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I see you have been working on Template:NCAATeamSeason. While I was working on 2008–09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, which is currently at WP:FAC, and other team season articles I have become interested in adding a parameter so that both a team photo and the team logo could appear. Most teams in the conference have a logo on their page, but it seems impossible to have both.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 13:50, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello Chris. Further to my WP:Footy postings (which were largely just answered by yourself) I have succeeded in getting one of the English football stub categories changed, in order to try and introduce wording/punctuation that does not wrongly infer nationality when this is not known. See my talk discussions with the person who made the change, which has a link to the log [1]. In order to do this I changed the wording at the top of the category (text in green box), changed the text reference in the actual template, and then posted the request for move at Stub deletion. Quite an exhaustive process for the addition of one comma! In terms of bundling quite a few more next time you will see RL0919 refers to 'listing and tagging' so I'm not sure what else I would need to do other than listing all the current/future stub categories. Whilst I think the principle of what I'm doing is the right approach, I think the wider issue is why are all these stub football categories on here anyway. I think the wording at 'England-footy-bio-stub' is adequate and is all that is needed for stubs, and avoids inferring nationality. Within the general stub explanation pages on Wiki I have not seen anything which states what the purpose of adding a stub is. I assume it is so some editors could decide to target the expanding of stub articles, but I imagine this is quite a minority, and how many would really welcome this birth date/position further break down. I would like to potentially go for some wider Footy debate on the purpose of all these football stub categories but welcome your thoughts here first. I'll watch this page. Thanks. Eldumpo ( talk) 14:39, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Unfortunately my question at STUB has had no reply so I will raise another question at Footy shortly, specifically to try and understand the rationale for all the football stubs and a suggestion for change. Regards. Eldumpo ( talk) 19:50, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
If you want to help merging any of the missing links, see Template talk:Weather, thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:01, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
You're a system administrator with a degree and you still fell for it?! Probably best if you turn your computer off, and then switch it back on again. Lugnuts ( talk) 16:54, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello, the recent changes you made to Template:NCAATeamSeason seem to be blowing up the formatting of the table. The record fields seem to have been shifted off to a new column on the right. See: 2003 Michigan Wolverines football team. Can you remedy this? Thanks. Jweiss11 ( talk) 17:04, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. What is the point of replacing perfectly valid information with a references needed tag? Such tags are all over the place these days, and they stay for all eternity. There never will be a more official or exhaustive list of "Free Git hosting services." In fact, the official (!) Git wiki is as official and exhaustive as it gets.
I was even willing to compromise by leaving just the Wikipedia articles, which should be responsible for providing references, not the article linking to them. If that is not acceptable, I suggest we remove the remaining links as well. Then people can find a list on the internet and are not deceived by Wikipedia's "authoritative list." -- Drizzd ( talk) 09:11, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Just wanted to leave a note of thanks for helping me out with the links on the help page. Warm regards. ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ ―Œ ♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣ 18:05, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Why do you replace {{Portal|Free software|Free Software Portal Logo.svg}} with {{fossportal}}? I can see no benefit of such. It just unnscesarily uses an custom template instead of common portal inclusion feature. -- Frap ( talk)
Please, if you basically undo my edit, then at least have the decency to mention that and give a short explanation in the edit summary. (I'm talking about this vs before my edit) I would have at least liked to know what you found to be so wrong with it. Thank you, Quibik ( talk) 18:02, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Please do not add any more {{ prod}} tags to articles which are missing sources when the most trivial search would have turned up dozens of third party sources that prove that Orange County Choppers meets the criteria for WP:COMPANY. It is appropriate to tag such articles with {{ unreferenced}} or {{ refimprove}}, but to assert that "No secondary sources exist," as you wrote, is patently false. You have an obligation to make a minimal effort to find out if sources exist before proposing deletion. -- Dbratland ( talk) 16:12, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I just thought you'd find it interesting that because of your contributions to Talk:2010 Major League Soccer season, you've been implicated in not-so-thinly-veiled accusations of being my sockpuppet. I apologize for the inconvenience and I thought I would bring it to your attention. -- Grant . Alpaugh 17:27, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
A user has edited this template but instead of being helpful, he's ruined it, and many articles have this template on their page. I tried to fix it but on my preview, it did not become the same. Could you please help edit this. Sincerely Subzerosmokerain ( talk) 23:58, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Jza84 suggested you as a template guru who might be able to assist with an issue we are talking about. The issue concern the possibility of categorising images by the project's assessment banner. We don't know what may be possible so if you would read the discussion at Articles needing a photo you will get the full context. If you think you can assist, please post on that talk page with any suggestions. I am also asking these three editors, Worofdreams, Pigsonthewing and MRSC who were recommended. Hopefully one of you can help. Thanks in advance. ww2censor ( talk) 03:12, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
I was about to nominate this one for deletion, but could not figure out what it would be redundant to. If it's not redundant, then perhaps it's better to clean it up and categorize it? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 02:23, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for the feedback that you left me, I am new to wikipedia so could you help me with regards to how I show reliable sources and also could you point out the part/s of my article that you feel have a promotional tone - Henrim1980 13:36, 13th April 2010
Can you please restore the color bar to the artist infobox? Thank you... Modernist ( talk) 13:03, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering whether or not screen shots are actually permitted to be used within wikipedia. I have read through the article regarding 'pictures' but it is not exactly clear. Screenshots do seem to be allowed on some pages but not on others which confuses me a bit. Thanks in advance( Monkeymanman ( talk) 16:59, 13 April 2010 (UTC))
Please clarify if you support deletion or blanking at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Alfy852. Your comment doesn't specify which. Thanks, Cunard ( talk) 01:17, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi when you came and made some changes at Tree shaping did you mean to remove the link to the Alternative names section? Blackash have a chat 13:11, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
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They corrected the centering issue with the logo/cap logo. The previous coding was not centering the logos in the box but rather was left aligning them. That coding was lifted straight from the MiLB infobox and from what I see hasn't broken it. Can you elaborate on how the coding has been broken? Gateman1997 ( talk) 17:45, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
-- Giants 27( Contribs| WP:CFL) 18:28, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your help with this template earlier today. So I don't mess it up again, it would be great if you could take a quick look at my proposal at Template talk:Infobox skyscraper#Cancelled status. Thanks. Astronaut ( talk) 12:34, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
See here. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:31, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
You might want to take a look at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (infoboxes)#Reverted. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 11:21, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello. You have a new message at Nihiltres's talk page. Message added 17:34, 17 April 2010 (UTC).
Forgive me if I'm speaking out of place, but I'd like to better understand the ban of this ip. I don't know him (other than having reverted his changes to Dulé_Hill as vandalism), but from my limited involvement in the issue, it seems premature to assume he was a troll. He had numerous vandalism warnings posted to his talk page, but they all revolved around editing this same article, and I was unable to find any discussion with him regarding why he was being warned, or what about his behavior was inappropriate. For a new user, it's possible he was legitimately ignorant. Furthermore, when I explained it to him, he seemed reasonably complacent.
Is there some backstory here which I'm missing? Again, this isn't really my issue to get involved in... but I haven't yet been involved in any disciplinary action, and if there is a precedent for this sort of reaction, I'd like to better understand it (if for no other reason than to know how to respond when it comes up again). Thanks. ~ Jess ( talk) 23:47, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 40 | ← | Archive 44 | Archive 45 | Archive 46 | Archive 47 | Archive 48 | → | Archive 50 |
I see you have been working on Template:NCAATeamSeason. While I was working on 2008–09 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, which is currently at WP:FAC, and other team season articles I have become interested in adding a parameter so that both a team photo and the team logo could appear. Most teams in the conference have a logo on their page, but it seems impossible to have both.-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 13:50, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello Chris. Further to my WP:Footy postings (which were largely just answered by yourself) I have succeeded in getting one of the English football stub categories changed, in order to try and introduce wording/punctuation that does not wrongly infer nationality when this is not known. See my talk discussions with the person who made the change, which has a link to the log [1]. In order to do this I changed the wording at the top of the category (text in green box), changed the text reference in the actual template, and then posted the request for move at Stub deletion. Quite an exhaustive process for the addition of one comma! In terms of bundling quite a few more next time you will see RL0919 refers to 'listing and tagging' so I'm not sure what else I would need to do other than listing all the current/future stub categories. Whilst I think the principle of what I'm doing is the right approach, I think the wider issue is why are all these stub football categories on here anyway. I think the wording at 'England-footy-bio-stub' is adequate and is all that is needed for stubs, and avoids inferring nationality. Within the general stub explanation pages on Wiki I have not seen anything which states what the purpose of adding a stub is. I assume it is so some editors could decide to target the expanding of stub articles, but I imagine this is quite a minority, and how many would really welcome this birth date/position further break down. I would like to potentially go for some wider Footy debate on the purpose of all these football stub categories but welcome your thoughts here first. I'll watch this page. Thanks. Eldumpo ( talk) 14:39, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Unfortunately my question at STUB has had no reply so I will raise another question at Footy shortly, specifically to try and understand the rationale for all the football stubs and a suggestion for change. Regards. Eldumpo ( talk) 19:50, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
If you want to help merging any of the missing links, see Template talk:Weather, thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:01, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
You're a system administrator with a degree and you still fell for it?! Probably best if you turn your computer off, and then switch it back on again. Lugnuts ( talk) 16:54, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello, the recent changes you made to Template:NCAATeamSeason seem to be blowing up the formatting of the table. The record fields seem to have been shifted off to a new column on the right. See: 2003 Michigan Wolverines football team. Can you remedy this? Thanks. Jweiss11 ( talk) 17:04, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. What is the point of replacing perfectly valid information with a references needed tag? Such tags are all over the place these days, and they stay for all eternity. There never will be a more official or exhaustive list of "Free Git hosting services." In fact, the official (!) Git wiki is as official and exhaustive as it gets.
I was even willing to compromise by leaving just the Wikipedia articles, which should be responsible for providing references, not the article linking to them. If that is not acceptable, I suggest we remove the remaining links as well. Then people can find a list on the internet and are not deceived by Wikipedia's "authoritative list." -- Drizzd ( talk) 09:11, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Just wanted to leave a note of thanks for helping me out with the links on the help page. Warm regards. ♪ ♫ Wifione ♫ ♪ ―Œ ♣Łeave Ξ мessage♣ 18:05, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
Why do you replace {{Portal|Free software|Free Software Portal Logo.svg}} with {{fossportal}}? I can see no benefit of such. It just unnscesarily uses an custom template instead of common portal inclusion feature. -- Frap ( talk)
Please, if you basically undo my edit, then at least have the decency to mention that and give a short explanation in the edit summary. (I'm talking about this vs before my edit) I would have at least liked to know what you found to be so wrong with it. Thank you, Quibik ( talk) 18:02, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Please do not add any more {{ prod}} tags to articles which are missing sources when the most trivial search would have turned up dozens of third party sources that prove that Orange County Choppers meets the criteria for WP:COMPANY. It is appropriate to tag such articles with {{ unreferenced}} or {{ refimprove}}, but to assert that "No secondary sources exist," as you wrote, is patently false. You have an obligation to make a minimal effort to find out if sources exist before proposing deletion. -- Dbratland ( talk) 16:12, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I just thought you'd find it interesting that because of your contributions to Talk:2010 Major League Soccer season, you've been implicated in not-so-thinly-veiled accusations of being my sockpuppet. I apologize for the inconvenience and I thought I would bring it to your attention. -- Grant . Alpaugh 17:27, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
A user has edited this template but instead of being helpful, he's ruined it, and many articles have this template on their page. I tried to fix it but on my preview, it did not become the same. Could you please help edit this. Sincerely Subzerosmokerain ( talk) 23:58, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Jza84 suggested you as a template guru who might be able to assist with an issue we are talking about. The issue concern the possibility of categorising images by the project's assessment banner. We don't know what may be possible so if you would read the discussion at Articles needing a photo you will get the full context. If you think you can assist, please post on that talk page with any suggestions. I am also asking these three editors, Worofdreams, Pigsonthewing and MRSC who were recommended. Hopefully one of you can help. Thanks in advance. ww2censor ( talk) 03:12, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
I was about to nominate this one for deletion, but could not figure out what it would be redundant to. If it's not redundant, then perhaps it's better to clean it up and categorize it? Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 02:23, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi, thank you for the feedback that you left me, I am new to wikipedia so could you help me with regards to how I show reliable sources and also could you point out the part/s of my article that you feel have a promotional tone - Henrim1980 13:36, 13th April 2010
Can you please restore the color bar to the artist infobox? Thank you... Modernist ( talk) 13:03, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering whether or not screen shots are actually permitted to be used within wikipedia. I have read through the article regarding 'pictures' but it is not exactly clear. Screenshots do seem to be allowed on some pages but not on others which confuses me a bit. Thanks in advance( Monkeymanman ( talk) 16:59, 13 April 2010 (UTC))
Please clarify if you support deletion or blanking at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Alfy852. Your comment doesn't specify which. Thanks, Cunard ( talk) 01:17, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi when you came and made some changes at Tree shaping did you mean to remove the link to the Alternative names section? Blackash have a chat 13:11, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
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Okay, now that you have relocated 86 (term) you now need to redirect 86'd 86ed to the new page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjozoko ( talk • contribs) 14:45, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
They corrected the centering issue with the logo/cap logo. The previous coding was not centering the logos in the box but rather was left aligning them. That coding was lifted straight from the MiLB infobox and from what I see hasn't broken it. Can you elaborate on how the coding has been broken? Gateman1997 ( talk) 17:45, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
-- Giants 27( Contribs| WP:CFL) 18:28, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for your help with this template earlier today. So I don't mess it up again, it would be great if you could take a quick look at my proposal at Template talk:Infobox skyscraper#Cancelled status. Thanks. Astronaut ( talk) 12:34, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
See here. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 17:31, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
You might want to take a look at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (infoboxes)#Reverted. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 11:21, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello. You have a new message at Nihiltres's talk page. Message added 17:34, 17 April 2010 (UTC).
Forgive me if I'm speaking out of place, but I'd like to better understand the ban of this ip. I don't know him (other than having reverted his changes to Dulé_Hill as vandalism), but from my limited involvement in the issue, it seems premature to assume he was a troll. He had numerous vandalism warnings posted to his talk page, but they all revolved around editing this same article, and I was unable to find any discussion with him regarding why he was being warned, or what about his behavior was inappropriate. For a new user, it's possible he was legitimately ignorant. Furthermore, when I explained it to him, he seemed reasonably complacent.
Is there some backstory here which I'm missing? Again, this isn't really my issue to get involved in... but I haven't yet been involved in any disciplinary action, and if there is a precedent for this sort of reaction, I'd like to better understand it (if for no other reason than to know how to respond when it comes up again). Thanks. ~ Jess ( talk) 23:47, 17 April 2010 (UTC)