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I was looking for the pushpin option.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:01, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
You seem to know templates. I posted a simple template request at Wikipedia:Help_desk#VP_nominator_template_needed. Can you do this?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 01:00, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Yes. Both fine. Thanks! Dr. Blofeld White cat 08:26, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Can you replace the {{Greenlandic divisions}}
infobox. It is only used in a handful of articles. See
Qaasuitsup
Dr. Blofeld
White cat
12:58, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Yes aside from Federacy Kingdom of Denmark parameter above Greenland that's fine. Thanks. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:48, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
I likes places with da lego houses.. Tomorrow I may create some montage of these municipalities to pretty up the infoboxes. Alg has taken some fantastic pictures of Greenland.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:22, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
A few favors, can you please put those pages up for speedy deletion, these events never took place for various reasons K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 in Dortmund, K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 in Baku.thx Marty Rockatansky ( talk) 23:54, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Please unblock "Javed Burki". Kindly look into abuse of authority by YellowMonkey as the material he is blocking is all referencable. Not sure how YellowMonkey gets away with this type of behaviour. Thanks!
TestKhan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2010khan ( talk • contribs) 18:37, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Plastiksport. Please note how YellowMonkey tried to throw people off track by referring to Jaed Burki and not Javed Burki, that way people cannot trace the justificaiton for why he blocekd my account.
00:57, 26 May 2010 YellowMonkey (talk | contribs) blocked Testkhan (talk | contribs) (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of indefinite (Jaed Burki sock) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2010khan ( talk • contribs)
please read and verify the section before undoing my edits. The paragraphs removed are personal opinion and therefore cannot be allowed to stay in the History section. Kindly ask the author to provide proof of these opinions. thx —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2010khan ( talk • contribs) 19:57, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Why are you doing this? {{ Urlw}} is available and working; any future changes will be backwards compatible. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 10:41, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
{{Infobox province Vietnam}}
, see below. Thanks!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
14:40, 14 June 2010 (UTC)Seems like you only want the "Yemeni" narrative to be seen. Despite the fact that we --the Barakis-- KNOW our own (passed down) narrative. Who are you representing??? Hope its not Al Qaeda and their paymasters! We will WIN this. Amin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virginiacity ( talk • contribs) 16:44, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
If you are not a member of our tribe and are bent on mischief then I will ask Wiki to delete the site since most of the info writing was provided by me with input from our tribe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virginiacity ( talk • contribs) 16:54, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
I have seen that you edited some volleyball articles. Some players articles, most of them looks outdated. I would like to improve players by country. Could you please choose a country to contribute with? Please take a look on Yekaterina Gamova, Hélia Souza, Serena Ortolani and Kenia Carcaces for a model to follow. Please can you please improve some volleyball players with infobox and some addons? References are very important. Let me know. Oscar987 21:40, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
... and why it is in two different places. Because I am an idiot, and didn't see it down there when I added to the template... :-( TFOWR 15:04, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Is there a particular reason you're using the hacky {{{subst|}}} when we've got safesubst now? [1] Curious. – xeno talk 18:18, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you just edited it.
The accompanying text includes no mention at all of where the template, with its spacing on either side, should not be used—the prime example is in year ranges such as "1990–92" ( WP:MOSDASH). This needs to be displayed prominently; I have had to get rid of this template in many articles in such instances, which are a breach of the styleguide. Are you able to add this point? Tony (talk) 06:51, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks men :) - тнєѕαℓχ - tคlк - ¢σηтяιвυтισηѕ 15:11, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello I replaced the infobox in Đắk Lắk Province. Can you add an Ethnicities parameter to the infobox settlement so you can simply add rather than having to go down the population plank route. I;ve placed them under Demonym until you can attend to it. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:26, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Much better, thanks. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:37, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
The Irish infobox is redundant. Check out Allihies and Cork (city). Now see Naas. Ill add Irish villages to my infobox tasks... Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:01, 16 June 2010 (UTC) Can you add a |population_rural = underneath |population_urban = in infobox settlement? Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:27, 16 June 2010 (UTC) Grrr.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:49, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
OK. Well I proposed the black locator a month ago and nobody pbjected and you didn't update it...Could you give it a trial, maybe make the dot a tad bigger. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:53, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
No worries. Thanks for doing those Viet provinces. Check out User:Nvvchar/sandbox. Bout time those province articles were written properly... PLenty of lush green fields to upload from Viet wiki districts too. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:50, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Looks good! Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:39, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for correcting Virginiacity; Sapere aude6; 198.76.89.7: These are all IDs of one and the same person and should be investigated for Socks Violations.
Kindly remove the following Personal Opinion under the History section as this has no reference and is purely the autors own personal opinion. Thanks!
Just like Elphinstone, Captain Leech was "hypothesizing" about the mysterious origins of the Barakis/Baraks/Urmurs/Burkis based on the narrative probably fed to him by the Barakis/Urmurs. After all, why would most of them trust this feringhee with their "origins," not being able to discern (at face value) what his true intentions might be? This was/is a region characterized by unending warfare and strife, inhabited by xenophobic/self segregating tribes. The "Yemen/Arab" narrative, it can be argued, was an attempt of a "foreign" people to successfully embed/survive, especially after Pir Roshan's (Bayazid Khan)enemies, and orthodox Pushtuns in the north, (Yusufzai, Khattak etc.) regarded him as a heretic due to his "progressive/heretical/revolutionary" ideas. It is rightfully said: "the victors write/disseminate the historical narrative." It can, therefore, be postulated that the Barakis (later "Burki" in the 20th century) were desperate to wipe out any public mention of Pir Roshan's ideas (although many of them privately espoused his views). Thus, their counter narrative to Khushal Khan Khattak's poetic attacks of "Pir Rokhan" (so much for Khattak showing gratitude towards the man -Pir Roshan—who invented Pushtu script which enabled Khattak's prolific writing in Pashto less than a century later!) by some shrewd Barakis/Urmurs (unidentified) to reinvent Bayazid Khan's lineage (and suggesting he was an embed, and not native to the tribe, even though the Baraki have been one of the most reluctant Pushtun tribes to marry outside, let alone a non-Pashtun) as being that of the Ansar! (as in an Ansari from Medina/Yathrib). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2011khan ( talk • contribs) 09:10, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
I saw Virginia Citis post and this is not someone from the Tribe. Plesse check IP address and a Tracerout will show who this person is working for
Traceroute to 198.76.89.7 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2011khan ( talk • contribs) 09:13, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi. You'd better remove the flag from that infobox. User:Rettetast goes ape s**t over flags. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:20, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey there. I see that a few weeks back you made a small but helpful edit on a page that I created: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Naparstek.
I'm trying to figure out how to do proper reference citations on this page now. I can't seem to be able to do it. Was wondering if you could advise.
--Aaron Naparstek ( talk) 14:57, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Spork,
It looks like you are currently fixing up that reference issue. Thanks. I just encountered an editing conflict as I tried to add one more document to the reference list. I copied your code and came up with this...
But since you are editing it does not seem to want to allow me to add this item to the reference list.
Still figuring out this whole wikipedia thing.
Hi. I noticed you've been doing some islands work. Time for a redesign? Perhaps you could update the infobox and remove the nasty looking mint headers and make it look like infobox settlement? That also goes for formatting location in a proper fashion first not at the bottom back to front... Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:28, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
The plan is to use |state=XX
where XX is the USPS abbreviations for the states and territories in the US, not a |country=
value for them. LIkewise, with the |province=
and Canada.
Imzadi
1979
→
05:31, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
|country=USA
.
Imzadi
1979
→
20:42, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
|state=XX
, where XX is the USPS abbreviation for the state in question. –
T
M
F
20:54, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Is your purge script done? We think we have the categories cleared out, and we'd like to know if other articles will pop in. Imzadi 1979 → 03:32, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey again. =) We just implemented the last stage of the infobox revamp, and with that brings the last round of transclusion errors. Could you run the purge script one last time for us? TIA. – T M F 02:11, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Did we end up deleting the US version templates? ... and Heather Mills not only danced in the US, she ICE SKATED too!!??? These all strike me as British productions. Are you going to nominate them or shall I? They probably hate me over at TfD, as I just nominated one a bit ago. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 23:37, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
This may be outside your field of interest, but just so you're aware: Template talk:Infobox road#Other road infoboxes. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:30, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Could you explain the purpose behind [2]? Thanks. – T M F 21:11, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Care to review this? There are threads related to it on the article talk page, User talk:Viriditas, User talk:Maile66, and User talk:Wildhartlivie. Jack Merridew 18:07, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, some recent changes you made appear to have broken this template, by emitting 5 mu's at the top of articles using the template. I saw it on at least two articles, but I assume it may be on many more, or all. As a stopgap measure, I have removed the mu section from the template, which seems to have fixed the problem with no drastic side effect. I leave it to you or others to find a more permanent fix. Thanks, Crum375 ( talk) 02:10, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
See proposal. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:37, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Couldn't it simply become Country/ies? Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:20, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Also I have a request. Can you copy the infoboxes from Spanish wikipedia and add your lovely department infoboxes to Atlántida Department and the rest of the Honduran departments? Meanwhile I'll do the states of Sudan, Sudan is now Done. I've also kitted out the states with new decent maps like Cambodia see Blue Nile (state).. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:24, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
You mean Spain? Category:Municipalities of Spain? Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:19, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Well generally it must be said that Spanish municipalities probably need the most TLC on wikipedia for places. Most of them have been neglected like Arrankudiaga. At least the French communes have already had a few rounds of automated edits... German municipalities are also a nightmare in terms of actual content but at least they have infoboxes sorted... Meanwhile I'll sort out Kenyan provinces.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:37, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Me neither. If the task is too tremendous I get sidetracked. I can ask some AWBers though to insert infoboxes into articles though. At a later date then maybe a bot can be used to copy the coordinates into the infobox and display the pin. That's a start at least. South Africa had empty infoboxes added the other day. I'll ask Rich Farm, see if he can add maps in the South African infoboxes. I believe Rich Farm was the one who copied many of the infoboxes from Dutch wikipedia for the Netherlands too.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:06, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Oh, can you tweak the size of the pin to 6px like infobox settlement? 8 is too fat. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:08, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Nice one. Is there a way you can nestle the WHS infobox inside the protected area template for Ngorongoro Conservation Area? Ideally the lovely photo should go at the top. If you can do the one I can start merging the others. ALmost, the whs box though needs to by the same width as the box and neatly aligned.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:19, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Aren't you going to nominate Template:Alias character for deletion now? Debresser ( talk) 06:46, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Seems to me that this template is inappropriate and that we would be better off using {{ Infobox character}}. I've not looked in detail, but it seems to support generic fields that could be used for the voiced-by param. Before you jump on this, visit User talk:Moonriddengirl/RfC#Concrete issues redux, which is a sort of workshop for a next RfC (or multiple RfCs) concerning the whole issue of colour, and wikiproject-authority. It's also a tad related to the Jack Lord edits I dropped you a note about the other day. This template was brought to my attention by MRG, but there are heaps more, as I expect you know. Cheers, Jack Merridew 22:01, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
{{Peanuts character}}
Hey, thanks for your work on the Mount Kazbek thing. The map looks great. – droll [chat] 05:47, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey buddy, found a complete bogus page, it needs a speedy deletion.thx Marty Rockatansky ( talk) 11:07, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
The url for BC Geographical Names I was using in {{ cite bcgnis}} went dead. I found the new url and updated the template. I then decided to start a project checking all the feature names used by {{ BCGNIS}}. At first I had to purge every page. I'm thinking the problem is that since substitution is used the links might remain until all the pages are rebuilt on the server. (No sure about this but it seems plausible.) I have waited a day and most of the links have begun to use the new url. There are still some that are problematic.
I am considering using AWB to replace BCGNIS with cite bcgnis while maintaining a list of all the pages on which it was used so that I can continue my project. I'd like your input on this as I'm a bit reticent after the dust-up over {{ cite cgndb}}. – droll [chat] 21:26, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
hi, this editor named "Kintetsubuffalo" keeps vandalising/reverting inaccurate information on Lisa Fonssagrives page by adding "American" categories when Fonssagrives has been widely reported as Swedish. Various editors on Fonssagrives' page has tried to revert "Kintetsubuffalo" edits by reverting the categories back to the proper Swedish categories, but he keeps changing Fonssagrives as "American" when she is not. Also, I have left a question on his talk page as to why he keeps reverting the inaccurate American categories on Fonssagrives page but he deletes my question and provides no source on where he is getting information as to how Lisa Fonssagrives is "American". Therefore, i believe that user is vandalising Fonssagrives page and provides no source of information. Could you revert Kintetsubuffalo edit on Fonssagrives page and prevent him from vandalising? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.251.135.149 ( talk) 14:51, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
The RfC we've been discussing on color and consensus is launched and located at Wikipedia talk:Consensus/RfC. I am in the process of publicizing. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:39, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
In the subject why Template:Skal vi danse? has to be nominated for deletion I was going to create new articles about the seasons. Other DWTS articles have templates and Los Angeles Lakers has a colorful template. I need to revert the editing back. I chose the colorful template because of the logo of Skal vi danse?. Tell another Wikipedia User to not delete the template if you want my editing on the template back.
Best Regards, Dungcamed2010 ( talk) 06:01, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
This edit created a problem with the coordinates of
Al Ahmadi Governorate because you added a coordinates_type=
parameter with underscores where it should've used colons and vice versa. It looks like you made several similar edits, which I am in the process of correcting.
I know you're a conscientious and well-intentioned editor. Please use more care in the future. Warm regards, -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 20:33, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Use Ajdovščina as a guideline. Some of the data was overboard. It would be best following that example than having a seperate infobox....Besides some of the parameters could easily be added to infobox settlement average age, households etc you;d think would be compulsory anyway... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:40, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Remove it then. Virtually certain it is now out of date anyway... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:49, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Template:Commonscat-inline/doc was orphaned when Template:Commonscat-inline was moved. Might be a speedy delete but I'm not sure what category it would fit in. Could you handle this for me. – droll [chat] 05:26, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
i wanted to do a page on the obama girls because they are famous celebrities —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilk846 ( talk • contribs) 03:54, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey. When you get a free moment, could you run the purge script over Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox_road/length_conversion/mi and Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox_road/length_conversion/km? Both templates were moved to new names, and the templates calling them have been updated to point to the new names; however, for whatever reason the job queue is taking longer than usual to update their transclusion lists. TIA. – T M F 23:33, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey,
Looks like the template's still there, though you closed the TfD as a delete. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 12:35, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
How do you become a wikipedia administrator because I want to become one please leave me a new message on my talk page. Thanks and god blessed! Dungcamed2010 ( talk) 19:59, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
No chance Dungcamed2010, don't even bother. For a start you seem to think wikipedia a missing persons bureau. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:24, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Just incase you are interested, the template replacement being done by your bot at the moment incorrectly links to some featured log not Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2010_June_18#Template:SortKey. No biggie, but just thought you'd like to know. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 22:45, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Good to have you back. Thanks for sorting the Iran province infoboxes. Tomorrow I shall make some new province locators to remove the old luminous green ones. Sound good? You'll also be interested to know the skyscraper infobox has gained significant support to merge at TFD aside from a few belated "keeps" . What are you going to do about the hotel articles on my user page though. Convert to infobox hotel? Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:23, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Good news. I've made a full series of new maps see Yazd Province etc. I also made a montage for Yazd province. The same could be done for the others eventually... Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:54, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. There is something about Persian text though that looks very scruffy. Most of the provinces need a lot of cleanup, the counties are in a dreadul state as are most of the cities in terms of sourcing.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:07, 9 July 2010 (UTC) When you have a moment can you replace the remaining PNG infoboxes? I did most of them a few weeks back. There's only a handful remaining now... Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:25, 9 July 2010 (UTC) I've done a few, only 19 left now.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:48, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Another one bites the dust! Are you going to TFD it? Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:02, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
I've emailed you today. Please respond by email. You do check your email right? Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:04, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
FYI, a heads-up note yesterday at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Buffyverse would have been nice. No biggie, but it would have forestalled the 5 seconds of panic before I figured out exactly what was going on. :-) Cheers, Jclemens ( talk) 19:48, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Nothing strange about it, it was a simple mistake. Dreadstar ☥
I'm considering placing this at AFD as in my view it is cuasing inconsistencies, particularly with river articles. I was wondering your thoughts on it. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:18, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Inconsistencies with using geobox for rivers or infobox river, using infobox settlement vs geobox (used in hundreds of Czech articles). Yes maybe we could do without using the pin maps for Netherlands if the localised maps exist. They do a pretty good job of showing where the places are I think. If you add a photograph as well then it will look too much with the load of them I think. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:56, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
See Template talk:Location map Russia-- Амба ( talk) 16:50, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I added the templates {{ Latitude}} and {{ Longitude}} at wp:tfd. Maybe they should have be included with Template:Location map2? Take a look if you can. Any tidying up would be appreciated. – droll [chat] 07:00, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
I am trying to create diagrams of size ranges of bats with some abuse of table syntax; see User:Ucucha/Diagram (template) and User:Ucucha/Diagram/Testcases (examples). It doesn't quite work yet (see the third example in particular). I previously asked Jack Merridew for help (at User talk:Jack Merridew#Table help), who introduced the empty row that is necessary to make the first two examples work, and suggested I ask you for help. Do you perhaps have better ideas? (Feel free to edit both pages.) Ucucha 10:48, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
How is possible to the honours list do not collapse? Thanks Oscar987 16:05, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
|medaltemplates-expand=yes
option to the template. --
WOSlinker (
talk)
16:22, 18 July 2010 (UTC)Hi I noticed that many of the Chilean communes suffer from micro penis. See Ancud. Some even have Nil Peni. There is an editor currently adding them at 175px which is perfect for this particular map, not the 80px that appears in a lot. I was wondering if you could the size of them all to 175px and leave a hidden note inside the table next to it saying Please not make map smaller or larger? Both commune maps and pin maps can be set at 175px. Dr. Blofeld - 15:36, 18 July 2010 (UTC) 17:52, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Just wanted to alert you about SurvivorBrian3 ( talk · contribs). Already taken care of. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 08:34, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Hei. I was prompted by User:Dr._Blofeld to also notify you about the requested changes to {{ Infobox settlement}}. I have added a request for disestablishment data at the template's talk page. We have also discussed it on mine. Looking for your input ;) Regards, — Algkalv ( talk) 18:16, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks I appreciate the revert, although I'm a bit surprised that anyone is watching this other than me. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 16:37, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I have noticed that Template:Dateheader creates automatic anchors on pages that look like [[#Year Month Day]]. This is consistent with Template:Current events header. The problem is that all of the pages that use this template, such as September 2006 in Oceania, have a nice little calendar you can click on to link to these particular sections, which comes from a template such as Template:September 2006 events. These little calendar templates all seem to have their anchor links written as [[#Day Month Year]], so none of the dates link to the appropriate section when you click on them.
I'm not quite sure what the best approach to take to fix this. It would be easy to adjust the Dateheader template so it expects a different order, but this might break any other links that don't come from these little calendars (I don't know how many of these there are, probably very few, I'll try and answer that question tomorrow), and it would be nice to keep Dateheader in alignment with Template:Current events header. The other option is to fix all of those little calendars, which seems like the better solution to me. I think AWB could help, or if something more complex is needed I could perhaps use User:BrokenAnchorBot (this would require a BRFA, but it's closely related to what BrokenAnchorBot does already). There aren't that many, so just fixing them by hand might be the best solution.
Do you have any thoughts on the best way to proceed? I'm no template guru, and I've been looking closely at scores of them tonight...my brain is rather fried right now. Thanks. Winston365 ( talk) 07:02, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
His forkster. I've psent most of the morning creating and uploading 78 new municipal locator maps of Puerto Rico. I'm exhausted now! I was wondering if you would kindly add them to the infoboxes and clean them. I've noticed the paramters are a mess for Puerto Rican municipalities, back to front, backwards, inconsistent parameter dividers etc, besides having the old horrid blank locators like File:Map of Puerto Rico highlighting Moca.svg. Can you clean them and add the new maps, I think they'll look best at 300px given the relative small size of the island to the overall map so you may need to make the photographs 300px to aline. You'll find all of the map are in plain english names without Spanish lettering. Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:39, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Yeah they are typos, I was reading from a small map. I'll ask Julian Colton if he could do it. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:24, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
He's absent right now, i've asked Calliopejen to do it. If she is busy I'll do it tomorrow. The commons have such fuddy duddy ways of runnings things. You can't even db-author an image after uploading it there. When you do so you end up being drilled "unlicensed" image warnings. Many thanks for sorting those infoboxes, they look much betteer now, a few thousand sources in total for the set wouldn't go amiss. Most of them should probably be swiped and started from scratch... Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:54, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
AAArggggh I've encountered a big problem with Category:Populated places in Côte d'Ivoire. They were all sub stubbed even without proper department/region details and see Category:Côte d'Ivoire subdivision templates. The templates are far from complete most are empty like Template:Communes of the Marahoué Region as I found it too difficult to do it manually. So I have a number of requests for sorting this out in the next few weeks whenever you have a mo. First of all a bot needs to copy the coordinates from the top and insert them into the infoboxes to feature the maps. Second or first, whatever you find easiest, I need you to draw me up using "what links here" maybe for each department from French wikipedia or using some sort of reader to organize this list of communes by the region and department given in the article to give me an organized list of communes by department. Once that is done I can add them to the nav boxes like Template:Communes of the Agnéby Region and get an AWBer to split the category by region/department and sort them. Once that is done I'll see a bot to display the relative region/department in the infobox. You follow? If possible we can split the workload between you, me and Ser Amantio if he could help out with applying the navboxes/categories at a later date. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:54, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I need those communes broken down into a list by department of Cote d'Ivoire, organized by region. In every article on French wiki they either have the name of department and region in the infobox or in the beginning of the text. I just need you to be able to read of the text and create a parser list. Then I can begin organizing the nav boxes and at a later date can be sorted by automation. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:50, 21 July 2010 (UTC) You'll find that most of the article on fr: don't have infoboxes but are all consistently formatted like http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blapleu. I think you could probably read the department and region off of that by article. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:54, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
The Hats Off Barnstar | ||
I hereby Present this award to Plastikspork for his Infobox contributions to Puerto Rico Municipalities. These series of contrubutions are an imense help to Wikiproject Puerto Rico Articles. My Hats off to you Plastikspork Quazgaa ( talk) 20:25, 19 July 2010 (UTC) Awarded to dedicated users who have provided an immense contribution or a Series of Contributions that go above and beyond from what is normally expected to improve upon articles regarding Puerto Rican related topics and have helped provide a positive image of Puerto Ricans and their Culture. |
Since I am not up on Template editing could you look at making a change for University of Birmingham Guild of Students - it looks like they have more than one VP so can you add a option to Template:Infobox Students Union for either a single vice president or multiple vice presidents ? Codf1977 ( talk) 07:39, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello Plastikspork. Some IP vandalism has recently occurred on the Real World/Road Rules Challenge page. Certain headers/sections keep getting removed, then restored, then removed again, and anonymous users keep inserting random & nonsense subtitles (in the Seasons table) for the upcoming 20th season of The Challenge (i.e. "Battle of the Sexes III", "The Gauntlet IV", "The Battlefield" and "Cut Throat"). We don't know for sure yet what the format of the next challenge will be, so I thought that it's better to just keep it (Season 20) as "TBD", and surrounded by hidden text commands, though it's likely that some idiot will mess that up. In order to curb the vandalism and nonsense edits, I think it would be good idea to semi-protect this page for the next three months. DPH1110 ( talk)
Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 132#Template:Location map. Thank.-- Амба ( talk) 21:34, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
I stop my edits for some time. I do not understand You reverts.-- Амба ( talk) 16:38, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Can You explain deletion policy and how it decided delete/keep?-- Амба ( talk) 13:34, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Following Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2010_June_22#Template:Source_list, I see you deleted the sub-templates and replaced the links the articles. However, all those were edits reverted thusly per this rationale. Not being fixed, they remain as such today, I having changed this one but I thought I'd ask you if you've resolved the issue. I asked xem as well but you might know what the issue is. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 08:01, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
HI. An editor has created maps for each welsh county see the discussion on the talk page. Can you update this infobox so whatever village/town in wales display the county locator rather than the welsh one? E.g Template:Location map Wales Gwynedd, Caernarfon etc. You may wish to move all the welsh ones to Location map United Kingdom ... if this is easier for the template. Dr. Blofeld - 15:36, 18 July 2010 (UTC) 16:18, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Plastik,
Wikipedia:Malaysian roads and expressways infobox template ( | [[Talk:Wikipedia:Malaysian roads and expressways infobox template|talk]] | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
I don't think there's anything wrong with Wikipedia:Malaysian roads and expressways infobox template as such; in some contexts these templates can be useful, e.g. on route diagrams. I'm not saying the implementation as it currently stands is perhaps the best it could be, but I've no objection to there being a bit of colour in an infobox. But in general for accessibility reasons of course, colour/graphics should not be the only way of putting in informaton – this template seems to be OK there though.
But definitely it is named wrongly: it really needs to be in the template namespace, not Wikipiedia namespace, and probably split into two (the doc for the infobox template itself, and that for the list of templates). As discussed for {{
E-toll}}
, a template listing templates is in any case probably redundant, that's what categories are for. In my view there is a weaker standard for finding templates than for articles generally, because I think we can assume a better familiarity about Wikipedia namespaces etc. by editors than general readers. (That being said, it is often quite a sod to try to guess the template.)
However, if it's just used in the Infobox template, yes, the "subtemplates" which are not subtemplates should probably be moved, such as {{
McDonalds}}
. I expect with that particular case the intent was to add the golden arches logo; it may be that this can't me done for copyright reasons. (Depends on fair use etc I suppose; McDonald's don't usually seem to mind having their logo splashed everywhere, but Wikipedians probably do.)
I think the consensus on the talk about {{
E-toll}}
was that it was unnecessary because we shouldn't have graphics in running text, and that {{
E-toll}}
contraverted usability guidelines.
Your argument about it being easier just to type the link out, and you are not the only one to make this, I have some misgivings with it as a general argument. I have made a few template such as {{
Hungarian Revolution of 1848 participant}}
, for example, which I imagine some people would think excessively long-winded (to write {{Hungarian Revolution of 1848 participant|Austria}}
for example, instead of just a little image and
Austrian Empire). Others have argued that indirecting templates like this serve no useful purpose above redirects (which is not quite true if they include images.) However, the reason for its existence is that in going through the infoboxes of all the battles in the
Hungarian Revolution of 1848 I saw that there was a great deal of inconsistency, and so by indirecting to a template they could be assured of consistency; it also means that if, by consensus, we were to change the display "Austrian Empire" to "Habsburg Empire" for example, it need only be changed in one place: a redirect does not accomplish that because it doesn't change the actual displayed text in the article. However, I do know that other editors feel that this level of indirection obscures things rather, and that templates should not be substitutes for redirects. (At one time there were eighteen redirects with minor variants to
Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, and other similar inconsistencies, so I maintain I did right by bundling them all together in one template; even if they are later SUBSTed, it's a stepping-stone to assuring consistency).
A long reply to your short note! Thanks for all your hard work. Si Trew ( talk) 06:17, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
You have an email. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:05, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
HI. An editor has created maps for each welsh county see the discussion on the talk page. Can you update this infobox so whatever village/town in wales display the county locator rather than the welsh one? E.g Template:Location map Wales Gwynedd, Caernarfon etc. You may wish to move all the welsh ones to Location map United Kingdom ... if this is easier for the template. Dr. Blofeld - 15:36, 18 July 2010 (UTC) 16:18, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
{{ Location map~}} was edited on 20 July 2010. The edit added some functionality that I can't find any documentation for and introduced the use of the templates {{ Latitude}} and {{ Longitude}} after those templates were marked as being being considered for deletion. The editor has no edits before 20 July 2010, day the edit was made. All the contributions of this user are to template space and all concern {{ Location map}} and its various incarnations. I cannot help but suspect sock puppetry. I realize this is a strong accusation but I think it is the only concussion reasonable. The two templates in question are now transcluded by more pages than Location map~ transcludes. I'll try to figure that out before I turn in for the night.
I'm starting this process here because I know that you have considerable experience with templates and because you are an admin. If I should introduce this discussion in a different forum please leave a note here or on my talk page. – droll [chat] 05:42, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
In your enthusiasm you've voted twice! regards SilkTork * YES! 17:22, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello mate, why did you delete the Wrong Hole paragraph in Scott Baio's article? while it's a minor play in his career, it's his latest appearance (and gained much attention thanks to the viral spread of the video), I guess it's worth mentioning it! let know :) -- WikiKiwi (askme) 09:59, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Plastik,
Could you drop in at the WP:TFD#Template:Infobox_settlement/ukr and add your view? Since an edit you made on 18 July may have affected one other user's comment, even though it predates it by a week or so, I have a feeling he hadn't seen your change. I hope this is not regarded as canvassing, just letting you know it's there (I've reffed the edit there but not mentioned you as the maker of the edit). Si Trew ( talk) 15:18, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
{{infobox settlement}}
as a backend. Creating such subtemplates is not necessarily a bad thing, since it could assist with uniformity and standardization while reducing duplication. I'm still not convinced it's necessary. I suppose I could comment at the TFD in question since I can't really close it now that I have voiced an opinion or lack there of.
Plastikspork
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15:24, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Hi, if you look at this thread on my talk page, you'll see Dr. Blofeld is asking that I help out with transferring infobox data from Spanish articles, and suggesting that I ask you regarding what's already been done (and presumably what's still to be done). So - can you fill me in? Thanks, -- Kotniski ( talk) 18:36, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, I just noticed that this template has been deleted without even notifying me as creator that it was up for discussion. This was not an exact duplication of Template:WPOCopyright despite their visual similarity. This would have been evident if anyone had bothered top check all the links. Note also that it was not unused. It was transcluded here. They contained different links for Online research in the Guides section. Template:WPC copyright guide linked to a different Guide which was written for the needs of Wikipedia:WikiProject Composers. What's done is done, and I've got round the problem by linking the two different Guides in Template:WPOCopyright, although cumbersome. But I would greatly appreciate it if you would please not delete or propose for deletion Template:WPC online research. This one likewise is especially adapted for WikiProject Composers despite its visual simlarity to Template:WPO online research. Thanks, Voceditenore ( talk) 14:43, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
This might just affect the next elevator you step into. Watching out for hidden piranha tanks Meester.
What's the plan for Infobox Skyscraper? Would it be best to tackle the hotels first maybe? Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:42, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Yeha its a daunting task I agree. Mmm, First of all perhaps you could copy the desired grey headers from infobox skyscraper into the building infobox. Would it be possible to have a different colour design for hotels. I mean I support merging the infobox hotel but I am particularly fond of the gold on maroon which looks very hotelish if you know what I mean. Also doesn't infobox building not have a standard pushpin map thing doesn't it read map-type or something. That would all need to be changed if this is the case so every infobox building as pushpin_map= rather than map_type. It will require some thought and discussion I think and then some consisderable edits to make the transition as you are undoubtedly acutely aware of, but the infobox building can at least be updated with the grey parameters from infobox skyscraper in the meantime. I believe infobox religous place has a different colour shceme for each building type. Perhapos we could introduce a similar system to prevent it from becoming bland for each building type, like yellow for lighthouses. Whatever you type into the infobox for building type it will display the colour code. What do you think? Template:Infobox lighthouse should probably also be merged. It doeshowever have a lot of parameters which would need to be added to infobox building but simple enough. In terms of long term maintenance I think it would be better to redirect both hotel and lighthouse infoboxes into infobox building but code it so the color system for hotels remains. What do you think? Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:48, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
{{infobox lighthouse}}
, but I could be wrong. I don't plan to touch hotel at the moment, but I agree it would seem sensible to merge that one in due course.
Plastikspork
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20:58, 27 July 2010 (UTC)Also see my new comment on Kotniski's page. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:56, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Well I'm not too bothered either way, I just thought of it when discussing the color coding thing. I quite liked the yellow infoboxes I saw on Italian wiki. Another thing see Trelew. A lot of the Argentine town articles have these infoboxes. I'm not sure how they work, I gather they work in the same way as geo boxes in that each article will have to be attended to individually? Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:07, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Placebox-...}}
before. This would be very easy to replace in a nearly completely automated way. I would just need to compile a list of all the components.
Plastikspork
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22:14, 27 July 2010 (UTC)Never understood those. i believe King of the Northeast replaced most of the Buenos Aires ones with standard but he didn't get around to most of the other provinces, especially western and rural Argentina. Wonder if it would be possible to read how many articles that placebox is being used in and how quickly it could be replaced.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:17, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Any reason why you've stopped using flag| ? There are a few who disapprove of them like Rettatast and pretend there are guidelines WP:FLAG (when in reality they are used in thousands of articles all over wikipedia, in sport, geogrpahy whatever) but I actually think the infoboxes look barer without them, they seem to look more wholesome and complete with flags than without I think. The argument against them is that they are decoration I guess. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:45, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Emailed. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:17, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, trying to update Caprice's page as some of the information is inaccurate. Also the current picture is very dated. The headshot used is my own- I own the rights to it —Preceding unsigned comment added by Laura154154 ( talk • contribs) 13:55, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Damn those red boots are hot. Please don't change the pic. Women on cars make the bald one turned on. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:14, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
I replied on my talk page.
On another front would you comment on {{ If all}}. It does a lot of nesting but I can't think of a better way. – droll [chat] 23:21, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
sorry for taking so long to reply, I haven't been around for a while. I no longer intend to use this, so it can indeed be deleted. Thanks. -- 70.55.118.250 ( talk) 04:25, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for going the extra mile in response to my question at Template talk:Nutritional value and doing some example edits at Okra. Cheers, Banyan Tree 05:53, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
I removed the substitution from {{ BCGNIS}} (that you added). It seemed to me that there was no way to track which articles transcluded the template since, when a page was rebuilt, BCGNIS was no longer transcluded and the the page was dropped from the category. I also did a serious job on the documentation.
I feel strongly that substituting PAGENAME is a bad idea. At one time I went through hundreds of articles that used this option and found more than a few problems. I will patrol what transcludes the template in the article space and do the substitution using AWB. – droll [chat] 07:11, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
As Admin, kindly check recent updates to Javed Burki, else YellowMonkey will once again embark on Admin Abuse. thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2011khan ( talk • contribs) 17:10, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Auto-ed is great, and I've never seen it make a change that wasn't an improvement. Why doesn't it run as a site-wide bot, cleaning up every article, say, weekly? If that is too broad, it could just run through the Wikicheck errors that indicate Auto-Ed. It seems like an obvious solution to a lot of little problems, I'm not sure why it hasn't happened already. Thanks. Ocaasi ( talk) 22:17, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey, how's it going? I'm curious if this edit might have something to do with why {{ Infobox civilian attack}} is broken on e.g. here? (Someone instituted a workaround in the latest version. I'd appreciate it if you could take a look and apologies for bugging you if they're not related. Peace, delldot ∇. 22:22, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for tuning up the maps in my sand box, cheers. -- KenWalker | Talk 17:10, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, in recent times, I've noticed re-additions of seemingly useless and counter-productive data in record tables. I'm not sure if all of them can be attributed to you, but I found a recent example in this edit. Obviously, the ref filling helps a lot, but the data below in the record table seems to me to be completely useless as the record table works without it, is easier to understand and without the added data, loads quicker due to the article being smaller in terms of kbs.
Could you perhaps explain to me why these changes are being made, so I can understand a little better? Thanks. Paralympiakos ( talk) 16:44, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
I am Caprice Bourret's assitant and am acting on behalf of her in regards to correcting said information on her Wikipedia page. I have either edited information that is incorrect, such as stating that her birthplace is Whittier, California, or updated her information, such as with regards to the timeline for her lingerie line. All of this information can be correctly and legitimately sourced and referenced. If this correct editing continues to be rejected then Caprice will be involving her lawyers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bycapricelingerie ( talk • contribs) 16:07, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Do you know of any project or other organized effort to improve wiki markup on wikipedia. I seems to me that lack of consistency in template parameter names, even within the same template, is bothering. Why is tag notation used when template notation might be more understandable to new editors. Why is {{ ifempty}} allowed to stand when {{ if empty}} is more comprehensible. I keep running across stuff like this. Any thought's. Do you think it would be taken seriously if I started a project named Wikipedia:WikiProject Markup improvement (i.e. would you be interested in such a project if you had the time). – droll [chat] 02:50, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Plastikspork, I tried to add links to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pewitt_Consolidated_Independent_School_District page that you did so much work on, but I messed it all up. Can you put it back to the edit before mine. Then I promise I will leave it alone. I have edited before, but something went way wrong this time. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.184.106.241 ( talk) 17:38, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
(since I'm horrible at creating templates) Could you update Template:Infobox university chancellor to include 2 university3, and university4, along with the predecessor and successor, and tern_start and term_end fields? Thanks. Connormah talk 16:16, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
If you didn't notice I brought up substantial evidence against deletion, yet you continued anyway (on what grounds? did you read the discussion?). In any case, please proceed with all of the FIFA counterparts I listed or this is nothing but selective deletion. Slaja ( talk) 06:01, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
{{UEFA Euro winners}}
{{OFC Nations Cup winners}}
{{Copa América winners}}
{{Africa Cup of Nations winners}}
{{AFC Asian Cup winners}}
{{FIFA U-20 World Cup winners}}
{{FIFA U-17 World Cup winners}}
{{FIFA Women's World Cup winners}}
{{FIFA Confederations Cup winners}}
{{FIFA competition winners template}}
{{FIFA World Cup winners}}
Slaja (
talk)
22:51, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Template:TIMESTAMP has been nominated for merging with Template:Currentdate. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Set Sail For The Seven Seas 270° 5' 0" NET 18:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
HI. An editor has created maps for each welsh county see the discussion on the talk page. Can you update this infobox so whatever village/town in wales display the county locator rather than the welsh one? E.g Template:Location map Wales Gwynedd, Caernarfon etc. You may wish to move all the welsh ones to Location map United Kingdom ... if this is easier for the template. Dr. Blofeld 21:09, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Now if they used infobox settlement.... Dr. Blofeld 11:12, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Please note this issue with biographical infoboxes. No action required, I know you're busy ;-) Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 11:59, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I have a question and am not even sure where best to ask. I thought I'd just ask you since you seem actively interested in the basic topics (coord templates, etc). At least perhaps you could point me to a better place or person to ask. It occurred to me that it would be very useful for WikiProjects such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers to be able to automatically map articles (those with coordinates anyway) by various things like assessment class, "importance", and other parameters. The {{ River}} template, for example, can contain things like mapneeded=yes, needs-infobox=no, etc. Do you know if it is possible to make maps showing pages by parameter/WikiProject like this? It would be a useful tool for other projects too. If nothing else it would be interesting to see the results--just how US-centric is WIkipedia, etc. I was going to ask at the Help Desk, but figured it might be more productive to ask someone specific who might know or know who to ask, and I thought of you. Thanks! Pfly ( talk) 22:26, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Any idea why the coordinates are not working for Museum of Apollonia. If you click the external link you'll see the coordinates yet they don't work... Dr. Blofeld 14:50, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Plastik one. Not quite can you convert 40 43 13.2 N 19 28 18.2 E into decimal that should be more precise. Dr. Blofeld 15:42, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
DId you look on google maps and find that your coordinates were located ina field slightly south of the actual museum. I gave you the precise coordinates, don't worry I'll tweak it. Dr. Blofeld
No probs it was just about 100 metres south of the building that's all. The coordinates on the website were not precise enough... Dr. Blofeld 11:52, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. In regards to the Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion#Cup_winners, could you please add "Template:East Asian Football Championship winners" and "Template:ASEAN Football Championship Winners" to the list as well for the sake of comprehensiveness. There are probably alot of similar templates out there as well. I'm not sure how to do it myself and am also undecided on the issue. Cheers. Transaction Go ( talk) 15:21, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! A few more to be added though.
Cheers. Transaction Go ( talk) 17:24, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi
I know you have already done quite a bit of work on this matter and that a simple "Can you just fix XXX" is not normally that simple lol.
WE have this though - the simple template used with just pushpin coords is giving the result "Location of XXX in the Ukraine" when it should be "Location of XXX in Ukraine".
I have been bold and changed the pushpin_map_caption in the template - can you just give it a check though to ensure I was correct :¬)
Chaosdruid ( talk) 15:49, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. If I run Auto Ed across Flash Gordon (serial), oldid it breaks the formatting. In the Synopsis section, there are secondary lines indented with: #: and they get a spaced added, which makes the ':' into part of the prose. I've seen other sorts of formatting that it's not handling properly, too, such as the same with '*'. The mix of these can actually get quite complex. Any chance this is an easy enough fix, at least the common forms? Cheers, Jack Merridew 21:16, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I'd be interested in comments concerning how a template arg might be parsed into two chunks; typically some data and then a ref are being passed as a piece and it's resulting in poor rendering due to a unit being glued onto the end.
Cheers, Jack Merridew 03:22, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning up those Template:Interwikitmp-grp parameters. I didn't realize that it wouldn't automatically detect the template's name. Axem Titanium ( talk) 19:23, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm involved in a discussion about citation formatting at User talk:Innotata. It might eventually lead to a request for a template to be deleted. I authored the template {{ Cite database}} to deal with the issues discussed. I won't repeat the arguments here. I wrote the template to provoke this discussion but I have not been able to convince the first user who questioned its use. I hope you have the time to read the discussion and share you opinion. I've written a number of citation templates and have become dissatisfied with the output generated by {{ cite web}} in certain cases. – droll [chat] 19:19, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you so much for reverting user:CBM undo's of my edits.
I feel they are good edits, and improvements over the articles. He wants to keep otheruses4, for whatever reason, which I haven't touched, so I left it as is.
Thanks again for helping me, and helping everyone else improve articles. I do hope to contribute constructively and I hope you can revert his bad faith undos if he continues.
Thank you 199.126.224.156 ( talk) 22:52, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your help in tidying up this template. I will need to understand "subst" and "safesubst" better. However I have now learnt how to set up these templates to make use of existing English Wikipedia templates, which is a big step forward. Thank you. I hope your moves goes well. Regards. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 06:19, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey, your help would be appreciated here. I, for one would like the places to display like Infobox person (below the dates), and for a "Coat of Arms" field to be added. Thanks, Connormah talk 00:12, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
The code of the old UK power station infobox is here. Beagel ( talk) 19:11, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Aside from a few minor parameter naming differences, and one other issue, {{
Infobox actor}} is a subset of {{
Infobox person}}, with no extra parameters of its own and is thus redundant. Would you like to make the latter call the former; redirect and add the different spellings to {{Infobox person}}
; or shall I raise the matter at TfD?
The one oddity is the way the actor iBox handles URLs. I presume there's a way round this? Perhaps a bot-job to clean up the various parameter names in use, and facilitate use of {{ Url}} would be best? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:38, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference.
03:48, 7 August 2009 Plastikspork (talk | contribs) deleted "Boston Harbor Hotel" (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.bhh.com/about.htm)
Please explain? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.105.154.20 ( talk) 20:23, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for removing that edit conflict at WP:TFD. I,m not sure why I didn't notice myself, I guess I just checked the edit had been accepted and looked OK without checking what was above it. Yeah, with the section number editing, I've seen the same problem at T:TDYK – it's probably more common there as that page gets edited more. I can understand why WP goes on section numbers (in case there are duplicate section titles) so I suppose we have to live with it.
I am sure my comments were most interesting anyway. Si Trew ( talk) 05:22, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Why did you pull the template from the holding cell? I am in the process of orphaning it. All usages of the template on other templates have been pulled 3 days ago, and I am waiting on the job queue to update the list of articles. — Train2104 ( talk · contribs · count · email) 19:38, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Might you have some time to help with {{ US-president-row}}? If so, I can explain what's needed. If not, no worries! Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:03, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
I would appreciate you NOT reversing my edits. There is no clear and/or concise reason for you to delete outside links to the pages in which you are revising. If this continues to be an issue I will have no other choice but to report you and you may be removed from future editing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Losangeles22 ( talk • contribs) 00:48, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
I absolutely agree that unsourced BLP violations are without a doubt something we should avoid like the plague. I did put a comment in the acceptance that I had double checked the figures on the Wilhelmina New York portfolio [5] and [6]. As such, I didn't see it as a violation, just not having an appropriate source, which I have been looking for. If you'd still say that that was a violation, then I apologise, and will be more strict in future. -- WORM MЯOW 06:37, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
<ref>...</ref>
, then I am more than happy to have it in the article. Thanks for the feedback.
Plastikspork
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16:02, 24 August 2010 (UTC)Thanks for your support in my RfA, which was closed as successful. I hope to be a net positive! Cheers, Nikkimaria ( talk) 15:09, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
Could you please remove pending changes from Julie Stoffer? It appears this was in response to one bit of vandalism and such protection doesn't appear to be within the scope of the pending changes trial as it currently exists. Hobit ( talk) 11:52, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me with the Template:Infobox television episode/sandbox code. I'm completely lost when it comes to these things. All seems to be working now. Thank you very much.– FunkyVoltron talk 14:46, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
|Image size=
foo does nothing in the live template. It is a dummy parameter that does nothing. The size of the image is currrently specified at the level of the transclusion. Thanks for the additional season list example. I will work on it as well.
Plastikspork
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16:10, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
I've been experimenting, trying to get it to hide the season list. Is there a way to make one header collapsed but not the others?– FunkyVoltron talk 20:01, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
We now have a full set of locator maps of Wales and Scotland. See the bottom of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scotland. Given that you said parsing the UK place infobox would be difficult I've made a suggestion for both Scotland and Wales to have a seperate infobox to make programming it easier. Other than that I propose a converison to infobox settlement for Scotland and Wales. Dr. Blofeld 13:16, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Looks incredibly complex. I thought you said is was complicated stuff Mr. Plastikspork? The programming looks relatively straightforward compared to others I've seen. Beyond my templating skills though!! Dr. Blofeld
Aw lighten up. I wasn't certain if you were genuinely bafflied by it or were genuinely too busy to attend to it thats all. I didn't think there was any coding that ever tested you!! I was surprised how quickly WOS did it that's all but I believe he had something to do woth the UK template anyway so is very familiar with how it works. Dr. Blofeld 18:27, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Well, I think it is his programming anyway so has a bit of an advantage... Sorry if it seemed like I was "rubbing your face in it" so to speak. Nobody has been a greater help with templates ( or impressed me as much as you with them) than you on wikipedia.. Moving house eh? Must be extremely stressful!! Dr. Blofeld 12:54, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Good to see that you've been active. I had to clean up one article because of your modification to the park parameter as the page name was no longer available if the park name was not specified. I fixed it so that the park parameter is now required. I checked all articles that transclude the template. I also edited the documentation. I agree that the default values are generally adequate but I think there is too much the top and bottom padding of rows. I might reintroduce that change. – droll [chat] 20:18, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
When using SporkBot to remove or edit templates in accordance with TfD discussions, can you please tweak the edit summary so it links to the actual TfD discussion instead just generically linking to WP:TfD? Thanks! ElKevbo ( talk) 15:49, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm in the process of making this new page, give me a little time. It is the first new page I've made, I have only edited before. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlespotenza ( talk • contribs) 22:58, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
Would you be able to help me a little with it? I'm trying to upload the cover of the single to be the picture, but I'm a little confused as to how to upload it since there are so many restrictions. I don't think there is a copyright issue because the cover picture is on a lot of websites. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlespotenza ( talk • contribs) 23:06, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
How do you upload the pictures though? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlespotenza ( talk • contribs) 20:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Since you've history merged Template:Ann manga into Template:Ann, shouldn't the same be done to Template:Ann anime, Template:Ann company, and Template:Ann name for the exact same reasons? — Farix ( t | c) 22:05, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Looking for some clarification, but is there any reason in particular to not use a template in another template, such as here? Not that I expect the software to change from using noindex, but if it does at some point in the future, wouldn't it be helpful if it references a template instead of being hardcoded? I'm sure you have a reason for what you are doing, I'm just wondering what it is. Thanks, -- Terrillja talk 04:33, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey. I've opened the discussion of the handling of the season list here.– FunkyVoltron talk 17:40, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! I admit I was a bit confused and had to basically just try something until it worked. Thanks for streamlining that. .: Alex :. 05:40, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Plastikspork,
I would like to ask you to deliver Yopie this warning message as an uninvolved administrator:
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The Arbitration Committee has permitted administrators to impose, at their own discretion, sanctions on any editor working on pages broadly related to Eastern Europe if the editor repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process. If you engage in further inappropriate behavior in this area, you may be placed under sanctions including blocks, a revert limitation or an article ban. The committee's full decision can be read at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Digwuren#Final decision. |
The user has been caused me a lot of chagrin by wikihounding and trolling, for which I promised him to be reported at ArbCom and that I am ready to redeem. Of course I am able to prove my assertions by diffs if needed. However, the process requisites a prior warning by an uninvolved administrator and that is why I need your succour. Regards,-- Nmate ( talk) 14:22, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Look, there is a user whose English is very very "puny". While I readily admit that my English is yet far from perfect, it is juttingly obvious that Yopie is unable to fill even a sketch type of vandalism or 3RR report in correct English. I am not telling that his English is absolutely undecipherable but he is unable to make substantial edits to the English Wikipedia. So that it is safe to say that here on English Wikipedia, the only thing that he can be adept at is nothing more than POV-reverting. But that should not be a problem yet in itself, however, he also has a strong penchant for wikihounding and making personal attacks aimed at Hungarian users. And because I am also Hungarian, it is a problem for me, unfortunately. I am often obliged to deplete my supply of 3RR when editing Wikipedia at articles in which he has never ever been interested beforehand because of his perennial wikihounding. And when I am trying to exhort him to stop wikihoundig, the user keeps denying that his acts were wikihounding. By the way, his opinion about Hungarians is outcryingly obnixious and the way in which he conducts towards Hungarians is ghastly spiteful and it glaringly displays both when interacting with Hungarian users and when trying to edit Hungarian related articles or their talk pages with his tarnish English. The user often sends me "vandalism warnings" on my talk page and his presumptuousness is culminated in sending me a warning about non English communication on my talk page.A user whose English is jumbled grammatically, warned me about non English communication. Also, the user twice denounced me on Wikiquette alert because I called his deportment sickly and that I told him that "rv wikistalking. It looks that Yopie needs to be humiliated by a community ban from editing wikipedia for indefinite time" in an edit summary while I was beseted with wikihounding and false vandalism messages by him.Interesting to note that he made a personal attack on me even in his Wikiquette alert-report. The user has more than a year of history of wikihounding by now. Right now I have no time to dredge up the diffs from his editing history, but if you so wish, I will do it tomorrow afternoon.-- Nmate ( talk) 19:23, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your time, Plastikspork-- Nmate ( talk) 17:12, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I've moved the hotel list to User:Plastikspork/Skyscrapers. Any idea when you will convert them? When you are resettled perhaps? Dr. Blofeld 21:43, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Can you shade in the header background from white to the very light grey used for the col headers for Wikipedia:Main Page alternative (encyclopedia). Can you also change the text font to something posher, the sort of elegant writing you'd see in an old encyclopedia providing it is legible.. I decided to create something a little different as an option with a knowledge theme.. Dr. Blofeld 12:03, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
i'd apreciate if you could not insult my subjects as everything i wrote about them is true... example is Andre Birleanu.... all it is written is written on a neutral point of view... i am not here to argue for endless hours, just asking for a human being to another to read material before you disect everything with your idee of what truth is...i added over 50 links so there is no problems... please take your time and read them... this guy, this Andre Birleanu is a supermodel... thats who he is, that's his job !!!so why is deleted and repleced by model... there is a diference you know... it's not just a word to these people, it's their career, please respect it... and again, read the links for better understanding of the subject... if you dont understand the subject or the nature of this industry then my friend, please do not ruin my work by deleting vital things just to cut the form you like... i dont see you cutting Brad Pitt's article to pieces.. tell me why is that... if someone is the best then he is the best... why do i have tosay he is just ok... ? when article in 23 languages say so ?
again.. please , i dont want to fight .. ijust want to read a true article that we all contributed too with links from all over the world.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andre Birleanu ( talk • contribs) 19:17, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Just wondering, but do you live in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania? -- UnknownFork ( talk) 22:05, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#G11 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.78.139.60 ( talk) 16:14, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey, thanks (I knew the bug would be something stupid like that)! I'm a bit surprised that {{ convert}} is having problems with the conversion this basic (which is why I never bothered to fix this template), but I'm glad you caught it and made it usable once again. Cheers,— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); September 13, 2010; 13:13 (UTC)
{{convert}}
has the occasional hiccup.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
19:59, 18 September 2010 (UTC)This is merely a courtesy note to inform you that I have written a script, whose objective is to render article dates compliant with WP:MOSNUM. I have integrated code directly copied from you. -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 05:36, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I've noticed a lot of the rayons either have crappy infoboxes like this or none at all. Can you add decent infobox settlements to them? Dr. Blofeld 21:34, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
First priority of course though is to ensure you have adequate cutlery... Don't want you running out of utensils now.[ Oh I noticed Dogana and San Marino has dodgy infoboxes too, luckily there aren't too many articles for it though.. Dr. Blofeld 11:25, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I'm just wondering what the purpose of Category:Biography using undocumented parameters is and whether or not it is still required. Regards. PC78 ( talk) 11:14, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello Plastikspork. On The Challenge: Cutthroat page, I was unfortunate to notice that SOMEBODY recently dropped a spoiler in the article, as well as in the Revision History section (it was reverted shortly after). I WILL NOT say here what that spoiler is, and I thought I'd forewarn you that if you DO NOT want to know what that spoiler is, then you may want to shield your eyes (from the right half side of your computer screen) from the Revision history of The Challenge: Cutthroat section for the date of September 18, 2010. Because of this, I recommend semi-protecting the Cutthroat page for a period of three months (which, assuming the season has 10 episodes and a reunion special, will cover the duration of the season) before someone else decides to spoil things again for everyone. I know that it will happen, just like the previous Challenge season (Fresh Meat II). Thank you. DPH1110 ( talk) 05:15, 19 September 2010 (UTC)DPH1110
Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:44, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
When you are done doing
Do not delete, can you run the bot through all of the entries on
this list? There are 4000 entries on the list, but only 407 have more than 10 transclusions, 26 over 100. The first one (
WPBannerMeta/collapsed) is similar to {{Do not delete}}
in that there are very few true uses (i.e. null edits will be needed). Also,
Pending deletion has no true transclusions at all and can be skipped.
Note: Many of these are userboxes and other things that are not mainly used in the articlespace.
Thanks! — Train2104 ( talk • contribs • count) 18:55, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | ← | Archive 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | → | Archive 10 |
I was looking for the pushpin option.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 00:01, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
You seem to know templates. I posted a simple template request at Wikipedia:Help_desk#VP_nominator_template_needed. Can you do this?-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 01:00, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Yes. Both fine. Thanks! Dr. Blofeld White cat 08:26, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Can you replace the {{Greenlandic divisions}}
infobox. It is only used in a handful of articles. See
Qaasuitsup
Dr. Blofeld
White cat
12:58, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Yes aside from Federacy Kingdom of Denmark parameter above Greenland that's fine. Thanks. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:48, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
I likes places with da lego houses.. Tomorrow I may create some montage of these municipalities to pretty up the infoboxes. Alg has taken some fantastic pictures of Greenland.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:22, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
A few favors, can you please put those pages up for speedy deletion, these events never took place for various reasons K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 in Dortmund, K-1 World Grand Prix 2010 in Baku.thx Marty Rockatansky ( talk) 23:54, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
Please unblock "Javed Burki". Kindly look into abuse of authority by YellowMonkey as the material he is blocking is all referencable. Not sure how YellowMonkey gets away with this type of behaviour. Thanks!
TestKhan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2010khan ( talk • contribs) 18:37, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Plastiksport. Please note how YellowMonkey tried to throw people off track by referring to Jaed Burki and not Javed Burki, that way people cannot trace the justificaiton for why he blocekd my account.
00:57, 26 May 2010 YellowMonkey (talk | contribs) blocked Testkhan (talk | contribs) (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of indefinite (Jaed Burki sock) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2010khan ( talk • contribs)
please read and verify the section before undoing my edits. The paragraphs removed are personal opinion and therefore cannot be allowed to stay in the History section. Kindly ask the author to provide proof of these opinions. thx —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2010khan ( talk • contribs) 19:57, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Why are you doing this? {{ Urlw}} is available and working; any future changes will be backwards compatible. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 10:41, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
{{Infobox province Vietnam}}
, see below. Thanks!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
14:40, 14 June 2010 (UTC)Seems like you only want the "Yemeni" narrative to be seen. Despite the fact that we --the Barakis-- KNOW our own (passed down) narrative. Who are you representing??? Hope its not Al Qaeda and their paymasters! We will WIN this. Amin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virginiacity ( talk • contribs) 16:44, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
If you are not a member of our tribe and are bent on mischief then I will ask Wiki to delete the site since most of the info writing was provided by me with input from our tribe. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Virginiacity ( talk • contribs) 16:54, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
I have seen that you edited some volleyball articles. Some players articles, most of them looks outdated. I would like to improve players by country. Could you please choose a country to contribute with? Please take a look on Yekaterina Gamova, Hélia Souza, Serena Ortolani and Kenia Carcaces for a model to follow. Please can you please improve some volleyball players with infobox and some addons? References are very important. Let me know. Oscar987 21:40, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
... and why it is in two different places. Because I am an idiot, and didn't see it down there when I added to the template... :-( TFOWR 15:04, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
Is there a particular reason you're using the hacky {{{subst|}}} when we've got safesubst now? [1] Curious. – xeno talk 18:18, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, you just edited it.
The accompanying text includes no mention at all of where the template, with its spacing on either side, should not be used—the prime example is in year ranges such as "1990–92" ( WP:MOSDASH). This needs to be displayed prominently; I have had to get rid of this template in many articles in such instances, which are a breach of the styleguide. Are you able to add this point? Tony (talk) 06:51, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks men :) - тнєѕαℓχ - tคlк - ¢σηтяιвυтισηѕ 15:11, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello I replaced the infobox in Đắk Lắk Province. Can you add an Ethnicities parameter to the infobox settlement so you can simply add rather than having to go down the population plank route. I;ve placed them under Demonym until you can attend to it. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:26, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Much better, thanks. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:37, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
The Irish infobox is redundant. Check out Allihies and Cork (city). Now see Naas. Ill add Irish villages to my infobox tasks... Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:01, 16 June 2010 (UTC) Can you add a |population_rural = underneath |population_urban = in infobox settlement? Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:27, 16 June 2010 (UTC) Grrr.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:49, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
OK. Well I proposed the black locator a month ago and nobody pbjected and you didn't update it...Could you give it a trial, maybe make the dot a tad bigger. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:53, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
No worries. Thanks for doing those Viet provinces. Check out User:Nvvchar/sandbox. Bout time those province articles were written properly... PLenty of lush green fields to upload from Viet wiki districts too. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:50, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Looks good! Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:39, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for correcting Virginiacity; Sapere aude6; 198.76.89.7: These are all IDs of one and the same person and should be investigated for Socks Violations.
Kindly remove the following Personal Opinion under the History section as this has no reference and is purely the autors own personal opinion. Thanks!
Just like Elphinstone, Captain Leech was "hypothesizing" about the mysterious origins of the Barakis/Baraks/Urmurs/Burkis based on the narrative probably fed to him by the Barakis/Urmurs. After all, why would most of them trust this feringhee with their "origins," not being able to discern (at face value) what his true intentions might be? This was/is a region characterized by unending warfare and strife, inhabited by xenophobic/self segregating tribes. The "Yemen/Arab" narrative, it can be argued, was an attempt of a "foreign" people to successfully embed/survive, especially after Pir Roshan's (Bayazid Khan)enemies, and orthodox Pushtuns in the north, (Yusufzai, Khattak etc.) regarded him as a heretic due to his "progressive/heretical/revolutionary" ideas. It is rightfully said: "the victors write/disseminate the historical narrative." It can, therefore, be postulated that the Barakis (later "Burki" in the 20th century) were desperate to wipe out any public mention of Pir Roshan's ideas (although many of them privately espoused his views). Thus, their counter narrative to Khushal Khan Khattak's poetic attacks of "Pir Rokhan" (so much for Khattak showing gratitude towards the man -Pir Roshan—who invented Pushtu script which enabled Khattak's prolific writing in Pashto less than a century later!) by some shrewd Barakis/Urmurs (unidentified) to reinvent Bayazid Khan's lineage (and suggesting he was an embed, and not native to the tribe, even though the Baraki have been one of the most reluctant Pushtun tribes to marry outside, let alone a non-Pashtun) as being that of the Ansar! (as in an Ansari from Medina/Yathrib). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2011khan ( talk • contribs) 09:10, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
I saw Virginia Citis post and this is not someone from the Tribe. Plesse check IP address and a Tracerout will show who this person is working for
Traceroute to 198.76.89.7 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2011khan ( talk • contribs) 09:13, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi. You'd better remove the flag from that infobox. User:Rettetast goes ape s**t over flags. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:20, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey there. I see that a few weeks back you made a small but helpful edit on a page that I created: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Naparstek.
I'm trying to figure out how to do proper reference citations on this page now. I can't seem to be able to do it. Was wondering if you could advise.
--Aaron Naparstek ( talk) 14:57, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi Spork,
It looks like you are currently fixing up that reference issue. Thanks. I just encountered an editing conflict as I tried to add one more document to the reference list. I copied your code and came up with this...
But since you are editing it does not seem to want to allow me to add this item to the reference list.
Still figuring out this whole wikipedia thing.
Hi. I noticed you've been doing some islands work. Time for a redesign? Perhaps you could update the infobox and remove the nasty looking mint headers and make it look like infobox settlement? That also goes for formatting location in a proper fashion first not at the bottom back to front... Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:28, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
The plan is to use |state=XX
where XX is the USPS abbreviations for the states and territories in the US, not a |country=
value for them. LIkewise, with the |province=
and Canada.
Imzadi
1979
→
05:31, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
|country=USA
.
Imzadi
1979
→
20:42, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
|state=XX
, where XX is the USPS abbreviation for the state in question. –
T
M
F
20:54, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
Is your purge script done? We think we have the categories cleared out, and we'd like to know if other articles will pop in. Imzadi 1979 → 03:32, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey again. =) We just implemented the last stage of the infobox revamp, and with that brings the last round of transclusion errors. Could you run the purge script one last time for us? TIA. – T M F 02:11, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Did we end up deleting the US version templates? ... and Heather Mills not only danced in the US, she ICE SKATED too!!??? These all strike me as British productions. Are you going to nominate them or shall I? They probably hate me over at TfD, as I just nominated one a bit ago. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 23:37, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
This may be outside your field of interest, but just so you're aware: Template talk:Infobox road#Other road infoboxes. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:30, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
Could you explain the purpose behind [2]? Thanks. – T M F 21:11, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Care to review this? There are threads related to it on the article talk page, User talk:Viriditas, User talk:Maile66, and User talk:Wildhartlivie. Jack Merridew 18:07, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, some recent changes you made appear to have broken this template, by emitting 5 mu's at the top of articles using the template. I saw it on at least two articles, but I assume it may be on many more, or all. As a stopgap measure, I have removed the mu section from the template, which seems to have fixed the problem with no drastic side effect. I leave it to you or others to find a more permanent fix. Thanks, Crum375 ( talk) 02:10, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
See proposal. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:37, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Couldn't it simply become Country/ies? Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:20, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Also I have a request. Can you copy the infoboxes from Spanish wikipedia and add your lovely department infoboxes to Atlántida Department and the rest of the Honduran departments? Meanwhile I'll do the states of Sudan, Sudan is now Done. I've also kitted out the states with new decent maps like Cambodia see Blue Nile (state).. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:24, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
You mean Spain? Category:Municipalities of Spain? Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:19, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Well generally it must be said that Spanish municipalities probably need the most TLC on wikipedia for places. Most of them have been neglected like Arrankudiaga. At least the French communes have already had a few rounds of automated edits... German municipalities are also a nightmare in terms of actual content but at least they have infoboxes sorted... Meanwhile I'll sort out Kenyan provinces.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:37, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Me neither. If the task is too tremendous I get sidetracked. I can ask some AWBers though to insert infoboxes into articles though. At a later date then maybe a bot can be used to copy the coordinates into the infobox and display the pin. That's a start at least. South Africa had empty infoboxes added the other day. I'll ask Rich Farm, see if he can add maps in the South African infoboxes. I believe Rich Farm was the one who copied many of the infoboxes from Dutch wikipedia for the Netherlands too.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:06, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Oh, can you tweak the size of the pin to 6px like infobox settlement? 8 is too fat. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:08, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Nice one. Is there a way you can nestle the WHS infobox inside the protected area template for Ngorongoro Conservation Area? Ideally the lovely photo should go at the top. If you can do the one I can start merging the others. ALmost, the whs box though needs to by the same width as the box and neatly aligned.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:19, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
Aren't you going to nominate Template:Alias character for deletion now? Debresser ( talk) 06:46, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Seems to me that this template is inappropriate and that we would be better off using {{ Infobox character}}. I've not looked in detail, but it seems to support generic fields that could be used for the voiced-by param. Before you jump on this, visit User talk:Moonriddengirl/RfC#Concrete issues redux, which is a sort of workshop for a next RfC (or multiple RfCs) concerning the whole issue of colour, and wikiproject-authority. It's also a tad related to the Jack Lord edits I dropped you a note about the other day. This template was brought to my attention by MRG, but there are heaps more, as I expect you know. Cheers, Jack Merridew 22:01, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
{{Peanuts character}}
Hey, thanks for your work on the Mount Kazbek thing. The map looks great. – droll [chat] 05:47, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Hey buddy, found a complete bogus page, it needs a speedy deletion.thx Marty Rockatansky ( talk) 11:07, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
The url for BC Geographical Names I was using in {{ cite bcgnis}} went dead. I found the new url and updated the template. I then decided to start a project checking all the feature names used by {{ BCGNIS}}. At first I had to purge every page. I'm thinking the problem is that since substitution is used the links might remain until all the pages are rebuilt on the server. (No sure about this but it seems plausible.) I have waited a day and most of the links have begun to use the new url. There are still some that are problematic.
I am considering using AWB to replace BCGNIS with cite bcgnis while maintaining a list of all the pages on which it was used so that I can continue my project. I'd like your input on this as I'm a bit reticent after the dust-up over {{ cite cgndb}}. – droll [chat] 21:26, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
hi, this editor named "Kintetsubuffalo" keeps vandalising/reverting inaccurate information on Lisa Fonssagrives page by adding "American" categories when Fonssagrives has been widely reported as Swedish. Various editors on Fonssagrives' page has tried to revert "Kintetsubuffalo" edits by reverting the categories back to the proper Swedish categories, but he keeps changing Fonssagrives as "American" when she is not. Also, I have left a question on his talk page as to why he keeps reverting the inaccurate American categories on Fonssagrives page but he deletes my question and provides no source on where he is getting information as to how Lisa Fonssagrives is "American". Therefore, i believe that user is vandalising Fonssagrives page and provides no source of information. Could you revert Kintetsubuffalo edit on Fonssagrives page and prevent him from vandalising? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.251.135.149 ( talk) 14:51, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
The RfC we've been discussing on color and consensus is launched and located at Wikipedia talk:Consensus/RfC. I am in the process of publicizing. -- Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:39, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
In the subject why Template:Skal vi danse? has to be nominated for deletion I was going to create new articles about the seasons. Other DWTS articles have templates and Los Angeles Lakers has a colorful template. I need to revert the editing back. I chose the colorful template because of the logo of Skal vi danse?. Tell another Wikipedia User to not delete the template if you want my editing on the template back.
Best Regards, Dungcamed2010 ( talk) 06:01, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
This edit created a problem with the coordinates of
Al Ahmadi Governorate because you added a coordinates_type=
parameter with underscores where it should've used colons and vice versa. It looks like you made several similar edits, which I am in the process of correcting.
I know you're a conscientious and well-intentioned editor. Please use more care in the future. Warm regards, -- Stepheng3 ( talk) 20:33, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Use Ajdovščina as a guideline. Some of the data was overboard. It would be best following that example than having a seperate infobox....Besides some of the parameters could easily be added to infobox settlement average age, households etc you;d think would be compulsory anyway... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:40, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Remove it then. Virtually certain it is now out of date anyway... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:49, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Template:Commonscat-inline/doc was orphaned when Template:Commonscat-inline was moved. Might be a speedy delete but I'm not sure what category it would fit in. Could you handle this for me. – droll [chat] 05:26, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
i wanted to do a page on the obama girls because they are famous celebrities —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilk846 ( talk • contribs) 03:54, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey. When you get a free moment, could you run the purge script over Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox_road/length_conversion/mi and Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Infobox_road/length_conversion/km? Both templates were moved to new names, and the templates calling them have been updated to point to the new names; however, for whatever reason the job queue is taking longer than usual to update their transclusion lists. TIA. – T M F 23:33, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey,
Looks like the template's still there, though you closed the TfD as a delete. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 12:35, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
How do you become a wikipedia administrator because I want to become one please leave me a new message on my talk page. Thanks and god blessed! Dungcamed2010 ( talk) 19:59, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
No chance Dungcamed2010, don't even bother. For a start you seem to think wikipedia a missing persons bureau. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:24, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Just incase you are interested, the template replacement being done by your bot at the moment incorrectly links to some featured log not Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2010_June_18#Template:SortKey. No biggie, but just thought you'd like to know. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 22:45, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Good to have you back. Thanks for sorting the Iran province infoboxes. Tomorrow I shall make some new province locators to remove the old luminous green ones. Sound good? You'll also be interested to know the skyscraper infobox has gained significant support to merge at TFD aside from a few belated "keeps" . What are you going to do about the hotel articles on my user page though. Convert to infobox hotel? Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:23, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Good news. I've made a full series of new maps see Yazd Province etc. I also made a montage for Yazd province. The same could be done for the others eventually... Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:54, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. There is something about Persian text though that looks very scruffy. Most of the provinces need a lot of cleanup, the counties are in a dreadul state as are most of the cities in terms of sourcing.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:07, 9 July 2010 (UTC) When you have a moment can you replace the remaining PNG infoboxes? I did most of them a few weeks back. There's only a handful remaining now... Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:25, 9 July 2010 (UTC) I've done a few, only 19 left now.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:48, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Another one bites the dust! Are you going to TFD it? Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:02, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
I've emailed you today. Please respond by email. You do check your email right? Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:04, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
FYI, a heads-up note yesterday at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Buffyverse would have been nice. No biggie, but it would have forestalled the 5 seconds of panic before I figured out exactly what was going on. :-) Cheers, Jclemens ( talk) 19:48, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Nothing strange about it, it was a simple mistake. Dreadstar ☥
I'm considering placing this at AFD as in my view it is cuasing inconsistencies, particularly with river articles. I was wondering your thoughts on it. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:18, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Inconsistencies with using geobox for rivers or infobox river, using infobox settlement vs geobox (used in hundreds of Czech articles). Yes maybe we could do without using the pin maps for Netherlands if the localised maps exist. They do a pretty good job of showing where the places are I think. If you add a photograph as well then it will look too much with the load of them I think. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:56, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
See Template talk:Location map Russia-- Амба ( talk) 16:50, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I added the templates {{ Latitude}} and {{ Longitude}} at wp:tfd. Maybe they should have be included with Template:Location map2? Take a look if you can. Any tidying up would be appreciated. – droll [chat] 07:00, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
I am trying to create diagrams of size ranges of bats with some abuse of table syntax; see User:Ucucha/Diagram (template) and User:Ucucha/Diagram/Testcases (examples). It doesn't quite work yet (see the third example in particular). I previously asked Jack Merridew for help (at User talk:Jack Merridew#Table help), who introduced the empty row that is necessary to make the first two examples work, and suggested I ask you for help. Do you perhaps have better ideas? (Feel free to edit both pages.) Ucucha 10:48, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
How is possible to the honours list do not collapse? Thanks Oscar987 16:05, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
|medaltemplates-expand=yes
option to the template. --
WOSlinker (
talk)
16:22, 18 July 2010 (UTC)Hi I noticed that many of the Chilean communes suffer from micro penis. See Ancud. Some even have Nil Peni. There is an editor currently adding them at 175px which is perfect for this particular map, not the 80px that appears in a lot. I was wondering if you could the size of them all to 175px and leave a hidden note inside the table next to it saying Please not make map smaller or larger? Both commune maps and pin maps can be set at 175px. Dr. Blofeld - 15:36, 18 July 2010 (UTC) 17:52, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Just wanted to alert you about SurvivorBrian3 ( talk · contribs). Already taken care of. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 08:34, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Hei. I was prompted by User:Dr._Blofeld to also notify you about the requested changes to {{ Infobox settlement}}. I have added a request for disestablishment data at the template's talk page. We have also discussed it on mine. Looking for your input ;) Regards, — Algkalv ( talk) 18:16, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks I appreciate the revert, although I'm a bit surprised that anyone is watching this other than me. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 16:37, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
I have noticed that Template:Dateheader creates automatic anchors on pages that look like [[#Year Month Day]]. This is consistent with Template:Current events header. The problem is that all of the pages that use this template, such as September 2006 in Oceania, have a nice little calendar you can click on to link to these particular sections, which comes from a template such as Template:September 2006 events. These little calendar templates all seem to have their anchor links written as [[#Day Month Year]], so none of the dates link to the appropriate section when you click on them.
I'm not quite sure what the best approach to take to fix this. It would be easy to adjust the Dateheader template so it expects a different order, but this might break any other links that don't come from these little calendars (I don't know how many of these there are, probably very few, I'll try and answer that question tomorrow), and it would be nice to keep Dateheader in alignment with Template:Current events header. The other option is to fix all of those little calendars, which seems like the better solution to me. I think AWB could help, or if something more complex is needed I could perhaps use User:BrokenAnchorBot (this would require a BRFA, but it's closely related to what BrokenAnchorBot does already). There aren't that many, so just fixing them by hand might be the best solution.
Do you have any thoughts on the best way to proceed? I'm no template guru, and I've been looking closely at scores of them tonight...my brain is rather fried right now. Thanks. Winston365 ( talk) 07:02, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
His forkster. I've psent most of the morning creating and uploading 78 new municipal locator maps of Puerto Rico. I'm exhausted now! I was wondering if you would kindly add them to the infoboxes and clean them. I've noticed the paramters are a mess for Puerto Rican municipalities, back to front, backwards, inconsistent parameter dividers etc, besides having the old horrid blank locators like File:Map of Puerto Rico highlighting Moca.svg. Can you clean them and add the new maps, I think they'll look best at 300px given the relative small size of the island to the overall map so you may need to make the photographs 300px to aline. You'll find all of the map are in plain english names without Spanish lettering. Dr. Blofeld White cat 12:39, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Yeah they are typos, I was reading from a small map. I'll ask Julian Colton if he could do it. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:24, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
He's absent right now, i've asked Calliopejen to do it. If she is busy I'll do it tomorrow. The commons have such fuddy duddy ways of runnings things. You can't even db-author an image after uploading it there. When you do so you end up being drilled "unlicensed" image warnings. Many thanks for sorting those infoboxes, they look much betteer now, a few thousand sources in total for the set wouldn't go amiss. Most of them should probably be swiped and started from scratch... Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:54, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
AAArggggh I've encountered a big problem with Category:Populated places in Côte d'Ivoire. They were all sub stubbed even without proper department/region details and see Category:Côte d'Ivoire subdivision templates. The templates are far from complete most are empty like Template:Communes of the Marahoué Region as I found it too difficult to do it manually. So I have a number of requests for sorting this out in the next few weeks whenever you have a mo. First of all a bot needs to copy the coordinates from the top and insert them into the infoboxes to feature the maps. Second or first, whatever you find easiest, I need you to draw me up using "what links here" maybe for each department from French wikipedia or using some sort of reader to organize this list of communes by the region and department given in the article to give me an organized list of communes by department. Once that is done I can add them to the nav boxes like Template:Communes of the Agnéby Region and get an AWBer to split the category by region/department and sort them. Once that is done I'll see a bot to display the relative region/department in the infobox. You follow? If possible we can split the workload between you, me and Ser Amantio if he could help out with applying the navboxes/categories at a later date. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:54, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I need those communes broken down into a list by department of Cote d'Ivoire, organized by region. In every article on French wiki they either have the name of department and region in the infobox or in the beginning of the text. I just need you to be able to read of the text and create a parser list. Then I can begin organizing the nav boxes and at a later date can be sorted by automation. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:50, 21 July 2010 (UTC) You'll find that most of the article on fr: don't have infoboxes but are all consistently formatted like http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blapleu. I think you could probably read the department and region off of that by article. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:54, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
The Hats Off Barnstar | ||
I hereby Present this award to Plastikspork for his Infobox contributions to Puerto Rico Municipalities. These series of contrubutions are an imense help to Wikiproject Puerto Rico Articles. My Hats off to you Plastikspork Quazgaa ( talk) 20:25, 19 July 2010 (UTC) Awarded to dedicated users who have provided an immense contribution or a Series of Contributions that go above and beyond from what is normally expected to improve upon articles regarding Puerto Rican related topics and have helped provide a positive image of Puerto Ricans and their Culture. |
Since I am not up on Template editing could you look at making a change for University of Birmingham Guild of Students - it looks like they have more than one VP so can you add a option to Template:Infobox Students Union for either a single vice president or multiple vice presidents ? Codf1977 ( talk) 07:39, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello Plastikspork. Some IP vandalism has recently occurred on the Real World/Road Rules Challenge page. Certain headers/sections keep getting removed, then restored, then removed again, and anonymous users keep inserting random & nonsense subtitles (in the Seasons table) for the upcoming 20th season of The Challenge (i.e. "Battle of the Sexes III", "The Gauntlet IV", "The Battlefield" and "Cut Throat"). We don't know for sure yet what the format of the next challenge will be, so I thought that it's better to just keep it (Season 20) as "TBD", and surrounded by hidden text commands, though it's likely that some idiot will mess that up. In order to curb the vandalism and nonsense edits, I think it would be good idea to semi-protect this page for the next three months. DPH1110 ( talk)
Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 132#Template:Location map. Thank.-- Амба ( talk) 21:34, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
I stop my edits for some time. I do not understand You reverts.-- Амба ( talk) 16:38, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Can You explain deletion policy and how it decided delete/keep?-- Амба ( talk) 13:34, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Following Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2010_June_22#Template:Source_list, I see you deleted the sub-templates and replaced the links the articles. However, all those were edits reverted thusly per this rationale. Not being fixed, they remain as such today, I having changed this one but I thought I'd ask you if you've resolved the issue. I asked xem as well but you might know what the issue is. -- Ricky81682 ( talk) 08:01, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
HI. An editor has created maps for each welsh county see the discussion on the talk page. Can you update this infobox so whatever village/town in wales display the county locator rather than the welsh one? E.g Template:Location map Wales Gwynedd, Caernarfon etc. You may wish to move all the welsh ones to Location map United Kingdom ... if this is easier for the template. Dr. Blofeld - 15:36, 18 July 2010 (UTC) 16:18, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi Plastik,
Wikipedia:Malaysian roads and expressways infobox template ( | [[Talk:Wikipedia:Malaysian roads and expressways infobox template|talk]] | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
I don't think there's anything wrong with Wikipedia:Malaysian roads and expressways infobox template as such; in some contexts these templates can be useful, e.g. on route diagrams. I'm not saying the implementation as it currently stands is perhaps the best it could be, but I've no objection to there being a bit of colour in an infobox. But in general for accessibility reasons of course, colour/graphics should not be the only way of putting in informaton – this template seems to be OK there though.
But definitely it is named wrongly: it really needs to be in the template namespace, not Wikipiedia namespace, and probably split into two (the doc for the infobox template itself, and that for the list of templates). As discussed for {{
E-toll}}
, a template listing templates is in any case probably redundant, that's what categories are for. In my view there is a weaker standard for finding templates than for articles generally, because I think we can assume a better familiarity about Wikipedia namespaces etc. by editors than general readers. (That being said, it is often quite a sod to try to guess the template.)
However, if it's just used in the Infobox template, yes, the "subtemplates" which are not subtemplates should probably be moved, such as {{
McDonalds}}
. I expect with that particular case the intent was to add the golden arches logo; it may be that this can't me done for copyright reasons. (Depends on fair use etc I suppose; McDonald's don't usually seem to mind having their logo splashed everywhere, but Wikipedians probably do.)
I think the consensus on the talk about {{
E-toll}}
was that it was unnecessary because we shouldn't have graphics in running text, and that {{
E-toll}}
contraverted usability guidelines.
Your argument about it being easier just to type the link out, and you are not the only one to make this, I have some misgivings with it as a general argument. I have made a few template such as {{
Hungarian Revolution of 1848 participant}}
, for example, which I imagine some people would think excessively long-winded (to write {{Hungarian Revolution of 1848 participant|Austria}}
for example, instead of just a little image and
Austrian Empire). Others have argued that indirecting templates like this serve no useful purpose above redirects (which is not quite true if they include images.) However, the reason for its existence is that in going through the infoboxes of all the battles in the
Hungarian Revolution of 1848 I saw that there was a great deal of inconsistency, and so by indirecting to a template they could be assured of consistency; it also means that if, by consensus, we were to change the display "Austrian Empire" to "Habsburg Empire" for example, it need only be changed in one place: a redirect does not accomplish that because it doesn't change the actual displayed text in the article. However, I do know that other editors feel that this level of indirection obscures things rather, and that templates should not be substitutes for redirects. (At one time there were eighteen redirects with minor variants to
Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, and other similar inconsistencies, so I maintain I did right by bundling them all together in one template; even if they are later SUBSTed, it's a stepping-stone to assuring consistency).
A long reply to your short note! Thanks for all your hard work. Si Trew ( talk) 06:17, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
You have an email. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:05, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
HI. An editor has created maps for each welsh county see the discussion on the talk page. Can you update this infobox so whatever village/town in wales display the county locator rather than the welsh one? E.g Template:Location map Wales Gwynedd, Caernarfon etc. You may wish to move all the welsh ones to Location map United Kingdom ... if this is easier for the template. Dr. Blofeld - 15:36, 18 July 2010 (UTC) 16:18, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
{{ Location map~}} was edited on 20 July 2010. The edit added some functionality that I can't find any documentation for and introduced the use of the templates {{ Latitude}} and {{ Longitude}} after those templates were marked as being being considered for deletion. The editor has no edits before 20 July 2010, day the edit was made. All the contributions of this user are to template space and all concern {{ Location map}} and its various incarnations. I cannot help but suspect sock puppetry. I realize this is a strong accusation but I think it is the only concussion reasonable. The two templates in question are now transcluded by more pages than Location map~ transcludes. I'll try to figure that out before I turn in for the night.
I'm starting this process here because I know that you have considerable experience with templates and because you are an admin. If I should introduce this discussion in a different forum please leave a note here or on my talk page. – droll [chat] 05:42, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
In your enthusiasm you've voted twice! regards SilkTork * YES! 17:22, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello mate, why did you delete the Wrong Hole paragraph in Scott Baio's article? while it's a minor play in his career, it's his latest appearance (and gained much attention thanks to the viral spread of the video), I guess it's worth mentioning it! let know :) -- WikiKiwi (askme) 09:59, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi Plastik,
Could you drop in at the WP:TFD#Template:Infobox_settlement/ukr and add your view? Since an edit you made on 18 July may have affected one other user's comment, even though it predates it by a week or so, I have a feeling he hadn't seen your change. I hope this is not regarded as canvassing, just letting you know it's there (I've reffed the edit there but not mentioned you as the maker of the edit). Si Trew ( talk) 15:18, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
{{infobox settlement}}
as a backend. Creating such subtemplates is not necessarily a bad thing, since it could assist with uniformity and standardization while reducing duplication. I'm still not convinced it's necessary. I suppose I could comment at the TFD in question since I can't really close it now that I have voiced an opinion or lack there of.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
15:24, 26 July 2010 (UTC)Hi, if you look at this thread on my talk page, you'll see Dr. Blofeld is asking that I help out with transferring infobox data from Spanish articles, and suggesting that I ask you regarding what's already been done (and presumably what's still to be done). So - can you fill me in? Thanks, -- Kotniski ( talk) 18:36, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, I just noticed that this template has been deleted without even notifying me as creator that it was up for discussion. This was not an exact duplication of Template:WPOCopyright despite their visual similarity. This would have been evident if anyone had bothered top check all the links. Note also that it was not unused. It was transcluded here. They contained different links for Online research in the Guides section. Template:WPC copyright guide linked to a different Guide which was written for the needs of Wikipedia:WikiProject Composers. What's done is done, and I've got round the problem by linking the two different Guides in Template:WPOCopyright, although cumbersome. But I would greatly appreciate it if you would please not delete or propose for deletion Template:WPC online research. This one likewise is especially adapted for WikiProject Composers despite its visual simlarity to Template:WPO online research. Thanks, Voceditenore ( talk) 14:43, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
This might just affect the next elevator you step into. Watching out for hidden piranha tanks Meester.
What's the plan for Infobox Skyscraper? Would it be best to tackle the hotels first maybe? Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:42, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Yeha its a daunting task I agree. Mmm, First of all perhaps you could copy the desired grey headers from infobox skyscraper into the building infobox. Would it be possible to have a different colour design for hotels. I mean I support merging the infobox hotel but I am particularly fond of the gold on maroon which looks very hotelish if you know what I mean. Also doesn't infobox building not have a standard pushpin map thing doesn't it read map-type or something. That would all need to be changed if this is the case so every infobox building as pushpin_map= rather than map_type. It will require some thought and discussion I think and then some consisderable edits to make the transition as you are undoubtedly acutely aware of, but the infobox building can at least be updated with the grey parameters from infobox skyscraper in the meantime. I believe infobox religous place has a different colour shceme for each building type. Perhapos we could introduce a similar system to prevent it from becoming bland for each building type, like yellow for lighthouses. Whatever you type into the infobox for building type it will display the colour code. What do you think? Template:Infobox lighthouse should probably also be merged. It doeshowever have a lot of parameters which would need to be added to infobox building but simple enough. In terms of long term maintenance I think it would be better to redirect both hotel and lighthouse infoboxes into infobox building but code it so the color system for hotels remains. What do you think? Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:48, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
{{infobox lighthouse}}
, but I could be wrong. I don't plan to touch hotel at the moment, but I agree it would seem sensible to merge that one in due course.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
20:58, 27 July 2010 (UTC)Also see my new comment on Kotniski's page. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:56, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Well I'm not too bothered either way, I just thought of it when discussing the color coding thing. I quite liked the yellow infoboxes I saw on Italian wiki. Another thing see Trelew. A lot of the Argentine town articles have these infoboxes. I'm not sure how they work, I gather they work in the same way as geo boxes in that each article will have to be attended to individually? Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:07, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Placebox-...}}
before. This would be very easy to replace in a nearly completely automated way. I would just need to compile a list of all the components.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
22:14, 27 July 2010 (UTC)Never understood those. i believe King of the Northeast replaced most of the Buenos Aires ones with standard but he didn't get around to most of the other provinces, especially western and rural Argentina. Wonder if it would be possible to read how many articles that placebox is being used in and how quickly it could be replaced.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:17, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Any reason why you've stopped using flag| ? There are a few who disapprove of them like Rettatast and pretend there are guidelines WP:FLAG (when in reality they are used in thousands of articles all over wikipedia, in sport, geogrpahy whatever) but I actually think the infoboxes look barer without them, they seem to look more wholesome and complete with flags than without I think. The argument against them is that they are decoration I guess. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:45, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Emailed. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:17, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, trying to update Caprice's page as some of the information is inaccurate. Also the current picture is very dated. The headshot used is my own- I own the rights to it —Preceding unsigned comment added by Laura154154 ( talk • contribs) 13:55, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Damn those red boots are hot. Please don't change the pic. Women on cars make the bald one turned on. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:14, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
I replied on my talk page.
On another front would you comment on {{ If all}}. It does a lot of nesting but I can't think of a better way. – droll [chat] 23:21, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello,
sorry for taking so long to reply, I haven't been around for a while. I no longer intend to use this, so it can indeed be deleted. Thanks. -- 70.55.118.250 ( talk) 04:25, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for going the extra mile in response to my question at Template talk:Nutritional value and doing some example edits at Okra. Cheers, Banyan Tree 05:53, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
I removed the substitution from {{ BCGNIS}} (that you added). It seemed to me that there was no way to track which articles transcluded the template since, when a page was rebuilt, BCGNIS was no longer transcluded and the the page was dropped from the category. I also did a serious job on the documentation.
I feel strongly that substituting PAGENAME is a bad idea. At one time I went through hundreds of articles that used this option and found more than a few problems. I will patrol what transcludes the template in the article space and do the substitution using AWB. – droll [chat] 07:11, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
As Admin, kindly check recent updates to Javed Burki, else YellowMonkey will once again embark on Admin Abuse. thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2011khan ( talk • contribs) 17:10, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Auto-ed is great, and I've never seen it make a change that wasn't an improvement. Why doesn't it run as a site-wide bot, cleaning up every article, say, weekly? If that is too broad, it could just run through the Wikicheck errors that indicate Auto-Ed. It seems like an obvious solution to a lot of little problems, I'm not sure why it hasn't happened already. Thanks. Ocaasi ( talk) 22:17, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey, how's it going? I'm curious if this edit might have something to do with why {{ Infobox civilian attack}} is broken on e.g. here? (Someone instituted a workaround in the latest version. I'd appreciate it if you could take a look and apologies for bugging you if they're not related. Peace, delldot ∇. 22:22, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for tuning up the maps in my sand box, cheers. -- KenWalker | Talk 17:10, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, in recent times, I've noticed re-additions of seemingly useless and counter-productive data in record tables. I'm not sure if all of them can be attributed to you, but I found a recent example in this edit. Obviously, the ref filling helps a lot, but the data below in the record table seems to me to be completely useless as the record table works without it, is easier to understand and without the added data, loads quicker due to the article being smaller in terms of kbs.
Could you perhaps explain to me why these changes are being made, so I can understand a little better? Thanks. Paralympiakos ( talk) 16:44, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
I am Caprice Bourret's assitant and am acting on behalf of her in regards to correcting said information on her Wikipedia page. I have either edited information that is incorrect, such as stating that her birthplace is Whittier, California, or updated her information, such as with regards to the timeline for her lingerie line. All of this information can be correctly and legitimately sourced and referenced. If this correct editing continues to be rejected then Caprice will be involving her lawyers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bycapricelingerie ( talk • contribs) 16:07, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Do you know of any project or other organized effort to improve wiki markup on wikipedia. I seems to me that lack of consistency in template parameter names, even within the same template, is bothering. Why is tag notation used when template notation might be more understandable to new editors. Why is {{ ifempty}} allowed to stand when {{ if empty}} is more comprehensible. I keep running across stuff like this. Any thought's. Do you think it would be taken seriously if I started a project named Wikipedia:WikiProject Markup improvement (i.e. would you be interested in such a project if you had the time). – droll [chat] 02:50, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Plastikspork, I tried to add links to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pewitt_Consolidated_Independent_School_District page that you did so much work on, but I messed it all up. Can you put it back to the edit before mine. Then I promise I will leave it alone. I have edited before, but something went way wrong this time. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.184.106.241 ( talk) 17:38, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
(since I'm horrible at creating templates) Could you update Template:Infobox university chancellor to include 2 university3, and university4, along with the predecessor and successor, and tern_start and term_end fields? Thanks. Connormah talk 16:16, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
If you didn't notice I brought up substantial evidence against deletion, yet you continued anyway (on what grounds? did you read the discussion?). In any case, please proceed with all of the FIFA counterparts I listed or this is nothing but selective deletion. Slaja ( talk) 06:01, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
{{UEFA Euro winners}}
{{OFC Nations Cup winners}}
{{Copa América winners}}
{{Africa Cup of Nations winners}}
{{AFC Asian Cup winners}}
{{FIFA U-20 World Cup winners}}
{{FIFA U-17 World Cup winners}}
{{FIFA Women's World Cup winners}}
{{FIFA Confederations Cup winners}}
{{FIFA competition winners template}}
{{FIFA World Cup winners}}
Slaja (
talk)
22:51, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Template:TIMESTAMP has been nominated for merging with Template:Currentdate. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Set Sail For The Seven Seas 270° 5' 0" NET 18:00, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
HI. An editor has created maps for each welsh county see the discussion on the talk page. Can you update this infobox so whatever village/town in wales display the county locator rather than the welsh one? E.g Template:Location map Wales Gwynedd, Caernarfon etc. You may wish to move all the welsh ones to Location map United Kingdom ... if this is easier for the template. Dr. Blofeld 21:09, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Now if they used infobox settlement.... Dr. Blofeld 11:12, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Please note this issue with biographical infoboxes. No action required, I know you're busy ;-) Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 11:59, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I have a question and am not even sure where best to ask. I thought I'd just ask you since you seem actively interested in the basic topics (coord templates, etc). At least perhaps you could point me to a better place or person to ask. It occurred to me that it would be very useful for WikiProjects such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Rivers to be able to automatically map articles (those with coordinates anyway) by various things like assessment class, "importance", and other parameters. The {{ River}} template, for example, can contain things like mapneeded=yes, needs-infobox=no, etc. Do you know if it is possible to make maps showing pages by parameter/WikiProject like this? It would be a useful tool for other projects too. If nothing else it would be interesting to see the results--just how US-centric is WIkipedia, etc. I was going to ask at the Help Desk, but figured it might be more productive to ask someone specific who might know or know who to ask, and I thought of you. Thanks! Pfly ( talk) 22:26, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
Any idea why the coordinates are not working for Museum of Apollonia. If you click the external link you'll see the coordinates yet they don't work... Dr. Blofeld 14:50, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Plastik one. Not quite can you convert 40 43 13.2 N 19 28 18.2 E into decimal that should be more precise. Dr. Blofeld 15:42, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
DId you look on google maps and find that your coordinates were located ina field slightly south of the actual museum. I gave you the precise coordinates, don't worry I'll tweak it. Dr. Blofeld
No probs it was just about 100 metres south of the building that's all. The coordinates on the website were not precise enough... Dr. Blofeld 11:52, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. In regards to the Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion#Cup_winners, could you please add "Template:East Asian Football Championship winners" and "Template:ASEAN Football Championship Winners" to the list as well for the sake of comprehensiveness. There are probably alot of similar templates out there as well. I'm not sure how to do it myself and am also undecided on the issue. Cheers. Transaction Go ( talk) 15:21, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! A few more to be added though.
Cheers. Transaction Go ( talk) 17:24, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi
I know you have already done quite a bit of work on this matter and that a simple "Can you just fix XXX" is not normally that simple lol.
WE have this though - the simple template used with just pushpin coords is giving the result "Location of XXX in the Ukraine" when it should be "Location of XXX in Ukraine".
I have been bold and changed the pushpin_map_caption in the template - can you just give it a check though to ensure I was correct :¬)
Chaosdruid ( talk) 15:49, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. If I run Auto Ed across Flash Gordon (serial), oldid it breaks the formatting. In the Synopsis section, there are secondary lines indented with: #: and they get a spaced added, which makes the ':' into part of the prose. I've seen other sorts of formatting that it's not handling properly, too, such as the same with '*'. The mix of these can actually get quite complex. Any chance this is an easy enough fix, at least the common forms? Cheers, Jack Merridew 21:16, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I'd be interested in comments concerning how a template arg might be parsed into two chunks; typically some data and then a ref are being passed as a piece and it's resulting in poor rendering due to a unit being glued onto the end.
Cheers, Jack Merridew 03:22, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for cleaning up those Template:Interwikitmp-grp parameters. I didn't realize that it wouldn't automatically detect the template's name. Axem Titanium ( talk) 19:23, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm involved in a discussion about citation formatting at User talk:Innotata. It might eventually lead to a request for a template to be deleted. I authored the template {{ Cite database}} to deal with the issues discussed. I won't repeat the arguments here. I wrote the template to provoke this discussion but I have not been able to convince the first user who questioned its use. I hope you have the time to read the discussion and share you opinion. I've written a number of citation templates and have become dissatisfied with the output generated by {{ cite web}} in certain cases. – droll [chat] 19:19, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
Thank you so much for reverting user:CBM undo's of my edits.
I feel they are good edits, and improvements over the articles. He wants to keep otheruses4, for whatever reason, which I haven't touched, so I left it as is.
Thanks again for helping me, and helping everyone else improve articles. I do hope to contribute constructively and I hope you can revert his bad faith undos if he continues.
Thank you 199.126.224.156 ( talk) 22:52, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your help in tidying up this template. I will need to understand "subst" and "safesubst" better. However I have now learnt how to set up these templates to make use of existing English Wikipedia templates, which is a big step forward. Thank you. I hope your moves goes well. Regards. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 06:19, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Hey, your help would be appreciated here. I, for one would like the places to display like Infobox person (below the dates), and for a "Coat of Arms" field to be added. Thanks, Connormah talk 00:12, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
The code of the old UK power station infobox is here. Beagel ( talk) 19:11, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Aside from a few minor parameter naming differences, and one other issue, {{
Infobox actor}} is a subset of {{
Infobox person}}, with no extra parameters of its own and is thus redundant. Would you like to make the latter call the former; redirect and add the different spellings to {{Infobox person}}
; or shall I raise the matter at TfD?
The one oddity is the way the actor iBox handles URLs. I presume there's a way round this? Perhaps a bot-job to clean up the various parameter names in use, and facilitate use of {{ Url}} would be best? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:38, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference.
03:48, 7 August 2009 Plastikspork (talk | contribs) deleted "Boston Harbor Hotel" (G12: Unambiguous copyright infringement of http://www.bhh.com/about.htm)
Please explain? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.105.154.20 ( talk) 20:23, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for removing that edit conflict at WP:TFD. I,m not sure why I didn't notice myself, I guess I just checked the edit had been accepted and looked OK without checking what was above it. Yeah, with the section number editing, I've seen the same problem at T:TDYK – it's probably more common there as that page gets edited more. I can understand why WP goes on section numbers (in case there are duplicate section titles) so I suppose we have to live with it.
I am sure my comments were most interesting anyway. Si Trew ( talk) 05:22, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Why did you pull the template from the holding cell? I am in the process of orphaning it. All usages of the template on other templates have been pulled 3 days ago, and I am waiting on the job queue to update the list of articles. — Train2104 ( talk · contribs · count · email) 19:38, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Might you have some time to help with {{ US-president-row}}? If so, I can explain what's needed. If not, no worries! Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:03, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
I would appreciate you NOT reversing my edits. There is no clear and/or concise reason for you to delete outside links to the pages in which you are revising. If this continues to be an issue I will have no other choice but to report you and you may be removed from future editing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Losangeles22 ( talk • contribs) 00:48, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
I absolutely agree that unsourced BLP violations are without a doubt something we should avoid like the plague. I did put a comment in the acceptance that I had double checked the figures on the Wilhelmina New York portfolio [5] and [6]. As such, I didn't see it as a violation, just not having an appropriate source, which I have been looking for. If you'd still say that that was a violation, then I apologise, and will be more strict in future. -- WORM MЯOW 06:37, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
<ref>...</ref>
, then I am more than happy to have it in the article. Thanks for the feedback.
Plastikspork
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16:02, 24 August 2010 (UTC)Thanks for your support in my RfA, which was closed as successful. I hope to be a net positive! Cheers, Nikkimaria ( talk) 15:09, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
Could you please remove pending changes from Julie Stoffer? It appears this was in response to one bit of vandalism and such protection doesn't appear to be within the scope of the pending changes trial as it currently exists. Hobit ( talk) 11:52, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for helping me with the Template:Infobox television episode/sandbox code. I'm completely lost when it comes to these things. All seems to be working now. Thank you very much.– FunkyVoltron talk 14:46, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
|Image size=
foo does nothing in the live template. It is a dummy parameter that does nothing. The size of the image is currrently specified at the level of the transclusion. Thanks for the additional season list example. I will work on it as well.
Plastikspork
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16:10, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
I've been experimenting, trying to get it to hide the season list. Is there a way to make one header collapsed but not the others?– FunkyVoltron talk 20:01, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
We now have a full set of locator maps of Wales and Scotland. See the bottom of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scotland. Given that you said parsing the UK place infobox would be difficult I've made a suggestion for both Scotland and Wales to have a seperate infobox to make programming it easier. Other than that I propose a converison to infobox settlement for Scotland and Wales. Dr. Blofeld 13:16, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Looks incredibly complex. I thought you said is was complicated stuff Mr. Plastikspork? The programming looks relatively straightforward compared to others I've seen. Beyond my templating skills though!! Dr. Blofeld
Aw lighten up. I wasn't certain if you were genuinely bafflied by it or were genuinely too busy to attend to it thats all. I didn't think there was any coding that ever tested you!! I was surprised how quickly WOS did it that's all but I believe he had something to do woth the UK template anyway so is very familiar with how it works. Dr. Blofeld 18:27, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
Well, I think it is his programming anyway so has a bit of an advantage... Sorry if it seemed like I was "rubbing your face in it" so to speak. Nobody has been a greater help with templates ( or impressed me as much as you with them) than you on wikipedia.. Moving house eh? Must be extremely stressful!! Dr. Blofeld 12:54, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Good to see that you've been active. I had to clean up one article because of your modification to the park parameter as the page name was no longer available if the park name was not specified. I fixed it so that the park parameter is now required. I checked all articles that transclude the template. I also edited the documentation. I agree that the default values are generally adequate but I think there is too much the top and bottom padding of rows. I might reintroduce that change. – droll [chat] 20:18, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
When using SporkBot to remove or edit templates in accordance with TfD discussions, can you please tweak the edit summary so it links to the actual TfD discussion instead just generically linking to WP:TfD? Thanks! ElKevbo ( talk) 15:49, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
I'm in the process of making this new page, give me a little time. It is the first new page I've made, I have only edited before. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlespotenza ( talk • contribs) 22:58, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
Would you be able to help me a little with it? I'm trying to upload the cover of the single to be the picture, but I'm a little confused as to how to upload it since there are so many restrictions. I don't think there is a copyright issue because the cover picture is on a lot of websites. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlespotenza ( talk • contribs) 23:06, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
How do you upload the pictures though? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Charlespotenza ( talk • contribs) 20:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Since you've history merged Template:Ann manga into Template:Ann, shouldn't the same be done to Template:Ann anime, Template:Ann company, and Template:Ann name for the exact same reasons? — Farix ( t | c) 22:05, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Looking for some clarification, but is there any reason in particular to not use a template in another template, such as here? Not that I expect the software to change from using noindex, but if it does at some point in the future, wouldn't it be helpful if it references a template instead of being hardcoded? I'm sure you have a reason for what you are doing, I'm just wondering what it is. Thanks, -- Terrillja talk 04:33, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey. I've opened the discussion of the handling of the season list here.– FunkyVoltron talk 17:40, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! I admit I was a bit confused and had to basically just try something until it worked. Thanks for streamlining that. .: Alex :. 05:40, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Plastikspork,
I would like to ask you to deliver Yopie this warning message as an uninvolved administrator:
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The Arbitration Committee has permitted administrators to impose, at their own discretion, sanctions on any editor working on pages broadly related to Eastern Europe if the editor repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process. If you engage in further inappropriate behavior in this area, you may be placed under sanctions including blocks, a revert limitation or an article ban. The committee's full decision can be read at Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Digwuren#Final decision. |
The user has been caused me a lot of chagrin by wikihounding and trolling, for which I promised him to be reported at ArbCom and that I am ready to redeem. Of course I am able to prove my assertions by diffs if needed. However, the process requisites a prior warning by an uninvolved administrator and that is why I need your succour. Regards,-- Nmate ( talk) 14:22, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Look, there is a user whose English is very very "puny". While I readily admit that my English is yet far from perfect, it is juttingly obvious that Yopie is unable to fill even a sketch type of vandalism or 3RR report in correct English. I am not telling that his English is absolutely undecipherable but he is unable to make substantial edits to the English Wikipedia. So that it is safe to say that here on English Wikipedia, the only thing that he can be adept at is nothing more than POV-reverting. But that should not be a problem yet in itself, however, he also has a strong penchant for wikihounding and making personal attacks aimed at Hungarian users. And because I am also Hungarian, it is a problem for me, unfortunately. I am often obliged to deplete my supply of 3RR when editing Wikipedia at articles in which he has never ever been interested beforehand because of his perennial wikihounding. And when I am trying to exhort him to stop wikihoundig, the user keeps denying that his acts were wikihounding. By the way, his opinion about Hungarians is outcryingly obnixious and the way in which he conducts towards Hungarians is ghastly spiteful and it glaringly displays both when interacting with Hungarian users and when trying to edit Hungarian related articles or their talk pages with his tarnish English. The user often sends me "vandalism warnings" on my talk page and his presumptuousness is culminated in sending me a warning about non English communication on my talk page.A user whose English is jumbled grammatically, warned me about non English communication. Also, the user twice denounced me on Wikiquette alert because I called his deportment sickly and that I told him that "rv wikistalking. It looks that Yopie needs to be humiliated by a community ban from editing wikipedia for indefinite time" in an edit summary while I was beseted with wikihounding and false vandalism messages by him.Interesting to note that he made a personal attack on me even in his Wikiquette alert-report. The user has more than a year of history of wikihounding by now. Right now I have no time to dredge up the diffs from his editing history, but if you so wish, I will do it tomorrow afternoon.-- Nmate ( talk) 19:23, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your time, Plastikspork-- Nmate ( talk) 17:12, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I've moved the hotel list to User:Plastikspork/Skyscrapers. Any idea when you will convert them? When you are resettled perhaps? Dr. Blofeld 21:43, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
Can you shade in the header background from white to the very light grey used for the col headers for Wikipedia:Main Page alternative (encyclopedia). Can you also change the text font to something posher, the sort of elegant writing you'd see in an old encyclopedia providing it is legible.. I decided to create something a little different as an option with a knowledge theme.. Dr. Blofeld 12:03, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
i'd apreciate if you could not insult my subjects as everything i wrote about them is true... example is Andre Birleanu.... all it is written is written on a neutral point of view... i am not here to argue for endless hours, just asking for a human being to another to read material before you disect everything with your idee of what truth is...i added over 50 links so there is no problems... please take your time and read them... this guy, this Andre Birleanu is a supermodel... thats who he is, that's his job !!!so why is deleted and repleced by model... there is a diference you know... it's not just a word to these people, it's their career, please respect it... and again, read the links for better understanding of the subject... if you dont understand the subject or the nature of this industry then my friend, please do not ruin my work by deleting vital things just to cut the form you like... i dont see you cutting Brad Pitt's article to pieces.. tell me why is that... if someone is the best then he is the best... why do i have tosay he is just ok... ? when article in 23 languages say so ?
again.. please , i dont want to fight .. ijust want to read a true article that we all contributed too with links from all over the world.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andre Birleanu ( talk • contribs) 19:17, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Just wondering, but do you live in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania? -- UnknownFork ( talk) 22:05, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#G11 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.78.139.60 ( talk) 16:14, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Hey, thanks (I knew the bug would be something stupid like that)! I'm a bit surprised that {{ convert}} is having problems with the conversion this basic (which is why I never bothered to fix this template), but I'm glad you caught it and made it usable once again. Cheers,— Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • ( yo?); September 13, 2010; 13:13 (UTC)
{{convert}}
has the occasional hiccup.
Plastikspork
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19:59, 18 September 2010 (UTC)This is merely a courtesy note to inform you that I have written a script, whose objective is to render article dates compliant with WP:MOSNUM. I have integrated code directly copied from you. -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 05:36, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I've noticed a lot of the rayons either have crappy infoboxes like this or none at all. Can you add decent infobox settlements to them? Dr. Blofeld 21:34, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
First priority of course though is to ensure you have adequate cutlery... Don't want you running out of utensils now.[ Oh I noticed Dogana and San Marino has dodgy infoboxes too, luckily there aren't too many articles for it though.. Dr. Blofeld 11:25, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I'm just wondering what the purpose of Category:Biography using undocumented parameters is and whether or not it is still required. Regards. PC78 ( talk) 11:14, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
Hello Plastikspork. On The Challenge: Cutthroat page, I was unfortunate to notice that SOMEBODY recently dropped a spoiler in the article, as well as in the Revision History section (it was reverted shortly after). I WILL NOT say here what that spoiler is, and I thought I'd forewarn you that if you DO NOT want to know what that spoiler is, then you may want to shield your eyes (from the right half side of your computer screen) from the Revision history of The Challenge: Cutthroat section for the date of September 18, 2010. Because of this, I recommend semi-protecting the Cutthroat page for a period of three months (which, assuming the season has 10 episodes and a reunion special, will cover the duration of the season) before someone else decides to spoil things again for everyone. I know that it will happen, just like the previous Challenge season (Fresh Meat II). Thank you. DPH1110 ( talk) 05:15, 19 September 2010 (UTC)DPH1110
Hi. As you recently commented in the straw poll regarding the ongoing usage and trial of Pending changes, this is to notify you that there is an interim straw poll with regard to keeping the tool switched on or switching it off while improvements are worked on and due for release on November 9, 2010. This new poll is only in regard to this issue and sets no precedent for any future usage. Your input on this issue is greatly appreciated. Off2riorob ( talk) 23:44, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
When you are done doing
Do not delete, can you run the bot through all of the entries on
this list? There are 4000 entries on the list, but only 407 have more than 10 transclusions, 26 over 100. The first one (
WPBannerMeta/collapsed) is similar to {{Do not delete}}
in that there are very few true uses (i.e. null edits will be needed). Also,
Pending deletion has no true transclusions at all and can be skipped.
Note: Many of these are userboxes and other things that are not mainly used in the articlespace.
Thanks! — Train2104 ( talk • contribs • count) 18:55, 12 September 2010 (UTC)