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Hi, I've created
Template:Aircraft specs as way to automatically convert specifications into other units (among other things). Its done thru a series of #if functions. The template has grown quite large, but is basically the same code repeated over and over. I'd like to create a subtemplate and just call it multiple times, but can't seem to get the coding down. I've created a subtemplate
Template:Aircraft specs/parameter, and moved one of the parameter loops there:
{{
#if:{{{length m|}}}
|* '''Length:''' {{convert|{{{length m|}}}|m|ftin|abbr=on}} {{{length note|}}}
|{{#if:{{{length ft|}}}
|{{#if:{{{length in|}}}
|* '''Length:''' {{convert|{{{length ft|}}}|ft|{{{length in|}}}|in|m|abbr=on|disp=flip}} {{{length note|}}}
|* '''Length:''' {{convert|{{{length ft|}}}|ft|m|abbr=on|disp=flip}} {{{length note|}}}
}}
}}
}}
I would like to allow the word "length" to be a variable (renamed of course, to perhaps "parameter"), so that
Template:Aircraft specs/sandbox pass the parameter "length", "span", etc to it. maybe this is done by adding the code {{Aircraft specs/parameter|length}}, {{Aircraft specs/parameter|span}}, ...
.
I hope I've explained it clearly enough, any help or suggestions would be appreciated. - Trevor MacInnis contribs 21:00, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Aircraft specs/parameter|length}}
. Something like {{Aircraft specs/parameter|Length|{{{length m|}}}|{{{length ft|}}}|{{{length in|}}}|{{{length note|}}}}}
should work, but it's not very pretty.
Svick (
talk)
23:03, 31 July 2010 (UTC){{Aircraft specs/parameter|Parameter Name (Caps on)|parameter name|parameter unit|unit 2|unit 3}}
or do the parameter names need to be spelled out exactly? -
Trevor
MacInnis
contribs
18:07, 3 August 2010 (UTC)I am trying to get it so that {{ Cite GameFAQs}} (a wrapper template for cite web) will not display the date if its left blank, but still show it if it is filled in regardless of the coding format. 陣 内 Jinnai 22:31, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
You should make it so the links throughout the whole site will be of a different color if they direct to a stub article. That way you can avoid the stubs if you prefer.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.19.86.40 ( talk • contribs)
Concerning
Template:Vgrelease. Could manual sorting be implemented for the release dates? I mean the order the fields in a single call are used: Currently, the template always displays JP -> NA -> PAL -> EU -> AUS, no matter which order you use in the template call. For example, {{vgrelease|NA|January 21, 1998|JP|January 29, 1998|PAL|May 8, 1998}}
will display...
JP comes before NA although it is used after NA in the call. The code above should actually result in this:
I don't know how hard that is to achieve, just thought I'd request it here as the current method of using separate template calls for manual sorting is just clunky, confusing to editors, and a waste of space (for the above example, we currently have to use {{vgrelease|NA=January 21, 1998}}{{vgrelease|JP=January 29, 1998|PAL=May 8, 1998}}
to get the desired output).
Prime Blue (
talk)
09:20, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
There are several articles regarding various film franchises that utilize the "film" infobox. I think there is too much information requested in this infobox for a series of films. For a series like the first group of Star Wars movies, where the writers, producers and directors are mostly the same for all three films, it's usable. However, a series like Friday the 13th with a total of 12 movies (including the 2009 reboot), each with a different writing/directing/producing team, the infobox could be longer than the article. To illustrate this, I completed an "infobox film" template (see below) with all the information I could find already aggregated onto one page. If I had researched these movies more, I could have easily expanded with entries for screenplay, release dates, actors (a list long enough to warrant a separate article), etc, etc.
I propose a shorter infobox with only the core production information that is likely to be carried over across all or most of the movies in the series. In addition, there should be statistical information related to the entire franchise such as total revenue, number of films. I think this would be a very useful tool. I've made a table with the info that I feel should be included. Compare it to the infobox and I think you'll see my point.
Thank you, Brendanmccabe ( talk) 00:57, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Friday the 13th | |
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[[File:[|frameless|upright=1]] | |
Directed by |
|
Written by |
|
Produced by |
|
Production companies |
|
Release dates |
|
Running time |
|
Country | USA |
Budget |
|
Box office |
|
name | Friday the 13th |
image | NonFreeImageRemoved.svg |
image size | 199px |
alt | cover of boxset |
caption | a box-set release of all 72 films |
Commonality | Jason character |
studio(s) |
|
distributor(s) | |
Number of films | 72 |
Avg runtime | 100 minutes |
country | USA |
language | English |
Average budget | |
total gross | US$465,239,523 |
Thanks again, Brendanmccabe ( talk) 00:57, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Please create a template that if we put roman number then it results devanagari number.
Like this:-
{{Devanagari|12345}}
Result: १२३४५
{{Devanagari|5321}}
result: ५३२१
--
Nepab☺y
(talk)
02:02, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
A template indicating that a model of the device/vehicle, ... which the particular article discusses exists in Google Warehouse should be created. It should be similar to the wikibooks/wikiversity, ... templates. I got the idea seeing that some historically important vehicles, ... are already available at Google Warehouse, see http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=e5a7a353d5fa8df844b2fa2cac0778f5 In addition, fabricators that want to make a new type of device, or simply recreate a vehicle, device, ... would require a 3D model. Thus, this template would be very useful/important. KVDP ( talk) 07:46, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
The core issue is that the template doesn't dynamically scales to adjust for potential infoboxes and other boxes, currently the template has a hard coded width (actually hard coded margin on the right) to work fine with the infobox when users use the default settings (220px image width), but when using a larger, custom, size (250px or 300px) the table moves down to make way for the infobox, creating huge chunks of whitespace. Xeworlebi ( talk) 22:59, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
{{
tracklist}}
templates on
Garage Inc. to {{
Track listing/sandbox}}
— if your screen is wide enough, when you preview the changes (don't save them), you'll see that the first track listing is narrower than the other 3 because of the infobox. This could be fixed in most cases by wrapping the entire set in <div>...</div>
tags, but that would have to be done on a page-by-page basis. I can't see any other way of writing it unless you just use a larger hard-coded right margin and hope for the best.[show]
is on the left instead of on the right as it is now (and usual with collapsed tables). Try it at
Human Target (2010 TV series)#Soundtrack. Other than that the scaling was exactly what I was hoping for, in that the table gets smaller when there something in the way and goes full width when not.
Xeworlebi (
talk)
13:29, 7 December 2010 (UTC)<div>...</div>
and moving the relevant styles into the table styles, but whether I left the div there or put them all in the table, I still couldn't get either way to work correctly. –
RobinHood70
talk
01:26, 8 December 2010 (UTC)For existing template, please add Grapetown, Texas to Unincorporated Communities.
Maile66 ( talk) 14:41, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
{{
please translate|Spanish|Polish|French|Japanese|German}}
A template that display message box:
{{l10n |language=list of languages that need translations}} — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Jcubic (
talk •
contribs)
{{
l10n}}
, see the
doc page for usage. Could you expand on where this template will be used? If it's only in certain namespaces we can add suppression logic. Also, what's up with the name? Is that some convention? —
Bility (
talk)
17:48, 30 March 2011 (UTC){{
talk other}}
. I'll let the user know it's available on their talk page in case they're not monitoring their request. —
Bility (
talk)
03:21, 6 April 2011 (UTC)Greetings! I would like to request a family tree for the Shishman dynasty. It should look as the family tree used in the article Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria. Here you can see the family tree of the dynasty. The letters are odd, if you can't properly read the names, just put random characters in the boxes and I will fill them myself. Regards, -- Gligan ( talk) 14:45, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
{{
wide image}}
would work. Just a thought, although I'd have to check the MOS to make sure it was kosher first. —
Bility (
talk)
23:16, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
Here's the Wikipedia page to the literary festival listings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_festival
Thanks, just a suggestion! I think it would be good for Wikipedia to include this! 98.151.53.27 ( talk) 20:48, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Just link different languages to Tower of Babel article on Wikipedia.
Grevenko Sereth 122.49.167.49 ( talk) 04:30, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
Can someone code a generic bus line template along the lines of Template:Infobox rail line? There is already Template:Infobox busline but it is extremely ugly and doesn't look like our other transport infoboxes. Other non-standard bus line templates include Template:Infobox First Bus, Template:Infobox Glasgow Citybus, Template:Infobox London bus route, Template:Infobox SPT Bus, Template:Infobox West Midlands Buses, and Template:Infobox LPP Bus lines. These might be better models than Template:Infobox busline. Hopefully eventually they could all be merged. Calliopejen1 ( talk) 16:34, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
So in the process of the bus line template creation above, I found more templates.... There are Template:Infobox Bus Route and Template:Infobox UK bus route, which are essentially the same. Could someone make the UK template a wrapper for a more general bus route template? A few changes will have to be made to the general template, but not many. And then there is Template:Infobox London bus route, which is currently a wrapper for Template:Infobox UK bus route but maybe should just be a wrapper for Template:Infobox Bus Route. And then once this is done we can look at combining Template:Infobox Bus Route and Template:Infobox bus line! :) Calliopejen1 ( talk) 13:27, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
Would it be possible to create an incumbent Pope template so that the name of the incumbent pope can be easily inserted into templates such as {{ Infobox diocese}} so that they don't have to be manually updated every time there is a change of pope. Something that would generate [[Pope Benedict XVI|Benedict XVI]] for example and would therefore be automatically updated. Thanks Mangwanani (talk) 11:40, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Can we create a template that says “Acknowledged”, something like Acknowledged ? Thanks, A person who has been editing Wikipedia since October 28, 2010. ( talk) 22:48, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
{{
done|Acknowledged}}
—
Bility (
talk)
23:43, 21 July 2011 (UTC){{
tick}}
and so on. I think this is TfD.
Si Trew (
talk)
00:21, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
I made a template for another media wiki project ( however I have had this same need a number of times when making new templates on Wikipedia, so if anyone can help me, it will be a significant help to me in making infobox templates here, as well as there), which I have placed here to look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MattGagnon/template
Basically, all I really need is help with making this template hide the rows that do not have any information provided in them. In other words, if I leave something blank, such as office 2, 3, 4, 5, etc..., I don't want those rows to show up. Currently, when I leave those blank, the information still shows up.
I am not a professional at this, and I did find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conditional_tables but I think that the jargon and descriptions are JUST a tad over my head for me to get it working myself.
Would really appreciate some help fixing this template. I'm assuming it doesn't take much more than the insertion of a little code here and there. Help? MattGagnon ( talk) 16:35, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
{{
infobox}}
to make a new infobox. All these problems have already been solved in the main template and it will have a more consistent look and feel. —
Bility (
talk)
23:40, 21 July 2011 (UTC)There are 15 articles, which should have a table at the bottom of each article so one can jump from one councilmanic district to another with a single click, of course numbered 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15. The articles begin at Los Angeles City Council District 1 and end with Los Angeles City Council District 15. Hoping you can help, I am GeorgeLouis ( talk) 16:43, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
Yes, I guess it will. I hadn't thought of using that one. Thank you, Secondarywaltz! Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 23:22, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
|state=uncollapsed
or |state=off
to the template. —
Bility (
talk)
05:33, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
There some attributes of the current template that I don't feel are appropriate for the pages where I plan to use the new template, but of course consensus can rule. I am not wedded to my idea. GeorgeLouis ( talk) 12:05, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
In preparing a template, which is now at User:GeorgeLouis/Sandbox2, I need a text line just above the list to read "Geographical locations are approximate." I don't know how to do it. You can fix it for me if you like. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 12:02, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
|above=
parameter for you. I also moved the |state=off
parameter into the template, in case you wanted in there instead of above. Cheers, —
Bility (
talk)
16:47, 1 August 2011 (UTC)Looks good. Thank you very much. Any way to center the two headers one above the other? They seem a little lopsided to me. Yours sincerely, GeorgeLouis ( talk) 18:58, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
|state=off
to |state=uncollapse
(adds back in the hide/show link on the right) or add |navbar=off
(removes the "v · d · e" links on the left). —
Bility (
talk)
20:23, 1 August 2011 (UTC)If this Infobox template already exists, please advise. If not, is it possible to have one? Many courthouses use the NRHP Infobox template, which works fine if it's listed on the national register. See Brooks County Courthouse (Texas), which I adapted from the NRHP. Without the NRHP, it will not show a pin map or Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, such as Presidio County Courthouse. Is it possible to have a generalized Infobox template for courthouses that will accommodate those which are only for Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks and/or those which have neither NRHP or RTHL? The pin map and image are really important for me. Please advise. Maile66 ( talk) 15:24, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
Presidio County Courthouse | |
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General information | |
Coordinates | 30°18′48″N 104°1′20″W / 30.31333°N 104.02222°W |
Try using |map dot label=
—
Bility (
talk)
22:18, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
Requested: a citation template for referencing tables and figures in a book, journal article, web page, etc.
24.18.36.195 ( talk) 07:52, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
See "Infobox Courthouse" above. We got my request taken care of by using Infobox: Building with |map dot label=. Now I'm working on an article that will use the template "Infobox Museum", and map dot label doesn't work on that one. Again, I find no way to affix a label to the map dot (map pin). Seems kind of useless to have an unlabeled red dot in the middle of the map, no matter what the tiny type at the bottom says. A red dot on a map should have a label next to it. Here's an example: San Antonio Museum of Art. If Wikipedia is not hard and fast about what I use, maybe I should just revert to Infobox Building for the museum article I'm working on. Can anybody help with this? Maile66 ( talk) 16:16, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
|label=
parameter for {{
location map}}
is not being used in {{
infobox museum}}
, and it's protected, so you would need to make an
edit request on the template's talk page asking to add it. —
Bility (
talk)
17:53, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
In the 'Bottom section: For all infoboxes', I would like to change the parameter labeled 'average annual generation' to 'annual_net_generation', and change the word 'gross' in its description to 'net', since this is what is typically reported and more relevant for power stations.
I am not sure of the coding, what it would change, or everything that needs to be changed in making this edit.
Could someone could explain or just change this?
I would also like to delete the parameter 'net_generation', due to conflict with the above and with its own description ("Gross power generation since commissioning of the power station"). I doubt that it is used as described, but don't know how to check, or if deleting it would remove it from any articles that might already use it.
If deleting it outright would cause problems, could it perhaps be marked for deletion, frozen from future use, or a cautionary note added to the description?
PR Alma (
talk)
03:35, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
This may resemble the current {{
Afd-merge from}}. However, this requested template should combine a huge amount of nominated articles. This would take a lot of work if this proposal is accepted, such as to include syntaxes of nominated articles in one AfD and of nominated articles in separate AfDs. --
Gh87 (
talk) 06:36, 16 October 2011 (UTC) This way, I don't have to use {{
WikiProject Banners}} to hide all multiple separate banners per
Talk:The O.C. (season 4). --
Gh87 (
talk)
06:37, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
I coded the below Settlements in East Cambridgeshire template over a year ago. I have just been playing with trending topics, such as this one: Category:Cities in the East of England, and it occurred to me that I could do something similar with Template:East Cambridgeshire - for example Category:East Cambridgeshire. However, I do not appear to have added a useful category to the template - perhaps [[Category:East Cambridgeshire]]? Can you point me to something that shows me what I should do here and how to (properly) do it please?
-- Senra ( Talk) 22:51, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Whilst I am here, in relation to the same template ( Settlements in East Cambridgeshire) is there a way it can be automated so that any mainspace article it is included in gets listed in the template? If it is possible, is it desirable to do this? -- Senra ( Talk) 22:51, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ncboy2010 ( talk • contribs) 01:50, 23 October 2011
en:Vikipedi:Şablon istekleri — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rapsar ( talk • contribs) 19:39, 23 November 2011
Add Wiktionary result(s) on Wikipedia.
Wkpd could use it & it would be so convenient --like when on a friend's browser or a guest at someone's computer(s). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.92.35.234 ( talk • contribs) 02:36, 20 December 2011
I'm interested in being able to add a thing to the top of talk pages to provide a little bit of balanced encouragement and a couple of most fundamental tips/links on making comments or edits.
The template along those lines seems to be Template:Talk_header which is great but for when pages "attract frequent or perpetual debate, articles often subject to controversy, and/or recent-and-highly-visible topics." It has quite a lot of links & points in it, esp with the policies column, and when adding it there seems to be an extra undocumented line at the top warning "This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject", which I feel could tipo the balance of it toward confusing or discouraging new people.
On the other hand there's Template:Be_bold which is also great but is specifically about jumping in to editing, as things can easily be undone, and doesn't mention talk page commenting, or editing policy.
I've maybe missed other relevant templates or message boxes, but if not then I'd like to contribute to a new one that sort of mixes the above two but simplified for articles needing encouragement. For developed articles where it's not a matter of just adding a critical improve tag, but where people don't seem to be making substantial contributions and maybe queries/suggestions aren't getting replied to much or at all (so check back later or ask elsewhere but don't be disheartened be bold). Thanks for any feedback or help. Eversense ( talk) 20:18, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
{{
talk header}}
, you might want to check in at the
village pump to gauge interest. —
Bility (
talk)
17:08, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
{{
tmbox}}
. I put an example in your userpages
here. Let me know if you need any help. When you get it looking how you like, you can start asking around and see if anyone wants to use it, or you can be bold and move it into the Template namespace and start using it yourself. Cheers, —
Bility (
talk)
23:36, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
A template similar to Template:Not English, except that it refers to poorly translated articles, not articles that haven't been translated at all. ( Engrish is simply a slang term used to describe text poorly translated into English, as in " All your base are belong to us.") It would look something like this:
This article has been
poorly translated into English. This article was originally written in a language other than English. Please rewrite it in proper English. Also see this article's entry on Pages needing translation into English for discussion. If the article is not rewritten in English within the next two weeks it will be listed for deletion. |
I will probably not check back here in a while, so please notify me on my talk page if you have any questions.
Thanks,
The Doctahedron, 01:45, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I'd like a template that is similar to Template:Infobox_Station, however, it would need a 'Korean name' section like Template:Infobox_SMS_station. Thanks in advance! 2Q ( talk) 22:32, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
2Q ( talk) 22:32, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
into that field, but at the moment, there is only one of these fields. I can (and only if you want) I will try to add to the sandbox the relevant 4 parameters of the Infobox SMS station and then request a edit protect...
mabdul
15:08, 6 February 2012 (UTC)Hi, I am trying to create an info box for human rights abuses [1] and am failing miserably. Can anyone here help me out please? Darkness Shines ( talk) 17:00, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
Currently, Template:very long section is a redirect to Template:very long. I wonder if anyone can turn it into a template that resembles {{ cleanup section}} and {{ expand section}} but similar to "very long".
George Ho ( talk) 02:30, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
{{ expand section}} {{ cleanup}}
This section is
too long. Consider
splitting it into new pages, adding
subheadings, or
condensing it. |
I think it would be great if we had a template to welcome users whose first/only edits are edits to the sandbox. I looked for one and was very surprised to see that we don't already have such a template (or if we do, I couldn't find it. It ought to look just like the regular welcome message, but it should include some reference to the sandbox and encourage the new users to continue/expand their editing. Maybe it should look something like this:
---
Hello, Requested templates, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I see you have already begun learning how to edit Wikipedia by making use of the sandbox. That's a great place to start! Even experienced editors often use the sandbox to make test edits. Once you've learned the basics of editing, it's time to move on and begin boldly editing articles! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
I hope you enjoy editing here and being a
Wikipedian! Please
sign your messages on
talk pages using four
tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out
Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}}
before the question. Again, welcome!
---
If there is already a template like this one, please let me know. I was certain there would be one, but I couldn't find it. (This is my first time requesting a creation, so if I've done this wrong, please be gentle!) Thanks for considering everything.
Sleddog116 ( talk) 23:23, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
Hey, I am looking for a template that is very factual. I need help on a book series called Choice of Words. It isn't published as a book but we are trying to look as superficial.
It should have the vibe I get from the Spongebob Squarepants artical,please.It should have a convient place for everything.
1.0 Summary 2.0 Story 3.0 Characters
3.1 Diah Laten 3.2 Princess Eva Hans 3.3 Carley 3.4 David Whaling 3.5 Godess Zepher
4.0 Powers and Magic 5.0 Creators ABCDEFR ( talk) 23:29, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
202.129.199.171 ( talk) 10:38, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
79.23.122.97 ( talk) 11:05, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Hi, would it be possible for someone to create two templates:
The purpose of these templates is so that the tables can be included in both Transcription into Japanese and Katakana without the current duplication. Once the templates have been created, I will take care of fixing up the articles.
The templates do not requre any programming logic. I simply want to be able to insert{{ katakana table}} and {{ katakana table extended}} in an article, and have the text from the template included. 86.177.107.165 ( talk) 14:59, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Can I use a template for an up and coming music recorder named CJ Swagga? She is a twelve year old rapper please contact me at: (Redacted) Thank you for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.45.11.131 ( talk)
Could someone create and invitation template for WP:DANCE? Something like the invatation templates here. Colors would be light blues that match (and include) this picture. Thank you!
ReelAngelGirl Talk to me! Tea? 14:50, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Dance/Invitation}}
on someone's talk page. —
Bility (
talk)
00:39, 22 April 2012 (UTC)Look at Talk:musicians of the RMS Titanic. I have to collapse the "Merged-from" that does not support blending in multiple pages, as Template:oldafdfull does. In fact, I wonder if there is an effort into adding infinite parameters of articles. -- George Ho ( talk) 07:28, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
{{
copied multi}}
and {{
copied multi/Merged-from}}
.
Example. —
Bility (
talk)
22:27, 20 April 2012 (UTC)I have an idea for a template for an infobox for a particular sport in a country, usable for any sport and country, eg. 'Field hockey in the USA' or 'Cricket in Australia'. It could roughly look something like this:
Football in India | - |
---|---|
<Country flag image> | - |
Governing body | All India Football Federation |
National championship | I-league |
Olympic appearances | 1 |
Olympic medals | 1 bronze |
FIFA World Cup appearances | 1 |
FIFA World Cup performance | Never progressed beyond first round |
Asian Cup | Winners Once, Runners up twice |
First played | 1800s |
National team | India |
The Discoverer ( talk) 12:18, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
I found this: Template:Sport overview, so maybe we could improve this one. It doesn't have any documentation at present. I think it would be great to have a country flagicon and a small shield of the national governing body. The flagicon feature, though present, is apparently not working in the existing template. Also, I think the national team nickname should be removed as this belongs in the national team infobox. It would be nice to have small medal icons where applicable and small cup symbols where the country has been champions in a competition. The Discoverer ( talk) 12:25, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
{{
sport overview}}
. I updated the doc, so you can either mess around with it yourself or let me know what needs to be added and I'll help you out. —
Bility (
talk)
23:23, 30 April 2012 (UTC)Thanks Bility! Can we have a feature that automatically inserts a flag icon based on {country}? Also, I think we should have a method to summarise the number of appearances and performance of the country in important international competitions like the Olympics, the world cup or the regional championship as shown in the example above. I'm thinking maybe we can have something like:
| internationaltournament_1
| internationaltournament_1_appearances
| internationaltournament_1_record
| internationaltournament_2
.
.
.
| internationaltournament_n
The Discoverer ( talk) 12:52, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
collapsible list}}
with them. We can make the flag off the country name, but where would it go? Currently there's no "Country" field in the infobox, that information is just used to build the team links. —
Bility (
talk)
15:33, 1 May 2012 (UTC)Yes, Bility, you're right, I think three entries for each would suffice. Perhaps we can put the flag below the image and the caption. The Discoverer ( talk) 16:51, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
I edited the sandbox version to show where we could have the flag and also added the title attendance record at the bottom. I also added a new test case with the international competitions. It works for me. I think we could use {national1}, {national2} and {national3} in the lists in order for the transclusions in use to continue working. Similarly for {club1}, {club2} and {club3}.
For the international part, could we have something like pairs of {intlname1} and {intlperf1}, {intlname2} and {intlperf2}, {intlname3} and {intlperf3} like we have the pairs {leader_title_1} and {leader_name_1} in Template:Infobox Indian Jurisdiction?
The Discoverer ( talk) 19:18, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
The cleanup category is a good idea, I didn't know about that. The only reason I wanted parameters for international was so that we could have the competition name and performance in neat columns like in Template:Infobox Indian Jurisdiction and not like it is right now in Template:Sport overview/testcases (ie. without having to use colons), if you understand what I mean. What would be the best way to accomplish this? The Discoverer ( talk) 21:06, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
What you're saying makes sense to me. One other thing: Can we and should we include {collapsible list} directly in the template? Other than that, looks like we're good to go. The Discoverer ( talk) 21:45, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Its looking fine to me. Good job, Bility. Thanks for your help! The Discoverer ( talk) 09:41, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
My first implementation of the upgraded infobox: Football in India :) . It looks pretty swanky. Thanks a lot. I'll try to work on articles that need conversion to lists too. The Discoverer ( talk) 19:51, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
For some articles, the {country} national {sport} team link should not appear, e.g. Chess in India. If the {country} parameter is omitted, then the national team link does not appear, but with this, the flagicon also disappears. Please can you modify the template so that the link does not appear if either the {country} parameter or the {sport} parameter is left blank? The Discoverer ( talk) 13:14, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
Could someone alter {{
Medref}} (in a sandbox linked from the main template so we can look at & discuss!), to have a visual layout like the message boxes here:
Sources of articles#Message boxes so it's suitable for Mainspace please?
The existing image
Rod of asclepius.png can move to the right, so it's opposite the exclamation mark used on those message boxes. Additionally, please add date parameters like those source templates use along with an optional "section" parameter. Thank you. --
92.6.211.228 (
talk)
16:33, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
{{DMCA}}
isn't necessary, all categorization functionality is built in to {{
ambox}}
. One thing I will caution you on, is that the template is currently in use on multiple talk pages. So after the switch, someone will need to move them from the talk to the article itself. —
Bility (
talk)
22:32, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
{{ambox}}
, nothing we can do about it unless you want to build your own banner without using it. —
Bility (
talk)
00:15, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
{{ambox}}
and those examples seems to only display the date when the date parameter's used. --
92.6.211.228 (
talk)
00:23, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
{{Medref/sandbox}}
). Others like Refimprove, on its own above-linked testcases page, only display the date if you include the param |date=month/year. Both do correctly categorise articles in the parent Articles needing additional refs category rather than its child date-specific cats if |date isn't included. Bizarrely, in Mainspace it displays the date only when actually used.|name=
, so it fails the check and just passes the date, which can be empty. It shouldn't affect mainspace though, it's just for the template and its subpages, probably so you can see what date you should put in the template when you use it. —
Bility (
talk)
03:17, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
|name=
was causing it yep. As it only breaks stuff, perhaps albeit cosmetically, he removed it. Wow. I think that's a wrap. Thanks for all your help and, patience! --
92.6.211.228 (
talk)
11:18, 1 May 2012 (UTC)Is this the appropriate place to request help with a template? If not please let me know where is.
My template sometimes needs to make calls like {{Str number/trim|13<ref>a reference</ref>}}
which return 13 rather than the correct answer of 13 because the ref is being processed by the wiki software. Technically this is probably a bug in {{
Str number/trim}} and {{
Str letter/trim}} that should be fixed. The template makes this call via {{Str number/trim| {{{1}}} }}
. I am wondering how I can call <nowiki>
on {{{1}}}
. It's worth noting that in testing even {{Str number/trim|<nowiki>13<ref>a reference</ref>}}</nowiki>
appears to return the incorrect results of nothing. If you would like to take a look at the code directly here is what I am working on: {{
Ranking movements/strip/sandbox}}. --
ben_b (
talk)
23:33, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
{{padleft}}
parser function, which is what all this string manipulation relies on.Hi, I'd like for someone to help me with creating a location map template for the city map of Baku, Azerbaijan. The image to used is called "ESC 2012 Baku Map.svg" in WP Commons. I've tried following the guide at Template:Location map/Creating a new map template but with no success. The location map template is to be used in the article for Eurovision Song Contest 2012, see 2011 and 2013 for examples on how the template is in use for other maps. Thank you! -- Reckless182 (talk) 09:19, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
{{
Location map Baku, Azerbaijan}}
for you and used it on the 2012 article as an example. The latitudes and longitudes for the map edges look like they need to be refined (I just eyeballed it). Hope that helps. —
Bility (
talk)
16:33, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
Can someone please add the category Category:Wikipedia orphaned talk pages that should not be speedily deleted to Template:Rtd? This template archives file talk pages where the file description page was deleted. This template is used when a file is tagged with {{ Di-replaceable fair use disputed}} (which disputes {{ Di-replaceable fair use}}), and where discussion takes place on the talk page, but still resulting in the file being deleted. — ξ xplicit 01:02, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
This template needs to resemble Template:welcome-vandal but mention merely unconstructive removal of such, like Template:uw-delete1. -- George Ho ( talk) 04:14, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
I need something that blends Template:Non-free use rationale logo and Template:Non-free use rationale 2. -- George Ho ( talk) 17:06, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
@BarackObama screenshot | |
Account created | March 5, 2007 16:08:25 [11] |
---|---|
Followers | 16.5 million |
Following | 677,188 |
Tweets | 4,239 tweets |
Profile URL |
www |
As of June 12, 2012 | |
Justin Bieber on Twitter, Ashton Kutcher on Twitter, Lady Gaga on Twitter, and Barack Obama on Twitter are currently using Template:Infobox website Those articles and future articles need a template so that instead of "Users 16 million" it could say "Follower 16 millions". Also it would be better to have a parameter for "Account created" rather than "Launched".-- TonyTheTiger ( T/ C/ BIO/ WP:CHICAGO/ WP:FOUR) 01:49, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
These articles are crap, I hope no one fulfills your request. — Bility ( talk) 18:18, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
We shouldn't add parameters for rapidly-changing statistics like the number of folowers or tweets. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:59, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
Hi I want to make the "Proofreader needed" Box avail in English, for Afrikaans, as I am currently working on some translations. I have people reading the articles before I put them up, but this takes a long time. I would like to flag them as you are able to in English. I am not sure how to creat this. I have one in my sandbox, but I just changed the English one. Not sure if this is legal? Five Foot Two ( talk) 18:38, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
Thank you Base :) I am looking to make this one. I don't know where or how to save it so others can use it too.
Dit article is
vertaal uit 'n Wikipedia artikel in 'n ander taal, en vereis proeflies. As jy is vertroue genoeg in jou vlotheid van Afrikaans en die oorspronklike taal, voel asseblief vry om hierdie vertaling aan te sluit. |
Five Foot Two ( talk) 18:51, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
The current external media template is confusing.
External videos | |
---|---|
Fluorine video from the University of Nottingham: Cold gas impinging on several substances causes bright flames. Extra footage. |
I would like a simpler, nicer looking version.
For instance:
1. There are two different pictures of the clapperboard. Why duplicate?
2. The blue arrow in each clapperboard looks like a "start" button for video. But clicking it does not work. Cut that.
3. Anything else you think of. I trust y'all's art instincts.
TCO ( talk) 01:02, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
P.s. No fussing about external media copyright, please. I know EXACTLY what I am doing, when I opt for that choice.
P.s.s. I don't care if we fix the existing one or make a new one. Really, I would prefer a new one. That way, we don't have some silly edit war about which one is preferred. Make the new one and let it be an option. Note we already do this for instance for embedded audio files (have a few choices of templates for how to display).
I'm trying to create a template that points to the location a relisted RfD is now located. Basically, it should look just like the manually created link at: Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2012 June 14#Petara.
The template should create the level 4 heading (based on a given parameter) with span_id. It should place the {{ relisted}} icon and text and create a link to the relevant section of the new log page, named Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/YYYY monthname day#redirect (the section name parameter will be used for both the link and the generated section heading). Ideally it should default to the current day if a different one is not specified.
I started to try and create one at User:Thryduulf/RFD relisted (testing at User:Thryduulf/sandbox) but I've exceeded my skill level already (copying mainly from {{ oldrfd}} and even what I've tried to do so far doesn't work! Thryduulf ( talk) 22:23, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
Like the subject of this section says I would like a template for articles that read like a list. Basically a cleanup template. I also want it to address articles about people that list their works for example, but say nothing about the style of their work (if a musician for ex.), or the impact of the person(s) work. A perfect example of an article I'd like to use it for is the article, Plaid (band). I want the main part in bold to say, This article reads like a list. The rest of it I would like to say... This article marks milestones but does not say anything qualitative about the subject and/or person. Please discuss on the article's talk page. If anyone has suggestions please let me know. Thanks. Lighthead þ 06:49, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
We could use a dedicated citation template for a work citing another work. This comes up fairly often. To make it a bit clearer, this arises when you have access to source X, and that source is itself citing source Y, which you don't have access to, so you need to cite X, citing Y. This is discussed at WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT, though the form given there is far from full attribution and would not pass muster at WP:FAC I wouldn't think. Ideally, it would work like this:
Starr, Ringo (1967). Name of Book I Haven't Seen. Liverpool, UK: Apple Records Press. p. 1. ISBN X-XXXX-XXXX-X, cited in Zappa, Frank (1979). Name of book I Have Seen. Baltimore, MA: Mothers of Invention Press. p. 2. ISBN X-XXXX-XXXX-X.
I could probably work up something too simple and stilted on my own after great effort but doing this right is beyond my coding ability, and way beyond if it were to use something like (or require a modification to) {{ Citation/core}}.-- Fuhghettaboutit ( talk) 22:59, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I'd like to request a Navbox for Gameloft games, but I don't now if I'm right here, so feel free to move this request to the right place if it is the wrong place for doing this: A navbox which links Gameloft games (see the cat). -- weltforce ( talk) 17:25, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Please feel free to go to town with an image and any style that seems to work. I thought combining Template:Campaignbox History of theatre by country and Template:Campaignbox History of theatre by country would be easy but I think I need more advanced help to ensure we're on a good path. Feel free to add Portal:Theatre and Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre or anything else that makes sense. Insomesia ( talk) 02:08, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
I would like a template that informs users navigating to a page that the road junction list/exit list is supposed to be built using templates, such as
Template:Jctint,
Template:Jcttop, and
Template:Jctbtm, and not in a wikitable format. It should use the same basic format as
Template:Exit list, but the "text" field would read thus: '''This section has a table that represents a list of exits or junctions. However, it should be formatted using templates, such as {{jcttop}}, {{jctint}}, {{jctbtm}}, etc., as appropriate.'''<br>Please help by <span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=edit}} adding the missing exit or junction list].
Also, instead of placing the article in [[Category:Routes needing a junction list|{{PAGENAME}}]]
, the template should place the article in a category named [[Category:Routes having an exit list that should be templated|{{PAGENAME}}]]
. Of course, if the wording should be changed to something simpler, please propose that here. Thank you.
Allen (Morriswa) (
talk)
04:20, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
One relatively new source for biographies of those living in the USA in 1940 is the 1940 United States Census. We need a template that makes it easier to cite a particular page ("schedule') from that census.
One index of census records is available at FamilySearch. I am requesting that a template for citing a schedule from FamilySearch be created. I think the easiest way to expand what I am asking for is to give an example:
The template should be used like this:
and produce the following:
The only mandatory parameter is the id; if name is missing, it default to PAGENAME, if at if missing, the source text defaults to "at FamilySearch."; if accessdate is missing, no "Retrieved 2012-xx-yy." is generated.
For now, only FamilySearch would be supported as a source of census schedules, and as a result, the generated URL always starts with " https://familysearch.org/pal:/" But it would be useful to allow for URLs from other sources be able to be added.
Bonus points if you allow the first unnamed parameter to be assumed to be the name, and the second unnamed parameter to be summed to be the id.
Thus, the example above would be equivalent to:
72.244.206.132 ( talk) 13:37, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
I would like to request someone make a template. That would combine these two templates that already exists. {{ box-shadow}}, and also {{ border-radius}}. I have made an example of what it would look like on my User Sandbox page here. It would look good, as well as make it more appealing and eye catching to the eye. As well it makes it pop-out more. What do you guys think? -- Clarkcj12 ( talk) 20:38, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
-- Jax 0677 ( talk) 01:07, 19 September 2012 (UTC) These templates when finished, should be placed at the bottom of their respective pages with albums, singles and ensemble members for those associated with music. For those associated with companies, the subsidiaries, products and people associated with the companies should be added. Thanks!
Jax 0677 ( talk) 01:07, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
This template needs a major cleanup and re-structuring so it can cope with Issue numbers as well as volume numbers.
It's also impossible to understand the template code in it's current form.
Sfan00 IMG ( talk) 14:28, 22 September 2012 (UTC)
The templates in this section cover either musicians, musical ensembles or organizations. They should be navigation boxes at the bottom of the articles. Musical templates should contain the people, albums and songs associated with the topic. Organization templates should contain the people, products, and subsidiaries affiliated with them.
-- Jax 0677 ( talk) 16:12, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
The bottom-anchored template for the above page would be headed "Notable members of the Los Angeles Common Council." and it would list all the blue-linked names to be found on that page; I think alphabetically would be best. This page will have no other names added to it, its time frame being 1850-1889, although some of the black names on it will be blue-linked in the future. Considering the time frame involved, a simple black-grey-white color scheme might be best. Any questions, please?
GeorgeLouis ( talk) 00:52, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello. At this section of Template talk:Climate chart. you'll find a requested change to {{ Climate chart}}. A new parameter is needed to enable {{ Climate chart}} to be used in articles about places such as Beaver Creek, which have particularly cold winters. Please contribute to the discussion there if you are so inclined. Thanks in advance. 72.244.204.87 ( talk) 04:39, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
May I request infobox on Philippine Law. Information like Law Title,Acronym, Congress House Bill Number, Author,co- author. Senate House Bill number, Author, co- author. Committee,
Like
Name: Republic Act No. 10175 Acronym: Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 Full Title: AN ACT DEFINING CYBERCRIME, PROVIDING FOR THE PREVENTION, INVESTIGATION, SUPPRESSION AND THE IMPOSITION OF PENALTIES THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. ------------------------------------ Senate Bill Number: 2796 Author: Approved:June 5, 2012 Senate President:JUAN PONCE ENRILE ------------------------------------ House Bill Number: 5808 Author: Approved:June 5, 2012 House Speaker:FELICIANO BELMONTE JR. -------------------------------------- Approved on SEP 12 2012 By: BENIGNO S. AQUINO III
http://www.gov.ph/2012/09/12/republic-act-no-10175/ - — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bonvallite ( talk • contribs) 08:49, 8 October 2012
Infobox theater has two incompatible sets of coord parameters... Could someone help rationalize this? (This template scares me, so I don't want to do it myself!) The "coordinates"/"latitude"/"longitude" parameters (which are incompatible with the pushpin map) generate inline and title coordinate outputs, but only "latd"/"longd" work with the pushpin map. Thanks! Calliopejen1 ( talk) 19:04, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
{{ Multiple image}} documentation come complete with an aspect ratio hack that leads to potential maintenance problems. As documented here, to get a common height to a set of images being displayed horizontally using {{ Multiple image}}, an editor must incorporate the aspect ratio of each non-square image using the following per-image width expression:
where, expressed in pixels, dh is the desired height, ow is the original width, and oh is the original height.
The basic request is to improve this. More specifically, at a minimum, create a new template that replaces that expression, such as {{imagewidth|dh|oh|ow}} As far as I know, no such template already exists.
If its possible for a template to detect ow and oh, you could implement a more ambitious and usable approach. For a coveted {{ Template Barnstar}}, incorporate support for dh directly into {{ Multiple image}}. My proposal would be to introduce a parameter called height, which would be a per-template instance like width (as opposed to the numbered per-image parameters like width1, width2, etc.) Specifying height in this manner would eliminate the need to specify the multiple per-image width expressions.
Thanks in advance. 67.101.5.135 ( talk) 22:26, 23 January 2013 (UTC)