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Mabbettsville, New York. matt ( talk) 18:40, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I'm wondering what benefits infobox-metadata has over persondata, if any. For context, we're discussing whether "providing metadata" is one of the potential benefits of adding infoboxes of composer articles (a highly charged topic), at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Composers/Infoboxes RfC#Any remaining concerns. A really brief explanation (for the non-technically inclined) might be helpful there.
Also, I had a hard time finding initial info on where metadata is being used. I initially checked WP:Metadata and WP:WikiProject Microformats, and eventually just went to dbpedia itself and found their example links. I'd recommend adding some links to specific examples of the potential behind metadata, to those two WP pages.
Thanks :) (and thanks for your earlier fixes at {{ Infobox composer/draft}}!) -- Quiddity ( talk) 04:11, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
See here. Enjoy! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 04:48, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for this edit! I always forget which way round it is, and end up with people being minus 30 years old. :) SlimVirgin TALK contribs 13:20, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Can we open up a discussion to convert this to an infobox settlement style? Even the Germany infobox no longer has the tiny national map. Its time this was sorted... Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:48, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
I reversed your modifications to the Template:Infobox thoroughbred racehorse as 1) I don't understand its purpose or value, and 2) out of courtesy, such a change should have first been put up for discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Thoroughbred racing. Thanx. Handicapper ( talk) 13:26, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Not sure what this is all about; can you explain please? Dabomb87 ( talk) 23:57, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Another admin has removed the dob info. I've commented on the talk page about this. Another possible avenue would be a Freedom of Information Act request to the BBC asking for JH's dob, although I'm not sure how we would reference this. Mjroots ( talk) 20:36, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Andy, I hope you are okay with my make–up post at Talk:Salmon Protocol. The fact of the matter is that I'm sympathetic to your point of view at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Over-hasty_tagging_of_new_articles_.3D_off-putting_to_new_users and was trying to protect the newbie at that article from just that. — TRANSPORTERMAN ( TALK) 05:39, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
About ANI, if they don't stop those legal threats, somebody is going to have to sue them! :p Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 16:43, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Since you !voted in the WP:TFD for Template:Snowball Earth/Infobox, I thought you might be interested in considering Template:Snowball Earth graphical timeline as a replacement. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:16, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm somewhat questioning about your edits to Template:Infobox grape variety some time ago. Why are you suddenly changing a template included in hundreds of articles without handling the consequences of your edits? As an example, with this edit you changed the template to italicise species. Since species is typically written italicised, this may have seen like a good idea, however, this meant that you changed the convention for using the template with the consequence that species information is now written unitalicized in the articles! Regards, Tomas e ( talk) 10:37, 4 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, Thumperward and MRSC who were recommended. Hopefully one of you can help. Thanks in advance. ww2censor ( talk) 03:09, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
Thank you, I appreciate that tidy up. Off2riorob ( talk) 14:13, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
NP. Blockquote is under-used. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:16, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
Since we are suggesting work for each other, you might want to check the hCard on this one. Or, suggest a possible place to merge it if it's a duplicate of something. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 20:08, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Andy,
I'd like to query the usefulness of {{ UF-date-warn}}. It rather seems to be the kind of thing which should be discussed or fixed, rather than placed like a bug report on template documentation. Was the need for this discussed prior to it being rolled out? How much effort would be needed to fix this problem at source? I'd rather that it this were something that could be fixed on individual templates that the warning be converted into a cleanup banner. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 08:53, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Nomination is not vexation. We can orphan it if the result is to delete the template. 174.3.123.220 ( talk) 17:08, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
From looking at your two recent edits, I'm not convinced they'll do the right thing. People who use {{
Infobox Indian jurisdiction}} use "region" for named regions that have no administrative significance, so adm2nd probably isn't the best choice for {{
Coord}} in this case. Also, I think "region:IN" gets added below the switch, so including it here is redundant at best. In fact, the parameter actually passed to {{
Coord}} will be something like type:region:IN_type:adm2nd_region:IN-KR
which is pretty confusing. Please revert your changes.--
Stepheng3 (
talk) 20:08, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
I have formally reminded Opus33 on his talk page about the 3RR and suggested that if he cannot accept that there is not a consensus for this changes I would accept some form of Dispute resolution. If he cannot accept that I will file a report of under 3RR. If you would also be willing to accept the DS perhaps you could indicate it in the article or his talk page. Thanks for all your work.-- SabreBD ( talk) 16:50, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. That was an awkward revert as it undid new material. If you have concerns about my recent edit to the template I'll be happy to talk them through with you. If there are particular wordings you wish to improve, please do so. But a revert will undo good things (such as new listings and corrections of errors), so is not advised. SilkTork * YES! 23:27, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. You may not realise it, but this template was created after a very extensive RfC which took place over the space of about 6 weeks and involved a large number of editors. I closed this a few days ago and concluded there was consensus for this template to be created.
It involved a lot of compromise. A lot of editors who work on composer articles were opposed to any kind of infobox, and only supported the creation of a template with assurances that the available fields would be strictly controlled. I understand your desire to merge templates, but for the moment, using Template:Infobox musical artist will not be suitable at this time.
Therefore I would like to ask you to withdraw this nomination at this time. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 11:26, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
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Mabbettsville, New York. matt ( talk) 18:40, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I'm wondering what benefits infobox-metadata has over persondata, if any. For context, we're discussing whether "providing metadata" is one of the potential benefits of adding infoboxes of composer articles (a highly charged topic), at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Composers/Infoboxes RfC#Any remaining concerns. A really brief explanation (for the non-technically inclined) might be helpful there.
Also, I had a hard time finding initial info on where metadata is being used. I initially checked WP:Metadata and WP:WikiProject Microformats, and eventually just went to dbpedia itself and found their example links. I'd recommend adding some links to specific examples of the potential behind metadata, to those two WP pages.
Thanks :) (and thanks for your earlier fixes at {{ Infobox composer/draft}}!) -- Quiddity ( talk) 04:11, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
See here. Enjoy! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 04:48, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for this edit! I always forget which way round it is, and end up with people being minus 30 years old. :) SlimVirgin TALK contribs 13:20, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Can we open up a discussion to convert this to an infobox settlement style? Even the Germany infobox no longer has the tiny national map. Its time this was sorted... Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:48, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
I reversed your modifications to the Template:Infobox thoroughbred racehorse as 1) I don't understand its purpose or value, and 2) out of courtesy, such a change should have first been put up for discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Thoroughbred racing. Thanx. Handicapper ( talk) 13:26, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
Not sure what this is all about; can you explain please? Dabomb87 ( talk) 23:57, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Another admin has removed the dob info. I've commented on the talk page about this. Another possible avenue would be a Freedom of Information Act request to the BBC asking for JH's dob, although I'm not sure how we would reference this. Mjroots ( talk) 20:36, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Andy, I hope you are okay with my make–up post at Talk:Salmon Protocol. The fact of the matter is that I'm sympathetic to your point of view at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Over-hasty_tagging_of_new_articles_.3D_off-putting_to_new_users and was trying to protect the newbie at that article from just that. — TRANSPORTERMAN ( TALK) 05:39, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
About ANI, if they don't stop those legal threats, somebody is going to have to sue them! :p Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 16:43, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Since you !voted in the WP:TFD for Template:Snowball Earth/Infobox, I thought you might be interested in considering Template:Snowball Earth graphical timeline as a replacement. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 01:16, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is List of Firefox extensions. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Wikipedia:Notability and " What Wikipedia is not").
Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion(s) by adding your comments to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Firefox extensions (2nd nomination). Please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).
You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate.
Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. -- Erwin85Bot ( talk) 01:15, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I'm somewhat questioning about your edits to Template:Infobox grape variety some time ago. Why are you suddenly changing a template included in hundreds of articles without handling the consequences of your edits? As an example, with this edit you changed the template to italicise species. Since species is typically written italicised, this may have seen like a good idea, however, this meant that you changed the convention for using the template with the consequence that species information is now written unitalicized in the articles! Regards, Tomas e ( talk) 10:37, 4 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, Thumperward and MRSC who were recommended. Hopefully one of you can help. Thanks in advance. ww2censor ( talk) 03:09, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
Thank you, I appreciate that tidy up. Off2riorob ( talk) 14:13, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
NP. Blockquote is under-used. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:16, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
Since we are suggesting work for each other, you might want to check the hCard on this one. Or, suggest a possible place to merge it if it's a duplicate of something. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 20:08, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Andy,
I'd like to query the usefulness of {{ UF-date-warn}}. It rather seems to be the kind of thing which should be discussed or fixed, rather than placed like a bug report on template documentation. Was the need for this discussed prior to it being rolled out? How much effort would be needed to fix this problem at source? I'd rather that it this were something that could be fixed on individual templates that the warning be converted into a cleanup banner. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 08:53, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Nomination is not vexation. We can orphan it if the result is to delete the template. 174.3.123.220 ( talk) 17:08, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
From looking at your two recent edits, I'm not convinced they'll do the right thing. People who use {{
Infobox Indian jurisdiction}} use "region" for named regions that have no administrative significance, so adm2nd probably isn't the best choice for {{
Coord}} in this case. Also, I think "region:IN" gets added below the switch, so including it here is redundant at best. In fact, the parameter actually passed to {{
Coord}} will be something like type:region:IN_type:adm2nd_region:IN-KR
which is pretty confusing. Please revert your changes.--
Stepheng3 (
talk) 20:08, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
I have formally reminded Opus33 on his talk page about the 3RR and suggested that if he cannot accept that there is not a consensus for this changes I would accept some form of Dispute resolution. If he cannot accept that I will file a report of under 3RR. If you would also be willing to accept the DS perhaps you could indicate it in the article or his talk page. Thanks for all your work.-- SabreBD ( talk) 16:50, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. That was an awkward revert as it undid new material. If you have concerns about my recent edit to the template I'll be happy to talk them through with you. If there are particular wordings you wish to improve, please do so. But a revert will undo good things (such as new listings and corrections of errors), so is not advised. SilkTork * YES! 23:27, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. You may not realise it, but this template was created after a very extensive RfC which took place over the space of about 6 weeks and involved a large number of editors. I closed this a few days ago and concluded there was consensus for this template to be created.
It involved a lot of compromise. A lot of editors who work on composer articles were opposed to any kind of infobox, and only supported the creation of a template with assurances that the available fields would be strictly controlled. I understand your desire to merge templates, but for the moment, using Template:Infobox musical artist will not be suitable at this time.
Therefore I would like to ask you to withdraw this nomination at this time. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 11:26, 22 April 2010 (UTC)