in the title column looks a little funky - not sure what to do about this. BTW - I'm pretty sure it's "council" (an assembly of persons) not "counsel" (what you get from a lawyer, or priest). -- Rick Block ( talk) 03:16, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the change to Template:Infobox City, however would it be possible to have a field to designate the title of the board, like is done for the "Leader." Some cities have a Board of Alderman, not just a City Council. Thanks for all your hard work! -- Assawyer 20:20, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Try that page again to check the infobox map. i can't get it to load for the life of me, and I sent the article to a couple of friends just now, and they cannot get it to load either. Thanks for your help. youngamerican ( talk) 14:45, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I notice that you said mile² looks odd. I also think 'sq mi' looks odd. There are lots of variations on this and a few different local standards within Wikipedia interest groups. Would you mind if we asked for opinions somewhere global? I do a lot of unit amendments for consistency and it would be nice to have an agreement. Perhaps in the MoS talk page would be a place to start. Regards. bobblewik 17:27, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
This image is labeled as fair use. Fair use images are not allowed in the user namespace. Could you remove it please? Geni 01:47, 15 June 2006 (UTC) Done. — MJCdetroit 02:38, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Whats wrong with the addition? is it the wording? Rodrigue 20:30, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi - Any idea why noone's commenting at Template talk:Infobox Country#Current look not stylesheet-friendly? I suspect the thread might have gotten buried. It's perhaps a significant enough topic to warrant its own page, with a pointer from template:Infobox City as well as the Country template (and maybe some of the subdivision infoboxes as well). I'd really like to get to a more uniform look. -- Rick Block ( talk) 21:20, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I've deleted Template:MJCdetroit Test Template per your request. -- Rick Block ( talk) 02:36, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks again for your help on templates. In a few months when you get some more experience in multiple areas under your belt, let me know if you are up for RfA again. youngamerican ( ahoy-hoy) 03:25, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
For your reversion of my mistake on that template. Rich Farmbrough 22:07 23 June 2006 (GMT).
Hi - I created a proposed guideline for geographical infoboxes I expect you might be interested in, please see Wikipedia:Geographical infoboxes. -- Rick Block ( talk) 23:53, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Greetings Rick,
Before I list all the
Template:infobox country_data_s for TfD, can you look at
User:MJCdetroit/Sandbox to make sure that I am listing all those templates correctly. Is there any problem with listing them as such? Please comment on my talk page:
User talk:MJCdetroit. Thanks,
MJCdetroit
17:09, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Looks fine to me. — Nightst a llion (?) 12:00, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
WikiProject Central Asia has finally been created! If you're interested, please consider joining us. Aelfthrytha 21:51, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi - Can you take a look at User talk:Rick Block/Template:Infobox City and let me know what you think? There doesn't seem to be much activity at Wikipedia:Geographical infoboxes, so I thought I might simultaneously try to work it from the bottom up. I think I've picked up that you're a "shading is good" kind of guy, so I'm curious how it strikes you. BTW - thanks for the comment at Template talk:Infobox Country. user:CieloEstrellado seems pretty firmly stuck on "it must look exactly like it does now", which I don't think is possible in an interoperable sort of way without putting the table inside some other rectangle (div or another table), which means it's not just a CSS style thing. -- Rick Block ( talk) 23:51, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Edit Conflict....(I use Win2000pro at work). Here is what I was going to write...
I'm curious to know why you switched the Fredericton, New Brunswick infobox from a Canadian city template to a generic city template. It does seem to be more versatile (from the long list of empty fields), but it isn't customised for Canada. The new infobox removed the postal code span, the link to the list of Canadian provincial symbols, and the list of Mayors (which is admittedly red) and seems to have added nothing. I DO admit it looks nicer and it's more compact... but I'm wondering why you switched it? - BalthCat 00:37, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi - Are you seeing many articles that use a pin coord sort of mechanism for plopping a dot on a map (rather than individual maps for each location) in the template references you're converting to template:Infobox City? Per template talk:Infobox City#Pin coords parameter, I'd be willing to recover this functionality from template:Infobox U.S. City (with my magical admin powers, I can see articles that existed in the past - they're working on letting us see articles that will exist in the future as well!). Please let me know how often you're seeing this. BTW - about the missing lines discussion we had above, I asked around and it turns out the file with the stylesheet definitions, common.css, is configured (in the software) to be cache-able for 31 days so most browsers won't reload it any more often than that unless the user does a forced reload. This seems ridiculously infrequent to me. -- Rick Block ( talk) 14:30, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
I awarded you a barnstar for your fine work on templates. I, however, had trouble formatting it corrrectly, so feel free to adjust as neccesary. Keep up the good work. youngamerican ( ahoy-hoy) 15:28, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your message, MJC, and for supporting me on the talk page. As no-one else had commented, I was beginning to wonder if I was completely out of line. Maybe it's just that no-one else was bold enough. It's hard to be both bold and sensitive, unfortunately. Stephen Turner ( Talk) 03:50, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, and welcome to the Countries WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of counties.
There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like:
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Shy1520 10:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
A bunch of country specific infoboxes have been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the link above. Thank you. This is to delete the templates that were created when the various country specific infoboxes were switched to this one. Here is a further chance to delete another bunch of them at once. -- Bob 22:08, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. I already expressed my concerns at Talk:France#Infobox. Unfortunately, the guy who runs these standard infoboxes don't really seem to pay attention to details. Maybe they are details, but they are important details I think. Have a look. In any case, we have two options: a- restore the specific infobox, which I doubt will happen, b- tinker with the standard infobox till we find a way to restore all the little subtleties that existed in the specific infobox, which is gonna be quite complicated. Hardouin 11:16, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't understand your last message. What does sock-puppetry has to do with France's infobox and with you?? Who accused you of sock-puppetry? I don't get it. Perhaps you got confused by the message left on my talk page by User:ThePromenader, who didn't properly create a separate section to put his message. Hardouin 18:42, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
EDIT CONFLICT: --What I was going to type:
It was a separate section but it seemed as if it was directed at me because the history of your page —13:12, 7 September 2006 ThePromenader (Talk | contribs) (→TfD of France infobox)— so I put in the extra = =. If he wasn't directing that toward me then I will certainly appologize. MJCdetroit 18:54, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
You wrote: Hi Bill, I like your changes to the WP:MOSNUM. I commented over at WP:MOSNUM's talk page, but can you provide an example of how a cited unit would look? — MJCdetroit 13:53, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
I posted a comment to the talk page for Niagara Falls regarding the removal of the gallery. -- tariqabjotu 03:20, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I wanted to let you know that I reverted your edit to {{ Infobox City}} because it caused class="mergedtoprow" to appear in all of the transcluding articles. Please be careful and give it another try. Regards × Meegs 12:26, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello Rick,
I was wondering if you could help me out? I am trying to move the location of the postal code in the box to the bottom. I have moved it and aligned it to the left, but I can't figure out how to place a line between the postal fields and the footnotes section. Here's my sandbox for it: User:MJCdetroit/Template Sandbox1 and these are the two sandboxes I've been using to compare with and without the postal codes: With codes and Without codes. Thanks. MJCdetroit 12:59, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
|-
(or, because "|" has meaning within an "if", {{!}}-
) followed by cell content. The general format for a row is|- optional formatting informaton for the row | optional formatting for this cell | cell contents | optional formatting for this cell | cell contents
|- optional formatting informaton for the row | cell contents || cell contents
|- style="mergedtoprow" | row 1 contents |- style="mergedrow" | row 2 contents |- style="mergedrow" | row 3 contents |- style="mergedbottomrow" | row 4 contents
|- style="mergedtoprow" | row 1 contents |- | row 2 contents
{{#if:{{{footnotes|}}}| {{!}} colspan="2" align="center" {{!}} <small>{{{footnotes}}}</small> {{!}}- }}
|- style="mergedtoprow" |- | contents
Thanks Rick.
I will mess with it a little at lunch today if I get the chance. Funny thing is is that I didn't want this field in the infobox to begin with but if it is gonna be in there it should at least not be an 'eye-sore'. I'll let you know how the progress is going.
MJCdetroit
14:49, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
I suspect you watch this page, but just in case you don't user:AzaToth changed template:Infobox Country to a version that looked almost identical to the one I proposed from a while ago (but not using class="infobox geography"). I've further changed it to use this class. We'll see how the discussion plays out, but I suspect there will be some rather heated arguments in the next couple of days. Just thought you might want to be aware of this. -- Rick Block ( talk) 03:44, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Can you explain why are are changing dates from Before Present to "years ago"? These are not necessarily equivalent. Guettarda 21:30, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I've been to a bunch of games this year and because I know someone who works the gate, I'm going try to weasel into the ball park if they make it to the World Series.
As far as sticking to what your source states —it does say:
and it starts out by using 5000 BC or 7000 BP. It also sprinkles BC dates throughout the article.
Because the source says approximately then it would safe to change it for ease of comprehension to at least 7,000 years ago. I suppose that an alternative would be to say "by at least 5000 BC". That way the comprehension is there and it is as the source states.
Without somehow linking the 7,000 BP to radiocarbon dating it seems very odd the average non-technical reader. The one line could be changed to something like:
Even that seems odd to me.
I was just trying to make it read a little easier to the average Joe/Jane. What do you think? — MJCdetroit 17:33, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
I am new on WikiProject Cities. I have added considerable content to the first city I am working on, which happens to be the city of my residence, Taichung City. Would you mind taking a few minutes to look it over and leave comments on how you think I can make it better to bring it up to WikiProject Cities standards in a section of the discussion page for the city’s article page that I have set up.
Thank you. Ludahai 03:52, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
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Thank you very much for your support in my RfA, which passed on October 17, 2006 with a tally of 53/6/0. I am equally elated and humbled by my new capacity as administrator of Wikipedia, and I send my heartfelt thanks for your unflinching support. If you need me for anything, just ask me! With gratitude, 210 physicq ( c) 03:55, 17 October 2006 (UTC) |
Hey - user:Harpchad seems to have disappeared. Do you have any clues where he might have gone? -- Rick Block ( talk) 04:24, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Has there been consensus to replace Template:Canadian City with this infobox? If not, I suggest you wait until there is (and until the infobox is perfected). I've noticed some problems with it for Canadian cities where you've placed it, not the least of which is that it throws away some information our infobox contains. Also, you've placed the coats of arms as "seal" (at least on Toronto and Mississauga), which is both inaccurate (Canadian cities generally do not have seals), and causes the link to not go to the right article Coat of arms of Toronto, for instance. Even if it is switched to "shield" (which is itself a wrong designation, as a shield is just one aspect of a coat of arms), for the City of Toronto, since the official name is listed as "City of Toronto", the link goes to Coat of arms of City of Toronto, which is not the title of the article. You've also listed the members of provincial parliament as MLAs, which is correct for most of Canada, but not Ontario, where they're called MPPs (in Quebec it's MNA and Newfoundland and Labrador it's MHA). └ OzLawyer / talk ┐ 13:58, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
...need to be made aware that they, from time to time, must throw to bases other thatn home plate. I don't have a horse in this derby, but my heart is breaking for you guys. youngamerican ( ahoy hoy) 16:50, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! I got it from a late-70's TV cartoon character. Captain Caveman
Sorry to make you wait 5 seconds ;P Jcam 17:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your support in
my RfA, which passed with a final tally of (56/0/2). It was great to see so much kind support from such competent editors and administrators as commented on my RfA.
I know I have much reading to do before I'll feel comfortable enough to use some of the more powerful admin tools, so I'll get right to it.
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...for supporting my RfA. I look forward to working with you again in the near future. If you need anything, you know where to find me. Cheers. youngamerican ( ahoy hoy) 18:42, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Sorry, I had originally created the infobox for the respectives articles in the Portuguese Wikipedia, and I thought of using the information here as well, forgetting to change the commas to periods. Sorry for forgetting to put information in °F and inches as well. I doubled checked the information and the supplied data today, most of the information does match with the supplied source data, a mistake of mine was in the Toronto weatherbox, where I did put one wrong entry at avg. highest, and made following entries wrong as well, and writing cm instead of mm in the Montreal weatherbox, even though the information there is in mm.
I had also, in the total avg. annual precipitation, added the avg. monthly precipitation from the converted data in mm, instead of converting directly from the source data (total avg. precipitation in a year) in inches, so there was some difference between both data (of 2-3 mm), so I changed the information, converting the total annual in inches rather than adding the monthly in mm.
I used mm instead of cm, based in the NYC weatherbox. I did use 1 decimal place (i.e. 13,8 °C, and not 14 °C) for temperature and precipitation, I don't know if that is appropriate/allowed or not. I did the necessary changes, and put the weatherboxes at the respective articles again, please have a look there if they are ok. Regards, Leslie Mateus 05:58, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Moved discussion and response back to your talk page per my talk page policy. 15:43, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Well, I sticked with the information given by the source, although they are in F/in. only, and had to convert each entry manually to C/mm. Sorry about the "Fonte" too, forgot to translate it to English :/
I do like the idea of a standard format (colors, information, etc) to the weatherboxes, and I think the resultant weatherbox template in Toronto is excellent. Although you put the template directly in the article; being that large, I think it's better in a separate template city weatherbox. Leslie Mateus 06:39, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering of you could help me out with getting votes for expanding an article I started a while back. My old US Australia relations article is currently being considered for expansion by the Wikipedia:Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight. To vote, go here and scroll to the bottom.
Thanks!
Sharkface217
05:16, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
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Have no fear! Just because I'm an admin now doesn't mean there will be any less profanity or Zombie Survival Guide editing. :-) EVula // talk // ☯ // 16:58, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi MJC! Thanks for your input regarding the Infobox Former Country template. I can see that you are using the template to experiment in your sandbox and that is fine, but are you aware that it also places your sandbox edits in the categories used for former countries? Would you mind not including the category generation functionality in the versions of the sandbox template that you use? This can be done simply by moving the "noinclude" tag. Cheers, -- Domino theory 13:05, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Discussion carried over from
User talk:52 Pickup for continuity reasons
14:16, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello 52,
Do you know how to make/force images to wrap in an infobox? There has to be a way and I sure that it is simple, so I was hoping a fresh set of eyes could help. I am working a problem for someone for the city infobox where as some cities have different types of emblems (coat of arms, flag...) and need to be displayed as such. Long story short—I am thinking that if someone enters all four parameters (which is unlikly but could happen) that all four images will not show up in a line thereby widening the infobox. I would like to have it so that there are two images then it wraps and the other two are below them. My template sandbox is
here and the
example is displayed here. Like I said, I figure a fresh set of eyes would be great. Let me know what you think? Thanks. —
MJCdetroit
01:42, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. I have come up with a possible solution ( template and example). The template first checks if more than 2 of the 4 images are given. If so, a line break is placed, forcing a maximum of two above and two below. The captions have been shifted to fit within this setup. The problem with this new setup is that it looks a little funny if 3 images are used. With only 1 image, there is no problem. Hope that helps.
One other question: is this infobox planned to be something generic for cities everywhere? This is a good idea, but there are a number of good region-specific templates out there that might not be integrated so well into a generic template. For example, there's a good template for Australian locations which covers cities, towns, suburbs and local government areas (
Template:Infobox Australian Place) which could not really be absorbed by a generic city template. -
52 Pickup
09:32, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Edit conflict
Hi, MJCdetroit. Got a question for you: Do you see a difference between Charlestown, New Hampshire and Wikipedia:Sandbox/Infobox City2? I see an extra space under the Town Seal on the first one, but not on the second one. The really weird thing is I can't see a difference between the two templates - (respectively) Template:Infobox City and Wikipedia:Sandbox/Infobox City. If you have a moment, would you take a look and see if you can figure out where that extra space is coming from? Thanks!!! -- SatyrTN ( talk | contribs) 23:56, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
So, what's the current state of this? I tried some changes today that didn't seem to help. Is this simply still pending a fix? -- Rick Block ( talk) 04:22, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
I've made a duplicate of the template at Template:Infobox Weather metric but using metric first for countries that are mainly reporting that way. Can you take a look and see if there is anything that needs to be changed. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 11:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
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21:45, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
You should check out the military project and see if you want to help. - ApolloCreed 22:29, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
You can use the {{main | foo}} tag if you'd like to indicate on the page for .50 cal rounds to point at the BMG. However, as the BMG has a rather large article already, and a much storied military history (as opposed to say the .50 alaskan, .50 AE, .500 S&W, etc). As such, I don't think it's a good idea to merge them. If you'd like to discuss it, please post there, or there's also Wikipedia:WikiProject Weaponry. xoxo, Avriette 21:52, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I noticed you're filling in the table at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. states. Can you let me know where you're getting the data from? I think we'll ultimately need to cite the source. Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 19:28, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
I see you are American. I know in the US there are still lots of people who think in terms of acres, particularly in rural areas, that's why I thought it would be interesting to have the figure expressed in acres as well. It seems to me sq. miles don't mean much to many Americans (at least for small surfaces), whereas acres are more easily understood. What do you think? Hardouin 14:42, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
Hey MJC, your amendments to New Zealand created inconsistencies in measurements, such as using kilometre in full but mi for miles. I have reverted to the consistent version. Cheers. Moriori 19:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
In response to your comment on my discussion page from 19:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC): I can see why you may think that both measurements should be abbrivated for consistency, but it is just not correct according to the manual of Style. Here is what the wikipedia Manual of Sytle WP:MoS has to say:
Conversions should generally not be removed. If editors cannot agree about the sequence of units, put the source value first and the converted value second. Spell out source units in text. Use digits and unit symbols for converted values and for measurements in tables. For example, "a pipe 100 millimetres (4 in) in diameter and 10 miles (16 km) long". MoS section on Measurements. That being said-I'm reverting it back. Thanks. MJCdetroit 21:12, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
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For your tireless and commendable efforts to have all country articles use {{ country infobox}}. Keep on rocking! Glad someone else here is for standardization. — Nightst a llion (?) 21:05, 10 March 2006 (UTC) |
Sorry I wasn't able to respond. I took a rather unexpected wikibreak this week (it was spring break). I tried to change France over months ago and it didn't work! I'm glad you were able to.-- naryathegreat | (talk) 00:34, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
Please, could you reply in the topic Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Conversions. Thanks, -- tasc 17:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. Jkelly 21:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I note that you added English units to this page (and I guess others as well). Given that the source units were originally metric, and that Iceland is a metric country, shouldn't the sequence be km first with miles following in parentheses, rather than the other way around? I think this also conforms to the MOS. What do you think? Nelson50 12:33, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Sorry about that, I didn't mean to revert your edit. I've put it back now. -- Vary | Talk 04:07, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
The MOS says "may" which means you may choose to use it or not. Commas in Canadian mean the same as a period because Canada is bilingual with commas in french meaning period. To avoid the misunderstandings, commas are not used. -- Jeff3000 02:09, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
You wrote:
The problem was that the portal link did not show below. It was showing to the left of the infobox. Today I see that the arrangement is OK in Republic of Moldova. Someone simply placed {{ portal}} above the infobox. `' mikka (t) 17:49, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Template:Country infobox data Hong Kong has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Hunter 16:06, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
can you tfd this redundant orphan Template:Republic of China infobox after you moved the contents into the article? SchmuckyTheCat 21:32, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I saw the update to the template that put the governor and senator in the same box, and updated every state to get rid of an extra blank line. While doing this I noticed some of the state infoboxes had gotten considerably wider than they used to be, at least in some cases due to the addition of the highest point. It took quite a while to figure out what to do with this (I'm not really a css expert). I think the newer version of the template is better - multiline table entries that are supposed to align is really pretty bad form (although I've done this myself). Doing this was interesting, I learned something. -- Rick Block ( talk) 00:06, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I say merge the two infoboxes (given that now they have almost the same layout and content). However, I tried to deprecate the US city infobox, but Boothy443 vehemently objected to the inclusion of a skyline image within the infobox (it seems that he has recently relented). Have you asked him about it? Pentawing Talk 02:34, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
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For chasing down and adding US measurements to every state's infobox! Rick Block ( talk) 05:00, 27 May 2006 (UTC) |
BTW - would you have any interest in being an admin? I'd be happy to nominate you. Just let me know. -- Rick Block ( talk) 05:00, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
I've updated template:Infobox Country so visual rows are separate TR rows. I've noticed there are a couple of params that include BRs. Other than leader_titles/leader_names (for which I added params) and established_events/established_dates (for which I didn't - yet), do you know of any other params like this? Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 19:05, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
{{#if:{{{conventional_long_name|}}}|<br />'''{{{conventional_long_name|}}}'''}}
{{{capital}}}<br /> <small>{{coor dm|{{{latd}}}|{{{latm}}}|{{{latNS.../small>
{{{sovereignty_type}}}'''<br />{{{established_events}}} (which you said you know about)
{{{population_density_rank}}}]])<br />{{{population_densitymi²}}}/sq mi
Hope this helps.— MJCdetroit 12:42, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I just updated template:Infobox City in much the same way as the recent update to template:Infobox Country. I won't be logged in this evening - if you could watch for breakage complaints and try to fix any issues anyone notices I'd appreciate it. I'll leave a similar note for user:Harpchad (although I don't know timezone he edits from - looking at his contribution history I suppose he's someplace in EST). Hopefully, at least one of you will be around. Thanks. -- Rick Block ( talk) 23:35, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
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On this occasion, your request for adminship was not successful. I hope that you will continue your useful contributions to Wikipedia, and may consider standing again in future. Remember, many of those voting against are just waiting to see more of your work! Warofdreams talk 19:33, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for the compliments regarding the United States article.-- Ryz05 t 18:25, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
I have initiated deletion review of our favorite template.
Nova SS 03:02, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Is User:MJCdetroit/Template Sandbox2 closer? The shading in the title column looks a little funky - not sure what to do about this. BTW - I'm pretty sure it's "council" (an assembly of persons) not "counsel" (what you get from a lawyer, or priest). -- Rick Block ( talk) 03:16, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the change to Template:Infobox City, however would it be possible to have a field to designate the title of the board, like is done for the "Leader." Some cities have a Board of Alderman, not just a City Council. Thanks for all your hard work! -- Assawyer 20:20, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
Try that page again to check the infobox map. i can't get it to load for the life of me, and I sent the article to a couple of friends just now, and they cannot get it to load either. Thanks for your help. youngamerican ( talk) 14:45, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I notice that you said mile² looks odd. I also think 'sq mi' looks odd. There are lots of variations on this and a few different local standards within Wikipedia interest groups. Would you mind if we asked for opinions somewhere global? I do a lot of unit amendments for consistency and it would be nice to have an agreement. Perhaps in the MoS talk page would be a place to start. Regards. bobblewik 17:27, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
This image is labeled as fair use. Fair use images are not allowed in the user namespace. Could you remove it please? Geni 01:47, 15 June 2006 (UTC) Done. — MJCdetroit 02:38, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Whats wrong with the addition? is it the wording? Rodrigue 20:30, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi - Any idea why noone's commenting at Template talk:Infobox Country#Current look not stylesheet-friendly? I suspect the thread might have gotten buried. It's perhaps a significant enough topic to warrant its own page, with a pointer from template:Infobox City as well as the Country template (and maybe some of the subdivision infoboxes as well). I'd really like to get to a more uniform look. -- Rick Block ( talk) 21:20, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi - I've deleted Template:MJCdetroit Test Template per your request. -- Rick Block ( talk) 02:36, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Thanks again for your help on templates. In a few months when you get some more experience in multiple areas under your belt, let me know if you are up for RfA again. youngamerican ( ahoy-hoy) 03:25, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
For your reversion of my mistake on that template. Rich Farmbrough 22:07 23 June 2006 (GMT).
Hi - I created a proposed guideline for geographical infoboxes I expect you might be interested in, please see Wikipedia:Geographical infoboxes. -- Rick Block ( talk) 23:53, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
Greetings Rick,
Before I list all the
Template:infobox country_data_s for TfD, can you look at
User:MJCdetroit/Sandbox to make sure that I am listing all those templates correctly. Is there any problem with listing them as such? Please comment on my talk page:
User talk:MJCdetroit. Thanks,
MJCdetroit
17:09, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Looks fine to me. — Nightst a llion (?) 12:00, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
WikiProject Central Asia has finally been created! If you're interested, please consider joining us. Aelfthrytha 21:51, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi - Can you take a look at User talk:Rick Block/Template:Infobox City and let me know what you think? There doesn't seem to be much activity at Wikipedia:Geographical infoboxes, so I thought I might simultaneously try to work it from the bottom up. I think I've picked up that you're a "shading is good" kind of guy, so I'm curious how it strikes you. BTW - thanks for the comment at Template talk:Infobox Country. user:CieloEstrellado seems pretty firmly stuck on "it must look exactly like it does now", which I don't think is possible in an interoperable sort of way without putting the table inside some other rectangle (div or another table), which means it's not just a CSS style thing. -- Rick Block ( talk) 23:51, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Edit Conflict....(I use Win2000pro at work). Here is what I was going to write...
I'm curious to know why you switched the Fredericton, New Brunswick infobox from a Canadian city template to a generic city template. It does seem to be more versatile (from the long list of empty fields), but it isn't customised for Canada. The new infobox removed the postal code span, the link to the list of Canadian provincial symbols, and the list of Mayors (which is admittedly red) and seems to have added nothing. I DO admit it looks nicer and it's more compact... but I'm wondering why you switched it? - BalthCat 00:37, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi - Are you seeing many articles that use a pin coord sort of mechanism for plopping a dot on a map (rather than individual maps for each location) in the template references you're converting to template:Infobox City? Per template talk:Infobox City#Pin coords parameter, I'd be willing to recover this functionality from template:Infobox U.S. City (with my magical admin powers, I can see articles that existed in the past - they're working on letting us see articles that will exist in the future as well!). Please let me know how often you're seeing this. BTW - about the missing lines discussion we had above, I asked around and it turns out the file with the stylesheet definitions, common.css, is configured (in the software) to be cache-able for 31 days so most browsers won't reload it any more often than that unless the user does a forced reload. This seems ridiculously infrequent to me. -- Rick Block ( talk) 14:30, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
I awarded you a barnstar for your fine work on templates. I, however, had trouble formatting it corrrectly, so feel free to adjust as neccesary. Keep up the good work. youngamerican ( ahoy-hoy) 15:28, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your message, MJC, and for supporting me on the talk page. As no-one else had commented, I was beginning to wonder if I was completely out of line. Maybe it's just that no-one else was bold enough. It's hard to be both bold and sensitive, unfortunately. Stephen Turner ( Talk) 03:50, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, and welcome to the Countries WikiProject! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of counties.
There are a variety of interesting things to do within the project; you're free to participate however much—or little—you like:
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask another fellow member, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around! Shy1520 10:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
A bunch of country specific infoboxes have been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the link above. Thank you. This is to delete the templates that were created when the various country specific infoboxes were switched to this one. Here is a further chance to delete another bunch of them at once. -- Bob 22:08, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your message. I already expressed my concerns at Talk:France#Infobox. Unfortunately, the guy who runs these standard infoboxes don't really seem to pay attention to details. Maybe they are details, but they are important details I think. Have a look. In any case, we have two options: a- restore the specific infobox, which I doubt will happen, b- tinker with the standard infobox till we find a way to restore all the little subtleties that existed in the specific infobox, which is gonna be quite complicated. Hardouin 11:16, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't understand your last message. What does sock-puppetry has to do with France's infobox and with you?? Who accused you of sock-puppetry? I don't get it. Perhaps you got confused by the message left on my talk page by User:ThePromenader, who didn't properly create a separate section to put his message. Hardouin 18:42, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
EDIT CONFLICT: --What I was going to type:
It was a separate section but it seemed as if it was directed at me because the history of your page —13:12, 7 September 2006 ThePromenader (Talk | contribs) (→TfD of France infobox)— so I put in the extra = =. If he wasn't directing that toward me then I will certainly appologize. MJCdetroit 18:54, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
You wrote: Hi Bill, I like your changes to the WP:MOSNUM. I commented over at WP:MOSNUM's talk page, but can you provide an example of how a cited unit would look? — MJCdetroit 13:53, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
I posted a comment to the talk page for Niagara Falls regarding the removal of the gallery. -- tariqabjotu 03:20, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I wanted to let you know that I reverted your edit to {{ Infobox City}} because it caused class="mergedtoprow" to appear in all of the transcluding articles. Please be careful and give it another try. Regards × Meegs 12:26, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello Rick,
I was wondering if you could help me out? I am trying to move the location of the postal code in the box to the bottom. I have moved it and aligned it to the left, but I can't figure out how to place a line between the postal fields and the footnotes section. Here's my sandbox for it: User:MJCdetroit/Template Sandbox1 and these are the two sandboxes I've been using to compare with and without the postal codes: With codes and Without codes. Thanks. MJCdetroit 12:59, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
|-
(or, because "|" has meaning within an "if", {{!}}-
) followed by cell content. The general format for a row is|- optional formatting informaton for the row | optional formatting for this cell | cell contents | optional formatting for this cell | cell contents
|- optional formatting informaton for the row | cell contents || cell contents
|- style="mergedtoprow" | row 1 contents |- style="mergedrow" | row 2 contents |- style="mergedrow" | row 3 contents |- style="mergedbottomrow" | row 4 contents
|- style="mergedtoprow" | row 1 contents |- | row 2 contents
{{#if:{{{footnotes|}}}| {{!}} colspan="2" align="center" {{!}} <small>{{{footnotes}}}</small> {{!}}- }}
|- style="mergedtoprow" |- | contents
Thanks Rick.
I will mess with it a little at lunch today if I get the chance. Funny thing is is that I didn't want this field in the infobox to begin with but if it is gonna be in there it should at least not be an 'eye-sore'. I'll let you know how the progress is going.
MJCdetroit
14:49, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
I suspect you watch this page, but just in case you don't user:AzaToth changed template:Infobox Country to a version that looked almost identical to the one I proposed from a while ago (but not using class="infobox geography"). I've further changed it to use this class. We'll see how the discussion plays out, but I suspect there will be some rather heated arguments in the next couple of days. Just thought you might want to be aware of this. -- Rick Block ( talk) 03:44, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Can you explain why are are changing dates from Before Present to "years ago"? These are not necessarily equivalent. Guettarda 21:30, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
I've been to a bunch of games this year and because I know someone who works the gate, I'm going try to weasel into the ball park if they make it to the World Series.
As far as sticking to what your source states —it does say:
and it starts out by using 5000 BC or 7000 BP. It also sprinkles BC dates throughout the article.
Because the source says approximately then it would safe to change it for ease of comprehension to at least 7,000 years ago. I suppose that an alternative would be to say "by at least 5000 BC". That way the comprehension is there and it is as the source states.
Without somehow linking the 7,000 BP to radiocarbon dating it seems very odd the average non-technical reader. The one line could be changed to something like:
Even that seems odd to me.
I was just trying to make it read a little easier to the average Joe/Jane. What do you think? — MJCdetroit 17:33, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
I am new on WikiProject Cities. I have added considerable content to the first city I am working on, which happens to be the city of my residence, Taichung City. Would you mind taking a few minutes to look it over and leave comments on how you think I can make it better to bring it up to WikiProject Cities standards in a section of the discussion page for the city’s article page that I have set up.
Thank you. Ludahai 03:52, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
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Thank you very much for your support in my RfA, which passed on October 17, 2006 with a tally of 53/6/0. I am equally elated and humbled by my new capacity as administrator of Wikipedia, and I send my heartfelt thanks for your unflinching support. If you need me for anything, just ask me! With gratitude, 210 physicq ( c) 03:55, 17 October 2006 (UTC) |
Hey - user:Harpchad seems to have disappeared. Do you have any clues where he might have gone? -- Rick Block ( talk) 04:24, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
Has there been consensus to replace Template:Canadian City with this infobox? If not, I suggest you wait until there is (and until the infobox is perfected). I've noticed some problems with it for Canadian cities where you've placed it, not the least of which is that it throws away some information our infobox contains. Also, you've placed the coats of arms as "seal" (at least on Toronto and Mississauga), which is both inaccurate (Canadian cities generally do not have seals), and causes the link to not go to the right article Coat of arms of Toronto, for instance. Even if it is switched to "shield" (which is itself a wrong designation, as a shield is just one aspect of a coat of arms), for the City of Toronto, since the official name is listed as "City of Toronto", the link goes to Coat of arms of City of Toronto, which is not the title of the article. You've also listed the members of provincial parliament as MLAs, which is correct for most of Canada, but not Ontario, where they're called MPPs (in Quebec it's MNA and Newfoundland and Labrador it's MHA). └ OzLawyer / talk ┐ 13:58, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
...need to be made aware that they, from time to time, must throw to bases other thatn home plate. I don't have a horse in this derby, but my heart is breaking for you guys. youngamerican ( ahoy hoy) 16:50, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Thanks! I got it from a late-70's TV cartoon character. Captain Caveman
Sorry to make you wait 5 seconds ;P Jcam 17:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for your support in
my RfA, which passed with a final tally of (56/0/2). It was great to see so much kind support from such competent editors and administrators as commented on my RfA.
I know I have much reading to do before I'll feel comfortable enough to use some of the more powerful admin tools, so I'll get right to it.
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...for supporting my RfA. I look forward to working with you again in the near future. If you need anything, you know where to find me. Cheers. youngamerican ( ahoy hoy) 18:42, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Sorry, I had originally created the infobox for the respectives articles in the Portuguese Wikipedia, and I thought of using the information here as well, forgetting to change the commas to periods. Sorry for forgetting to put information in °F and inches as well. I doubled checked the information and the supplied data today, most of the information does match with the supplied source data, a mistake of mine was in the Toronto weatherbox, where I did put one wrong entry at avg. highest, and made following entries wrong as well, and writing cm instead of mm in the Montreal weatherbox, even though the information there is in mm.
I had also, in the total avg. annual precipitation, added the avg. monthly precipitation from the converted data in mm, instead of converting directly from the source data (total avg. precipitation in a year) in inches, so there was some difference between both data (of 2-3 mm), so I changed the information, converting the total annual in inches rather than adding the monthly in mm.
I used mm instead of cm, based in the NYC weatherbox. I did use 1 decimal place (i.e. 13,8 °C, and not 14 °C) for temperature and precipitation, I don't know if that is appropriate/allowed or not. I did the necessary changes, and put the weatherboxes at the respective articles again, please have a look there if they are ok. Regards, Leslie Mateus 05:58, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Moved discussion and response back to your talk page per my talk page policy. 15:43, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Well, I sticked with the information given by the source, although they are in F/in. only, and had to convert each entry manually to C/mm. Sorry about the "Fonte" too, forgot to translate it to English :/
I do like the idea of a standard format (colors, information, etc) to the weatherboxes, and I think the resultant weatherbox template in Toronto is excellent. Although you put the template directly in the article; being that large, I think it's better in a separate template city weatherbox. Leslie Mateus 06:39, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
I was wondering of you could help me out with getting votes for expanding an article I started a while back. My old US Australia relations article is currently being considered for expansion by the Wikipedia:Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight. To vote, go here and scroll to the bottom.
Thanks!
Sharkface217
05:16, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
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Have no fear! Just because I'm an admin now doesn't mean there will be any less profanity or Zombie Survival Guide editing. :-) EVula // talk // ☯ // 16:58, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi MJC! Thanks for your input regarding the Infobox Former Country template. I can see that you are using the template to experiment in your sandbox and that is fine, but are you aware that it also places your sandbox edits in the categories used for former countries? Would you mind not including the category generation functionality in the versions of the sandbox template that you use? This can be done simply by moving the "noinclude" tag. Cheers, -- Domino theory 13:05, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Discussion carried over from
User talk:52 Pickup for continuity reasons
14:16, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello 52,
Do you know how to make/force images to wrap in an infobox? There has to be a way and I sure that it is simple, so I was hoping a fresh set of eyes could help. I am working a problem for someone for the city infobox where as some cities have different types of emblems (coat of arms, flag...) and need to be displayed as such. Long story short—I am thinking that if someone enters all four parameters (which is unlikly but could happen) that all four images will not show up in a line thereby widening the infobox. I would like to have it so that there are two images then it wraps and the other two are below them. My template sandbox is
here and the
example is displayed here. Like I said, I figure a fresh set of eyes would be great. Let me know what you think? Thanks. —
MJCdetroit
01:42, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Hi there. I have come up with a possible solution ( template and example). The template first checks if more than 2 of the 4 images are given. If so, a line break is placed, forcing a maximum of two above and two below. The captions have been shifted to fit within this setup. The problem with this new setup is that it looks a little funny if 3 images are used. With only 1 image, there is no problem. Hope that helps.
One other question: is this infobox planned to be something generic for cities everywhere? This is a good idea, but there are a number of good region-specific templates out there that might not be integrated so well into a generic template. For example, there's a good template for Australian locations which covers cities, towns, suburbs and local government areas (
Template:Infobox Australian Place) which could not really be absorbed by a generic city template. -
52 Pickup
09:32, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Edit conflict
Hi, MJCdetroit. Got a question for you: Do you see a difference between Charlestown, New Hampshire and Wikipedia:Sandbox/Infobox City2? I see an extra space under the Town Seal on the first one, but not on the second one. The really weird thing is I can't see a difference between the two templates - (respectively) Template:Infobox City and Wikipedia:Sandbox/Infobox City. If you have a moment, would you take a look and see if you can figure out where that extra space is coming from? Thanks!!! -- SatyrTN ( talk | contribs) 23:56, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
So, what's the current state of this? I tried some changes today that didn't seem to help. Is this simply still pending a fix? -- Rick Block ( talk) 04:22, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
I've made a duplicate of the template at Template:Infobox Weather metric but using metric first for countries that are mainly reporting that way. Can you take a look and see if there is anything that needs to be changed. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 11:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC)