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Green check
The check was moved back to the green form, I agree with this. It should be probably discussed here first anyway as this is used a ton in FAC's. I think the green version is better.
Quadzilla9921:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC)reply
I concur with Quadzilla, the green form is more visible. Just because the banner that denotes an official policy uses a check isn't a good reason to not use a green check elsewhere. It is highly unlikely that the two will ever be confused. —
Disavian (
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21:48, 15 March 2007 (UTC)reply
I don't see the point of the template if the tick is so small it can barely be seen. We don't need to illustrate "done", it seems to me we use a large symbol so its prominent and informative. At that size people may as well use '''done''' instead. The template is used in a lot of places where requests are made of admins and bureaucrats so the outcomes are clear on a quick scan of the page - it does that in the first example but no longer really does in the second:
YDone
YDone
Done
I don't see what the second example achieves that the third would not. I propose the template be reverted to the larger size and where it causes display problems it be replaced with '''Done'''. WjBscribe09:13, 31 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Thanks for the feedback; WJB, the point that you're making is exactly the point I've been making at
WP:FAC. Rather than cluttering FACs with numerous green check marks throughout the FAC, the nominator could use half as many keystrokes to just type the word Done. This template probably serves a purpose elsewhere; the way it's being used as FAC is creating messy pages.
SandyGeorgia (
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09:36, 31 July 2007 (UTC)reply
If used properly in FAC the template can be useful to both nominator and commenter. There are some places where it has been used confusingly and messily though, and I understand what you are saying.
violet/riga(t)09:40, 31 July 2007 (UTC)reply
How exactly does it "screw up people with colour blindness"? A slightly brighter colour won't affect any person's current or future vision impairment in any way. –
sebi09:45, 9 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Yes, probably, unless used on a page where a Bot looks for {{Done}} before archiving requests (like
WP:CHU). Still its such a short template that I doubt much extra server load is caused by it not being substituted (and it is fewer characters to type). WjBscribe02:39, 25 September 2007 (UTC)reply
Edit request
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Please change this template so there is a full stop after the done text, but I think its more appropriate for the full stop to not be in bold, and to be in regular text style. If this is performed, please apply this to
Template:Not done. Cheers,
Qst13:01, 30 November 2007 (UTC)reply
Since the full stop is not a good idea, can there me added a break space after the e? It should not affect anything in a bad way, and I have seen the tempalte being used right before a letter (so the done merges with the next word without a breakspace).
Nergaal (
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07:24, 27 January 2008 (UTC)reply
Any chance this template could be added to an appropriate category indicating usage (current one just indicates structure)? The category should link to a page in the Wikipedia namespace describing usage. --
AlastairIrvine (
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15:52, 17 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Change
Would anyone have a problem if I made this template have the same look/feel as {{resolved}}. Reason being I often like to add a small comment after the check and the resolved version looks neater.
It's not to make them look alike it's the functionality and because the wording usage is for two entirely different situations. Done is something that required an action that was carried out, resolved is a problem solved. I use the two quite independently and miss having the the ability to put a minor comment next to the done box. Khukri07:06, 17 April 2008 (UTC)reply
When these templates are used to mark off completed actions from a to-do list on a talkpage it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the signature appended to {{done}} from the original signature at the end of the list. It would seem helpful to have an option or default to put the editor's signature and timestamp inside the template, perhaps inside small tags to distinguish it or in hovertext.
LeadSongDogcome howl!17:33, 13 May 2010 (UTC)reply
Template:Incomplete
Any way of getting an "incomplete" template? I could make one, but I wouldn't know what graphic to use. The actual {{incomplete}} template name is already taken, but the idea behind this is if I were to do half the work on a request and then let it be known that the request is still incomplete and the other half needs to be done. Maybe there's already something like this? – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies11:10, 6 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Ah, neat, I wondered why I couldn't sometimes click on an image. Ok, that makes sense. Maybe just a neutral X, then? Otherwise, I'm not sure how to search for all public domain icons on Wikipedia. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies20:37, 14 April 2011 (UTC)reply
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Mr. Stradivarius:, I made exactly the same basic edit (different filename only) to {{Not done}} and inspecting the resulting img element reveals <img width="18" height="21" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.s…kipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/36px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/18px-X_mark.svg.png" alt="X mark.svg"></img> which shows that the "alt" parameter is set by the software. This means that screen readers will be able to read "X mark". Does it really need to be more specific? In the case of this template, it will say "Yes check", seems good to me, and saves us eight characters from template inclusion size... I'll wait for your response before carrying out this request, and if necessary add it to {{Not done}} as well.
JD, is there any way the software could be modified to leave the file's extension out of the alt text when automatically populating that parameter? That is the only part of leaving it out that might be an issue for some readers (I know some recognize most extensions and have settings to ignore them). Thanks. — {{U|
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Please remove the "<!--template:done-->" HTML comment from this template. It only appears when the template is substituted, and in this case, it causes unnecessary clutter in the resulting source code. Thanks! ~ ToBeFree (
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19:16, 21 June 2018 (UTC)reply
Additional note: If this is considered to be a good request, please also have a look at the other templates here:
Template:Done/See_also -- some of them have the comment, some have not. I would suggest removing it from all of them.
~ ToBeFree (
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19:19, 21 June 2018 (UTC)reply
I was about to say something like, "yes -- but why?", until I noticed that someone might, for example, substitute the "Done" template for automatic archival of a talk page. All right. It just looked strangely unrequired to me when I used it multiple times in the text body of a talk page message. I should also have started a short discussion here before using the request template.
~ ToBeFree (
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16:44, 24 June 2018 (UTC)reply
Please wrap the whole thing in a {{nowrap}}. I'm seeing a check mark hanging in the last column of a line, and a bold "Done" leading off the next line.
This should be an uncontroversial request, because I can see that this was the original intent of the code—there is after all, a no-break space coded in the source—however, it isn't doing the job, for whatever reason. One of the test lines below should illustrate the point, if you jiggle the right margin of your browser appropriately:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco labori Done
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud Done
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim Done
On further investigation: The generated code for the top test line is this: ...ullamco laboris nisi</span> <img ... />&160;<b>Done</b>, but a non-break space does not work between an image, and text. (I believe that's because an image is a block element.) See, for example,
this.
Mathglot (
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21:28, 18 April 2020 (UTC)reply
I believe that I have resolved this one in the sandbox, but I know that this template is widely used in a variety of circumstances. I created a testcases page based on the examples above, but some examples of this template's use in the wild should probably be copied into the testcases page to make sure they still work fine. –
Jonesey95 (
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03:24, 19 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Andrybak, thank you(!) for the additional test cases. They all look functional to me. Do you have any reservations about moving the sandbox code into the live template? –
Jonesey95 (
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18:11, 19 April 2020 (UTC)reply
I don't remember. I think I thought a span wouldn't work for some reason. If a span works, or if nowrap works, that is a better choice, since a div tag can't sit inside a span tag. Give it a try in the sandbox and check the testcases. –
Jonesey95 (
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16:42, 20 April 2020 (UTC)reply
My tests show that the present sandbox version where
Andrybak reverted back to
your version works very well to keep the check image with the |1= text. I vote we make it live, and over time other similar templates can be so updated. P.I. Ellsworthed.put'r there01:36, 21 April 2020 (UTC)reply
I changed the sandbox to use a span tag instead of a div tag, checked the testcases, and updated the live template. Again, I used a span tag instead of a div just in case someone put this template inside a template that uses span tags; div tags can't live inside of span tags. As for {{nowrap}}, I figured that it was better to use a plain span tag to reduce complexity and dependence on another template, since "span class=nowrap" is pretty simple text and doesn't need to take any options. I expect that this same model could be applied to other templates in this series. Note that I wrapped only the checkmark and the "Done" or alternate |1= text in the nowrap tags. I left the |reason= contents outside of the nowrap, figuring that it would be undesirable to wrap long reason= text strings. –
Jonesey95 (
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02:27, 21 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Description of suggested change: add new variant of Done check icon with text Resolved like YResolved. It's helpful if the issue was resolved without editing the article so you can't just say Done.
Eurohunter (
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17:47, 16 May 2023 (UTC)reply