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There are actually 2 separate articles: Minimalism and Minimalism (visual arts) and both articles were already included in the template because they are different articles, please read the list of general articles on the bottom of the template. Please revert your last edit - thank you... Modernist ( talk) 03:50, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
I missed the reply to the TfD for {{ Infobox VFL season}}; would you mind reopening and relisting it for further discussion, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:41, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
A template that you decided should be deleted is still there, and just as pointless as ever. Unfortunately, it is now cluttering up a lot of articles. RockMagnetist ( talk) 19:11, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
This is a bit old, but while cleaning up Steven Stayner, I found that, in this edit last October, SporkBot deleted the beginning of a template but left the template's parameters hanging adrift. You may have already addressed this, but just in case you haven't I wanted to make you aware of it. I'm assuming the related bot code is still around; if this was a one-off for this particular template cleanup only, NBD. TJRC ( talk) 20:58, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
I've reverted this, as it's on an archived talk page. Further: should it be changing other contributor's signed comments at all? -- Old Moonraker ( talk) 06:47, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastik. A request. In the commons we would seem to have a full and consistent set of commune maps of Italy in here. I was wondering if you could update Template:Infobox Italian comune to feature the maps by an automatic programming thing which adds the name of the commune in the image name to feature it in the infobox in a shrunk down way, rather like with the German local locator maps?♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:18, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
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{{ Infobox HM prison}}, whose TfD you closed as delete, is still showing {{ Tfd}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:02, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:College coach infobox. Since you had some involvement with the Template:College coach infobox redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Magioladitis ( talk) 07:38, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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Yo dude/chicka why did you get rid of this page?!?!?! :3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.250.212.148 ( talk) 21:31, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Could I trouble you to look at Template talk:Infobox record label#Image parameters, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:59, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikspork
Regarding the templates for discussion final result of KEEP for the template Css Image Crop (see deletion discussion here):
Although this Css Image Crop template is going be kept now, the pages that use this template are still displaying the (rather ugly) warning text of "The template below (Css Image Crop) is being considered for deletion. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus" in each image.
View the images in the lower half of this live article to see what I mean.
This warning text needs to be removed from the Css Image Crop template now, by somebody who knows how to remove it.
I don't know how to do this myself. Drgao ( talk) 16:25, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi there. You recently deleted that template, but there is a related category, Category:Pages with several capitalization mistakes, that was included in its discussion. The category is only populated by articles tagged with that template, and will now remain empty. I wasn't sure if there was a plan to have the category populated by using the for=capitalization parameter for the copy edit tag though. Thanks for your help. — Torchiest talk edits 23:08, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
Is this request something you might be able to help with, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:49, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
could you please look at the Eurovision templates and for example, this revert? all I did was correct the parameter order, replace the small tags with css, and remove the spurious newlines. now, this editor is basically threatening to have me blocked. Frietjes ( talk) 19:12, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey there :). You're being contacted because you're an edit filter manager, At the moment, we're developing Version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool, which you may or may not have heard about. If you haven't; for the first time, this will involve a free-text box where readers can submit comments :). Obviously, there's going to be junk, and we want to minimise that junk. To do so, we're working the Abuse Filter into the tool.
For this to work, we need people to write and maintain filters. I'd be very grateful if you could take a look at the discussion here and the attached docs, and comment and contribute! Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 18:28, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Hiya Plastikspork,
I don't have any problems with the closure of
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 April 9#Template:Non-administrator observation as "no consensus", but I'd be interested in hearing more about your reasons for that closure. I'm considering nominating it again, mostly because it's been nominated twice now and received a "no consensus" close both times, with the rationals provided during both previous MFD's closely mirroring one another. So, a more detailed analysis behind your closure yesterday may be helpful in providing some more direction. Thanks!
—
V = IR (
Talk •
Contribs)
20:34, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
ps: see
Template talk:Non-administrator observation#What to do with this template as well.
—
V = IR (
Talk •
Contribs)
20:45, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikspork, Just a quick note to let you know all the templates have been finished, and the rollout exercise completed. You did mention that you would run a bot to iron out any minor technical error within them. Please click on this link to see a full list of the new templates that have been created. Regards - Wesley ☀ Mouse 00:56, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Ouch! I followed a link to the deletion discussion on the Sar template. Saw that there was a clear consensus to delete, and noticed the button that said "Close - delete", so pressed it, thinking that would automatically close the discussion as a delete, and also delete the template. There then followed a series of stumbles as I realised what I had done was wrong, and I have been trying to sort it out, becoming embarrassingly aware as I have done so that I have not been following procedure and that I am in out of my depth. I went round removing the template from pages without realising the impact of that. I have now undeleted the template and listed it on the holding cell. I will also go round replacing the template on the pages I removed it. Is there anything else I need to do, or can you experts now take over and sort it out? SilkTork ✔Tea time 12:55, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
You deleted this template following a discussion by two participants.
This template was created as the result of extensive discussion by the Classical Music project, which you can review here. The editor nominating the template for deletion has consistently opposed the consensus achieved during that discussion, and made this nomination without informing anyone on the project. Naturally, everyone on the project - including those who are not in complete agreement with the consensus (including myself) - is very upset with this act of subterfuge. You can read the discussion on the matter here.
I am asking you to reinstate the template, and perhaps send a reprimand to the nominator for this underhanded method of dealing with a sensitive issue. I make this request prior to submitting a request for deletion review.
Thank you, -- Ravpapa ( talk) 04:22, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Template:Infobox locomotive, acceleration and deceleration, that's exactly what I wanted. Thanks. Peter Horn User talk 04:49, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
as per Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 April 11, I believe the following can be deleted as well: Template:Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956, Template:Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1957, Template:Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958, Category:Eurovision Song Contest by year templates. 64.134.157.179 ( talk) 15:21, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
{{italic}}
and {{bold}}
was arbitrary. there was no discussion. a few people proclaimed their opinions/likes without bothering to provide a rationale. others provided reasons that are comical (fewer characters etc.). still others relied on incorrect assumptions (that templates were redundant when in actual fact, and as described, they were not). i asked several people to clarify their declarations and other statements, and they didn't. this hardly qualifies as consensus or discussion. these are templates that may potentially be used by any editor on any page, they require a much higher standard for deletion. please restore the templates while the merits of the nomination for deletion are properly considered. 65.88.88.127 ( talk) 15:54, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
to be precise, i understand you marked the related tfd entries as "delete," then someone else actually deleted the templates. at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion, some bot has devoured several nomination dates; all nominations between+including april 10 and april 13 are missing. the relevant nom date was april 13. 65.88.88.127 ( talk) 15:22, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
{{italic}}
is generally redundant to '' ... ''. The name of the template doesn't indicate that it creates padding, and most all of the transclusions were not using this feature, as far as I can tell. We have templates like {{
spaced ndash}}, but the name is more descriptive. (2) {{bold}}
is generally redundant to ''' ... '''. (3) {{comment}}
is generally redundant to the more commonly used <!-- ... -->. (4) {{section}}
is generally redundant to {{
visible anchor}} and {{
anchor}}. Again, if you would like to take this to
WP:DRV, please feel free, but make sure you let me know if you do. Thanks!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
00:06, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Plastikspork,
Please see my posts at
Template talk:Infobox tram#Additional parameters or fields,
Template talk:Infobox train#Truck or bogie centers as well as
Template talk:Infobox locomotive#Truck or bogie centers.
Peter Horn
User talk
19:02, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Plastikspork. I saw that a year ago you revamped Template:Infobox rally. In the length parameters, it tells the editor to enter the length in kilometres, without the "km" suffix, which the template adds automatically. I was wondering if you could make a minor change and remove the auto-"km" part so that editors can use {{ convert}} to display kms and miles. And also change the entry name from "stagekm" to "stagelength" or something. I'd do it, but I have no idea how infoboxes work and I don't want to screw up a hundred or so pages because I made one lousy edit. After you've done it I'll go round and fix all the pages it appears on. Thanks, Matthewedwards : Chat 00:43, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
{{{stagekm}}} km
{{convert|{{{stagekm}}}|km|mi|abbr=on}}
{{{overallkm}}} km
can become {{convert|{{{overallkm}}}|km|mi|abbr=on}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
15:55, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi I was wondering if you could code something to copy the lists of municipalities and communes into the articles by Provinces of Morocco from Italian wikipedia like this. Basically its the same format, same source, but just copying the lists?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:00, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
What are your thoughts on Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 March 23#Template:Infobox UK ward? Are there technical issues preventing a merge? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:20, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 April 17#Template:Section
I would like you to revert your deletion of Template:Section it is more efficient than anchor as it does not have the if statement. In some articles it is used dozens of times so there will be an overhead when using it which is unnecessary. Also unless one is familiar with HTML section is more intuitive than anchor. -- PBS ( talk) 16:57, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Can you please move Template:Kip Moore to my user space? Thanks!-- Jax 0677 ( talk) 17:11, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey I'm working on a page for the 2003-2004 Saint Joseph's men's basketball team and I'm wondering if you'd be willing to help me add to the page (a summary of a big game etc). If you're interested, the link is 2003–04 Saint Joseph's Hawks men's basketball team. Thanks a lot! 5hane2012 ( talk) 03:56, 30 April 2012 (UTC)5hane2012 5hane2012 ( talk) 03:56, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
could you delete the following list of redirects? the context for this request can be found at User:GeorgeMoney/TEMP/Rpotd.
thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 17:23, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi PS, I've come across an accessibility problem at Template:Location map and documented it as best I can at Template talk:Location map #Suppressing alt text for the marker. I just wanted to ask if you've come across the problem before, before I spend ages sand-boxing stuff into my userspace so I can try to solve it. Cheers, -- RexxS ( talk) 16:22, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Plastikspork! There seems to be a problem with {{ Coordinate}} at List of karst springs? Can you look at it and fix it? Thanks a lot. -- Eleassar my talk 17:57, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
coordinate}}
template isn't intended for permanent use. It displays the {{
coord}}
syntax that should be used instead, so that you can copy-and-paste that into the article at the point where {{
coordinate}}
presently lies. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
21:05, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Plastikspork,
Please see
Template talk:Infobox locomotive#Coupling.
Peter Horn
User talk
22:32, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Plastikspork,
Please look at
Template talk:Convert#Bushels. Neither "abbr=off" nor "adj=on" work. In fact the word "bushel" should appear at the very onset. It now appears as if "abbr=on" is accidentally in place.
Peter Horn
User talk
19:18, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I see you closed Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 May 3#Template:AcropolisCup as "delete", but you didn't delete the template? Any reason for this, or did you just forget? Cheers, Jenks24 ( talk) 08:56, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
I've only just discovered, purely by accident, the
TfD for {{
Infobox Australian Hut}}. Unfortunately, like so many Australian templates that are nominated, it was nominated without bothering to even attempt to contact
WP:AUSTRALIA. Not surprisingly, the same old names were involved (I'm not talking about you) and since the TfD they've done nothing as a result of the outcomes. I'm sorry for the rant but it's far too common. A simple post at
WP:AWNB is surely not that difficult but some editors apparently see no need to collaborate with others. Anyway..... you closed with "The result of the discussion was merge or replace with {{
Infobox mountain hut}} where feasible" but this really isn't a practical outcome. The original nomination was that the template is redundant to {{
Infobox building}}, which it isn't, and this was opposed. Chris Cunningham's suggestion seemed to be along the lines of deleting the template completely, which was unhelpful. "It's hard to argue that any of the current transclusions would be worse off without an infobox" can really be applied to any article and the claim that "the buildings themselves seem not to be of particular note" is not correct. While I can't really attest to the notability of the other huts,
Mawson's Huts are of particular note, not only to Australia, but to
Antarctic exploration, and for this reason they are included on multiple heritage lists. However, Mawson's huts are at sea level and therefore {{Infobox mountain hut}}
shouldn't be used in that article. The suggestion to use {{Infobox mountain hut}}
appears to have been made without any real examination of the template. It is clearly targeted at mountain huts, specifically those in the high mountains in Europe. The template doesn't appear to be maintained; prior to "de-Germanification" by Thumperwad in March 2012, it was last edited in April 2011 after being created only in December 2010. The documentation is poor and needs a lot of work to make it understandable to those who aren't familiar with Europe. The template is only actually transcluded to a single article,
Simony Hut, with the other 22 articles using {{
Infobox Schutzhütte}}, which is a German language template. Both {{Infobox mountain hut}}
and {{Infobox Schutzhütte}}
rely on even more templates, such as {{
AT-4}}, making them a bit of a mess. These issues aside, we still have the situation with
Mawson's Huts not being a mountain hut. I have tried to use {{Infobox mountain hut}}
but, at the moment it's not feasible. See
testcases. There has been no attempt to modify Infobox mountain hut since the TfD and, until there is, it is not feasible to use it for any of the articles that currently use Infobox Australian Hut. It's not at all appropriate to use Infobox mountain hut for Mawson's Huts so Australian Hut has to remain alive for that article. In any case, there seems no justification in replacing one low-use template that is targeted at a specific geopolitical area with another low-use template targeted at a completely different area, especially when the second is no better than the first. Perhaps both templates should be merged to form a generic {{
Infobox hut}}, but there doesn't seem any call for this. For these reason, I'm hoping you'll overturn your closure. --
AussieLegend (
talk)
12:10, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
{{Infobox Australian Hut}}
and {{Infobox mountain hut}}
, and it would certainly be desirable to merge them into {{Infobox hut}}
. Articles using {{Infobox Schutzhütte}}
need to be converted to use English and that template then dumped. With my limited experience in building templates, I'm not sure if merging the existing templates is actually feasible, but a new template using {{
Infobox}} as its core is obviously possible. In doing so we can get rid of all the little flag templates used by {{Infobox mountain hut}}
. --
AussieLegend (
talk)
04:34, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
{{Infobox Australian Hut}}
, using {{
Infobox building}} for guidance. I've stolen the location map data from {{
Infobox Australian place}} and tested the result with several articles. The various pages I've created in my userspace are listed at
User:AussieLegend/Projects#Infobox hut. --
AussieLegend (
talk)
08:42, 11 May 2012 (UTC)Hi. Can you add the pushpin map function?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:52, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Did and nobody cares so go ahead.. Can you fix Template:The Leading Hotels of the World in Europe, for some reason its stretching.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:59, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm currently working with another user who has helped me radically redesign the
MOSNUM script. He and I are both experimenting with different versions of the script; I also know that
Dl2000 (
talk ·
contribs) also uses a variant of the script, which is also evolving separately. Now my friend has
suggested that the script be somehow centralised, made accessible to and editable by any userEdited: perhaps more than one user. Is this technically feasible with Mediawiki software in en.wp, or in the Metawiki environment, and if so, how would one go about it, and what would be the pitfalls? Thanks in advance. --
Ohconfucius
¡digame!
01:55, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
I was unaware that one of my userboxes had moved but your bot automatically corrected it. Thanks for that! Barts1a / Talk to me / Help me improve 08:39, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Why is SporkBot bypassing redirects, as in this edit? I don't see these redirects listed at WP:TFD/H. Anomie ⚔ 14:09, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
I need your help reverted User:Paniolia's contributions. This user moved the talkpage of Stefan Szkafarowsky to be the user's talkpage. I've attempted moving that page (containing welcome message and notices) to be User talk:Paniolia, not Talk:Stefan Szkafarowsky. To make matters worse, it seems this user also started Wikipedia talk:Stefan Szkafarowsky as a link to their "user talkpage". I would appreciate your help with this. Thanks, SwisterTwister talk 05:11, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
I was not notified of this deletion. I am rather shocked that months of work was deleted over such minor comments by few IPs. Please restore these templates. I have already filed a deletion review at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 May 25#Template:Membership -- A Certain White Cat chi? 20:10, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Template:NOT. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Captaincollect1970 ( talk) 03:19, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, currently at ANI there are plans to nuke 10,000 articles on Chinese townships, basically everything ever created by User:Jaguar, including the SPanish municipalities I'm trying to source and save. I agree that 8000-10,000 articles would demand years of hard work to get them all up to a reasonable status but the average township article could look like Anxiang Township. If they are all deleted, chances are in might not be for years until anybody covers much of them. And the thing is, all the stubs link to the website which just needs the exact township linked and a bit of data extracted. I think it would be far more productive in the long term to organize something to add the Chinese and exact links and try to use something to extract raw data. Would it be possible to code something to copy the Chinese from the relative townships list e.g List of township-level divisions of Hebei and use that to find the exact township on the website given in the refs? Its just its very destructive what they're planning when they could surely be saved with some sort of coding.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:01, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Ah they got deleted ...♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:45, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Well, 8,000 articles were deleted from here. They could probably all be restored if the errors are removed and perhaps some content is added.. i believe the best thing would be to recreate with a bot or something.. There are some sites which consistently have population and area data and a list of the village committees.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:58, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, Plastikspork. Since you work plenty with templates, I was wondering if you could look into some odd deletion summary messages. For example, when I was going to delete
Category:Wikipedia files needing editor assistance at upload as of 25 May 2012, the deletion summary ends up looking like this: %5B%5BWP%3ACSD%23G6%7CG6%5D%5D%3A+Housekeeping+and+routine+%28non-controversial%29+cleanup
. This also occurs with prods (take
Bernie Marsden (album), for example, I get Expired+%5B%5BWP%3APROD%7CPROD%5D%5D%2C+concern+was%3A+no+sources+to+be+found.+no+such+album.+duplicate+of+%5B%5BGoing+to+My+Hometown+%28album%29%5D%5D
). Everything was fine just 24 hours ago, and I'm not sure what happened. Is this a problem with the coding of the templates, or is the issue go beyond that? —
ξ
xplicit
00:46, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
#REDIRECT [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js]]
behind, which I'm sure isn't valid JavaScript. This may have something to do with it. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
10:14, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
can we speedy delete Template:Maspeling per Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2010_May_17#Template:Maspecorg and other ma* discussions? Frietjes ( talk) 17:52, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
That was very kind of you, and just what I was looking for. Thank you! SlimVirgin (talk) 04:04, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Sporky. For the cinema template removal/replacing, could I suggest a couple of improvements to your bot:
Thanks. Lugnuts ( talk) 07:58, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikspork,
I suppose that both infoboxes will be merged first and then the new template will be deleted. I have done my work for WP and I expect that other people improve it and don't destroy it. In this spirit, I agree the decision.
I would like to help you by merging, but I am not a expert in WP templates. My only idea is to create 4 new variables: image_right, image_left1, image_left2 and image_left3. If image_right exists then the "old" images (that is the old layout) shouldn't be shown but only the new images (image_left1-3 and image_right) in a table as in Infobox settlement Chile. In this way, old data records without a "image_right" variable will be processed as always.
--Best regards, Keysanger ( what?) 11:54, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikspork,
GregU ( talk · contribs) has not been active on this project for some months now. However, I and a few other editors are using his dashes script quite intensively for the last few months. That, together with the ever-increasing "creativity" of editors' formatting and template writing (and occasionally not abiding by MOS), means that a number of false positives showing up are increasing. The issues have been flagged on his talk page, but he's simply not around to respond. As Wikipedia's template guru, general tech expert and helpful dude, could you help investigating the script and making necessary coding changes thereto or to the offending template? Thanks. -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 12:30, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I see you've removed a template which used to give very convenient access to the 1911 EB. It hasn't done much damage to the Henry Scherren page itself, but out of curiosity I followed the Wikisource link to the Henry Scherren Wikisource page, and it's all redlinks! This is pretty catastrophic as it must be repeated on thousands of other pages.
Is there a plan or mechanism for restoring or replacing all the lost accessibility to 1911 EB pages?
I suppose there must be some reason for the action that has been taken but given that it can't be copyright, I do wonder what it might be, and what we can do about it.
Chiswick Chap ( talk) 06:29, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
{{
EB1911 Link}}
, and it contains just two entries: the creation of the template by Rich Farmbrough, and the addition of the TFD by Frietjes. In both cases the behaviour when transcluded was exactly the same: the wikicode {{EB1911 Link|Platypus}}
was equivalent to simply entering [[Platypus]]
. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
10:26, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
Why did you get rid of them? They worked well, and UFC Undisputed 2009 and 2010 have them... JonnyBonesJones ( talk) 02:40, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
May I request you to please reopen the tfd
[4] that was marked as no consensus, as in my opinion it should have been relisted to generate more consensus rather than closing. There were valuable comments from many users, It has been nominated again and now a user is claiming for POINT. --
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XЯaɣ
08:41, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikpork, interwiki for this template Template:Navbox with collapsible groups-- Nihan ( talk) 22:43, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Just curious - is the whitespace feature of autoed intended to remove white space in infobox parameters. I personally prefer that "=" to be lined up so you can quickly scan the parameters on the right to find the thing you want to fix. I've seen these removed recently by this tool and was wondering if that was intended or improper use of the tool. -- Trödel 13:33, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I see you noticed my bit of AfD trophy collecting. How about pasting a copy of the navbox code right into that page? I'd done something cute with the “look”. Cheers, Jack Merridew 09:33, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi. About this [5]: Why not to include tfd part in noinclude (see here: [6])? And where is the "this template's entry" at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion? Anchored link doesn't work: Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion#Template:Film_Italy` a5b ( talk) 02:24, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
see tfd 198.102.153.2 ( talk) 22:53, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikpork. An editor recently made these changes to some the tables I entered, everywhere replacing align="right" with style="text-align:right;". Are there real advantages doing this, sufficient to warrant the untidy complication of the tables? -- Epipelagic ( talk) 20:30, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikspork, I'm writing to you because you closed the mass opera composer navbox TfD. The list of 50 navboxes with 2 and 3 opera links was closed as "Keep". I now discover that the nominator had nominated another 15 composer navboxes on the same day (May 30) but forgot to list them in the deletion discussion. Consequently, they are still languishing with TfD templates on them and no linked discussion. All of them are 2 or 3 opera ones and would have been kept had they been listed properly. I'm happy to remove the TfD templates from them with an edit summary referring to the deletion discussion, but wanted to check if I could do that or if it needs an admin. Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 16:15, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Spork,
I just saw your Bot zapping one of those templates.
Should we let your bot do them all?
The side effect of those templates involved categorization.
If we are zapping a template ourselves, we need to confirm a specific categorization first, before deleting the template?
Varlaam (
talk)
17:24, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
{{Film XYZ}}
templates that you see. The procedure is to (1) replace it with the name of the country in the infobox and (2) add the category if it isn't there already. I would say there are probably better uses of your time. However, if you are already editing one of the articles, then of course you should consider replacing the template in the same edit. This will save my bot the trouble of replacing the template. I imagine my bot will be completely finished within the next couple days. After that there will still be a few runs to catch any that were reverted (e.g., reverted in the process of reverting vandalism). Thanks!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
23:47, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
I didn't realize the template had been nominated for deletion before it was too late. I would have stated that this template is useful in new page patrol when dealing with articles about places, where the article doesn't state where the subject is located. I find the template {{ context}} unhelpful in such circumstances, as it doesn't tell the creator what we mean by "lack of context", whereas the template {{ whereisit}} pinpoints the problem. The problem is usually resolved in no time, which explains why there are so few long-term transclusions. The first draft of the article Devine High School was one where {{ whereisit}} would have been a better choice than the generic {{ context}}. Luckily, in this case, the article creator understood the problem.
I believe the deletion of this template should be reconsidered. -- Blanchardb - Me• MyEars• MyMouth- timed 23:27, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
What does mean temporary? Where is the discussion? mabdul 10:05, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Re: Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion#Template:Rank_order — Three "deletes" and one "keep" is "no consensus"? Pristino ( talk) 20:47, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
Should this discussion Template talk:LUL color#Requested move go to Wikipedia:Templates for discussion? You regularly deal with templates, and I don't completely know how that works. Is it really only "Templates for deletion"? Secondarywaltz ( talk) 21:56, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
I left a message concerning Richard Hatch (Survivor contestant) on the BLPN board, and nobody even followed up on the discussion nor changed the unsourced section for several days, that's why I removed the section. BLPs need sources, not tags. 69.62.243.48 ( talk) 22:51, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
Has been renominated.... for the third time here. Informing people who were part of prior discussions, as courtesy. Mar4d ( talk) 03:37, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
Where is da hotel marker from the map?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:18, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
I don't, but the editor added coord. Can you ,make the header name of the club for infobox golf facility green too and also a green border around the box? Also, location isn't showing for some reason and I want the coordinates to show in the title and infobox for Aylesbury Vale Golf Club,.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:24, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
{{
Infobox golf facility}}
doesn't recognise |coordinates_display=
. In fact, it doesn't construct a {{
coord}}
at all; the |latd=
/|longd=
/etc. parameters are used purely to create a pushpin map. BTW although the postal address is Leighton Buzzard, Beds, the golf course is actually in Bucks, so try |pushpin_map=United Kingdom Buckinghamshire
. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
15:11, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
Regards — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 21:17, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
You missed one deletion at Template:Broken Arrow PS. I think I unintentionally forgot to put it in the nomination, which may be why you missed it in the deletion round. If you'd like a renom, let me know. -- Izno ( talk) 21:30, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
I created this and intended to populated it with this. It has been removed per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 June 7#Category:Pages containing subscription only links or citations, which I see as irrelevant . With {{ HighBeam}} gone, there's no way to find these. I believe further discussion about the arbitrary guidance to call-out HighBeam is needful and that a mechanism needs to be available to track this. That little discussion is no consensus re this. Thoughts? Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 10:54, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Would you mind looking at the second list here, that is the collapsed list called "Mercury/omega-3 levels in commercial fish and shellfish". How can I make this list sort? -- Epipelagic ( talk) 22:13, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi. There is a try to revive WikiProject Infoboxes by doing some tasks. These include the use of standard namming, simplify wikicode, reduce the number of infoboxes used, etc. Can you help on that? You are invited to participate in Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes with ideas, suggestions and ofcourse your edits :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:01, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
could you (or another admin) take the pre December 2011 history of Template:Turkish cuisine and merge it with Template:Cuisine of Turkey. you will see that in December 2011 the template was changed from a navbox to a sidebar, but there is concern with the layout in short articles. thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 15:10, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
See my proposal to rename Category:Nippori-Toneri Liner to Category:Nippori-Toneri Line; also the main article. Hugo999 ( talk) 00:02, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Please see
[7] This IP user is making a whole lot of format edits on templates without discussion. Looks to me like hundreds of template edits. Some have been reversed by another editor. I reversed the one they did to
Template:Texas History, because I don't believe the format of it should have been revised. I think you know more about template issues than I do. But I don't think this should be happening. Please advise.
Maile66 (
talk)
23:05, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
Would you mind comparing Danny Hilton (a page you deleted) with the newly created Danny London Hilton? It appears to be the exact same thing, created for the fourth time. 50.131.220.134 ( talk) 01:27, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
Please reconsider your closure at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 July 1#Template:HighBeam; I think the outcome was "keep". Note also the comment on my talk page, about the consequences of the merge. Also, would I be right in thinking that the merged template asks the tracking ability of the of the template discussed (I'm overseas, with limited connectivity so may be slow to respond). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:14, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
|newspaper=
. To me, these templates are not the issue, it's the "payback" for the "free" access.
Br'er Rabbit (
talk)
05:24, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Can you please undelete this.
Rich
Farmbrough,
21:14, 22 July 2012 (UTC).
Hi. Has AutoEd been changed recently? Edits such as:
are ripping large amounts of intentional whitespace and newlines out of templates. There's no consensus that I'm aware of to obfuscate the wiki-text this way. If it's not a feature of AutoEd, it is editing under a false edit summary, as suggested by this 'fix'. Thanks. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 06:14, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
It's not AutoEd, it's something custom done under false edit summaries:
Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 15:29, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Or not; I see another editor cutting massive amounts of whitespace with AutoEd; example:
They're doing it all over Bond articles. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 16:17, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi. How difficult would it be to code something which does this to my Olympic bio stubs. Basically finding the url entry on the website for that person and which enters the date of birth to the article and category reading off the website?♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:29, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
There's a note for you here. At least that's what it appears to be. related edit, more, etc. Also - an appeal to Jimbo! pablo 20:48, 31 July 2012 (UTC)amended11:58, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Ah, terima kasih, Pablo. I'm here about that, too. I commented. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 00:16, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
This has now morphed into {{ cite quick}}, which is all about reduced functionality. This user is now well into WP:IDHT-style disruption. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 21:54, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
could you watch the move requests for Special:PrefixIndex/Template:All-Ireland Winning Team? it looks like they are in the cue to be moved, but in case they aren't could you do it? thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 16:27, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikspork. I notice you recently changed {{ 90210}}, {{ Awake (TV series)}} and {{ Desperate Housewives}} to use the default colours. I'd be interested in your opinion on the colours used at {{ Thunderbirds}} and {{ Captain Scarlet}}. Personally I find them a bit garish. What do you think? Regards. DH85868993 ( talk) 06:18, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
I created {{ Public art row}} (plus related header and footer templates). Please will you check I didn't do anything stupid? related discussion is at Emitting metadata from 'List' articles. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:30, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
FYI: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Infobox Header. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 01:00, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Plastikspork. There is a discussion about the coordinates size in the Dam infofox. Your opinion is appreciated. Beagel ( talk) 07:00, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Just alerting you, as per Community reassessment guidelines at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment ("please notify major contributing editors" to a given article) that a Good Article Reassessment has begun for Mila Kunis, at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Mila Kunis/1. -- Tenebrae ( talk) 02:38, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you closed the TfD on Template:Start U.S. magistrateship as delete. However, you never actually deleted the template in question, though you did delete the two associated templates. :) Safiel ( talk) 22:05, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you indicated you added the capability for Template:Infobox school to have a pushpin map. I'm sure it is staring right at me, but for the life of me I can't find it. Can you point me to where it is? I'd like to add it to an article I just created. Cheers! -- WingtipvorteX PTT ∅ 22:32, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey,
I noticed this was still around after the TfD. I've converted it into a quick wrapper, so it should be possible to close this off now by substituting it. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) ( talk) 13:18, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message at Gareth Griffith-Jones#Adding blank lines's talk page.
(cur | prev) 17:32, September 3, 2012 Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk | contribs) . . (287,766 bytes) (+339) . . (→Adding blank lines: Done that ... and "Ha!" ... you are correct.) (rollback: 1 edit | undo)
(cur | prev) 17:14, September 3, 2012 Plastikspork (talk | contribs) . . (287,427 bytes) (+756) . . (→Adding blank lines: Re) (undo)
Kind regards, -- Gareth Griffith-Jones ( GG-J's Talk) 10:06, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Could you read the talk page of the infobox automobile thx --> Typ932 T· C 17:31, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
Could you implement the change proposd at Template talk:Tfd links#Display format, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:14, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Please see Template talk:Geobox#Mountain code and Template talk:Geobox#Mountain ranges. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:18, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Can you please restore that template and the redirect Template:RFL? I was unaware of the TfD because I only had the redirect watchlisted. I would prefer using the template to adding the code. Ryan Vesey 12:30, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Two templates which you deleted, then later userfied (and your reasons for doing the latter), are being discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:List of north–south roads in Toronto/TOC. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:44, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
|
The Template Barnstar | |
A barnstar for you. Really everytime I see your name pop up on my watchlist, I know: another problem has been solved (as opposed to: sigh, let me see what is going on, I have to infer). ;-) - DePiep ( talk) 01:08, 8 September 2012 (UTC) |
Hello!
Can you semi-protect the article about the The Biggest Loser Asia (season 2) that some of IP user insist that added unknown table from The Biggest Loser from the other countries not related to TBL Asia graphic article due to hoax or vandal info. Pls. help -- Puppyph ( talk) 02:38, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
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The da Vinci Barnstar | |
for your changes to infobox road and the USA/ CAN browselinks templates. I was stumped as to why it wasn't working before, and you found the issue and corrected it. Frietjes ( talk) 16:26, 14 September 2012 (UTC) |
Hi Plastikspork. I realise you possibly haven't finished processing the TfD yet, but I thought I'd raise a couple of points it might be easier to address while you were "in the moment":
DH85868993 ( talk) 23:15, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Moving files to the Commons#Template:Now commons dated about a frequently used template which you deleted. You might wish to comment there. -- Stefan2 ( talk) 10:07, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Do you have time to finish the {{ Infobox automobile}}/{{ Infobox bus}} merge/redirect/rename please? Chris is busy elsewhere. Note discussion on the former template's talk page Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:46, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
Whoa whoa, hold on here, full stop. This template had a very specific purpose, namely the proper dating of NowCommons. Please reconsider your decision to delete or I will have to take it to deletion review. Magog the Ogre ( t • c) 17:00, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Plastikspork - thanks, I think I found and got all the non-talk page links and references to the template removed and the category squared away. -- Mike Cline ( talk) 11:33, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
May I gently remind you about the mergers decided upon at #Deity templates and #Template:Infobox Legislature Historic. If you could please help complete them, that would be appreciated. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:01, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
I nominated several infoboxes for discussion, on September 22, 23 and 24. Your wise counsel would, as always, be welcome. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:28, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
this is a great idea. I have nominated {{Japan Railway Line}}
for deletion, since it has now been reduced to a very trivial wrapper.
Frietjes (
talk)
23:11, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Can you please move "Template:Virgin Records" to my user pages? Also, couldn't the template consist of the links that I mentioned before? We have not had the opportunity to discuss those. Thanks!-- Jax 0677 ( talk) 13:11, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, your name was mentioned at Wikipedia_talk:RFA#Statistics_.28and_lies.3F.29, so I decided to stop by and see if you might be willing to answer a couple questions?
1. What motivates you to do a lot of deletions? Is it your primary manner of participation on Wikipedia or a smaller part of your overall work?
2. What sorts of things or interactions make your deletion work less pleasant? What sorts of changes or occurrences would make you less likely to perform the number of deletions you presently perform?
3. Do you have any suggestions on how the deletion process or conduct policies surrounding deletions could be improved to encourage greater admin participation?
Feel free to respond here or at WT:RFA, if you decide to respond. Thanks. MBisanz talk 15:55, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Can you explain why you closed Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 September 20#Template:Infobox Asterix, where one person agreed with the nomination (Blueap), and one person disagreed (me), as a "rewrite" instead of a "no consensus" or (probably better) "relist"? The only reason my comment was opposed was for supposed "ownership" issues with the template I suggested, a statement for which no further evidence was provided and which shouldn't have any bearing on a TfD anyway. Fram ( talk) 06:49, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
You closed Template:TerminaLink ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) as delete yet it still exists. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 07:39, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
{{tfd/dated}}
). Thanks for noticing!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
04:19, 4 October 2012 (UTC)I forget why I'm stalking your talk page, but I saw your recent complaints about TfD. I don't have the time to volunteer on a regular basis (watch for my new userbox towards the end of October), but if you ever want a second opinion on a TfD—or just see one that you don't want to mess with—feel free to drop me a note. I closed some a while back when the backlog was getting much worse than it is now, but you've been keeping the backlog under two weeks lately so I've felt safe in leaving it to "more experienced" closers. Anomie ⚔ 13:38, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Can you take a look at U.S. Route 131 and the recent changes to {{ infobox road}} to see what might need to be fixed in relation to the browsers at the bottom of the infobox? Odd enough, U.S. Route 141, which also has additional browsers added, doesn't have the same formatting quirk. Imzadi 1979 → 05:35, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
|browse=
is being placed inside of <table>...</table>
, without any containing <tr>...</tr>
or <td>...</td>
. this is exactly what you want for {{
Infobox road/meta/browse}}, which is called by {{
Infobox road/MI browse}}, {{
Infobox road/IN browse}}, ... However, other templates, like {{
Infobox road/browselinks/USA}} do not generate the <tr>...</tr>
and <td>...</td>
, so they are being placed inside the <table>...</table>
without a containing <tr>...</tr>
and <td>...</td>
. the "tidy" feature then has to figure out what to do in this case, and simply closes the table prematurely when there are multiple uncontained lines. the most robust fix would be to have {{
Infobox road/browselinks/USA}} and others generate a containing <tr>...</tr>
and <td>...</td>
. but, watch out, since these templates must return "none" when there are no links (see ifeq check at the bottom of {{
Infobox road}}.
Frietjes (
talk)
15:04, 5 October 2012 (UTC)I see you deleted yet another Template providing important financial information, deleting every instance in finance-related articles, based on no discussion. Absolutely none. A request by an IP, and you immediately delete an active Template, leaving no record of the articles which used it. Why would you do this? You deleted The Economist earlier. Are you deleting all the finance-related templates? What is it you so dislike about finance and economics?
184.78.81.245 ( talk) 05:56, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
{{Forbes profile}}
if you think we need a template to link to Forbes website. Although, it seems like there is no real problem here, since there are plenty of links to the Forbes profiles (see the over 500 links
here). Thanks!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
03:09, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Any reason why Atlantic Records was not kept, even though it was reduced to not contain any artists? Also, can you please restore the following templates to my userspace?
Template:Atlantic Records
Template:Custard Records
Template:Daptone Records
Template:Fractured Transmitter Recording Company
Template:Good Fight Entertainment
Template:Kickball Records
Template:Massacre Records
Template:Revelation Records
Template:Show Dog-Universal Music
Template:Southern Lord Records
Template:Uprising Records
--
Jax 0677 (
talk)
09:06, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_October_3#Template:SaQ, you closed the "discussion", inferring a consensus after only the original poster and two others commented on it in 18 days, stating the templates could be replaced by simple redirects. I contend not only that there is no consensus when only 2 others even felt the need to comment, but that the inference is also incorrect, per my arguments there. The purpose of the templates is to increase accuracy and ease of editing. The redirects will be flagged by bots as links to redirects unless you use a pipe to link to the underlying article, which defeats the purpose. The templates also have the potential to fix the inconsistencies in spelling and capitalization of the dynasty names, since they are all maintained in the templates. These are good, and non-trivial benefits, with no real downside (an extra handful of template calls in an article is nothing compared to some of the big whopping list and table articles that run up against wikipedia's limits). Have you edited any of these bio articles for dynasty members? I believe if you, or the other 3 people that have a problem with it did on a regular basis, you would appreciate the idea of these templates. —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 05:06, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Please see my proposal to upmerge Category:Nuclear power by country and subcategories (4) to Category:Nuclear energy by country Hugo999 ( talk) 12:25, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello Plastikspork,
After successfully downloading it to my vector.js, I have been using Wikipedia:AutoEd since June this year, accessing it from the link at the top of the article page and/or the edit page. Now neither are available. I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent changes to editing Wikipedia earlier this month.
Can you help, please? -- Gareth Griffith-Jones/ GG-J's Talk 22:29, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Good day, sir,
I have just embarked on the long-overdue rewrite of the sources script in
my test space. I am also attempting to lay down my thoughts as to how it should work at
User:Ohconfucius/script/Sources#General_principles. FYI, the working test module is named function Ohc_sourcename
. Note that this is very much work in progress, and that the module will supplant some of the regex currently residing in function Ohc_news_sources()
. Your thoughts and advice, particularly as to the organisation/flow of the various tasks, would be much appreciated.
Oh, and is there a way to consolidate the code, as the first two blocks merely perform different transformations on the same strings? Regards, -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 01:00, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
this template is now orphaned, and the documentation pages discussing it have been updated. not sure what to do next. we could redirect it, but that wouldn't help old revisions, but would possibly help editors find template:WikiProject Ships, although if they know about this template, they must know about the other. so, perhaps just delete it? I can't do anything to it since it is full protected. Frietjes ( talk) 15:43, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
Could you add |native_name=
& |native_name_lang=
to {{
Infobox military unit}}, please? I'm not sure how to do it for an Infobox that doesn't use {{
Infobox}}.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
19:25, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that the last 8 userboxes (from "This user has made..." downward) on your user page are not selectable/clickable. Do you know why that is happening? –– Anonymouse321 ( talk • contribs) 05:24, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
<div style="width:800px;">(stuff goes here)</div>
––
Anonymouse321 (
talk •
contribs)
05:18, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
<div>...</div>
element by default is full-width and transparent; but the transparency applies only to optical properties such as the appearance of the text behind, not to interactive properties such as text selection and links. So, if this transparent full-width object happens to be the top layer (as with your show/hide sections), the object behind (your userbox stack) will be optically visible through the transparency, but any text inside it will be non-selectable, and links non-clickable, since they are still "hidden" by the full-width top layer. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
12:39, 25 October 2012 (UTC)could you, or one of your talk page stalking admins, move template:Infobox volleyball player to Template:Infobox volleyball biography per the TfD outcome? I believe I can edit the template, to do most of the work required for merging it with the coach template, but I cannot move it. thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 23:06, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
Just to let you know. A couple of weeks ago when you fixed the Template:Infobox settlement so the relief map would be optional, I placed the same edit request on two others - Template:Infobox museum and Template:Infobox NRHP. Today, user Mr. Stradivarius has left messages that they don't know how to do this and want me to supply the codes necessary. Not knowing codes or anything else about this, I replied on talk page for Mr. Stradivarius and referred them to the template you handled. — Maile ( talk) 17:53, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
you can remove the |label=
parameter from the {{
location map+}} call in {{
infobox settlement}}. this is only used for the caption logic, which since caption is explicitly set to blank, the label parameter won't be used. of course, you still need it in the call to {{
location map~}}. I am going to work on removing the label parameter from {{
location map+}} in other cases.
Frietjes (
talk)
21:01, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Museum of Asian Art, why is the map not working, answer please.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 10:32, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastik. Can you programme Infobox City Japan to display Template:Location map Japan Ryukyu Islands for Ryukyu articles like Okinawa Prefecture etc instead of the main Japanese map? Also requested an svg to replace the one I made. I find the location in the window currently confusing and doesn't show true location.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 15:33, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Also created Template:Ref GM, for referencing to google maps, can you take care of the documentation/formatting?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 18:01, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I was hoping I could impose on you for a bit of help with a template. {{
Census 2006 AUS}} and {{
Census 2006 AUS link}} are two related templates used to handle Australian census data. One creates a fully formatted citation with calls to {{
Cite web}}, while the other creates just a link. For example, {{Census 2006 AUS|id=SSC18623|name=Raymond Terrace (State Suburb)|accessdate=24 January 2008|quick=on|map=yes}}
and {{Census 2006 AUS link|id=SSC18623}}
create
Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007).
"Raymond Terrace (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 24 January 2008.
Map and
[9] respectively. I've been trying to modify {{
Census 2011 AUS}} to incorporate the functionality of a yet to be created {{Census 2011 AUS link}}
to avoid the need for two templates, to no avail. Is this possible? --
AussieLegend (
✉)
12:44, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
{{
Census 2006 AUS|link}}
do the same thing as {{
Census 2006 AUS link}}
.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
03:24, 7 November 2012 (UTC)Plastikspork, you just closed a TfD for the NFL coaches infobox, and other editors are now proceeding to merge it into one of the most used infobox templates on Wikipedia, and NO ONE ever posted a notice on the talk page for Wikiproject NFL (WP:NFL)! Something is very wrong with this TfD process when a major and active project was not notified nor consulted concerning a merger target template that is used on over 10,000 articles. This process needs to be halted for review now.
Furthermore, no one ever posted a notice on the page for Template:Infobox NFL player, the proposed target page for the merger, and they are talking about altering the target template. This appears to have been a major process error. I suggest you immediately reopen the TfD and provide proper notice to WP:NFL and place notice on the target template page. Otherwise, you are going to have a riot on your hands. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 21:18, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Plastikspork
Please see
Template talk:Infobox train#Additional fields and
Template talk:Infobox train#Add parameter "fuelcap". Those are "loose ends".
Peter Horn
User talk
19:28, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I notice you were the last person to do any work on the above so thought I'd ask you this. It's a very useful template, and I reckon it would be better at a more generic name (to go with {{ Progress bar}}, {{ Progression}}, {{ Percentage bar}} and so on), and the old name converted into a wrapper. I started doing that (see its history), but immediately ran into a problem. The way I thought you'd pass the arguments was evidently very wrong (stemming from my lack of precise understanding of argument handling), and broke the template. Plus then I noticed there was a named parameter as well, argh. Realizing I wasn't going to be able to fix it immediately, I put it back to how I found it.
Would you be able to give me a hand in making it happen? That would be great if so. — Hex (❝?!❞) 21:05, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
could you move template:Freemasonry2 to template:Freemasonry and possibly merge the early history? also, I think template:Freemason should probably moved to project space or use space. 174.56.57.138 ( talk) 21:59, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Why in the world did you delete the directv channel list page on october 20hth? It was a great resource. VERY UNHAPPY — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.51.126.168 ( talk) 16:33, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, could you please delete all of the revision history on my User Page as I have deleted and blanked the page now and would like the information to be removed from further searches as some of it could be considered sensitive. Many thanks for your help. Timclare (talk) (sign here) 21:54, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
I'm having trouble making all the station names line up.
Could you have a look and see where I've gone wrong, please?
See Template:Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway.
Thank you for helping me!
Alastair Carr ( talk) 19:46, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi,I would like to be an autoconfirmed user, to save the books made with wikibooks. I asked in the main forum,somebody suggest me to contact any admin that can upgrade my account. Would you be so kind to do this for me?
Many Thanks! VV — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chitammuo ( talk • contribs) 16:57, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
could you merge the history of template:infobox firearm cartridge/Convert into template:infobox firearm cartridge/convert? there should be no need to preserve any redirects after the merge (just keep the lower case version, with the code used by the lower case version). I am working on a second subtemplate of that template, but it's not quite ready yet. thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 22:16, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
could you delete template:Big Brother sidebar/Indonesia per this discussion? I have recoded the entire series, and this one is particularly useless, since there was only one season. the only reason it is showing a transclusion is due to the "ifexist" code in the main template. thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 17:28, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, the template "confusing-section" used to accept a "reason" parameter, and display the reason in the banner, but that feature now seems to have stopped working. The only recent edits to the template sems to be yours, so I wonder if you may have inadvertently changed something? I do not have any technical understanding of templates, so I am not really sure what has happened.... 81.159.111.30 ( talk) 02:14, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
{{confusing|section|reason=your reason}}
. These "section" templates are usually just duplicates of the main template with "section" for the first parameter. Thanks!
Plastikspork
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04:39, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Infoboxes#Coordinate errors affecting multiple infoboxes. Your assistance would be appreciated. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:09, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I'm doing a GA review on Svalbard Rocket Range, and the article author inserted a map with the {{ Locator map}} template, but they say it is showing the wrong location. I noticed you've worked on that template. Can you help out? Thanks. -- Noleander ( talk) 21:38, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
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I wonder if you're aware that the default value for the |coordinates_display=
parameter of {{
Infobox settlement}} has always been inline. Mind you, I don't see any harm in recognizing inline as a special value for the parameter, but I do think the change ought to have been mentioned on the talk page first. What are your thoughts on the matter?
I'm also hoping you'll update the doc subpage to reflect the new semantics. Cheers, — Stepheng3 ( talk) 06:15, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Is this regarding your edits?
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Removing Science Fiction template from Science Fiction articles. regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. -- Malerooster ( talk) 01:32, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Since no one else seems to be asking, I guess I should -- why the removals? I don't mind them, assuming there is a decent reason for it. Just trying to preempt further AN/I trips. Thanks! Evanh2008 ( talk| contribs) 03:31, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
I've restored the template - your reason was that it didn't include the article, but it isn't meant to include books. It's clearly relevant. Dougweller ( talk) 06:21, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
I am sure you were acting in good faith; but the fact is that Forry used the form WITHOUT a period after the J for many decades, as can be attested in many discussions, some of which are referenced in the talk page of that article. I have reverted your move to the incorrect version of his name as commonly used. Full disclosure: I knew Forry: we met at the Ackermansion as well as at cons, and did panels at at least two science fiction conventions together. -- Orange Mike | Talk 09:43, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
WIMA has merged with its sister project, IMSLP. The merge was completed at the end of July 2012. The WIMA server is kept alive, though, for various purposes, including hosting the MusiXTeX music engraving software suite.
The WIMA server also still offers entry points to its composers. Accesses to these items are redirected to the corresponding IMSLP composer pages. Until a few days ago the redirects took place as plain Apache redirect statements in various .htaccess files but are now managed through Apache rewrite rules, looking up IMSLP locations in the WIMA database.
I've performed a few checks of that feature by accessing WIMA links in Wikipedia composer articles. It looks like these redirects are well functioning. However, I do agree that existing WIMA references in Wikipedia articles through the WIMA template are gradually replaced by immediate links to IMSLP.
Reccmo ( talk) 10:00, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
In follow up of this deletion, please have the links removed. Thanks! -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 17:40, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
I'd love it if you'd take a look at my edits in Template:Infobox NRHP/sandbox and give me your feedback. I'm a bit rusty at editing templates. — Stepheng3 ( talk) 18:03, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
SporkBot has been replacing {{ tv.com}} with {{ tv.com show}} but a lot of the changes, like this one have resulted in broken links. -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 10:46, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
I've undone 300 of these changes, but there are still some 1500 left to do. If anyone wants do continue this (perhaps as a short bot task), I would be grateful. Otherwise I'll continue on Monday, probably. Fram ( talk) 14:38, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
{{tv.com show}}
in the frst place, to make the template fully backward compatible with {{tv.com}}
. The numeric codes still work, it's only new programs that don't get them, so a straight conversion is now possible and there's no need to worry about codes until they eventually stop working, if that ever happens. --
AussieLegend (
✉)
17:09, 15 December 2012 (UTC){{tv.com}}
link. If any of these steps fails, it just skips the page. Once the bot finishes running through the list of transclusions, I will investigate the ones that are remaining (or are in the tracking category). I have already noticed that there are some that are pointing to the wrong show, or are trying to point to people pages, instead of show pages, which doesn't work since the template is for creating links to show pages. So, in the end this will be a useful exercise, since it should clean up most of the bad URLs (especially the 404 errors). Thanks and sorry about the first pass through the transclusions!
Plastikspork
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00:06, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Map is cocked up, can you sort it?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:31, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
I think you may have messed up Template:Infobox French commune when you edited it on December 9. Now, whenever an edit is made to an article containing it (even a null edit), the title coordinates go crazy. See Noyon, for instance. I don't know enough about templates to see what the problem may be. Deor ( talk) 20:27, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Orphaning is not deletion, see your concern addressed at Template_talk:Infobox_settlement/Other_templates_up_for_TfD#Orphaning_of_redirects. Comments welcome. And me too, I don't think Infobox settlement is a good name. NVanMinh ( talk) 03:01, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Per someone's request at WP:AN, I'm going through the editprotected requests, including the discussion in which you participated at {{ Sidebar}}. I'm not clear — is discussion done? If so, which of the links is the one to the version that should be placed in the template? When you and CsDix have decided what to do, let me know and I'll copy it over, although of course you're welcome to do that yourself. I'm just really hesitant to do anything yet — because of the wide usage of this template, I don't want to edit it and then revert myself in the event of a mistake, given the current discussion at the "Job queue" section of WP:VP/T. Nyttend ( talk) 13:38, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
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There are actually 2 separate articles: Minimalism and Minimalism (visual arts) and both articles were already included in the template because they are different articles, please read the list of general articles on the bottom of the template. Please revert your last edit - thank you... Modernist ( talk) 03:50, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
I missed the reply to the TfD for {{ Infobox VFL season}}; would you mind reopening and relisting it for further discussion, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:41, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
A template that you decided should be deleted is still there, and just as pointless as ever. Unfortunately, it is now cluttering up a lot of articles. RockMagnetist ( talk) 19:11, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
This is a bit old, but while cleaning up Steven Stayner, I found that, in this edit last October, SporkBot deleted the beginning of a template but left the template's parameters hanging adrift. You may have already addressed this, but just in case you haven't I wanted to make you aware of it. I'm assuming the related bot code is still around; if this was a one-off for this particular template cleanup only, NBD. TJRC ( talk) 20:58, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
I've reverted this, as it's on an archived talk page. Further: should it be changing other contributor's signed comments at all? -- Old Moonraker ( talk) 06:47, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastik. A request. In the commons we would seem to have a full and consistent set of commune maps of Italy in here. I was wondering if you could update Template:Infobox Italian comune to feature the maps by an automatic programming thing which adds the name of the commune in the image name to feature it in the infobox in a shrunk down way, rather like with the German local locator maps?♦ Dr. Blofeld 21:18, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
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{{ Infobox HM prison}}, whose TfD you closed as delete, is still showing {{ Tfd}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:02, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:College coach infobox. Since you had some involvement with the Template:College coach infobox redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). Magioladitis ( talk) 07:38, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
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Yo dude/chicka why did you get rid of this page?!?!?! :3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.250.212.148 ( talk) 21:31, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
Could I trouble you to look at Template talk:Infobox record label#Image parameters, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:59, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikspork
Regarding the templates for discussion final result of KEEP for the template Css Image Crop (see deletion discussion here):
Although this Css Image Crop template is going be kept now, the pages that use this template are still displaying the (rather ugly) warning text of "The template below (Css Image Crop) is being considered for deletion. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus" in each image.
View the images in the lower half of this live article to see what I mean.
This warning text needs to be removed from the Css Image Crop template now, by somebody who knows how to remove it.
I don't know how to do this myself. Drgao ( talk) 16:25, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi there. You recently deleted that template, but there is a related category, Category:Pages with several capitalization mistakes, that was included in its discussion. The category is only populated by articles tagged with that template, and will now remain empty. I wasn't sure if there was a plan to have the category populated by using the for=capitalization parameter for the copy edit tag though. Thanks for your help. — Torchiest talk edits 23:08, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
Is this request something you might be able to help with, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:49, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
could you please look at the Eurovision templates and for example, this revert? all I did was correct the parameter order, replace the small tags with css, and remove the spurious newlines. now, this editor is basically threatening to have me blocked. Frietjes ( talk) 19:12, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey there :). You're being contacted because you're an edit filter manager, At the moment, we're developing Version 5 of the Article Feedback Tool, which you may or may not have heard about. If you haven't; for the first time, this will involve a free-text box where readers can submit comments :). Obviously, there's going to be junk, and we want to minimise that junk. To do so, we're working the Abuse Filter into the tool.
For this to work, we need people to write and maintain filters. I'd be very grateful if you could take a look at the discussion here and the attached docs, and comment and contribute! Thanks :). Okeyes (WMF) ( talk) 18:28, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Hiya Plastikspork,
I don't have any problems with the closure of
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 April 9#Template:Non-administrator observation as "no consensus", but I'd be interested in hearing more about your reasons for that closure. I'm considering nominating it again, mostly because it's been nominated twice now and received a "no consensus" close both times, with the rationals provided during both previous MFD's closely mirroring one another. So, a more detailed analysis behind your closure yesterday may be helpful in providing some more direction. Thanks!
—
V = IR (
Talk •
Contribs)
20:34, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
ps: see
Template talk:Non-administrator observation#What to do with this template as well.
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V = IR (
Talk •
Contribs)
20:45, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikspork, Just a quick note to let you know all the templates have been finished, and the rollout exercise completed. You did mention that you would run a bot to iron out any minor technical error within them. Please click on this link to see a full list of the new templates that have been created. Regards - Wesley ☀ Mouse 00:56, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
Ouch! I followed a link to the deletion discussion on the Sar template. Saw that there was a clear consensus to delete, and noticed the button that said "Close - delete", so pressed it, thinking that would automatically close the discussion as a delete, and also delete the template. There then followed a series of stumbles as I realised what I had done was wrong, and I have been trying to sort it out, becoming embarrassingly aware as I have done so that I have not been following procedure and that I am in out of my depth. I went round removing the template from pages without realising the impact of that. I have now undeleted the template and listed it on the holding cell. I will also go round replacing the template on the pages I removed it. Is there anything else I need to do, or can you experts now take over and sort it out? SilkTork ✔Tea time 12:55, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
You deleted this template following a discussion by two participants.
This template was created as the result of extensive discussion by the Classical Music project, which you can review here. The editor nominating the template for deletion has consistently opposed the consensus achieved during that discussion, and made this nomination without informing anyone on the project. Naturally, everyone on the project - including those who are not in complete agreement with the consensus (including myself) - is very upset with this act of subterfuge. You can read the discussion on the matter here.
I am asking you to reinstate the template, and perhaps send a reprimand to the nominator for this underhanded method of dealing with a sensitive issue. I make this request prior to submitting a request for deletion review.
Thank you, -- Ravpapa ( talk) 04:22, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Template:Infobox locomotive, acceleration and deceleration, that's exactly what I wanted. Thanks. Peter Horn User talk 04:49, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
as per Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 April 11, I believe the following can be deleted as well: Template:Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1956, Template:Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1957, Template:Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1958, Category:Eurovision Song Contest by year templates. 64.134.157.179 ( talk) 15:21, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
{{italic}}
and {{bold}}
was arbitrary. there was no discussion. a few people proclaimed their opinions/likes without bothering to provide a rationale. others provided reasons that are comical (fewer characters etc.). still others relied on incorrect assumptions (that templates were redundant when in actual fact, and as described, they were not). i asked several people to clarify their declarations and other statements, and they didn't. this hardly qualifies as consensus or discussion. these are templates that may potentially be used by any editor on any page, they require a much higher standard for deletion. please restore the templates while the merits of the nomination for deletion are properly considered. 65.88.88.127 ( talk) 15:54, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
to be precise, i understand you marked the related tfd entries as "delete," then someone else actually deleted the templates. at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion, some bot has devoured several nomination dates; all nominations between+including april 10 and april 13 are missing. the relevant nom date was april 13. 65.88.88.127 ( talk) 15:22, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
{{italic}}
is generally redundant to '' ... ''. The name of the template doesn't indicate that it creates padding, and most all of the transclusions were not using this feature, as far as I can tell. We have templates like {{
spaced ndash}}, but the name is more descriptive. (2) {{bold}}
is generally redundant to ''' ... '''. (3) {{comment}}
is generally redundant to the more commonly used <!-- ... -->. (4) {{section}}
is generally redundant to {{
visible anchor}} and {{
anchor}}. Again, if you would like to take this to
WP:DRV, please feel free, but make sure you let me know if you do. Thanks!
Plastikspork
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00:06, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Plastikspork,
Please see my posts at
Template talk:Infobox tram#Additional parameters or fields,
Template talk:Infobox train#Truck or bogie centers as well as
Template talk:Infobox locomotive#Truck or bogie centers.
Peter Horn
User talk
19:02, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Plastikspork. I saw that a year ago you revamped Template:Infobox rally. In the length parameters, it tells the editor to enter the length in kilometres, without the "km" suffix, which the template adds automatically. I was wondering if you could make a minor change and remove the auto-"km" part so that editors can use {{ convert}} to display kms and miles. And also change the entry name from "stagekm" to "stagelength" or something. I'd do it, but I have no idea how infoboxes work and I don't want to screw up a hundred or so pages because I made one lousy edit. After you've done it I'll go round and fix all the pages it appears on. Thanks, Matthewedwards : Chat 00:43, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
{{{stagekm}}} km
{{convert|{{{stagekm}}}|km|mi|abbr=on}}
{{{overallkm}}} km
can become {{convert|{{{overallkm}}}|km|mi|abbr=on}}
. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
15:55, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi I was wondering if you could code something to copy the lists of municipalities and communes into the articles by Provinces of Morocco from Italian wikipedia like this. Basically its the same format, same source, but just copying the lists?♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:00, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
What are your thoughts on Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 March 23#Template:Infobox UK ward? Are there technical issues preventing a merge? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:20, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 April 17#Template:Section
I would like you to revert your deletion of Template:Section it is more efficient than anchor as it does not have the if statement. In some articles it is used dozens of times so there will be an overhead when using it which is unnecessary. Also unless one is familiar with HTML section is more intuitive than anchor. -- PBS ( talk) 16:57, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Can you please move Template:Kip Moore to my user space? Thanks!-- Jax 0677 ( talk) 17:11, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
Hey I'm working on a page for the 2003-2004 Saint Joseph's men's basketball team and I'm wondering if you'd be willing to help me add to the page (a summary of a big game etc). If you're interested, the link is 2003–04 Saint Joseph's Hawks men's basketball team. Thanks a lot! 5hane2012 ( talk) 03:56, 30 April 2012 (UTC)5hane2012 5hane2012 ( talk) 03:56, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
could you delete the following list of redirects? the context for this request can be found at User:GeorgeMoney/TEMP/Rpotd.
thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 17:23, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi PS, I've come across an accessibility problem at Template:Location map and documented it as best I can at Template talk:Location map #Suppressing alt text for the marker. I just wanted to ask if you've come across the problem before, before I spend ages sand-boxing stuff into my userspace so I can try to solve it. Cheers, -- RexxS ( talk) 16:22, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Plastikspork! There seems to be a problem with {{ Coordinate}} at List of karst springs? Can you look at it and fix it? Thanks a lot. -- Eleassar my talk 17:57, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
coordinate}}
template isn't intended for permanent use. It displays the {{
coord}}
syntax that should be used instead, so that you can copy-and-paste that into the article at the point where {{
coordinate}}
presently lies. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
21:05, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Plastikspork,
Please see
Template talk:Infobox locomotive#Coupling.
Peter Horn
User talk
22:32, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Plastikspork,
Please look at
Template talk:Convert#Bushels. Neither "abbr=off" nor "adj=on" work. In fact the word "bushel" should appear at the very onset. It now appears as if "abbr=on" is accidentally in place.
Peter Horn
User talk
19:18, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I see you closed Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 May 3#Template:AcropolisCup as "delete", but you didn't delete the template? Any reason for this, or did you just forget? Cheers, Jenks24 ( talk) 08:56, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
I've only just discovered, purely by accident, the
TfD for {{
Infobox Australian Hut}}. Unfortunately, like so many Australian templates that are nominated, it was nominated without bothering to even attempt to contact
WP:AUSTRALIA. Not surprisingly, the same old names were involved (I'm not talking about you) and since the TfD they've done nothing as a result of the outcomes. I'm sorry for the rant but it's far too common. A simple post at
WP:AWNB is surely not that difficult but some editors apparently see no need to collaborate with others. Anyway..... you closed with "The result of the discussion was merge or replace with {{
Infobox mountain hut}} where feasible" but this really isn't a practical outcome. The original nomination was that the template is redundant to {{
Infobox building}}, which it isn't, and this was opposed. Chris Cunningham's suggestion seemed to be along the lines of deleting the template completely, which was unhelpful. "It's hard to argue that any of the current transclusions would be worse off without an infobox" can really be applied to any article and the claim that "the buildings themselves seem not to be of particular note" is not correct. While I can't really attest to the notability of the other huts,
Mawson's Huts are of particular note, not only to Australia, but to
Antarctic exploration, and for this reason they are included on multiple heritage lists. However, Mawson's huts are at sea level and therefore {{Infobox mountain hut}}
shouldn't be used in that article. The suggestion to use {{Infobox mountain hut}}
appears to have been made without any real examination of the template. It is clearly targeted at mountain huts, specifically those in the high mountains in Europe. The template doesn't appear to be maintained; prior to "de-Germanification" by Thumperwad in March 2012, it was last edited in April 2011 after being created only in December 2010. The documentation is poor and needs a lot of work to make it understandable to those who aren't familiar with Europe. The template is only actually transcluded to a single article,
Simony Hut, with the other 22 articles using {{
Infobox Schutzhütte}}, which is a German language template. Both {{Infobox mountain hut}}
and {{Infobox Schutzhütte}}
rely on even more templates, such as {{
AT-4}}, making them a bit of a mess. These issues aside, we still have the situation with
Mawson's Huts not being a mountain hut. I have tried to use {{Infobox mountain hut}}
but, at the moment it's not feasible. See
testcases. There has been no attempt to modify Infobox mountain hut since the TfD and, until there is, it is not feasible to use it for any of the articles that currently use Infobox Australian Hut. It's not at all appropriate to use Infobox mountain hut for Mawson's Huts so Australian Hut has to remain alive for that article. In any case, there seems no justification in replacing one low-use template that is targeted at a specific geopolitical area with another low-use template targeted at a completely different area, especially when the second is no better than the first. Perhaps both templates should be merged to form a generic {{
Infobox hut}}, but there doesn't seem any call for this. For these reason, I'm hoping you'll overturn your closure. --
AussieLegend (
talk)
12:10, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
{{Infobox Australian Hut}}
and {{Infobox mountain hut}}
, and it would certainly be desirable to merge them into {{Infobox hut}}
. Articles using {{Infobox Schutzhütte}}
need to be converted to use English and that template then dumped. With my limited experience in building templates, I'm not sure if merging the existing templates is actually feasible, but a new template using {{
Infobox}} as its core is obviously possible. In doing so we can get rid of all the little flag templates used by {{Infobox mountain hut}}
. --
AussieLegend (
talk)
04:34, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
{{Infobox Australian Hut}}
, using {{
Infobox building}} for guidance. I've stolen the location map data from {{
Infobox Australian place}} and tested the result with several articles. The various pages I've created in my userspace are listed at
User:AussieLegend/Projects#Infobox hut. --
AussieLegend (
talk)
08:42, 11 May 2012 (UTC)Hi. Can you add the pushpin map function?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:52, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Did and nobody cares so go ahead.. Can you fix Template:The Leading Hotels of the World in Europe, for some reason its stretching.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:59, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I'm currently working with another user who has helped me radically redesign the
MOSNUM script. He and I are both experimenting with different versions of the script; I also know that
Dl2000 (
talk ·
contribs) also uses a variant of the script, which is also evolving separately. Now my friend has
suggested that the script be somehow centralised, made accessible to and editable by any userEdited: perhaps more than one user. Is this technically feasible with Mediawiki software in en.wp, or in the Metawiki environment, and if so, how would one go about it, and what would be the pitfalls? Thanks in advance. --
Ohconfucius
¡digame!
01:55, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
I was unaware that one of my userboxes had moved but your bot automatically corrected it. Thanks for that! Barts1a / Talk to me / Help me improve 08:39, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
Why is SporkBot bypassing redirects, as in this edit? I don't see these redirects listed at WP:TFD/H. Anomie ⚔ 14:09, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
I need your help reverted User:Paniolia's contributions. This user moved the talkpage of Stefan Szkafarowsky to be the user's talkpage. I've attempted moving that page (containing welcome message and notices) to be User talk:Paniolia, not Talk:Stefan Szkafarowsky. To make matters worse, it seems this user also started Wikipedia talk:Stefan Szkafarowsky as a link to their "user talkpage". I would appreciate your help with this. Thanks, SwisterTwister talk 05:11, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
I was not notified of this deletion. I am rather shocked that months of work was deleted over such minor comments by few IPs. Please restore these templates. I have already filed a deletion review at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2012 May 25#Template:Membership -- A Certain White Cat chi? 20:10, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a deletion review of Template:NOT. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Captaincollect1970 ( talk) 03:19, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi, currently at ANI there are plans to nuke 10,000 articles on Chinese townships, basically everything ever created by User:Jaguar, including the SPanish municipalities I'm trying to source and save. I agree that 8000-10,000 articles would demand years of hard work to get them all up to a reasonable status but the average township article could look like Anxiang Township. If they are all deleted, chances are in might not be for years until anybody covers much of them. And the thing is, all the stubs link to the website which just needs the exact township linked and a bit of data extracted. I think it would be far more productive in the long term to organize something to add the Chinese and exact links and try to use something to extract raw data. Would it be possible to code something to copy the Chinese from the relative townships list e.g List of township-level divisions of Hebei and use that to find the exact township on the website given in the refs? Its just its very destructive what they're planning when they could surely be saved with some sort of coding.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:01, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
Ah they got deleted ...♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:45, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Well, 8,000 articles were deleted from here. They could probably all be restored if the errors are removed and perhaps some content is added.. i believe the best thing would be to recreate with a bot or something.. There are some sites which consistently have population and area data and a list of the village committees.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:58, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, Plastikspork. Since you work plenty with templates, I was wondering if you could look into some odd deletion summary messages. For example, when I was going to delete
Category:Wikipedia files needing editor assistance at upload as of 25 May 2012, the deletion summary ends up looking like this: %5B%5BWP%3ACSD%23G6%7CG6%5D%5D%3A+Housekeeping+and+routine+%28non-controversial%29+cleanup
. This also occurs with prods (take
Bernie Marsden (album), for example, I get Expired+%5B%5BWP%3APROD%7CPROD%5D%5D%2C+concern+was%3A+no+sources+to+be+found.+no+such+album.+duplicate+of+%5B%5BGoing+to+My+Hometown+%28album%29%5D%5D
). Everything was fine just 24 hours ago, and I'm not sure what happened. Is this a problem with the coding of the templates, or is the issue go beyond that? —
ξ
xplicit
00:46, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
#REDIRECT [[MediaWiki:Group-sysop.js]]
behind, which I'm sure isn't valid JavaScript. This may have something to do with it. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
10:14, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
can we speedy delete Template:Maspeling per Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2010_May_17#Template:Maspecorg and other ma* discussions? Frietjes ( talk) 17:52, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
That was very kind of you, and just what I was looking for. Thank you! SlimVirgin (talk) 04:04, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Sporky. For the cinema template removal/replacing, could I suggest a couple of improvements to your bot:
Thanks. Lugnuts ( talk) 07:58, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikspork,
I suppose that both infoboxes will be merged first and then the new template will be deleted. I have done my work for WP and I expect that other people improve it and don't destroy it. In this spirit, I agree the decision.
I would like to help you by merging, but I am not a expert in WP templates. My only idea is to create 4 new variables: image_right, image_left1, image_left2 and image_left3. If image_right exists then the "old" images (that is the old layout) shouldn't be shown but only the new images (image_left1-3 and image_right) in a table as in Infobox settlement Chile. In this way, old data records without a "image_right" variable will be processed as always.
--Best regards, Keysanger ( what?) 11:54, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikspork,
GregU ( talk · contribs) has not been active on this project for some months now. However, I and a few other editors are using his dashes script quite intensively for the last few months. That, together with the ever-increasing "creativity" of editors' formatting and template writing (and occasionally not abiding by MOS), means that a number of false positives showing up are increasing. The issues have been flagged on his talk page, but he's simply not around to respond. As Wikipedia's template guru, general tech expert and helpful dude, could you help investigating the script and making necessary coding changes thereto or to the offending template? Thanks. -- Ohconfucius ¡digame! 12:30, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I see you've removed a template which used to give very convenient access to the 1911 EB. It hasn't done much damage to the Henry Scherren page itself, but out of curiosity I followed the Wikisource link to the Henry Scherren Wikisource page, and it's all redlinks! This is pretty catastrophic as it must be repeated on thousands of other pages.
Is there a plan or mechanism for restoring or replacing all the lost accessibility to 1911 EB pages?
I suppose there must be some reason for the action that has been taken but given that it can't be copyright, I do wonder what it might be, and what we can do about it.
Chiswick Chap ( talk) 06:29, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
{{
EB1911 Link}}
, and it contains just two entries: the creation of the template by Rich Farmbrough, and the addition of the TFD by Frietjes. In both cases the behaviour when transcluded was exactly the same: the wikicode {{EB1911 Link|Platypus}}
was equivalent to simply entering [[Platypus]]
. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
10:26, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
Why did you get rid of them? They worked well, and UFC Undisputed 2009 and 2010 have them... JonnyBonesJones ( talk) 02:40, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
May I request you to please reopen the tfd
[4] that was marked as no consensus, as in my opinion it should have been relisted to generate more consensus rather than closing. There were valuable comments from many users, It has been nominated again and now a user is claiming for POINT. --
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XЯaɣ
08:41, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikpork, interwiki for this template Template:Navbox with collapsible groups-- Nihan ( talk) 22:43, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
Just curious - is the whitespace feature of autoed intended to remove white space in infobox parameters. I personally prefer that "=" to be lined up so you can quickly scan the parameters on the right to find the thing you want to fix. I've seen these removed recently by this tool and was wondering if that was intended or improper use of the tool. -- Trödel 13:33, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I see you noticed my bit of AfD trophy collecting. How about pasting a copy of the navbox code right into that page? I'd done something cute with the “look”. Cheers, Jack Merridew 09:33, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi. About this [5]: Why not to include tfd part in noinclude (see here: [6])? And where is the "this template's entry" at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion? Anchored link doesn't work: Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion#Template:Film_Italy` a5b ( talk) 02:24, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
see tfd 198.102.153.2 ( talk) 22:53, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikpork. An editor recently made these changes to some the tables I entered, everywhere replacing align="right" with style="text-align:right;". Are there real advantages doing this, sufficient to warrant the untidy complication of the tables? -- Epipelagic ( talk) 20:30, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikspork, I'm writing to you because you closed the mass opera composer navbox TfD. The list of 50 navboxes with 2 and 3 opera links was closed as "Keep". I now discover that the nominator had nominated another 15 composer navboxes on the same day (May 30) but forgot to list them in the deletion discussion. Consequently, they are still languishing with TfD templates on them and no linked discussion. All of them are 2 or 3 opera ones and would have been kept had they been listed properly. I'm happy to remove the TfD templates from them with an edit summary referring to the deletion discussion, but wanted to check if I could do that or if it needs an admin. Best, Voceditenore ( talk) 16:15, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
Hi Spork,
I just saw your Bot zapping one of those templates.
Should we let your bot do them all?
The side effect of those templates involved categorization.
If we are zapping a template ourselves, we need to confirm a specific categorization first, before deleting the template?
Varlaam (
talk)
17:24, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
{{Film XYZ}}
templates that you see. The procedure is to (1) replace it with the name of the country in the infobox and (2) add the category if it isn't there already. I would say there are probably better uses of your time. However, if you are already editing one of the articles, then of course you should consider replacing the template in the same edit. This will save my bot the trouble of replacing the template. I imagine my bot will be completely finished within the next couple days. After that there will still be a few runs to catch any that were reverted (e.g., reverted in the process of reverting vandalism). Thanks!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
23:47, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
I didn't realize the template had been nominated for deletion before it was too late. I would have stated that this template is useful in new page patrol when dealing with articles about places, where the article doesn't state where the subject is located. I find the template {{ context}} unhelpful in such circumstances, as it doesn't tell the creator what we mean by "lack of context", whereas the template {{ whereisit}} pinpoints the problem. The problem is usually resolved in no time, which explains why there are so few long-term transclusions. The first draft of the article Devine High School was one where {{ whereisit}} would have been a better choice than the generic {{ context}}. Luckily, in this case, the article creator understood the problem.
I believe the deletion of this template should be reconsidered. -- Blanchardb - Me• MyEars• MyMouth- timed 23:27, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
What does mean temporary? Where is the discussion? mabdul 10:05, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
Re: Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion#Template:Rank_order — Three "deletes" and one "keep" is "no consensus"? Pristino ( talk) 20:47, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
Should this discussion Template talk:LUL color#Requested move go to Wikipedia:Templates for discussion? You regularly deal with templates, and I don't completely know how that works. Is it really only "Templates for deletion"? Secondarywaltz ( talk) 21:56, 23 June 2012 (UTC)
I left a message concerning Richard Hatch (Survivor contestant) on the BLPN board, and nobody even followed up on the discussion nor changed the unsourced section for several days, that's why I removed the section. BLPs need sources, not tags. 69.62.243.48 ( talk) 22:51, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
Has been renominated.... for the third time here. Informing people who were part of prior discussions, as courtesy. Mar4d ( talk) 03:37, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
Where is da hotel marker from the map?♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:18, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
I don't, but the editor added coord. Can you ,make the header name of the club for infobox golf facility green too and also a green border around the box? Also, location isn't showing for some reason and I want the coordinates to show in the title and infobox for Aylesbury Vale Golf Club,.♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:24, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
{{
Infobox golf facility}}
doesn't recognise |coordinates_display=
. In fact, it doesn't construct a {{
coord}}
at all; the |latd=
/|longd=
/etc. parameters are used purely to create a pushpin map. BTW although the postal address is Leighton Buzzard, Beds, the golf course is actually in Bucks, so try |pushpin_map=United Kingdom Buckinghamshire
. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
15:11, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
Regards — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 21:17, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
You missed one deletion at Template:Broken Arrow PS. I think I unintentionally forgot to put it in the nomination, which may be why you missed it in the deletion round. If you'd like a renom, let me know. -- Izno ( talk) 21:30, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
I created this and intended to populated it with this. It has been removed per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 June 7#Category:Pages containing subscription only links or citations, which I see as irrelevant . With {{ HighBeam}} gone, there's no way to find these. I believe further discussion about the arbitrary guidance to call-out HighBeam is needful and that a mechanism needs to be available to track this. That little discussion is no consensus re this. Thoughts? Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 10:54, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Would you mind looking at the second list here, that is the collapsed list called "Mercury/omega-3 levels in commercial fish and shellfish". How can I make this list sort? -- Epipelagic ( talk) 22:13, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi. There is a try to revive WikiProject Infoboxes by doing some tasks. These include the use of standard namming, simplify wikicode, reduce the number of infoboxes used, etc. Can you help on that? You are invited to participate in Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes with ideas, suggestions and ofcourse your edits :) -- Magioladitis ( talk) 13:01, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
could you (or another admin) take the pre December 2011 history of Template:Turkish cuisine and merge it with Template:Cuisine of Turkey. you will see that in December 2011 the template was changed from a navbox to a sidebar, but there is concern with the layout in short articles. thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 15:10, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
See my proposal to rename Category:Nippori-Toneri Liner to Category:Nippori-Toneri Line; also the main article. Hugo999 ( talk) 00:02, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Please see
[7] This IP user is making a whole lot of format edits on templates without discussion. Looks to me like hundreds of template edits. Some have been reversed by another editor. I reversed the one they did to
Template:Texas History, because I don't believe the format of it should have been revised. I think you know more about template issues than I do. But I don't think this should be happening. Please advise.
Maile66 (
talk)
23:05, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
Would you mind comparing Danny Hilton (a page you deleted) with the newly created Danny London Hilton? It appears to be the exact same thing, created for the fourth time. 50.131.220.134 ( talk) 01:27, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
Please reconsider your closure at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 July 1#Template:HighBeam; I think the outcome was "keep". Note also the comment on my talk page, about the consequences of the merge. Also, would I be right in thinking that the merged template asks the tracking ability of the of the template discussed (I'm overseas, with limited connectivity so may be slow to respond). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:14, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
|newspaper=
. To me, these templates are not the issue, it's the "payback" for the "free" access.
Br'er Rabbit (
talk)
05:24, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Can you please undelete this.
Rich
Farmbrough,
21:14, 22 July 2012 (UTC).
Hi. Has AutoEd been changed recently? Edits such as:
are ripping large amounts of intentional whitespace and newlines out of templates. There's no consensus that I'm aware of to obfuscate the wiki-text this way. If it's not a feature of AutoEd, it is editing under a false edit summary, as suggested by this 'fix'. Thanks. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 06:14, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
It's not AutoEd, it's something custom done under false edit summaries:
Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 15:29, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Or not; I see another editor cutting massive amounts of whitespace with AutoEd; example:
They're doing it all over Bond articles. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 16:17, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi. How difficult would it be to code something which does this to my Olympic bio stubs. Basically finding the url entry on the website for that person and which enters the date of birth to the article and category reading off the website?♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:29, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
There's a note for you here. At least that's what it appears to be. related edit, more, etc. Also - an appeal to Jimbo! pablo 20:48, 31 July 2012 (UTC)amended11:58, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Ah, terima kasih, Pablo. I'm here about that, too. I commented. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 00:16, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
This has now morphed into {{ cite quick}}, which is all about reduced functionality. This user is now well into WP:IDHT-style disruption. Br'er Rabbit ( talk) 21:54, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
could you watch the move requests for Special:PrefixIndex/Template:All-Ireland Winning Team? it looks like they are in the cue to be moved, but in case they aren't could you do it? thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 16:27, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastikspork. I notice you recently changed {{ 90210}}, {{ Awake (TV series)}} and {{ Desperate Housewives}} to use the default colours. I'd be interested in your opinion on the colours used at {{ Thunderbirds}} and {{ Captain Scarlet}}. Personally I find them a bit garish. What do you think? Regards. DH85868993 ( talk) 06:18, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
I created {{ Public art row}} (plus related header and footer templates). Please will you check I didn't do anything stupid? related discussion is at Emitting metadata from 'List' articles. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:30, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
FYI: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Infobox Header. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 01:00, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Plastikspork. There is a discussion about the coordinates size in the Dam infofox. Your opinion is appreciated. Beagel ( talk) 07:00, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Just alerting you, as per Community reassessment guidelines at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment ("please notify major contributing editors" to a given article) that a Good Article Reassessment has begun for Mila Kunis, at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Mila Kunis/1. -- Tenebrae ( talk) 02:38, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you closed the TfD on Template:Start U.S. magistrateship as delete. However, you never actually deleted the template in question, though you did delete the two associated templates. :) Safiel ( talk) 22:05, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
I noticed you indicated you added the capability for Template:Infobox school to have a pushpin map. I'm sure it is staring right at me, but for the life of me I can't find it. Can you point me to where it is? I'd like to add it to an article I just created. Cheers! -- WingtipvorteX PTT ∅ 22:32, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
Hey,
I noticed this was still around after the TfD. I've converted it into a quick wrapper, so it should be possible to close this off now by substituting it. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward) ( talk) 13:18, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Hello. You have
a new message at Gareth Griffith-Jones#Adding blank lines's talk page.
(cur | prev) 17:32, September 3, 2012 Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk | contribs) . . (287,766 bytes) (+339) . . (→Adding blank lines: Done that ... and "Ha!" ... you are correct.) (rollback: 1 edit | undo)
(cur | prev) 17:14, September 3, 2012 Plastikspork (talk | contribs) . . (287,427 bytes) (+756) . . (→Adding blank lines: Re) (undo)
Kind regards, -- Gareth Griffith-Jones ( GG-J's Talk) 10:06, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Could you read the talk page of the infobox automobile thx --> Typ932 T· C 17:31, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
Could you implement the change proposd at Template talk:Tfd links#Display format, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:14, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
Please see Template talk:Geobox#Mountain code and Template talk:Geobox#Mountain ranges. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:18, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
Can you please restore that template and the redirect Template:RFL? I was unaware of the TfD because I only had the redirect watchlisted. I would prefer using the template to adding the code. Ryan Vesey 12:30, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
Two templates which you deleted, then later userfied (and your reasons for doing the latter), are being discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Talk:List of north–south roads in Toronto/TOC. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:44, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
|
The Template Barnstar | |
A barnstar for you. Really everytime I see your name pop up on my watchlist, I know: another problem has been solved (as opposed to: sigh, let me see what is going on, I have to infer). ;-) - DePiep ( talk) 01:08, 8 September 2012 (UTC) |
Hello!
Can you semi-protect the article about the The Biggest Loser Asia (season 2) that some of IP user insist that added unknown table from The Biggest Loser from the other countries not related to TBL Asia graphic article due to hoax or vandal info. Pls. help -- Puppyph ( talk) 02:38, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
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The da Vinci Barnstar | |
for your changes to infobox road and the USA/ CAN browselinks templates. I was stumped as to why it wasn't working before, and you found the issue and corrected it. Frietjes ( talk) 16:26, 14 September 2012 (UTC) |
Hi Plastikspork. I realise you possibly haven't finished processing the TfD yet, but I thought I'd raise a couple of points it might be easier to address while you were "in the moment":
DH85868993 ( talk) 23:15, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Moving files to the Commons#Template:Now commons dated about a frequently used template which you deleted. You might wish to comment there. -- Stefan2 ( talk) 10:07, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Do you have time to finish the {{ Infobox automobile}}/{{ Infobox bus}} merge/redirect/rename please? Chris is busy elsewhere. Note discussion on the former template's talk page Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:46, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
Whoa whoa, hold on here, full stop. This template had a very specific purpose, namely the proper dating of NowCommons. Please reconsider your decision to delete or I will have to take it to deletion review. Magog the Ogre ( t • c) 17:00, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
Plastikspork - thanks, I think I found and got all the non-talk page links and references to the template removed and the category squared away. -- Mike Cline ( talk) 11:33, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
May I gently remind you about the mergers decided upon at #Deity templates and #Template:Infobox Legislature Historic. If you could please help complete them, that would be appreciated. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:01, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
I nominated several infoboxes for discussion, on September 22, 23 and 24. Your wise counsel would, as always, be welcome. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:28, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
this is a great idea. I have nominated {{Japan Railway Line}}
for deletion, since it has now been reduced to a very trivial wrapper.
Frietjes (
talk)
23:11, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
Can you please move "Template:Virgin Records" to my user pages? Also, couldn't the template consist of the links that I mentioned before? We have not had the opportunity to discuss those. Thanks!-- Jax 0677 ( talk) 13:11, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Hi, your name was mentioned at Wikipedia_talk:RFA#Statistics_.28and_lies.3F.29, so I decided to stop by and see if you might be willing to answer a couple questions?
1. What motivates you to do a lot of deletions? Is it your primary manner of participation on Wikipedia or a smaller part of your overall work?
2. What sorts of things or interactions make your deletion work less pleasant? What sorts of changes or occurrences would make you less likely to perform the number of deletions you presently perform?
3. Do you have any suggestions on how the deletion process or conduct policies surrounding deletions could be improved to encourage greater admin participation?
Feel free to respond here or at WT:RFA, if you decide to respond. Thanks. MBisanz talk 15:55, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Can you explain why you closed Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2012 September 20#Template:Infobox Asterix, where one person agreed with the nomination (Blueap), and one person disagreed (me), as a "rewrite" instead of a "no consensus" or (probably better) "relist"? The only reason my comment was opposed was for supposed "ownership" issues with the template I suggested, a statement for which no further evidence was provided and which shouldn't have any bearing on a TfD anyway. Fram ( talk) 06:49, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
You closed Template:TerminaLink ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) as delete yet it still exists. Cheers. -- Alan Liefting ( talk - contribs) 07:39, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
{{tfd/dated}}
). Thanks for noticing!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
04:19, 4 October 2012 (UTC)I forget why I'm stalking your talk page, but I saw your recent complaints about TfD. I don't have the time to volunteer on a regular basis (watch for my new userbox towards the end of October), but if you ever want a second opinion on a TfD—or just see one that you don't want to mess with—feel free to drop me a note. I closed some a while back when the backlog was getting much worse than it is now, but you've been keeping the backlog under two weeks lately so I've felt safe in leaving it to "more experienced" closers. Anomie ⚔ 13:38, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Can you take a look at U.S. Route 131 and the recent changes to {{ infobox road}} to see what might need to be fixed in relation to the browsers at the bottom of the infobox? Odd enough, U.S. Route 141, which also has additional browsers added, doesn't have the same formatting quirk. Imzadi 1979 → 05:35, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
|browse=
is being placed inside of <table>...</table>
, without any containing <tr>...</tr>
or <td>...</td>
. this is exactly what you want for {{
Infobox road/meta/browse}}, which is called by {{
Infobox road/MI browse}}, {{
Infobox road/IN browse}}, ... However, other templates, like {{
Infobox road/browselinks/USA}} do not generate the <tr>...</tr>
and <td>...</td>
, so they are being placed inside the <table>...</table>
without a containing <tr>...</tr>
and <td>...</td>
. the "tidy" feature then has to figure out what to do in this case, and simply closes the table prematurely when there are multiple uncontained lines. the most robust fix would be to have {{
Infobox road/browselinks/USA}} and others generate a containing <tr>...</tr>
and <td>...</td>
. but, watch out, since these templates must return "none" when there are no links (see ifeq check at the bottom of {{
Infobox road}}.
Frietjes (
talk)
15:04, 5 October 2012 (UTC)I see you deleted yet another Template providing important financial information, deleting every instance in finance-related articles, based on no discussion. Absolutely none. A request by an IP, and you immediately delete an active Template, leaving no record of the articles which used it. Why would you do this? You deleted The Economist earlier. Are you deleting all the finance-related templates? What is it you so dislike about finance and economics?
184.78.81.245 ( talk) 05:56, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
{{Forbes profile}}
if you think we need a template to link to Forbes website. Although, it seems like there is no real problem here, since there are plenty of links to the Forbes profiles (see the over 500 links
here). Thanks!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
03:09, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Any reason why Atlantic Records was not kept, even though it was reduced to not contain any artists? Also, can you please restore the following templates to my userspace?
Template:Atlantic Records
Template:Custard Records
Template:Daptone Records
Template:Fractured Transmitter Recording Company
Template:Good Fight Entertainment
Template:Kickball Records
Template:Massacre Records
Template:Revelation Records
Template:Show Dog-Universal Music
Template:Southern Lord Records
Template:Uprising Records
--
Jax 0677 (
talk)
09:06, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
At Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_October_3#Template:SaQ, you closed the "discussion", inferring a consensus after only the original poster and two others commented on it in 18 days, stating the templates could be replaced by simple redirects. I contend not only that there is no consensus when only 2 others even felt the need to comment, but that the inference is also incorrect, per my arguments there. The purpose of the templates is to increase accuracy and ease of editing. The redirects will be flagged by bots as links to redirects unless you use a pipe to link to the underlying article, which defeats the purpose. The templates also have the potential to fix the inconsistencies in spelling and capitalization of the dynasty names, since they are all maintained in the templates. These are good, and non-trivial benefits, with no real downside (an extra handful of template calls in an article is nothing compared to some of the big whopping list and table articles that run up against wikipedia's limits). Have you edited any of these bio articles for dynasty members? I believe if you, or the other 3 people that have a problem with it did on a regular basis, you would appreciate the idea of these templates. —[ AlanM1( talk)]— 05:06, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Please see my proposal to upmerge Category:Nuclear power by country and subcategories (4) to Category:Nuclear energy by country Hugo999 ( talk) 12:25, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello Plastikspork,
After successfully downloading it to my vector.js, I have been using Wikipedia:AutoEd since June this year, accessing it from the link at the top of the article page and/or the edit page. Now neither are available. I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent changes to editing Wikipedia earlier this month.
Can you help, please? -- Gareth Griffith-Jones/ GG-J's Talk 22:29, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
Good day, sir,
I have just embarked on the long-overdue rewrite of the sources script in
my test space. I am also attempting to lay down my thoughts as to how it should work at
User:Ohconfucius/script/Sources#General_principles. FYI, the working test module is named function Ohc_sourcename
. Note that this is very much work in progress, and that the module will supplant some of the regex currently residing in function Ohc_news_sources()
. Your thoughts and advice, particularly as to the organisation/flow of the various tasks, would be much appreciated.
Oh, and is there a way to consolidate the code, as the first two blocks merely perform different transformations on the same strings? Regards, -- Ohconfucius ping / poke 01:00, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
this template is now orphaned, and the documentation pages discussing it have been updated. not sure what to do next. we could redirect it, but that wouldn't help old revisions, but would possibly help editors find template:WikiProject Ships, although if they know about this template, they must know about the other. so, perhaps just delete it? I can't do anything to it since it is full protected. Frietjes ( talk) 15:43, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
Could you add |native_name=
& |native_name_lang=
to {{
Infobox military unit}}, please? I'm not sure how to do it for an Infobox that doesn't use {{
Infobox}}.
Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing);
Talk to Andy;
Andy's edits
19:25, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
I noticed that the last 8 userboxes (from "This user has made..." downward) on your user page are not selectable/clickable. Do you know why that is happening? –– Anonymouse321 ( talk • contribs) 05:24, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
<div style="width:800px;">(stuff goes here)</div>
––
Anonymouse321 (
talk •
contribs)
05:18, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
<div>...</div>
element by default is full-width and transparent; but the transparency applies only to optical properties such as the appearance of the text behind, not to interactive properties such as text selection and links. So, if this transparent full-width object happens to be the top layer (as with your show/hide sections), the object behind (your userbox stack) will be optically visible through the transparency, but any text inside it will be non-selectable, and links non-clickable, since they are still "hidden" by the full-width top layer. --
Redrose64 (
talk)
12:39, 25 October 2012 (UTC)could you, or one of your talk page stalking admins, move template:Infobox volleyball player to Template:Infobox volleyball biography per the TfD outcome? I believe I can edit the template, to do most of the work required for merging it with the coach template, but I cannot move it. thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 23:06, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
Just to let you know. A couple of weeks ago when you fixed the Template:Infobox settlement so the relief map would be optional, I placed the same edit request on two others - Template:Infobox museum and Template:Infobox NRHP. Today, user Mr. Stradivarius has left messages that they don't know how to do this and want me to supply the codes necessary. Not knowing codes or anything else about this, I replied on talk page for Mr. Stradivarius and referred them to the template you handled. — Maile ( talk) 17:53, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
you can remove the |label=
parameter from the {{
location map+}} call in {{
infobox settlement}}. this is only used for the caption logic, which since caption is explicitly set to blank, the label parameter won't be used. of course, you still need it in the call to {{
location map~}}. I am going to work on removing the label parameter from {{
location map+}} in other cases.
Frietjes (
talk)
21:01, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
Museum of Asian Art, why is the map not working, answer please.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 10:32, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi Plastik. Can you programme Infobox City Japan to display Template:Location map Japan Ryukyu Islands for Ryukyu articles like Okinawa Prefecture etc instead of the main Japanese map? Also requested an svg to replace the one I made. I find the location in the window currently confusing and doesn't show true location.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 15:33, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Also created Template:Ref GM, for referencing to google maps, can you take care of the documentation/formatting?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 18:01, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, I was hoping I could impose on you for a bit of help with a template. {{
Census 2006 AUS}} and {{
Census 2006 AUS link}} are two related templates used to handle Australian census data. One creates a fully formatted citation with calls to {{
Cite web}}, while the other creates just a link. For example, {{Census 2006 AUS|id=SSC18623|name=Raymond Terrace (State Suburb)|accessdate=24 January 2008|quick=on|map=yes}}
and {{Census 2006 AUS link|id=SSC18623}}
create
Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007).
"Raymond Terrace (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 24 January 2008.
Map and
[9] respectively. I've been trying to modify {{
Census 2011 AUS}} to incorporate the functionality of a yet to be created {{Census 2011 AUS link}}
to avoid the need for two templates, to no avail. Is this possible? --
AussieLegend (
✉)
12:44, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
{{
Census 2006 AUS|link}}
do the same thing as {{
Census 2006 AUS link}}
.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
03:24, 7 November 2012 (UTC)Plastikspork, you just closed a TfD for the NFL coaches infobox, and other editors are now proceeding to merge it into one of the most used infobox templates on Wikipedia, and NO ONE ever posted a notice on the talk page for Wikiproject NFL (WP:NFL)! Something is very wrong with this TfD process when a major and active project was not notified nor consulted concerning a merger target template that is used on over 10,000 articles. This process needs to be halted for review now.
Furthermore, no one ever posted a notice on the page for Template:Infobox NFL player, the proposed target page for the merger, and they are talking about altering the target template. This appears to have been a major process error. I suggest you immediately reopen the TfD and provide proper notice to WP:NFL and place notice on the target template page. Otherwise, you are going to have a riot on your hands. Dirtlawyer1 ( talk) 21:18, 8 November 2012 (UTC)
Plastikspork
Please see
Template talk:Infobox train#Additional fields and
Template talk:Infobox train#Add parameter "fuelcap". Those are "loose ends".
Peter Horn
User talk
19:28, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello,
I notice you were the last person to do any work on the above so thought I'd ask you this. It's a very useful template, and I reckon it would be better at a more generic name (to go with {{ Progress bar}}, {{ Progression}}, {{ Percentage bar}} and so on), and the old name converted into a wrapper. I started doing that (see its history), but immediately ran into a problem. The way I thought you'd pass the arguments was evidently very wrong (stemming from my lack of precise understanding of argument handling), and broke the template. Plus then I noticed there was a named parameter as well, argh. Realizing I wasn't going to be able to fix it immediately, I put it back to how I found it.
Would you be able to give me a hand in making it happen? That would be great if so. — Hex (❝?!❞) 21:05, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
could you move template:Freemasonry2 to template:Freemasonry and possibly merge the early history? also, I think template:Freemason should probably moved to project space or use space. 174.56.57.138 ( talk) 21:59, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Why in the world did you delete the directv channel list page on october 20hth? It was a great resource. VERY UNHAPPY — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.51.126.168 ( talk) 16:33, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, could you please delete all of the revision history on my User Page as I have deleted and blanked the page now and would like the information to be removed from further searches as some of it could be considered sensitive. Many thanks for your help. Timclare (talk) (sign here) 21:54, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
I'm having trouble making all the station names line up.
Could you have a look and see where I've gone wrong, please?
See Template:Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway.
Thank you for helping me!
Alastair Carr ( talk) 19:46, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi,I would like to be an autoconfirmed user, to save the books made with wikibooks. I asked in the main forum,somebody suggest me to contact any admin that can upgrade my account. Would you be so kind to do this for me?
Many Thanks! VV — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chitammuo ( talk • contribs) 16:57, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
could you merge the history of template:infobox firearm cartridge/Convert into template:infobox firearm cartridge/convert? there should be no need to preserve any redirects after the merge (just keep the lower case version, with the code used by the lower case version). I am working on a second subtemplate of that template, but it's not quite ready yet. thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 22:16, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
could you delete template:Big Brother sidebar/Indonesia per this discussion? I have recoded the entire series, and this one is particularly useless, since there was only one season. the only reason it is showing a transclusion is due to the "ifexist" code in the main template. thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 17:28, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, the template "confusing-section" used to accept a "reason" parameter, and display the reason in the banner, but that feature now seems to have stopped working. The only recent edits to the template sems to be yours, so I wonder if you may have inadvertently changed something? I do not have any technical understanding of templates, so I am not really sure what has happened.... 81.159.111.30 ( talk) 02:14, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
{{confusing|section|reason=your reason}}
. These "section" templates are usually just duplicates of the main template with "section" for the first parameter. Thanks!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
04:39, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Infoboxes#Coordinate errors affecting multiple infoboxes. Your assistance would be appreciated. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:09, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I'm doing a GA review on Svalbard Rocket Range, and the article author inserted a map with the {{ Locator map}} template, but they say it is showing the wrong location. I noticed you've worked on that template. Can you help out? Thanks. -- Noleander ( talk) 21:38, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
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The Teamwork Barnstar |
Thanks for fixing the Arctic map for the Locator map template ... Svalbard Rocket Range thanks you. Noleander ( talk) 22:24, 9 December 2012 (UTC) |
I wonder if you're aware that the default value for the |coordinates_display=
parameter of {{
Infobox settlement}} has always been inline. Mind you, I don't see any harm in recognizing inline as a special value for the parameter, but I do think the change ought to have been mentioned on the talk page first. What are your thoughts on the matter?
I'm also hoping you'll update the doc subpage to reflect the new semantics. Cheers, — Stepheng3 ( talk) 06:15, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Is this regarding your edits?
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Removing Science Fiction template from Science Fiction articles. regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. -- Malerooster ( talk) 01:32, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Since no one else seems to be asking, I guess I should -- why the removals? I don't mind them, assuming there is a decent reason for it. Just trying to preempt further AN/I trips. Thanks! Evanh2008 ( talk| contribs) 03:31, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
I've restored the template - your reason was that it didn't include the article, but it isn't meant to include books. It's clearly relevant. Dougweller ( talk) 06:21, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
I am sure you were acting in good faith; but the fact is that Forry used the form WITHOUT a period after the J for many decades, as can be attested in many discussions, some of which are referenced in the talk page of that article. I have reverted your move to the incorrect version of his name as commonly used. Full disclosure: I knew Forry: we met at the Ackermansion as well as at cons, and did panels at at least two science fiction conventions together. -- Orange Mike | Talk 09:43, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
WIMA has merged with its sister project, IMSLP. The merge was completed at the end of July 2012. The WIMA server is kept alive, though, for various purposes, including hosting the MusiXTeX music engraving software suite.
The WIMA server also still offers entry points to its composers. Accesses to these items are redirected to the corresponding IMSLP composer pages. Until a few days ago the redirects took place as plain Apache redirect statements in various .htaccess files but are now managed through Apache rewrite rules, looking up IMSLP locations in the WIMA database.
I've performed a few checks of that feature by accessing WIMA links in Wikipedia composer articles. It looks like these redirects are well functioning. However, I do agree that existing WIMA references in Wikipedia articles through the WIMA template are gradually replaced by immediate links to IMSLP.
Reccmo ( talk) 10:00, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
In follow up of this deletion, please have the links removed. Thanks! -- Uzma Gamal ( talk) 17:40, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
I'd love it if you'd take a look at my edits in Template:Infobox NRHP/sandbox and give me your feedback. I'm a bit rusty at editing templates. — Stepheng3 ( talk) 18:03, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
SporkBot has been replacing {{ tv.com}} with {{ tv.com show}} but a lot of the changes, like this one have resulted in broken links. -- AussieLegend ( ✉) 10:46, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
I've undone 300 of these changes, but there are still some 1500 left to do. If anyone wants do continue this (perhaps as a short bot task), I would be grateful. Otherwise I'll continue on Monday, probably. Fram ( talk) 14:38, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
{{tv.com show}}
in the frst place, to make the template fully backward compatible with {{tv.com}}
. The numeric codes still work, it's only new programs that don't get them, so a straight conversion is now possible and there's no need to worry about codes until they eventually stop working, if that ever happens. --
AussieLegend (
✉)
17:09, 15 December 2012 (UTC){{tv.com}}
link. If any of these steps fails, it just skips the page. Once the bot finishes running through the list of transclusions, I will investigate the ones that are remaining (or are in the tracking category). I have already noticed that there are some that are pointing to the wrong show, or are trying to point to people pages, instead of show pages, which doesn't work since the template is for creating links to show pages. So, in the end this will be a useful exercise, since it should clean up most of the bad URLs (especially the 404 errors). Thanks and sorry about the first pass through the transclusions!
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk)
00:06, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
Map is cocked up, can you sort it?♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:31, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
I think you may have messed up Template:Infobox French commune when you edited it on December 9. Now, whenever an edit is made to an article containing it (even a null edit), the title coordinates go crazy. See Noyon, for instance. I don't know enough about templates to see what the problem may be. Deor ( talk) 20:27, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
Orphaning is not deletion, see your concern addressed at Template_talk:Infobox_settlement/Other_templates_up_for_TfD#Orphaning_of_redirects. Comments welcome. And me too, I don't think Infobox settlement is a good name. NVanMinh ( talk) 03:01, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
Per someone's request at WP:AN, I'm going through the editprotected requests, including the discussion in which you participated at {{ Sidebar}}. I'm not clear — is discussion done? If so, which of the links is the one to the version that should be placed in the template? When you and CsDix have decided what to do, let me know and I'll copy it over, although of course you're welcome to do that yourself. I'm just really hesitant to do anything yet — because of the wide usage of this template, I don't want to edit it and then revert myself in the event of a mistake, given the current discussion at the "Job queue" section of WP:VP/T. Nyttend ( talk) 13:38, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
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