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After looking at the articles and the maps already there I'm guessing that you are looking to replace this PNG map with an SVG one and that you are looking for a blank world map in order to do this. The world maps I posted were based on this base map, which is in layers, unlike some others, so it is easy to use for this purpose. Hope this helps. Set SailFor TheSeven Seas276° 45' 00" NET18:27, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
I've already worked on a SVG map to replace that one, based on
commons:File:BlankMap-World6.svg which has relatively clean SVG source, but have not finished and uploaded yet... I would like to ask you about drawing lines of latitude and longitude, as in this map of the LACNWFZ zone boundaries, since you have done that on your maps. How do you translate between degrees/minutes/seconds and pixels or other image coordinates? What kind of line drawing commands do you use? I briefly looked at the SVG source of your maps and it was not immediately clear what was drawing the red longitude/latitude lines. --
JWB (
talk)
04:52, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
One way to draw lines of latitude, longitude and also diagonal lines on a map accurately is by mathematically scaling the latitude and longitude values to the image co-ordinates, which in this case are pixels. In order to do this, the North, South, East and West boundaries of the map are needed with opposites at opposite polarities and all co-ordinates need to be translated into decimal degrees. The formula used is as follows.
For The Latitude
For The Longitude
Where:
Longitude:=The Longitude in question.
Latitude:=The Latitude in question.
Northern Boundary:= The highest Latitude on the map in question.
Southern Boundary:= The lowest Latitude on the map in question.
Eastern Boundary:= The highest Longitude on the map in question.
Western Boundary:= The lowest Longitude on the map in question.
Total Vertical Pixels:= The Vertical Resolution of the map in question.
Total Horizontal Pixels:= The Horizontal Resolution of the map in question.
Vertical Pixels:= The Original Latitude in pixels.
Horizontal Pixels:= The Original Longitude in pixels.
Hi. I'm guessing you meant South Cape (not South Cabo), Spitsbergen on that picture you added to the Midnight Sun article. Right? It's a common mistake, but Spitsbergen is spelled with a second s, not a z. The former is the Dutch spelling, which is the only correct form in English and several other languages as the islands were discovered by a Dutch navigator in 1596.
Jonas Poole (
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20:35, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, this was the original description,
"Exposición al sol de media noche durante 3h, Cabo Sur, Sptizbergen."
After translating and rephrasing, I ended up with what I put originally. Now come to think of it, you're probably right. I guess this is what comes out of using online translators. Funny thing is, I actually checked the Spitsbergen article and somehow manged to overlook something that was mentioned right at the top of the page!! Anyway, thanks for the corrections. Set SailFor TheSeven Seas231° 30' 00" NET15:26, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Templates for Lyon transport
Hello,
I don't know anything in templates, but I'm looking for someone can help me to create the templates of tramways and express bus of
Lyon. As you can see on the page
Lyon metro, there is an infobox. The templates for subways are already created but not for tramways and buses. Could you create the same templates T1, T2, T3, T4... as on the french wikipedia ?
Thank you ! :)
Hi there, I've had a quick look about and it seems that there are individual articles for each tramway and express bus on the French Wikipedia, while here one article covers all the
tramways, which has its own template and there are no articles on the
express buses. Assuming all of these are under development, I suggest two two possible options: 1. Extend the existing
Lyon Network Template to include the tramways (and express buses) as on the French Wikipedia or 2. Create a new template for each of them. Either way works. Hope this helps. Set SailFor TheSeven Seas243° 31' 45" NET16:14, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
As you can see, in all articles concerning lyon transport we use this infobox template
Template:Lyon transport. In this main template there are some little template : .
The thing missing is the little templates of the tramways T1 T2 T3 T4 and express buses C1 C2 C3. It's only some little colored circles who already exist on French Wikipedia. Express buses is corresponding to lignes fortes in the french infobox templates.
Very nice thank you is that I wanted! You are great at templates you did it quickly. How to put it inside the main template now ? Can you had me on msn ? there is sth I want to do but that's difficult to explain.
Lulu97417 (
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20:02, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Sorry for my english i wanted to tell can you add me on msn messenger papy_ryo@hotmail.fr. Yes If you can put it it would be great or only create the template page and I'll add it on the infobox. thanks so much
Woah... I forgot I even made that page. I don't even know what I made it for. Thanks for solving them. (god knows I couldn't solve them myself) (
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@766 ·
17:22, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello ! I 've created an english page for
Lyon bus lines, I have the same problem, I don't have all the templates. I you want to create some templates for buses sometimes like in the french page, would be nice :)
Thank you
There wasn't all that much to do. I got most the code from the French Wikipedia and then just tweaked it a bit. It really isn't all that impressive. Anyway, I'm guessing that the templates are done to the required standard, so I'll move them into the template namespace. Set SailFor TheSeven Seas295° 45' 15" NET19:43, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi ! How are you ? I need again your talents for templates. Still in the same infobox I need to create a template with this logo
File:Rhonexpresslogo.jpg and to replace it in the infobox. If we put directly the picture it can't be redirected to the article but to the logo. Thank you ! see you.
Lulu97417 (
talk)
17:04, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
Yeah perfect thank you :)
Lulu97417 (
talk) 11:42, 20 August 2009
Tidy Up
When reverting vandalism, please do not use the edit summary "Tidy Up", which implies that you are making minor changes to the article which results in a different article from the last good edit. If you revert vandalism, which means that no change exists between your edit and the last good edit, say so via "rvv" or "rv v" or "rv vandalism". Or simply Undo the offending edit in the article's history, or Undo a collection of edits via "Compare selected revisions". —
Joe Kress (
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02:09, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello. I just replied to you at
Talk:Twilight, and noticed that the raw code of your signature was a little lengthy - I know
WP:CUSTOMSIG is mostly subjective, but it was taking up five lines of text in the edit window, in my browser, making it a little harder to check what you'd said. You might like to look at ways to reduce that. --
McGeddon (
talk)
12:03, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
First of all, thanks for
this. You're quite right of course, I spelt it incorrectly. Just a quick comment regarding
this edit, I've reverted for the simple fact that it wasn't a spelling error.
User:ThinkBlue is American, and so uses American spelling, which in this case would mean favorite is correct. Just to note you may want to be careful with that type of edit, particularly in articles. See
WP:ENGVAR and
WP:SPELLING for future reference. Thanks, ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
01:49, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps you confused her with me? I'm from Ireland - perhaps you read it on my talk page, and got confused while editing 'Blue's? In any case, it's really a problem. No harm, no foul. Thanks, ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
17:30, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
Ah. Yes, I know it's pretty crazy. Results in a lot of misunderstandings though; Irish humour doesn't necessarily translate to America, and vice versa. It's one of the wonderful things about wikipedia though. During my time here I've interacted with people from Ireland, England, the US, Australia, Scotland, Israel, all over the world - it's wonderfully diverse. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
17:54, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
I forgot about the arguements, though most of them are resolved in the end. On the other hand, there's wikihumour and the various puns and jokes subtly placed around wikipedia. It does make for an interesting and thriving community. Set SailFor TheSeven Seas279° 53' 45" NET18:39, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
<--Yep. Damn hard. I think the longest I went without being on wikipedia was a week, and that was 'cause I was on holidays without internet access! It's very addicting. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
20:50, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
Well for me it got the point where I was like "all the articles on my watchlist will have been vandalised! Must fix it!" Needless to say, it was a complete overreaction, but then addicts are never the most rational of people. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
21:03, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
While Cluebot is awesome, he only catches very obvious vandalism - replacing an article with profanity, that sort of thing. Sly vandalism can slip past unnoticed, and it's the sly vandalism that tends to cause the most problems unfortunately. Especially in BLP cases. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
22:45, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
I guess so, but even so, it is usually reverted as quickly as it appears, but Cluebot is undergoing a major rewrite, so he should become much better and detect sly vandalism. Also, even we can be a part of it and
help out. Mind you, by the
looks of things, it seems like they have a huge task on their hands. Set SailFor TheSeven Seas183° 37' 45" NET12:14, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
I didn't know that. Ok, I don't understand a lot of what is said on
User:Crispy1989, but that's probably because I don't understand coding/programming. Hmmm, this could be excellent indeed. Here's hoping it happens soon. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
12:28, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
Neither do I, but this sentence, "The core vandalism detection engine, however, will be required to perform heavy computation, and as such, is unsuitable for a scripting language to perform in a reasonable amount of time" pretty much says it all. They've got a tough job on their hands! So indeed here's to the new Cluebot. Meanwhile, the current cluebot has some rather useful tricks up its sleeve; those being an
optin page for outside the main namespace including user pages and an
angry optin page for pages with heavy vandalism requiring Cluebot in "Angry Mode"! It does come in mighty useful. Set SailFor TheSeven Seas192° 53' 14" NET12:51, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
Oh, I agree. I have a lot of respect for people who run all the bots on wikipedia. Most of them are so useful, even if I have no clue how the hell they work. :) ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
14:44, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
<--Yep. I believe the other way is to be perfect. :P Oh, I know. I can actually understand some of the coding in templates. Thank god. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
15:39, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Oh, I'd forgotten about that page! I remember the first time I saw that... I'm assuming you don't hang out much at
WP:RFA? !Voters are pretty ruthless. Mistakes are seized upon, and analysed to the umnpteenth degree. RFAs are not for the fainthearted, just the ridiculously brave and the hopelessly insane. :) People have very exacting standards of admins, and a lot of the time they won;t measure up, but it doesn't stop prospective admins from being judged by some very harsh standards. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
16:08, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
I hang around a little at
WP:RFA and looked through various archives, but I haven't voted at any yet. It seems that you may have had bad experiences with RfAs, even though you haven't gone through an RfA yourself. It's not always that ruthless; this
RfA shows that it's not all serious. Usually, there are few mistakes, but they tend to be magnified because they are all mentioning the same thing again and again. Generally, it's good to prepare for these as they tend to ask the same questions again and again. There are also
guidelines that all prospective admins should read through. Admin coaching is recommended as well. It is also a good idea to go through
editor review first to see what the community thinks of a particular editor's contributions. Also, many don't pass on their first time. Apparently, it took one editor seven tries to become an admin. Usually, failed RfAs give a good indication on how to improve and prepare for the next one, after all,
"All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
Yes, I'm aware not all RfAs are that bad, but I've seen so many people get opposed simply because they've had a disagreement with someone in the past, who then turns up and proceeds to sling mud. It's a damn shame, but that's reality. A lot of opposes can cross the line, and verge on personal attacks. As for "it's not that bad", actually I've seen it mentioned in a lot of places that RfA's are one of the most demeaning and stressful things you can encounter on wikipedia. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
19:17, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
I can see where you're coming from, but I tend to think that it's best to try to get a positive experience from it after all, at the end of the day the participants only want to help out. Also, you should see what RfBs look like as they are lot tougher and only the best of the best would pass them. I haven't seen many with personal attacks in them; I've only came across one case, but another editor went and removed the comment outright. It is supposed to be a lot more friendlier than that, especially since most of the editors here are good natured. Mind you, the worst thing I find concerning RfAs is that despite the pass rate dropping significantly and the RfAs getting tougher, situations
like this followed by this can actually happen! It really isn't fair on those who've tried hard to get adminship and failed. They should definitely know better than that! Set SailFor TheSeven Seas317° 12' 0" NET21:08, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
There are plenty, if you know how to read them. Yes, I read about that. Actually, the worst thing about that was concerning
this. I don't follow how a sockpuppet gaining adminship isn't fair to those "who've tried hard to get adminship and failed". If they've failed, the majority of the time it will be for a reason. Just because a sockpuppet was good enough to pull the wool over people's eyes has no bearing on the fairness of other editor's RFAs. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
17:02, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
Originally, I was thinking that the community didn't question the suitability of adminship as much as they would for other editors, hence the comment on fairness, but on second glances, it seems that Pastor Theo was a good editor. I guess that is the reason why RfAs are tough in the first place and only few editors get adminship. Another thing is that personal attacks on RfAs could put off good editors from wikipedia itself let alone adminship, especially since all opposes should be
constructive and polite. Set SailFor TheSeven Seas279° 51' 0" NET18:39, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
Hmm, exactly. Though people do tend to be a little nicer to users with very limited experience on wiki - say those how've been around for 2/3 months. They're a lot harsher on regular editors - higher standards I guess. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
18:48, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
I think I agree with that, since I've come across some experienced editors who have just given up Wikipedia due controversy and disagreements with other editors. The
Essjay Controversy pretty much divided the editors with some supporting him and his good work, while other went against him and in the end he retired. I've also a few others who retired under similar conditions with a lot of them mentioning the dark sides of good editor and administrators. I came across one editor who was described as a general pest! Mind you, they were being quite irritating to other editors. Set SailFor TheSeven Seas337° 42' 30" NET22:30, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I mean
Wikipedia Review is an excellent example. There's quite on few posters on there who are disilluisioned wikipedia editors - ones who have been banned, ones who have retired, ones who have quit in protest at something or another. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
18:57, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Some of them are great contributors who have done incredible amounts of work here. Often their talk pages are filled with comment from other editors asking them not to leave, but I guess once their minds are set, that's it, and only rarely do they come back again. It does contrast to those who can't leave, even for a small wikibreak! Set SailFor TheSeven Seas346° 13' 15" NET23:04, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
<--Yes, absolutely. Although, there are plenty of people who retire just to return the next day! A lot of editors, especially newer ones, will be driven away by more experienced editors unintentionally. I always try to be as patient as I can with newer editors, I'd hate to drive away someone who might one day write a Featured article or something. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
23:09, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Strictly speaking, once an editor says that they are retiring, then they are stating that they will not come back. There is the {{retreaded}} template for such an occasion, but the documentation has this message, "Please note that because retiring implied that you would not resume editing, you should have stated that you would be on indefinite wikibreak if you thought that you might eventually return. You ought now to apologize." It pretty much says that they should have stated that they were on an indefinite wikibreak rather than retiring. Set SailFor TheSeven Seas349° 21' 30" NET23:17, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
LOL. I like that template. Yea, most people who "retire" come back - bit stupid in my opinion. Might as well just take a wikibreak - it's easier. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
20:33, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
Ah, but he's anywhere near as well known as Jimmy, due to that whole "is Jimmy a co-founder or a founder?" dealio that was raging a few years ago. Plus, he's not overly active anymore, due to founding
Citizendium. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
13:39, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
Revisionist history sucks. People should know that by know. Hmm, interesting. I'd never seen that before. Valid points there. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
15:44, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
Oh, that still comes up every now and again, except it's more of a "RfA is broken, let's do this instead" kind of thing. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
10:59, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
That's exactly it. Some admins have recall procedures and so on, but they're ridiculous and full of wikilawyering. Some of the rules I've seen include: no ips, must be validated by at least 5 other editors, I get to choose 2 of the aforementioned 5 editors, etc. It's ridiculous. Adminship is currently a job for life, so RfA's are ridiculously hard to pass and incredibly demeaning to undergo. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
21:48, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
It used to so much more simple to get adminship during the early days of Wikipedia. All you had do to was leave a comment asking for adminship and you pretty much got it. Also, it is a lot easier on other wikis, for instance, at
Simple English Wikipedia the criteria is three months of editing and I think about 1000 edits. I guess this is the result of this being the biggest Wiki! Set SailFor TheSeven Seas309° 23' 45" NET20:37, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
<--Oh, I know. It amuses me to look back over the old RfA archives sometimes. Remnants of a more trusting time on the internet. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
21:08, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Unless of course a good recall system is put in place. Once adminship is no longer seen as a "job for life", I'd say that standards will decrease. If people could be desysopped without needing an
ARBCOM case, then more people would be given the tools. That's my running theory anyway. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
18:20, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Yes, I believe it was intended to lessen the work of NPPs more than to benefit those who are regarded as trustworthy enough to have the right. There is a constant shortage of NPPs from what I understand, although I can't say that it's really an area that interests me. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
12:19, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Also, sometimes they can be a bit lenient on the 75 new articles criterion, after all you only need to show that you can be trusted to create articles properly, which many editors who don't have
autoreviewer rights are. It could be more a case of "if you don't ask, you don't get", which seems a bit ironic considering that it's for the benefit of the NPPs! Set SailFor TheSeven Seas337° 25' 45" NET22:29, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Apologies, I missed your comment on my talkpage. *rolls eyes* Hazards of being too busy to check back more than one edit I guess. Yes, it's somewhat interesting really. All 3 of my articles have survived, which is something I'm very proud of; although
Purple Hibiscus is in what I would generously describe as a terrible state. :( It's interesting - I work on pretty much nothing but pro wrestling articles, with the odd sportsperson or actor thrown in, and my first article was on a novel. Amuses me. :) But they do say diversity is the spice of life. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
05:46, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
It is indeed good to have all your created articles survive deletion, especially as some articles can come and go in under a week, though in most cases they are nonsense articles or copyright violations etc. Also, I wouldn't say
Purple Hibiscus is in that bad a state, as it's in much better condition than
thesethreearticles! Short articles in general
aren't deleted straight away and usually have plenty of time for expansion, but for those that are deleted, there's always
this! Set SailFor TheSeven Seas22° 23' 45" NET01:29, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
I'm glad it did, good old wikihumour, never fails to amuse! Improving the article is always a good idea though I guess that can be said for most articles here as a lot of them need improvement since only one in 172 articles is a good article and only one in 1,048 articles is a featured article. I guess eventually, most articles will be good articles, some articles will be featured articles and the rest will end up
here! Set SailFor TheSeven Seas329° 40' 59" NET21:58, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Absolutely. And yet, sometimes a good stub is all you can ask of an article. I've never gotten an article to FA, "brilliant prose" is quite a stringent requirement. Plus, it's hard to find a balance with pro wrestling articles that ensures they're out of universe enough for everyone to understand, but in universe enough to satisfy the purists. I have a list of articles I'd love to get to GA, but since there's about 100 articles on it, I figure it's going to take me a while. ♥
Nici♥
Vampire♥
Heart♥
11:11, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
FA articles are the best of the best that Wikipedia has to offer, so they naturally would be extremely well written and quite tough to achieve. However for most articles, GA status is enough as by that stage they would be well built articles. Sometimes it's better to merge articles rather than expand them, after all not every topic needs its own article! Set SailFor TheSeven Seas260° 30' 0" NET17:22, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
True, true. I've tended to focus exclusively on GAs up until now, but I have designs on one or two FAs for 2010. It'll be interesting I think - I can knock out a GA in a few days and I'm curious to see how long it takes me to get an article FA-worthy. A very long time I suspect! ♥
Nici♥
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Heart♥
09:01, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
Hi Thesevenseas, I'm not quite sure what you did on my userpage: the change you did now makes the icons cover up the buttons for my preferences, watchlist, and contributions. What was actually the problem beforehand? Thanks.
Acalamari21:57, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
After a bit of checking, it turns out that the new vector skin is displaying the icons lower that they should be and in such a way that they overlapped with the main part. It seems I mistook this for a misalignment, hence the edit. Sorry about that, I'll revert the edit. Set SailFor TheSeven Seas171° 44' 45" NET11:26, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
Thesevenseas,
I saw that you had added the logo at
File:Rhonexpresslogo.jpg to the infobox in
Tramways in Lyon. Unfortunately, because this is a copyrighted logo you cannot use it in any article that you want. It should only be used in the
Rhônexpress article itself with a fair usage rationale (which it has).
WP:NFCC has more detail on this aspect of using copyrighted logos if you are not familiar with this. I have reverted your change to the
Tramways in Lyon article.
Boissière (
talk)
21:23, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, from what I gathered it seemed that
WP:NFCC implied that the logo could not be used in templates, but only in articles. This method involves having the logo in articles but not in the template; but if it should only be used in the
Rhônexpress article, I'll fix that, though the template code is still good as if a free alternative comes along, it can be used instead. Thanks. Set SailFor TheSeven Seas173° 35' 45" NET11:34, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
I think I understand now what you were trying to do. You are quite right in saying that NFCC logos should not be used in templates (or from any non-mainspace page for that matter) but even if you did put them as parameters to an infobox you would still have the following problems
They would still be visually inside the infobox and other people would probably make the same assumption that I did in that they were part of the infobox.
You would have to write a fair usage rationale for each article that you used it in and for something like a logo that would be quite difficult to do.
I've made some adjustments so that that logo in the infobox only displays on the
Rhônexpress article and gives a plain link on the other articles. I guess you're right, it doesn't make too big a difference if it is left out, but the template code could prove useful, so I left that in. It could be useful to place a picture of the train could be used on the other articles or something similar where the logo would have been, that was it is not just a plain link. Thanks. Set SailFor TheSeven Seas339° 10' 30" NET22:36, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
User page edit
Hi Thesevenseas. Listen, I appreciate you "updating" the badge status on my page, but I would appreciate it if I would get the chance to update it in my page. I mean no disrespect, is just that I would rather do it myself, then have someone else do it for me. My page is sacred to me, that's why. But, thanks for the update, it's very appreciated. --
ThinkBlue (HitBLUE)16:43, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
That's fine. The main thing is the vandalism has been dealt with. Hmm, I wonder it showed up as random symbols. Also, it seems that huggle reverted to a revision that still had sections missing! I guess some things are better done the old fashioned way. :) Set SailFor TheSeven Seas2° 15' 45" NET00:09, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Antipodes
Sorry to revert your edit, but OED indicates that, for the geographical meaning, the correct singular form is "antipodes." The plural form is exactly the same. The word appears in "Much Ado About Nothing" (Act II scene one), spelled "Antypodes," and there it's apparently in the singular.
Ishboyfay (
talk)
19:36, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Its 482 bytes long, nearly double the 255 byte maximum enforced in preferences. It also uses a template ({{fontcolor}}), which isn't allowed. The colors are also distracting and difficult to read (particularly blue-on-black). Mr.Z-man19:21, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
I appreciate your attempt to remove what you thought was unnecessary code from the
calendar templates in my user space - thanks for the good ol' college try. :-) Unfortunately, I have learned through hour upon hour of bitter experience and experimentation in getting the damn thing to work that once it works, thou (and I) shalt not futz with it again, lest havoc reign supreme on my user page.
It's not a big deal, but what you
removed was the closing braces for the #switch tag at the top of the page, which makes the calendar switch daily from October 10 to October 11 and so on. Without it, the tag was without a close, the template transclusion on my user page couldn't work and the havoc, of which I spoke earlier, did in fact take place. People may need therapy for years, it was so awful. ;-)
While troubleshooting the problem, I found you made the same change in
User:KrakatoaKatie/CalendarSeptember. That edit seemed to work out okay as far as I could tell - at least it did when I transcluded {{User:KrakatoaKatie/CalendarSeptember}} specifically, by name, instead of with {{User:KrakatoaKatie/Calendar{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}}} - but the template did not work when I used {{User:KrakatoaKatie/CalendarOctober}}.
Why did your edit work for CalendarSeptember and not CalendarOctober? Who knows - I think it hates me.
Gurch made the original calendarbox for his own user page, gosh, about three years ago - he graciously allowed me to swipe adapt his work - but I've kicked his calendar up several notches, with different date lists for different months. (That may be why it hates me.)
The calendarbox makes me crazy, but I love it, so it shall stay on my user page until someone designs another, more interesting user page gizmo, which I will like and then swipe adapt. Thanks again for trying, but I think I'll handle it from here. :-) -
KrakatoaKatie08:13, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Oops, it definitely wasn't my intention to cause havoc :), but on closer glances, it seems that there are two closing braces for the #switch tag in
User:KrakatoaKatie/CalendarSeptember instead of just one where the first one closes the switch tag and the second just shows up as two visible closing braces on the page when transcluded, that's why removing one of them worked fine. I probably assumed that the same thing happened in
User:KrakatoaKatie/CalendarOctober, which isn't the case. I think you added this extra pair of closing braces
here. Set SailFor TheSeven Seas201° 54' 30" NET13:27, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Also, you should consider a smaller user page of your own . As I type this, your user page is more than 82 KB, which is huge. (Articles and article talk pages should stay less than 40 KB.) There are thousands of dial-up/nonbroadband users of Wikipedia and they can get tied up for several minutes waiting for the page to load. Just a thought. Thanks. :-)
KrakatoaKatie08:23, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Thanks, Thesevenseas, I'll open the card when the time reaches the 25th. :) Thanks for the gift, and a very Merry Christmas to you too. Best.
Acalamari23:41, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Oh, I wasn't supposed to open it? Oops. Anyway...thanks for the card, thing. I'd return the gift with an overused holiday turkey, but I'm really tired. (its 12:00AM) Cheers and happy holidays,
Abce2|
Free lemonadeonly 25 cents!06:34, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Additional information of Aviation accidents and incidents templates.
Hi there! How's your Xmas and New Year? I hope for a better year at Wiki, and seriously, you must be wishing the same idea as well!
I just logged on to Wiki today, after returning from a holiday, and was just wondering, if you can fix the templates of Aviation accidents and incidents. If you can add the number of fatalities (including ground fatalities) and the equipment of each accident, that would be great. For the worst accidents of a year, please change the colour of the text to red.
I've had a look at the templates, but I don't see what needs fixing and I'm not sure what you mean by "the equipment of each accident". I can add the number of fatalities and I think the best idea for the text colour would be to create a colour template so that one change will change them all. Hope This Helps. Set SailFor TheSeven Seas255° 41' 30" NET17:02, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
nb 7107yaddayadda is blocked and currently unable to comment here, so the {{tb}} on his or her talkpage is not going to do any good. pablohablo.17:45, 7 January 2010 (UTC)