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| ::It triggered my curiosity a bit because I don't have particularly good experiences with Jax. In fact, I fear that he may relaunch the same dodgy templates after his six month topic ban on templates. I hope that you know that he has that topic ban... <span style="border:1px solid green; padding:0 2px">] ]</span> 00:27, 9 June 2013 (UTC) | ::It triggered my curiosity a bit because I don't have particularly good experiences with Jax. In fact, I fear that he may relaunch the same dodgy templates after his six month topic ban on templates. I hope that you know that he has that topic ban... <span style="border:1px solid green; padding:0 2px">] ]</span> 00:27, 9 June 2013 (UTC) | ||
| ::: I would back off if I were you at this point and try to ] going forward. As far as I can tell, most of the templates being nominated were created back in early 2012. The shear number being nominated by you has the appearance of an editor hounding another editor, even if that isn't the case, it doesn't look good. Leaving them in Jax's userspace is actually a good thing since it leaves a record of what was deleted, and some can be moved back down the road if more notable content is created. Anything that encourages writing more notable content (and less obsession with navboxes) is a good thing in my opinion. Thanks! ] ] 00:41, 9 June 2013 (UTC) | ::: I would back off if I were you at this point and try to ] going forward. As far as I can tell, most of the templates being nominated were created back in early 2012. The shear number being nominated by you has the appearance of an editor hounding another editor, even if that isn't the case, it doesn't look good. Leaving them in Jax's userspace is actually a good thing since it leaves a record of what was deleted, and some can be moved back down the road if more notable content is created. Anything that encourages writing more notable content (and less obsession with navboxes) is a good thing in my opinion. Thanks! ] ] 00:41, 9 June 2013 (UTC) | ||
| ::::I hated the checking process because it is soooo frustrating and annoying. But I deemed it necessary and in the best interest from Misplaced Pages. I have a long list of still-to-be-fixed templates on my talkpage and I will slowly fix them. I did not count what I nominated or set aside, but I guestimate it as about 20-30% of all templates created by Jax. | |||
| ::::But you are right, now is the time to step a bit back and wait what happens. I have enough work to do in real live so that time is welcome. <span style="border:1px solid green; padding:0 2px">] ]</span> 00:52, 9 June 2013 (UTC) <small>That does not mean that I will stop ''watching '' Jax. I will just spend a bit less time on Misplaced Pages.</small> | |||
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Re: Your closure of the PDFlink TfD
Hi Plastikspork. You closed the above TfD as merging the PDFLink template into the cite * family of templates. However, I'm not entirely clear what should happen in cases where the PDFLink template is being used for something other than citations (e.g. external links). The consensus at the TfD isn't entirely clear to me in that regard, I'm not sure if you considered that in your closure? I'm asking because of this bot request for approval, feel free to respond there. Thanks, - Kingpin (talk)
Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Chittagong
could you history merge Chittagong Education Board into Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Chittagong? thank you. 198.102.153.1 (talk) 14:47, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Template:3O
I was just about to create a new template called Template:3O in the spirit of {{Help me}}, {{Admin help}}, {{Edit semiprotected}}, {{Edit protected}}, and so-forth when I noticed there was a template there previously deleted. When I visit the TfD discussion, I notice there wasn't a lot of discussion as TransporterMan and an IP user were the only ones to comment on it at all. I was wondering what the previous template was and if it would be alright to recreate the template in the spirit I mentioned above as a companion to a userbox I would like to create similar to {{User:Technical 13/Userboxes/Help me responder}} and {{User:Technical 13/Userboxes/Admin help responder}}. I've echoed TM in this query as well and hopefully he will reply as well. Thank you for your time. Technical 13 (talk) 19:34, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
- If this is to be used in conjunction with WP:Third opinion, you should start a thread at WT:Third opinion. The reason why this template was deleted was per the discussion on that talk page. The discussion at TfD was more limited than the discussion on the project page. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ 21:23, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Template Infobox Drama
Please add Infobox drama parameters to Infobox play! --Tito Dutta (contact) 04:06, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Please make your request on the talk page for {{Infobox play}}, with a justification for each parameter or parameter-set. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:40, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
- And where shall I get the parameters now? We worked hard to find and make a list of mostly needed parameters and they have deleted everything! --Tito Dutta (contact) 17:15, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
- (tps) perhaps you can just examine the diffs ? it looks like no information was actually removed, but simply commented out. so you want,
director,decoration,music,actors,lighting,background_music, all related to the premiere. some of these may be a bit trivial to mention in the infobox? you should really be discussing this at template talk:infobox play, and not here. Frietjes (talk) 17:55, 24 May 2013 (UTC)- Yes, the place to discuss new parameters is at Template talk:Infobox play. Thanks for the replies! Plastikspork ―Œ 01:07, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
- (tps) perhaps you can just examine the diffs ? it looks like no information was actually removed, but simply commented out. so you want,
- And where shall I get the parameters now? We worked hard to find and make a list of mostly needed parameters and they have deleted everything! --Tito Dutta (contact) 17:15, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Embedding for sidebar
see template talk:Sidebar#Embedding, and I think we should consider removing the extra bold tags from around the |title= when |child=yes in {{infobox}}. this will fix the double bolding problem, and I can remove that warning from the documentation. the worst thing that could happen is that some embedded headings become unbolded, which would could be easily fixed by adding the bolding directly to the tranclusion (see this thread). Frietjes (talk) 20:28, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
- Great. I will respond there! Plastikspork ―Œ 01:10, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Template:Unco & Template:Egypt Central
Why were Template:Unco & Template:Egypt Central deleted (there is no explanation at the TfD)? Was the link to Devour the Day taken into consideration? As I mentioned before, at the end of the day, whether DTD is a new band or a continuation of EC is semantics. --Jax 0677 (talk) 02:33, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
- There was consensus to delete unco as a template with the majority of editors arguing that it creates unnecessary busy work, since it is easier to just simply uncollapse whatever is collapsed. I did not see any compelling argument to the contrary. There was consensus to delete Egypt Central due to the lack of primary links, and that the band is no longer active, so will not be generating any new primary links. Of course, this does not mean that there won't be consensus to create a Devour the Day navigation box. But, it looks like that band has no articles about notable albums at the moment. It looks like there both band articles are connected through wikilinking, so readers will be able to find them both. If not, you should go ahead and add more wikilinks, or a see also section, or even write some prose. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ 02:44, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Template:Kansas cities and mayors of 100,000 population
Metropolitan90 (talk · contribs) undid what you restored per User_talk:Plastikspork/Archive_10#Avoid_DRV. Then he halfway reversed it with no talk page and a CSD tag.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 05:44, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
- Seems this was resolved? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ 01:48, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
- There is one last issue. We are trying to get some changes made at T:AH to correctly document the history of the template.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 03:16, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Proposal to rename tracking categories
Please see Misplaced Pages:Village pump (technical)#Namespacing meta categories. Cheers, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:29, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Please delete User:Tbhotch and User:(CA)Giacobbe
Hi, please delete User:Tbhotch and User:(CA)Giacobbe, because two users has contributed without complaining. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.171.177.13 (talk) 02:34, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Deletion and close of discussion at Template:Sidebar subsection
Hello again, Plastikspork.
On your action above at Misplaced Pages:Templates for discussion/Log/2013 April 8#Template:Sidebar subsection, there is this prefatory statement:
- The result of the discussion was delete, seems that this template is now unused and now redundant to
{{sidebar|child=yes}}. If this is not the case, please let me know, so we can find a solution. Plastikspork ―Œ 22:17, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
The deleted Template:Sidebar subsection ("TSS") included possibly 6 or more sidebar examples where it was in use. Last time I checked (more than a month ago), they were intact, except for the example that I myself changed to use a simpler format than of TSS at http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Template:History_of_Western_philosophy&diff=553491016&oldid=552076629. Conceivably, there was a change later, but I have no knowledge of that. May I ask if you have evidence that there were no sidebars using TSS at the time of its deletion? (If some remained with TSS, I'd guess that they would be orphaned, just as in the "Before" case of the previous link.§) Thank you.
§ It would unnecessarily complicate things to comment on the alleged redundancy of TSS pending a response on the above. --Thomasmeeks (talk) 00:08, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
- At the close of the discussion, it was used on the following pages: User:Schrauwers/sandbox, User:CsDix/sandbox, Template:History of Western philosophy/sandbox, and Template talk:History of Western philosophy. The only reason for substituting the template on these pages was to avoid them being listed in Misplaced Pages:Database reports/Transclusions of deleted templates. It's possible that it was replaced during the time the discussion was open, which was 9 to 10 weeks, which is unusually long. As far as redundancy goes, it appears the new child=yes feature is documented in Template:Sidebar/doc. To get the italics, you would just use
|headingstyle=font-weight:normal; font-weight:italic. The HTML markup will use<th>...</th>tags for these subheadings, like the top level headings, which should be the correct logical markup. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ 01:46, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Edit to Northernhenge's sandbox
Hi Plastikspork. Thanks for making this edit in User:Northernhenge/sandbox. I think people normally try things out in their own sandboxes, not other people's, but thanks for drawing the different location map syntax to my attention. --Northernhenge (talk) 17:47, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
University at Buffalo's Davis Hall
could you merge the history of University at Buffalo's Davis Hall with Barbara and Jack Davis Hall? thank you. Frietjes (talk) 23:21, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Nomination for deletion of Template:2012–13 UEFA Champions League group A standings
Template:2012–13 UEFA Champions League group A standings has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Kingjeff (talk) 01:33, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Template:Presidents of India
could you history merge this with the template to which it redirects? Frietjes (talk) 18:00, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
Template:Curazie of San Marino
Hi, can you replace the nasty set boxes with infobox settlement.♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 13:18, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
- Don't have time at the moment. Maybe ask Frietjes, who seems to be good at that sort of thing? Plastikspork ―Œ 14:38, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
- updated. someone should check the location map (see Confine which is outside of the borders). Frietjes (talk) 17:32, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
- Excellent work, thanks!♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 20:26, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
- I also fixed the location map problem. Frietjes (talk) 20:28, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
Jax templates
Just curious, but why are you moving so many templates into the userspace of Jax? The Banner talk 23:23, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
- He had previously requested that I do so for any that close as delete. Would it be possible for you to reduce the number that you are nominating per day? I think it would make things go a bit smoother. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ 23:33, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
- I am finished with checking all 1290 still existing templates created by Jax, so no more or very limited nominations will come forward now.
- It triggered my curiosity a bit because I don't have particularly good experiences with Jax. In fact, I fear that he may relaunch the same dodgy templates after his six month topic ban on templates. I hope that you know that he has that topic ban... The Banner talk 00:27, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
- I would back off if I were you at this point and try to AGF going forward. As far as I can tell, most of the templates being nominated were created back in early 2012. The shear number being nominated by you has the appearance of an editor hounding another editor, even if that isn't the case, it doesn't look good. Leaving them in Jax's userspace is actually a good thing since it leaves a record of what was deleted, and some can be moved back down the road if more notable content is created. Anything that encourages writing more notable content (and less obsession with navboxes) is a good thing in my opinion. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ 00:41, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
- I hated the checking process because it is soooo frustrating and annoying. But I deemed it necessary and in the best interest from Misplaced Pages. I have a long list of still-to-be-fixed templates on my talkpage and I will slowly fix them. I did not count what I nominated or set aside, but I guestimate it as about 20-30% of all templates created by Jax.
- But you are right, now is the time to step a bit back and wait what happens. I have enough work to do in real live so that time is welcome. The Banner talk 00:52, 9 June 2013 (UTC) That does not mean that I will stop watching Jax. I will just spend a bit less time on Misplaced Pages.
- I would back off if I were you at this point and try to AGF going forward. As far as I can tell, most of the templates being nominated were created back in early 2012. The shear number being nominated by you has the appearance of an editor hounding another editor, even if that isn't the case, it doesn't look good. Leaving them in Jax's userspace is actually a good thing since it leaves a record of what was deleted, and some can be moved back down the road if more notable content is created. Anything that encourages writing more notable content (and less obsession with navboxes) is a good thing in my opinion. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ 00:41, 9 June 2013 (UTC)