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Please note: Template talk:Infobox person#Mergers, redux. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:34, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
In this discussion most users were in favor of having English titles for Belgian parties' articles, consistently with most articles about parties in en.Wiki. How is that the article's titles are still either in Flemish or French language? What can we do about it? -- Checco ( talk) 17:44, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
The only edit I made today was removing a source from TV Guide, which I didn't think was a valid news source. 68.45.109.136 ( talk) 19:29, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm a mere servant and humble bot-op in this thing; can you see about prodding along the new parameter proposal? (You seem to be the primary editor lately) Is stuff like this normally advertised somewhere, or it a just do it thing? – xeno talk 15:56, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
i have putted an "infobox former country" in the article and inputted the region and country data in it but it doesn't show on the article can you fix it for me ?-- Sweetcorn ( talk) 17:24, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
27-March-10: User:Xeno, User:Plastikspork: After months of planning and days of testing, I have finally submitted an edit-request for Template:CountryAbbr2. See request: Template talk:CountryAbbr#Change to Template:CountryAbbr2 to drop 50 million wikilinks. Feel free to update or let someone else handle it. The database report counted 68,100 transclusions. - Wikid77 ( talk) 06:21, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi. At
Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2010_March_22#Template:Aphonopelma_Species, the recommendation was "Substitute and delete", but I hadn't actually substituted yet before you deleted. Can you please userfy a copy of it for me? If you could create it in my Sandbox,
User:Boing! said Zebedee/Sandbox, that would be great, thanks --
Boing!
said Zebedee 06:38, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed the format of the Voting history table in the article was changed by someone to show two separate tables—one would be pre-merge, one post-merge. I also noticed you changed it back. I thought the new layout proposed there was easier to read, as the previous table was one long thing that stretched the page out. The only way to read the end-game votes would be to go down and move the left–right scroll bar. In my opinion, this could be quite cumbersome. I prefer the new layout. What is your opinion, though? Do you think that would be a consensus? Thanks! — Untitledmind72 ( talk) 16:29, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
Any reason to be so testy? I have reverted the edits now, but no need to take it personally. Please remember remember to be civil and respectful on wikipedia, it the way most of us like it. Have a nice day! Bleaney ( talk) 01:15, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
Your bot is making a mess of discography tables by leaving the {| characters in place, see Mike Cross. Chuckiesdad/ Talk/ Contribs 02:34, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
I did not understand this editline of yours. I cannot see this discussed that day, am I missing something? Cheers, Huldra ( talk) 21:29, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
Hi. I've updated this template. See Mumba Devi Temple. However, most of the infoboxes need updating now and the parameters switched with the new ones. What would be the best way to do this, by bot? For instance Somnath needs replacing with the new full parameters given in the documentation. The coordinates also somehow need to be converted to DMS and featured with a pin map... Could you edit the Template:Infobox Mandir so the current version recognizes the older paramters so it doesnt affect the infoboxes in current articles which have not been converted at least until they can be replaced by bot? Actually I've ifixed that problem with this edit. The infoboxes though will need updating in due course!!! Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:51, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
Oh no, you've gone all Rich Farmborough on me. I must stress the life out of you with my persistence. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:17, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Yep that's right. Aside from the hadnful I did the vast majority need substituting with the new parameters and where the coordinates are they need replacing as DMS pin maps. I don't think there is a huge number to replace. Nothing on French commune scale. Yeah they're a pain in the arse alright those French communes. I wonder how long it is going to take before they are all up to a decent standard. They need starting alright but I really do wish we'd had a bot to start them adequately first time. They've all needed like 6 bots or AWB errands just for minor edits. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:38, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
I've expanded Barnave, Drôme a little.. You edited it yesterday. I'm sure you remember wink wink.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:52, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
I'm going to begin drawing up new relief map templates. Sting has been creating a lot of relief maps like File:Egypt relief location map.jpg. They would be perfect for articles on mountains. Something like Template:Location map Egypt relief. Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:04, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
What do you think of the map now in Gebel Elba? Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:15, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Argentine barrio infobox looks in good shape for changing. Have a great weekend. I'll try and find some more relief maps to make and insert them in the mountain articles Any chance before you leave you can change the red mountian locator to a black one? Red looks weird. Try File:AS-góra-icon.svg. If nobody likes it I'm sure it will be reverted anwway. Could you tweak it?. Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:23, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
OK. I'll need to reduce the PX by at least half though its too big at the mo! Thanks! I've just created a decent Tibetan Plateau relief. So those Himalayan mountains llike Everest can have some decent maps at last.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:38, 2 April 2010 (UTC) K2. Looking good!! Dr. Blofeld White cat 22:47, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Oh I can access that too! All the best have a great weekend buddy! Give my love to K2. "Kitty Number 2" eh? Dr. Blofeld White cat 23:02, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello Plastikspork. Now that we're less than a week away from the season premiere of The Challenge: Fresh Meat 2, I think it would be a good idea to semi-protect that page for at least the next two months. I have the awful feeling that some unknown IP user will vandalize that page in the coming days, and/or post spoilers. Thank you. DPH1110 ( talk) 21:45, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
04-April-2010: This is just an FYI that Template:Rnd is ready to update to bypass the small subtemplate {Rnd/a} and reduce Convert nesting by 1 more level, against the template-nesting limit. This change should affect nearly 307,000 pages, and drop 307,000 wikilinks to {Rnd/a}, which will become almost unused. See counts in database report:
The full talk-page topics are in Template_talk:Rnd:
Those topics describe the issue & examples. I will activate the admin-edit request in a few hours. - Wikid77 16:55, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
I am BrianTheVillain123, i changed my account, again. Anyways, sorry for the disruptive edits. Just when u block me, i will make another account again and again. Thank you, and i need you a favor: U know Gogo Dodo. He has a problem more than you do Plastikspork. Tell Gogo Dodo to stop accusing me of everything. Thank you. Rock On- ( talk) 3:24, 5 April 2010 (EST)
I was just wondering, why is it that the ip's are vandlising the main bob page and not the episode or character page snice the charaters were moved. Those pages are not even protected. Just wandlism here and there. Checker Fred ( talk) 11:23, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed you created the Template:Stribe to prevent edit wars. I absolutely 100% agree with the consensus. Is there a way to change font colors on a certain template? I'm askin' this because I believe the font colors for the pre-merge Survivor: Micronesia tribes—Airai and Malakal—are an incorrect match. Could you change it to a white font color? Here's an example, with the proposed font colors in the above table. — Untitledmind72 ( talk) 21:51, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
Airai | Malakal | (Dabu) |
Airai | Malakal | (Dabu) |
If you have a moment, I'd be grateful for your attention at:
Where uncontested but unfulfilled {{Editprotected}}
requests are holding up my work; and at
where you rightly raised an issue with my proposal. No worries if you're busy elsewhere.
Cheers, Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:10, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
All gone. Imzadi 1979 → 19:15, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
You're the last guy to edit this template by far, and I can't touch it due to protection status. There's also a second page linking to breakage phenomena Template:Convert/f which doesn't exist. The broken instance pertains to C|F temperature conversion. Other uses appear OK. — MaxEnt 23:43, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
RE: Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2010_April_8
If you would like, I can close these template for discussions and merge all of them into other articles, in case other editors would like to use these templates in the future. This will save a lot of time of having to wait for a week for them to be deleted, if they are unmerged, I will put them up for deletion myself. Okip 00:35, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Giood news finally an svg for Tamil Nadu File:India Tamil Nadu location map.svg. Can you edit the infobox Indian jurisdiction and permit it to add this map. Eventually I hope to replace all of those horrid colored maps. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:40, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
{{{base_map}}}
which can override the choice of map, but the default is determined by {{
Infobox Indian jurisdiction/Parameters}}. I'm not sure which map in that template should be repaced by this one? Or perhaps you could give me an example of a location that would use this map, and I can try to reverse the logic from there.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk) 15:37, 10 April 2010 (UTC)Chennai. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:18, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Ths definately need doing as we now have File:India Gujarat location map.svg and File:India Maharashtra location map.svg too which also need to replace the others. I wonder how long it will take to make maps for all of the states... Otherwise you could probably replace the current default with India at the beginning. RIght? Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:10, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Check out the map for Karnala fort. Now look at the map for say Panvel. Darn thing! The sooner we reaplce these colored districts maps the better. I've waited years to finally start to get hold of some decent Indian svgs!! If the dimensions are wrong I can ask Nordnordwest to tweak them wherever it is required. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:15, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Actually, funnily enough the maps are based on the colored originals, you don't need to change any lat/long, just the darned colored maps! See File:India Gujarat location map.svg it is actuall the same projection as the current ones in use, this should make it much easier!! Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:19, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Just those three so far, that I'm aware of. When more become available I'll let you know. Perhaps it can be updated weekly, depending on how many he makes. Fingers crossed though he will do the lot. Let me know when its done. If the template is editable, and there is a common pattern I will probably be able to change the future ones myself. Let me know when you've updated it. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:23, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Wow check out Chennai. That's a tremendous improvement in quality. Thanks! Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:19, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I just wanted to make sure my source is good enough regarding Sean Duffy (Wisconsin)'s article. His official Twitter and Facebook both note the birth of his sixth child - is that enough? They're his own media, so they're primary sources, right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gamingexpert ( talk • contribs) 23:27, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Unbelievable. One vote and that's it: deleted. How low is going wikipedia....there it is too much hate! The wiki project soon or later will pay the consequences....Luigi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.69.137.25 ( talk) 00:44, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi can you add another image parameter. See Cannes Film Festival. I want the patchwork to go inside the infobox underneath the logo.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:56, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Looks good, thanks O plastic one. The creator of the colored Indian maps came moaning earlier. Funny as he only has a handful of edits in two years. I've told him that if he created us some new maps in the new style with railway markings he can do so. If not, then he'll have to put up with the changes...He at least admits the new maps are of a better visual quality.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:43, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering how simple it would be to run a script to do this. Basically the coordinates were worked out from the UN maps with User:The Anome who rans his bot adding decimal coordinates at the top. However, the vast majority of the Village Development Committees as yet don't have a pin map and DMS in the infoboxes. WOuld it be possible to run a script copying the DMS from the decimal coordinates at the top of these articles and displaying the pin maps as in the example shown above. I could start it manually but the task is too tiresome even for an evil genius like myself. Could this be done easily using a script? Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:11, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Probably! Yes add the title parameter to the infobox so it also displays at the top. Just a case of it reading them first , converting to DMS within the infobox and then removing the decimal at the bottom. If that can be done by all means go for it. I've tried expanding a few like Amalachaur which is OK but as you can imagine the sources available on rural Nepal as yet on the web or very scrappy. Pleasantly though I've seen a number of photos added to the stubs by trekkers in various places and some of the places look fantastic! Very beautiful country Nepal... Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:50, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
A job for you, perhaps? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:06, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi again,
You added Category: Microformats to several templates today. The category is used for articles about microformats; we already have Category: WikiProject Microformats, on their talk pages, via the project template. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:45, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
Okay, well I don't really know what else to say, man. I added in his two clothing companies and tried to use reliable sources, but there aren't that many. So sorry..? that you don't think it's "relevant", but I think that a page for him is if people want to know more about individual competitors. I put a lot of work into this page and I think that everything is on point now--I revised it as much as I could after I got your warning. I'm sure you're busy with other pages, but please take a look and tell me what you think I need to do otherwise, cause I'm kind of at a loss and I'm new to making these pages.
Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Themaddzhatter ( talk • contribs) 00:49, 14 April 2010
Alrighty, I fixed it to the best of my ability - if you find anything else please let me know. I tried, that's all I can say. Thank you so much for you help with this, and I hope that it is up to your standards as of now. Themaddzhatter ( talk) 02:13, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
how come the coordinates in the infobox of this article are not lighted up in blue and do not open the connection to the "google-satellite charts" by clicking in them?-- Sweetcorn ( talk) 07:55, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
is it possible for you to delete this page and create a redirect to Umm Ruwaba?-- Sweetcorn ( talk) 15:09, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, your note on Help talk:Template did the trick. Faesrwiki ( talk) 15:54, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Re your message: Thanks for the note. I see that Jpgordon has declined it, which is fine with me. I wasn't about to release the block. Enough was enough with him. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 04:00, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
I have some unrelated changes I'm eager to prototype in Template:Infobox settlement/sandbox, so I'd appreciate it if you'd integrate our "commas in population_total=" edits into the live template. Thanks,-- Stepheng3 ( talk) 12:28, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Actually, a bot hasn't been "denied" per se. From the outcome of the discussion, I think there is consensus to use a bot to orphan the redirect. 174.3.123.220 ( talk) 19:51, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Would it be possible to continue ophaning even tho the conversation isn't over?
Perhaps once the transclusion count has dropped a bit, then one could try again at WP:RFD.
— Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 18:21, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Although the convo on wp:bot requests is not over, does you comment mean it would be ok if I continue on changing the otheruses4 to about? 174.3.123.220 ( talk) 20:22, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Please report YellowMonkey as I believe he constantly oversteps his authority. Last post he accused Javed Burki of having a Bengali brother. Considering the history of the two conuntries this is derragatory. Its not clear how people like YellowMonkey are given special privelages by Wikki. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 22khan ( talk • contribs) 16:34, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. That RfC has closed and a template will be used. Could you review it and comment on any concerns prior to it being widely deployed?
Cheers, Jack Merridew 18:32, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi. See User talk:Orderinchaos and the discussion link. We have 9000, well probably 10,000 articles now using incorrect data from falling rain or using it as a source. The reasonw hy it hasn't been black listed to date is that some individuals think that removing the links will be problematic. How hard would it be to remove the links and references using a bot. Where the reference is couldn't the bot be programmed to remove the sentencing or figure preceding it? I cannot believe that people think it is acceptable to have 9000 known false articles to remain so because they think it can't be removed. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:05, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I enjoy the website but the page on Tila Tequila is desperately in need of some editing. At the moment it reads like her own PR bio:
"Nguyen will be launching an all new celebrity gossip site called "Tila OMG". "TilaTequilaOMG.com" was originally intended to be launched on April 1, 2010, however, it was unable to. The delay was caused by too much network trafficing to the site, so Nguyen had to hire a whole new team to get her a bigger server. The site is still expected to be launching during the month of April 2010. Nguyen has promised that her new gossip blog will be like no other gossip site out there. She has also stated that there will be exclusive celebrity interviews and real stories that will not be fabricated. Nguyen has also mentioned that her new site will put "Piggy Perez's" gossip site out of business.[43][44]"
It's embarrassing!
Regards,
Andrew —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.255.235.81 ( talk) 17:28, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
Have you discussed this mass removal at Wikiships? I don't think you should make any further deletions of the placeholder image for ships until you have done so. Gatoclass ( talk) 07:47, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
Could you fix the issue raised in Template_talk:Tfd#the_big_box_version, please? Debresser ( talk) 12:07, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
I noticed only Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion#Template:Expand isn't closed yet of 17 April's nominations. I had a look at it, and it looks like a typical case of "No consensus to delete". Debresser ( talk) 12:41, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello Plastikspork. I've noticed that you have done some changes to Template:Infobox power station recently. To edit myself, I am not very good with infoboxes yet. So would it be controversial if asked you to change the coordinates to DMS format as in Template:Infobox dam? Also, if it is not too much work, could you have a peek on Template talk:Infobox power station and see if you could help impliment any of those suggestions? Thanks! Rehman( +) 02:16, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
Hey Plastikspork
Thanks for pointing that out, I will take care next time. :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hunnyhiteshseth ( talk • contribs) 17:24, 26 April 2010
Your comment is so hard to construe other than as sarcasm as to preclude on-topic comment by me without a discussion that would be at best distracting. I don't think it should be erased, and i'm not going to speculate on whether striking it thru would dispose me to re-engage.
--
Jerzy•
t 09:20, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Hello Plastikspork. I just thought I'd bring to your attention that SOMEBODY posted some spoilers on the Fresh Meat II page, including an elimination order. When I scrolled down, I QUICKLY looked away when some unknown user spoiled the Episode table. Fortunately, for me, I didn't have my glasses on when I saw the table.
So, in light of this, I strongly suggest that the Fresh Meat II page is semi-protected until the season ends (likely through mid-June).
Thank you. DPH1110 ( talk) 16:59, 30 April 2010 (UTC)DPH1110
No need to worry about removing the placeholders manually, since Earwigbot is currently going through a BRfA, so this is likely to be done automatically. - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 05:14, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
File:India Jammu and Kashmir location map.svg and File:India West Bengal location map.svg. Can you do the update? Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:08, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Don't worry, I figured it out.. Can you still do that Nepal map job in the infoboxes? Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:20, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
For some reason the Uttar Pradesh map is cocked up see Lucknow. Any idea why? Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:51, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
{{#switch: {{{var}}} | A | B = This displays if var is equal to A or B | C | D = This displays if var is equal to C or D }}
Ahh I see. Thanks for that. I have one small further request. See Casino Lisboa, Macau. Can you edit Infobox Hotel with a restaurant section and merge the other infobox paramters and information into the single infobox? I'd imagine you'd only need to do one slight change, have Restaurant Information as a shaded grey central header and then just add a Restaurant name parameter...
Vegas baby. I made a map of Downtown Vegas and look at Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas. It works!!! I tried to add the pushpin map option to Infobox Casino. However it doesn't work. Could you see why? I added the location map details into the template but it doesn't work... Once that's done I can add maps to the casinos baby.. Give me love to K².
Also why isn't the map working on National Museum Cardiff?
One FINAL request. I won't both for you (for a few days at least anyway!!) after this. Can you add the pushpin map parameters to Template:Infobox skyscraper. You see I've begun an open street map city mapping project, making maps for major cities and locating city landmarks on them. I've just made Template:Location map Canada Toronto and Template:Location map Australia Sydney and shortly I will make one for Dubai. So skyscrapers really need the pushpin! Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:32, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
I was thinking exactly the same thing last night and was thinking about contacting you today to make a merging proposal. Browsing yesterday I was alarmed to see how many template we have for buildings and lack of consistency. When does one use a skyscraper infobox, building infobox, hotel infobox, or casino infobox ya know? I'm not say some seperate infoboxes don't have their merits but I strongly think we ought to do something about this infobox building reduncancy we see everywhere. If we don't do something about it asap within a few years it will be virtually beyond control. I propose that where possible we stick to an infobox building but incorporate the designs from other templates so when it reads say skyscraper you can add the relative details in the familiar graphic. I'd like to see a simple pushpin_map replacing the "map-type" for infobox building as I know several people couldn't work it out. What I thinking of if somebody could draw up a list of all the building infoboxes we have on wikipedia and try to come to an agreement to merge as many as possible. Sound good? Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:06, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
Yep I think a super template is the way to go. Echoing what you also said about National Museum Cardiff if it was a standard building template using pushpin_map we wouldn't need to spend so much time trying to make the others have the same. In my view the vast majority of the building templates are redundant really. If we had a super building template catering for the different types of buildings we coudl strive for consistency and avoid the maintenance problems. The place of worship infobox is excellent in this respect but recently I've been noticing various "church" templates appearing.....
Oh I agree, it will have to be done bit by bit... We could start by proposing to merge infobox skyscraper with infobox building and changing the map_type to pushpin_map for infobox building.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:03, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
Your obviously did not have a look at the whole situation. Please do before warning me. You do not seem to be as neutral as an administrator is supposed to be. -- Pylambert ( talk) 18:11, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
I appreciate it I'm grateful for the nice note you put on my talk and still more than a little put out by that ridiculous block. Wikipedia is not worth real life stress, and kind words defray tension. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 16:34, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your note. It is done anyway, threw up a number of articles where a massive chunk had been vandalised out of the infobox, so some collateral benefit too. Incidentally the US census figures are based on sq metres and converted into both sq km and sq mi by the Bureau, for a long time they were all given sq km first. Someone has replaced a lot of the in-text figures (which are both in the source) with resource intensive "converts". Oh well, 2010 figures will be out in a bit. Rich Farmbrough, 21:27, 2 May 2010 (UTC).
Thanks for that. My proofreading sucks. — ξ xplicit 22:48, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm sorry I had to close this "keep" with only 2 !votes. The article being a BLP I would have been more comfortable closing it if there were a few more opinions but the article did have some sources and the debate had been open for 21 days. -- Ron Ritzman ( talk) 00:47, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Small world! My msg at User_talk:Juliancolton#Hurricane "Dabs", and reply, follow:
There's been (ah, Wikt saves the day with a synonym...) a
goat rope created in response to the diffident
TfD on {{
Hurricane_disambig}}: all main-namespace instances of it were apparently replaced with {{
Disambig}}, without making those transcluding pages
MoSDab-compliant. It appears to me the deprecated Tl was intended to do something similar to what i thot i recalled as a well-accepted {{
ship-disambig}} but seems to in fact be {{
shipindex}} (which much better describes the tagged pages' role than "ship-disambig" would). My Dab'n colleague
User:Boleyn tagged
Hurricane Charley (disambiguation) (and presumably several others in the Bs and Cs) for {{
Disambig-cleanup}} (quite reasonably), but i think the correct disposition is not to strip such pages down to compliant Dabs but to retag them with something like {{
hurricaneindex}} or {{
stormindex}}, as would presumably have been provided by an adequate outcome of the TfD process.
Yours was the only name on
Wp:WikiProject Tropical cyclones#Participants that i recognize from my wanderings around the 'pedia, so i hope you can at least advise me on the prospect of the proj undertaking or endorsing the retrofitting of such a template to all of the applicable pgs. (Hopefully that would include at least those previously tagged with {{
Hurricane_disambig}}, tho i'm unaware of how to efficiently find the former members of cats -- are there periodic snapshots of Cats' respective memberships?).
--
Jerzy•
t 22:45, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
Sounds as if JC sees no issues re "cyclone guidelines", but i'm not clear that my Dab experience qualifies me to write an appropriate template, or efficiently & thoroly find the places it should be used.
--
Jerzy•
t 09:49, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Can you restore {{NYCS lines}}
? I need it for an implementation of {{S-line}}
for the
New York City Subway.
Could you also restore the other NYCS templates as well, at least for a limited time? It looks like all but the first five are not needed anymore, but I want to inspect them. I will tell you when I'm finished inspecting.
{{NYCS Brighton south express}}
{{NYCS Culver BMT center express}}
{{NYCS Eighth center local night}}
{{NYCS Hoyt-Schermerhorn local}}
{{NYCS JFK}}
{{NYCS abandoned}}
{{NYCS acc sub}}
{{NYCS cross island}}
{{NYCS cross no}}
{{NYCS cross yes}}
{{NYCS light blue}}
{{NYCS service map}}
{{NYCS station 3}}
{{NYCS station 5}}
{{NYCS station header small}}
— Tinlinkin ( talk) 23:44, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
{{NYCS station row}}
(and its redirect) and {{NYCS station header}}
(and its redirect). I added the first and fourth templates to articles, and the third as a listing to
here, although I don't know if that template will be used in any articles. The second is an alias of another template, so I will redirect that.
Tinlinkin (
talk) 01:48, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
It's not original research. Source is the episode(s). Anyone who's seen it will agree. Look it up on CBS, you obviously haven't seen it or heard of it. The tribes have merged, Rupert and Colby are still there, all the other heroes except Candice (who has flipped to the Villains) are gone.
Sorry if I sound a bit rude, especially if you are an admin (though I don't know whether or not you are). If there is a way to list the movie or episode as the source, tell me so I can cite them in the future and not have so many removed on account of "original research". No offense intended, but wikipedia is a little narrow-minded that way, that's why articles on wikis like Star Wars and Dragonball and Harry Potter are all jacked up with more info. I already have an arch-nemesis on here (don't worry, it's not you, but I am not in a position to insult him or argue with him much). I don't make a lot of edits unless I think a crucial detail is missing or a critical mistake has been made, so as to avoid antagonizing him further. Usually I just do plot summaries for stub articles. Ghostkaiba297 ( talk) 04:11, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi I made this map. Ingenious isn't it? LOL. Can you update Template:Infobox UK place so where it reads Vale of Glamorgan in the infobox it displays it on a regional locator rather than Wales. It should look like Cardiff Airport. I've added a window in the corner to show where in Wales it is. I plan on making other similar maps if this looks good. There doesn't appear to be any objection to this on the talk page. Of course English counties all have county locators, why not Wales too eh? If you could also do the same with Template:Location map Wales Pembrokeshire.
Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:46, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
I've also made Template:Location map Wales Anglesey. I'll wait now to see how it looks. OK. Try say Barry, Vale of Glamorgan for Vale of Glamorgan, try say Amroth for Pembrokeshire etc. See Ambrosden for example in Oxfordshire, England. I want the same template to recognize the county level for the three maps I've made so far and display them in this way. I believe England reads the Shire County. For Wales I think it needs to read the "Principal area"/ Adminstrative divisions of Wales parameter. SO I think it needs to read something like if Principal area=Vale of Glamorgan then Location map Wales Vale of Glamorgan etc... If this works and you install the three I'll make 19 other maps for Wales. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:45, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
Yep it looks good see Haverfordwest Castle and Beaumaris Castle. Dr. Blofeld White cat
Hey, thanks for moving the template for me. Merging the various mancala templates seems like a good idea, but I'm busy with other projects these days so I'll leave that to someone else if they want. My guess is the current situation is good enough for now. -- Kevin Saff ( talk) 16:45, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
I have reverted your edit to {{ Coord}} and posted to Template talk:Coord#Error checking. Hopefully I didn't break other things by reverting. PrimeHunter ( talk) 23:53, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
I just found
this TfD for a template ({{
CGNDB}} I had requested created some time ago and had regular use for; I don't like its successor one little bit and am effectively boycotting it as "too much work" - when you use stuff like this in volume those extra few minutes add up to a lot in the course of a day, even more in the course of a week or month. What galls me here is that, from what I can see, no attempt was made to notify the participants of WikiProject Canada - where I would have noticed it - and I doubt (but am not sure because I can't check as its edit history is gone) that the person who created it for me was notified either. Further, it was nominated on the 3, deleted on the 11th. Whuh?? Eleven days? I also consulted, or rather jumped down the throat of
User:Droll tonight about the inception of {{
cite cgndb}}-cum-{{
cite cgn}} (which is now misnamed because of that move, IMO) and what I thought was his deletion of {{CGNDB}}
; see
User talk:Droll#cite cgn was a dumb idea as to why. I think you were very hasty in deleting this, and given that Canada was in the throes of the Olympics at the time (and many of us were involved with related material to do with that), I had no call to try using {{CGNDB}}
during that period in order to discover it was deleted. HASTILY deleted. Might have helped if you, or someone, had looked to see the creators of pages where it was in use so that we could be notified and/or that its creator was notified (same person who created, as I recall {{
BCGNIS}} and {{
gnis}} because that's who I asked to get it made...). {{
cite cgn}} is too much work, and too pointless, for me to bother with, and IT should be deprecated - i.e. tossed in the refuse bin of overworked code and CFWT's ("colossal f**king waste of time"). Canadian Geographic Names Database items, like BCGNIS and GNIS, are permanent records and do not have dates, do not change, and there's no reason to have garbage like "date accessed" on them. There's one heck of a lot of deleting going on in Wikipedia these days, IMO, and not very much useful creation of consideration of content, or those who do create content; the desires and ambitions of those who wish to regulate and design content, on the other hand, seem to be running amuck. I'll be filing a deletion review on this; I think it was hogwash, and hastily done.....
Skookum1 (
talk) 02:54, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello. You have a new message at droll's talk page. – droll [chat] 15:24, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
There's a code error somewhere in it; here's what it generated on Teslin, Yukon:
...which is further odd, because on the page-display that final "C?" isn't on the display; best look at that page to see what I mean, because what I just copy-pasted doesn't look like what the display is.....it should read just "Teslin (village), Geographical Names Database, Natural Resources Canada" (and I think the old one just came out "Teslin (village), Canadian Geographical Names Database", i.e. period, though I can't remember now......and WTF with that "warning" on the {{ CGNDB}} page ordering people to use {{ cite cgn}} instead? You guys don't believe in giving people any choices, is what it smacks of to me; and the power is apparently in the hands of those who write code, not in teh hands of the people who need to use the template. I tried to remove that warning, but couldn't, I don't know how. Power to the coders, not the people..... Skookum1 ( talk) 22:34, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Re your message: Something feels different about that account though. The editing pattern is different. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 20:52, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
I'm stunned that Droll would continue his campaign to promote "cite" templates by removing all templates of a different kind, even though there's nothing AT ALL useful about his changed template, it only adds more characters to THOUSANDS of articles. I can't help but see this, I created vast numbers of articles using {{ BCGNIS}} and article after article tonight (look at his user contributions) are adding another five characters "cite " AND also completely unncessary namefield information on thousands of unique-name articles. Part of the original point of {{ BCGNIS}}, like {{ gnis}}, is that they were streamlined, and meant to conserve characters and also be as easy/quick to use as possible. it's not just about the thousands of moments it takes, in total, for editors actually creating articles to use the "cite" templates, it's about the extra megabytage that eventually results as not just articles as they exist, but also their archived versions are multiplied over and over and over in Wikipedia's storage disks/archives. This is gross waste of space, gross gross gross, and I suppose it's fine if Droll is contributing lots of money to pay for all the extra servers his style of "contribution" is adding; it's also clearly confrontational behaviour meant to provoke me. My "recourse" would be to reverse all his useless, byte-eating "improvements" of the template system in all the thousands of articles I've created, but this is utterly inane and falls in the category of "useless waste of energy" as well as of wiki-serverspace. when I figure out where to complain about this, and about the promotion of the utterly meaningless expansion of template bytage, I will. But you as an admin shouldn't be defending this kind of nonsense, as it's clearly now he's grinding his little axe and "going after" a template that was working just fine until he decided he had a better idea. But it's not a better idea, it's just his pet baby. If he was actually creating geography articles instead of just making more work for those that do, it'd be different; but it's not. How much garbage are actual contributors supposed to take from code freaks anyway? If you, and him, are trying to drive people like me from Wikipedia, it's working, we're getting sick of this kind of garbage-mongering and time-wasting. ALL his edits tonight have done NOTHING to improve the articles in question, and the template he's substituting, as well as the extra namefields he (and you) have been adding are just a waste of space and nothing more. What he's doing, really, constitutes a form of willful vandalism....causing more work for others who either have to reverse his nonsensical edits, or who will later streamline the useless cite templates and the additional, needless character-wastage, by bot or by hand. Does he actually do anything useful??? I note your comment on his talkpage about "thoughtful reply". Maybe he, and you, should consider "thoughtful action", which what he's doing is anything but. WP:Canada editors in general have workedd to conserve character usage, inclucing in areas where unique names (which CAnada has plenty of, in the thousands) do not need disambiguation of any kind; the only rationale I've seen you two trade notes on about adding namefield info is "because there might be a name change later" but in cases like the Sheslay River or Chilcotin River there just NEVER WILL BE ANY because there are no such features anywhere on the planet..... Skookum1 ( talk) 04:04, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Can you add a map parameter to the river infobox (you may as well do the lake infobox as well) so you can place a map of the river system under the photograph. At present there is only the option for one image. Once you;ve done it please add File:Manas River map.jpg to Manas River infobox. Thanks. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:05, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Nice one. Looks good. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:25, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Hokay. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:40, 12 May 2010 (UTC) Any idea why the map isn't working for Zograf Peak, it's baffling me. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:40, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
How bizarre. What do we do about the infobox building thing? If we don't merge a number of them perhaps they could all be made consistent with a the pushpin map location parameters? Its just I'm fed up with everytime I want to add a frickin map to locate something we have so many gid damn infoboxes that the infobox I appraoch never seems to have it. The recent culprit is Template:Infobox Stadium. I wanted to add a Glasgow locator map to Hampden Park like I did with Glasgow International Hilton Hotel but once again I can't. What do we do about this inconsistency? Any idea how many infoboxes we have for buildings and how long it would take to add the same pushpin map option to them all? I copied the mapping parameters into the end of infobox stadium. It'll probably need moving up to data 4 rather than data 30. Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:53, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
Don't worry I've done that. See 19th Avenue (San Francisco). I've created a set map showing the road but it is tiny. I can't access the template as it is locked. I believe it says 172 px which is WAY too small. Needs to be 250 or 260 px. Also it should have a seperate image parameter from the map parameter for a photo of the road. Can you tweak this and add the photo into the infobox. Set both at say 250 px default. Thanks. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:05, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
See the discussions at Template:Infobox nrhp and Template:Infobox settlement. If you think the black pin locator is worse or better please comment. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:55, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Looks like I caused a bit of confusion. At some point I moved {{ cite cgndb}} to {{ cite cgn}}. After reconsidering I think the first name is less esoteric and more accurately reflects the sites name. Of the 91 articles that use this template almost all transclude the redirect, cite cgndb. On the discussion page you mention cite cgn. I think it would be better to just use cite cngdb from the start as to avoid confusion. Sorry for the mix up. – droll [chat] 16:50, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Looks good. 300 px yes that's right, such is the shape 300 is best for Nepal.. Yeah there is one thing. If there is a district map within the infobox can you remove it? Unless it is actually a VCD locator highlted then I think it is pointless having the map in there and you can't see it unless you click it several times. They look pretty ugly. You'll find though most don't have the district maps in them but if you could take care of this, Thanks. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:24, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, if the infobox has a district generla map can you remove it like this?. That should be fine then, cheers. You'll find that all of Template:Rupandehi District have unwanted district maps I think.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 20:45, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
How about a Yeti scalp? Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:57, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
As you did so well completing all of those Nepalese VDCs last night I've made you a Nepalese fork especially for your collection. You ought to create a fork gallery just like TonytheTiger has a gallery of tigers. Where did you put the Italian fork I gave you?
What was the reason you said This clickable mapping option wouldn't work? Its just the differing views on maps bloating infoboxes and people wanting different views of places all of the time makes this a high priority technology feature. Its definately the way forward.
See here. Please comment. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:16, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:08, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Great, yeah I also noticed some of the infoboxes had "Municipality" or "Village" in the settlement type. It should be Village development committee unless it is the district capital I think which should be Town. Yuck I was just browsing and remembered the Argentine infoboxes... Check out Tafí Viejo, Tucumán. The bad thing is that I don't think they are actually templates. city-header-ar, urrrghh that kind of infobox makes me ill with its sheer unnecessary complexity... I'll add it to your todo list... Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:21, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
If you puts things into perspective see Tengboche. We've written a full length article about a village within a VDC. Consider that there are several such villages in each VDC and the main village etc. Tengboche just happens to have more information available than most of the VDCs in Nepal because of tourism. Now imagine how it would look if all of the VDCs had the amount of information available as in the Tengboche article let alone for the smaller villages within them. It would start to look more like the real world wouldn't it? Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:08, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Plastik. Re
this comment - I've noticed before that a template in one Wikimedia project can't be transcluded to a page which is part of another. Wouldn't it be great if we could? Then you would be able to put {{commons:pl}}
into an English Wikipedia page. I suppose it means too many MediaWiki changes. --
Redrose64 (
talk) 11:00, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
FWIW I had removed that image (rather than moved it down) because I thought it was unflattering (I probably should have noted as such in the edit summary). Thoughts? (I'm not particularly bothered either way) – xeno talk 18:27, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Redundant? Worth proposing to merge or is it likely to bring out the "Down Under crew" in protest... Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:55, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
I presumed there was also an infobox New Zealand settlement? If not thats odd... Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:39, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Can you do a scan for me and identify all of the hotel articles on wikipedia using infobox skyscraper/building. Because when you come around to converting to infobox building and going through them, all of the skyscraper infoboxes in hotel articles should be converted to infobox hotel and will need to be done seperately. Dr. Blofeld White cat 13:16, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, I#m not worried about museums for now, its hotels I'm ploughing through at the present. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:34, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Hey Plastikspork, just wondering if your recent edits substing signature templates is an automated bot process (the edit rate suggests it is), and if so have you got approval for it? I don't see a real need for it, seems to be fairly pointless, your time would be better spent asking the users to stop using templates, rather than running around tidying up after them, imo. - Kingpin 13 ( talk) 17:36, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Al-Fath mosque; All Saints Anglican Church (Dominion City, Manitoba); All Saints Anglican Church (Duck Lake, Saskatchewan); All Saints Anglican Church (English Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador); All Saints Anglican Church (Teulon, Manitoba); All Saints' Church, Bristol; All Saints Church, Dodington; All Saints Church, Howick; All Saints' Church, Weston; All Saints Church, Wraxall; Al-Rahma Mosque; Burnchurch Castle; Calvaria Roman Catholic Church, Satu Mare; Carmelite Church, Warsaw; Carroll Park Methodist Episcopal Church (Brooklyn, New York); Catholic Apostolic Church (New York City); Christchurch Art Gallery; Christchurch Arts Centre; Christ Church, Bradford-on-Avon; Christ Church, Clifton Down; Christchurch Convention Centre; Christchurch Town Hall; Christ Church, Warminster; Christ Church with St Ewen; Church Army Chapel, Blackheath; Church of All Saints, East Pennard; Church of All Saints, Kingston Seymour; Church of All Saints, Lullington; Church of All Saints, Monksilver; Church of All Saints, Nynehead; Church of All Saints, Selworthy; Church of All Saints, Trull; Church of All Saints, Wootton Courtenay; Church of All Saints, Wrington; Church of Holy Trinity, Burrington; Church of Holy Trinity, Hotwells; Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, Liverpool; Church of Our Lady of Good Hope; Church of Our Lady of Loreto; Church of Our Lady of Springs; Church of Our Lady of the Scapular of Mount Carmel (New York City); Church of Our Lord (Victoria, British Columbia); Church of Saint Andrew, Liverpool; Church of SS Peter & Paul, Weston in Gordano; Church of SS Quiricus & Julietta, Tickenham; Church of St Aldhelm, Doulting; Church of St Andrew, Backwell; Church of St Andrew, Banwell; Church of St Andrew, Cheddar; Church of St Andrew, Clevedon; Church of St Andrew, Compton Bishop; Church of St Andrew, Congresbury; Church of St Andrew, Old Cleeve; Church of St Andrew & St Mary, Pitminster; Church of St Andrew, Stogursey; Church of St Augustine, West Monkton; Church of St Bartholomew, Cranmore; Church of St Bartholomew, Lyng; 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Yikes!! Yeah there is so much inconsistency, this is the biggest problem. Bit by bit though things need to be standardised. Is it worth me starting on the hotel list manually or would it be straighforward to replace the skyscraper infoboxes with the hotel one and possibly get it to dispay the pin and coordinates if the coordinates are already on the page? My ideal would be a super template infobox building and when you display the building type e.g type=church or type=hotel it will have its own colour coding that we have at present and the possibility of all the existing parameters. In the long term I really think a gradual merger is best, can we do it bit by bit, obviously it will be done gradually... Skyscrapers would be the obvious place to start anyway. Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:52, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
In terms of long term maintenance and consistency then I think this is the way to go. Sure is a major headache in terms of number of articles. For instance though is no reaosn why the infobox building couldn't replicate the style of Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge and show in articles like Visitationist Church. There is also no reason why the infobox building couldn't have the similar paramters./color coordination to Savoy Hotel etc. I know many people are accustomed to the seperate templates but if the parameters were replicated and the infobox building was built up in the various building departments that this could be catered for whilst in the long term being very important for maintaining and controlling. The best thing though would be to start with the lesser used templates and begin merging those which have similar functions and gradually whittling it down to the major building infoboxes. There is also an overlap between Infobox Place of Worship and "Infobox Church". The place of worship one is excellent in my view at catering for the different religions.
Doing some work on LA hotels last night. The major thing I noticed about hotels in the states is that many of them are historically registered places and use the nh infobox. Perhaps there is a way the nh infoboxes can be nestled at the bottom of the hotel infoboxes? See User:Dr. Blofeld/Hotel. Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:07, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
I've updated infobox building with what I think are improved colours/fonts/sizes and coordinates under the map. See Topkapı Palace now. This design I think would suit most buildings on wikipedia and I think it would be good to head towards merging infoboxes. There seems to be a consensus to merge the infobox skyscraper. Could you update the infobox skyscraper in the meantime to it physically looks like infobox building and then a bot can be used to clean them all and make the transition. See Joffrey Tower. Wouldn't require much I think... Once you've made the updates then the maps and coordinates can be added to such articles... Dr. Blofeld White cat 18:08, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
Mmm Template:Infobox Monument seems a little redundant. It is used in Hagia Sophia. WHy not infobox building, infobox place of worship or infobox mosque? Should I propose to merge it? If the monument is a statue it is a little different I guess but the infobox could still be wrapped I think.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:55, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
I can't make svgs. Only pngs I'm afraid. If you want svg maps of the other provinces ask Nordnordwest. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:32, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
What did you find confusing about the passage? Nightscream ( talk) 04:00, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
On Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 May 8, I have some how missed out Template:Serbia portal/Proverbs although I had put on the tfd template. Just wondering if it could be deleted now as well or will I need to renominate it? -- WOSlinker ( talk) 07:02, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
{{Infobox XX ...}}
templates, looking for unnecessary residual subtemplates, and I believe I got them all {{Infobox AR State Highway/browse2}}
, which still has one transclusion. If you could orphan it, I will delete it. It is a bit confusing since the highway is in more than one state.Oh deary me, Infobox Iowa highway LOL... Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:41, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Plasticspork, FYI, yesterday you blocked DVdm ( talk) 15:33, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
for 48 hours. Today he's back at it with another IP as . Cheers -Hi, I've noticed the elegant way you're simplified Lightmouse's script for dates conversion. I was wondering if you might have any suggestions to improve my script here? Thanks. Ohconfucius ¡digame! 10:41, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
I think it would be a good idea to move {{ Cite cgn}} over {{ Cite cgndb}} (which is currently a redirect) since cgndb is a good acronym and cgn is not. You have a understanding of the issues involved and I think this would be beyond the scope of WP:REQMOVE. There are no articles that transclude Cite cgn. All articles which use the template currently transclude the redirect. If you believe that a discussion at WP:TFD is warranted that would be fine but I don't think it is necessary.
I don't know if you are aware of it but using "Cite xxx" is a fairly standard practice. Other citation templates for geographical data are {{ Cite bcgnis}}, {{ Cite bivouac}}, {{ Cite ccv}}, {{ Cite gnis}}, {{ Cite gvp}}, {{ Cite ngs}}, {{ Cite peakbagger}}, {{ Cite peakfinder}} and {{ Cite summitpost}}. All of these transclude {{ Cite web}}. I believe I created most of them except Cite gnis which I help maintain. Most are in common use. Other citation templates which I am aware of are {{ PB}}, {{ Pid}}, {{ Rid}}, {{ Bivouac}}, {{ NGS}}, {{ Cme}}, {{ VNUM}}, and of course the {{ GNIS}} family of templates. In general they do not produce any kind of standardized output. I know that, in their simple form, NGS and PB are widely used in lists.
If your interested in my ideas about standardization in the use of these older templates drop me a line. – droll [chat] 07:11, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
Could you assist with this, please, and at the same time take a look at the preceding section there, which remains unresolved. Cheers, Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:40, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Just confirming my TPS and explaining the point Jubilee ♫ clipman 20:04, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
Please will you check my logic at Template talk:Infobox officeholder#Microformat improvements? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:24, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Plastik. I left an additional note on Template talk:Convert#Conversion bug Peter Horn User talk 20:35, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Thanks very much for your contribution. I'm still not sure that it's worked though (see discussion).
Best wishes -- Oxonian2006 ( talk) 01:47, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Dear Plastikspork, I need your help.I found both covers of La Toya Jackson's 1989 and 1991 Playboy Magazine layout.I think that both of the covers should be included in the La Toya Jackson article. I found the on Google when I typed in,"La Toya Jackson on the cover of 1991 Playboy Magazine". When I arrived at the page the 1989 and 1991 covers were the first two. The 1989 cover was first and the 1991 cover was second.Could you do me a favor and put them in the article. And if it helps any, what La Toya did with Playboy paved the way for the cover of the Rolling Stone's Magazine cover with Janet Jackson on it. ( K.M.D1994) 9:00, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Yes I am. K.M.D1994 8:32, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
They need to be uploaded. ( K.M.D1994) 8:38, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Have you uploaded the pictures yet. They are at "La Toya Jackson on the cover of 1991 Playboy Magazine", on Google. ( K.M.D1994) 12:20, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
I don't know how to upload it. Could you do it for me? Please! ( K.M.D1994) 8:53, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Just a note in case you are puzzled by your talk page's history: Wipeouting ( talk · contribs) left a "helpme" tag with a request on your talk page, so I moved it to his at User talk:Wipeouting#Help where SoWhy answered it before I could. Regards, JohnCD ( talk) 08:33, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
* nudge* ;-). Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:03, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Please can you tell me where I went wrong here? Perhaps conversion to {{ Infobox}} would be better? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:27, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
By the way, the edit summary you're linking to while you're orphaning the template links to a discussion in 2006, causing much confusion in the process... Titoxd( ?!? - cool stuff) 00:38, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
Our Canadian IP friend has returned. I semi-protected the page for two weeks and one of his IPs for 72 hours. Maybe he will get the hint, though I have this feeling he won't. -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 05:52, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
There is a need to be able to have footnote quoting sources for each line - for example in Dnepropetrovsk. It would be nice to add a column for this to the template.-- Toddy1 ( talk) 08:29, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi. Can you add the Calisto font, something went wrong here. Its supposed to look like the colors and style of the infobox hotel (resembling the theatre seats). Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:42, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Well I asked Jack to modify the infobox surfer some months back.... Dr. Blofeld White cat 21:17, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello your Plastikness. I noticed you edited Šarkan and I remembered an outstanding issue. I create the SLovakian villages in the wiki dark ages when I did not know about pin maps or infoboxes. They were created with district maps. When you have an hour or two spare can you add infoboxes to all of the articles/reading the coordinates for pin from the top and remove these maps? Something like this. You could even import the info from Slovak wiki and convert into English if that would be best...I've added a few to articles like Bruty. Seems some nice photos are available for some of them which is a bonus. Right now though I want to continue with the Norwegian villages. Dr. Blofeld White cat 11:43, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
Regarding this, would you be so kind as to tell me a bit about the nature of your disagreement? Butwhatdoiknow ( talk) 22:54, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Could you please show me where WP:NAVHEAD has been accepted as a standard practice per WP:LAYOUT? Or is this something you are doing on your own? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:58, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
In particular, since many navigation boxes do not appear in the printed version, this will lead to a blank section at the bottom in print? See here for example. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 22:59, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
{{start footer}}
, which would wrap the section you have been introducing with the navigation boxes, and exclude both from print.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk) 23:34, 29 April 2010 (UTC)O.k., it is time for me to admit that I'm not likely to have the time to get to this within the near future. I've saved a copy and will re-post it when I can give a meaningful response. Meanwhile, if you are interested, you can peruse the generic response at WP:Related information/answers#Proposal_objections_and_responses. Butwhatdoiknow ( talk) 00:11, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
I replied at Template talk:Br list#LI markup. I hope - and think - you'll like it. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:08, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Gilberto (Gil) Diaz, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gilberto (Gil) Diaz (2nd nomination). Thank you.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. jmcw ( talk) 12:39, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I saw your comments at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion#Template:Sublime_with_Rome. I'm fine with the Sublime with Rome article, but I have problems with the Sublime with Rome Tour page and the Template:Sublime with Rome. I think the tour page can be merged into the band's page and I think the template should go away as useless. Please comment on those talk pages if you can. I've also started a section at the noticebopard: Wikipedia:Notability/Noticeboard#Sublime_with_Rome_Tour because I think that Sublime with Rome Tour is not notable enough or deserving of a separate page on Wikipedia. One user ( User:Alex 101) is really gung-ho about Sublime with Rome and is creating all this stuff (I already had a non-free use image from him deleted). Thanks for your time, sorry to bug you. TuckerResearch ( talk) 19:53, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Just an FYI for when you return to be on the lookout. [3] -- Gogo Dodo ( talk) 06:15, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
See merge proposal. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:33, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I noticed you moved Template:Cite4Wiki into User:Jehochman's userspace. Did you talk to him about that? Because when I asked him about it he was quite opposed to the idea. You can put it in my userspace if he says to move it (I don't have anything to do with the template other than having closed the TFD, but I don't mind having it). Peace, delldot ∇. 02:47, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
you used string replace in your datetools.js (str=str.replace) while Lightmouse used text replace (txt.value=txt.value.replace). What is the difference, what are the advantages or disadvantages of each? Cheers, Ohconfucius ¡digame! 08:32, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks. That is all I needed. Cheers! Geo Swan ( talk) 15:52, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
I was trying to add File:India Punjab location map.svg. Dr. Blofeld White cat 19:46, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Saw you left him a talkback message. You realise he's been indefinitely blocked, right? The Rambling Man ( talk) 17:55, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Jason Scerri, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jason Scerri. Thank you.
Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. jmcw ( talk) 13:45, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Plastikspork - Thank for your participation and support in my RfA.
I can honestly say that your comments and your trust in me are greatly appreciated.
Please let me know if you ever have any suggestions for me as an editor, or comments based on my admin actions.
Thank you! 7 23:31, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I was wandering if you wouldn't mind helping me with Big Brother 11 (U.S.). I am trying to improve the article so it can move up to GA status like Big Brother 2009 (UK). I have managed to do a lot but would like help from other editors that are experienced with Big Brother articles. Any help would be appreciated like glancing over the Summary section and removing unnecessary bits, fixing sources, etc. Thanks. ♪♫Al ucard 16♫♪ 04:48, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
{{Infobox Chuck character}}
Seems headed in the wrong direction, to me. Cheers, Jack Merridew 22:56, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
{{Chuck episodes}}
an-udder-one ;) Jack Merridew 01:05, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
I'd like to ask why you change the infobox on the Tinkernut article to a Person Infobox? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zaz986 ( talk • contribs) 00:10, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Ohhhhhhh. So it made reference to things like a fruit which isn't really an Internet "Celeb". But my question is that Tinkernut isn't only a person but a Website first and a person second. The person that runs the site is also called Tinkernut. So would I be able to replace it with a Webblog Infobox? Or some type of Blog Infobox? And if so where can I find the Templates? I've been looking for about 20 minutes and I can't find those exact types of Infoboxes. Zaz986 ( talk) 00:19, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
What about the Website Infobox? Zaz986 ( talk) 00:25, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
I have one final question. How did you get that status button at the top righthand corner of the page? Zaz986 ( talk) 00:32, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
All right thanks. :) How can I update it and how can I get it back if I remove it? Do I have to be an Admin to get one? Zaz986 ( talk) 00:37, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Ok thank you for all your help. :) Zaz986 ( talk) 00:47, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
I think it is just great, since there are only the heirs apparents. I would suggest to put their supposed titles, as we have in other templates of pretenders. What about it? Congratulations!! -- Tonyjeff ( talk) 00:21, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
I was impressed by this edit where it appears you unsubst {{ demography}}. I came across it because it additionally had the benefit of cleaning up an unclosed <small> in the article, which is something I'm currently working on. Do you have AWB settings/custom module so that I can repeat it on other articles? Thanks Rjwilmsi 07:35, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Why does France get all the TLC eh? Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:23, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
<timeline>...</timeline>
for historical populations, which is entirely unreadable if you are using a text based browser. Any suggestions on what I should tackle next? I am doing the Faroe Islands right now.
Plastikspork
―Œ(talk) 16:26, 8 June 2010 (UTC)In the next few days I'll do the remainder of the Papua New Guinea towns. See Port Moresby. I've only done the provincial capitals as of yet... Yes France is a pain in the butt alright. Perfect case of how a bot should have been used to start them all first time without 10 rounds of cleanup afterwards.... Well I'm currently working through Norway and Majorca adding infoboxes, I came across one municipality you transwikied. I thought it looked unusually good and lo and behold it was added by you! Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:32, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Really embarrassing. Check out Artà on German wiki... Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:47, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
LOL. The crappiest infobox you;ve ever seen? See Bunyola. That comes close... Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:15, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Please see User talk:Rich Farmbrough. Can you add infobox settlements to and replace Template:Island of the Faroe Islands. There are only a handful. I did Papua New Guinea yesterday. In fact the PNG province and districts templates can now be deleted.. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:14, 8 June 2010 (UTC) Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:06, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Cambodian maps are done! SVG_maps_of_Cambodia Kmusser ( talk) 15:39, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Nice one. In the year 2010 the pink maps are no longer welcome... Dr. Blofeld White cat 16:22, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
You seem just like the person to handle this. Thanks. 98.82.22.169 ( talk) 02:13, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi Plastikspork,
I'm wondering why article deletes don't show up in the User contribution logs when every other seemingly-minute change appears to be logged.
e.g. Danny Teeson says it was deleted by you 18:06, 18 October 2009. But when I look on [4] (which covers 17 OCT 2009 @ 19:49, to 19 OCT 2009 @ 03:58), I don't see the log entry where you deleted it. I arrived at the Danny Teeson page after following a link on the Mr. Six page. It looks like 3 other articles still link to that deleted page for Mr. Teeson.
No big deal about the article being deleted; my question is about deletes not being logged. :-) Or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place?
Thank you!
Darr247 ( talk) 22:34, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
Plans I have no special plans for this; if it's redundant to something, please delete/merge/replace/etc. If you want or need my help in so doing, please let me know. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 03:04, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
I noticed the box has been changed lately. Its not wide enough anymore like its used to be. Maybe you can help to restore it. thx. Marty Rockatansky ( talk) 20:32, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
I regret to distract you from doing useful things on Wikipedia to inform you that the pictures of sproks on the side of your user page are cut off. Is this intended, or is it my browser? happy editing, and don't feel pressured to do anything about it unless you want to, Bramble claw x 01:10, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that you fixed some articles I edited - The Electrics being one of them. I had created the infobox based off of the Musical artist infobox and included what was requested. I'm a noob- so I'm mostly coming to find out how and why you changed it, as I don't see what changed when you changed it. Tuxhedoh ( talk) 01:37, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Why? Is there something wrong with using the url template? Hokay, I read the discussion above. ×××
BrightBlackHeaven(
talk)××× 08:17, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
You may wish to note Template talk:Infobox UK place#Settlement. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:59, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
I notice PeterSymonds has not edited for nine days now; I'm not sure if he's taking an unannounced wikibreak or if the computer problems he had last month have geared up again. But in either case I'm not sure he'll be able to see the help request. I was able to find this diff, which is probably the reason for the block. I'm not familiar with this case, though, and can't speak for how many other editors may have been caught in the range block. — Soap — 16:09, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
While disruptive, such a rangeblock is I guess just a fact of life for users in Singapore. Between allowing anonymous editing and vandalism and getting would-be editors to register, I think the latter is preferable. I suppose you could file a police report... but what good would it really do? In a timely manner? -- Rifleman 82 ( talk) 15:51, 11 June 2010 (UTC)