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::: [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]], thank you. now we are getting somewhere. I tried Firefox and Internet Explorer and both look fine, so it seems to be an issue with Chrome. I will see if anyone has any ideas at [[WP:VPT]]. [[User:Frietjes|Frietjes]] ([[User talk:Frietjes#top|talk]]) 21:44, 16 November 2015 (UTC) |
::: [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]], thank you. now we are getting somewhere. I tried Firefox and Internet Explorer and both look fine, so it seems to be an issue with Chrome. I will see if anyone has any ideas at [[WP:VPT]]. [[User:Frietjes|Frietjes]] ([[User talk:Frietjes#top|talk]]) 21:44, 16 November 2015 (UTC) |
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::::Also, by your edit at my Talk page, are you trying to file a complaint, to criticize me, for posting here? And/or for not instantly replying to your reply?? I said I would watch here and I would have gotten back to it, but as you noticed I was editing elsewhere, which I am allowed to do. |
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::::And, yes, I checked at TFD and was commenting there at your nomination for deletion of a similar states template, for the Ukraine, based on reasonable concern raised by your edits to the U.S. states template and your multiple replacements of the U.S. states template use. I hope you will please reply to my questions there about the Ukraine template. -- |
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Barnstar for you!
The Template Barnstar | ||
I've looked at your tireless contribution to templates. So i believe this barnstar should suit you. Ibrahim ebi (talk) 15:59, 18 February 2013 (UTC) |
The Template Barnstar | ||
Thanks for your help to improve the Adopt-a-typo template. Much appreciated! Jason Quinn (talk) 16:50, 7 March 2013 (UTC) |
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For getting better performance and adding options to the chess diagram template. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:36, 30 May 2013 (UTC) |
- Let me just second this (since you've got three on this page already). Thank you for all those well-framed edit requests you made to the convert sub-templates. ~Adjwilley (talk) 20:05, 2 August 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for editing Sandhani page. Dr. Kabir Hossain (talk) 18:41, 26 June 2013 (UTC) |
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Module:testcase table is great! Thanks for making it! —hike395 (talk) 03:58, 10 July 2013 (UTC) |
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Hey Frietjes! Thanks for your wonderful and helpful contributions in SpongeBob related areas. I really appreciate it. Keep it up! Thanks and happy editing! :) Mediran (t • c) 03:12, 11 May 2013 (UTC) |
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Thank you for being observant to other's (i.e. me) ham-fisted hacking and repairing damaged templates without fuss. You rock! FruitMonkey (talk) 21:11, 30 August 2013 (UTC) |
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For your work correcting the "year" field in 1000s of uses of {{Infobox Australian place}}. Much appreciated. Mattinbgn (talk) 19:53, 1 February 2014 (UTC) |
Wow. That was a quick work here! Happy editing! -- L o g X 17:34, 11 October 2013 (UTC) |
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Thanks for you work on tables and templates! -- Wywin (talk | contribs) 18:35, 24 October 2013 (UTC) |
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Thanks for all your work replacing instances of {{convert/spell}} with the new Lua compliant {{convert|...|spell=in}} AdmrBoltz 20:54, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
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Frietjes, I would like to thank you for taking care and fixing the oil field infobox even without asking. It was really kind of you. Beagel (talk) 17:59, 4 February 2014 (UTC) |
A kitten for you!
Thanks for all the updating of the population data you are doing on Queensland places! Great work! |
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You have been awarded the prestigious Golden Doubloon for your services to the WP:ANATOMY WikiProject. Thanks! |
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Thank you for adding team colors for college basketball players. Temple of the Mousy (talk) 19:53, 14 March 2014 (UTC) |
tireless template help --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:01, 31 March 2013 (UTC) |
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Thank you so much for your fix at Template:Infobox winery. You've just fixed something that had been a small annoyance to me and probably others for a long time. SchreiberBike talk 00:46, 3 April 2014 (UTC) |
On a number of occasions now I've noticed you've made a whole series of benificial but tedious improvements to various currency articles. These are mostly the type of improvements that are behind the scene's (formatting, wikifying, etc.) and thus might go unrecognized, so I wanted to take a moment to thank you and let you know it's appreciated. Gecko G (talk) 20:49, 4 April 2014 (UTC) |
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Thanks so much for the work on the Nanjing districts template! Your input on the template itself and placement within articles is extremely helpful! I had posted two questions about how to format it and you resolved both issues! It's very much appreciated and looks really nice now. CaroleHenson (talk) 15:16, 15 May 2014 (UTC) |
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Nice work on {{Taxation}}! You do a lot of work in neglected areas, and it's always a big improvement. bobrayner (talk) 12:46, 26 October 2014 (UTC) |
Thank you for patrolling unused templates and nominating them for deletion. The cleanup is very useful. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:17, 7 November 2014 (UTC) |
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Thanks for the article changes :) Viktor O. Ledenyov (talk) 14:07, 18 September 2014 (UTC) |
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Frietjes, thank you for your excellent work streamlining the color coding used in navboxes for college football and other college sports subjects. Jweiss11 (talk) 06:26, 20 January 2015 (UTC) |
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For your unceasing work on the many WP Templates, I hereby award you this Barnstar YSSYguy (talk) 23:25, 3 February 2015 (UTC) |
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A big thanks for your help with putting in grid-numbers in info-boxes: it works like dream! With best wishes, Huldra (talk) 22:02, 2 March 2015 (UTC) |
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For your endeavor in template cleanup, where I sometimes feel overwhelmed, and wish I were more like you. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 19:55, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
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tireless template help
Thank you for quality help in all kinds of template questions, even creating a template that should not be needed rather than "some hack of div tags and html tables", finding solutions with sense and offering them with kindness, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
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Thanks for correcting my sourcing mistake on Defense of the Reich. Much appreciated. GeneralizationsAreBad (talk) 19:58, 17 June 2015 (UTC) |
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for the amazing work you do everyday and the help you provide to the CHECKWIKI project. Magioladitis (talk) 11:41, 19 June 2015 (UTC) |
A kitten for you! |
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for fixing this! |
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Thanks for all you good contribution. It was greatly appreciated👋 Brilloman12 (talk) 05:51, 1 August 2015 (UTC) |
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For you hard work at cleaning up templates. Just checked my watch list and it BLEW UP with all the changes you made. Keep up the awesome work! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:05, 20 October 2015 (UTC) |
hi, thank u for editing in my page user :) |
Nomination for deletion of Template:Location map Kingdom of Hungary
From my talk page back in september.
Bugger bugger bugger, I saw a map in the transport museum in budapest we went the other week and it had the lat and long but in pretty much a mercator projection. My missus was more interested with the toy trains so I didn't get a chance to take the measures off it. If it's wrong (as it is) it should be deleted but I am still trying to get the measures right. The thing is it's specifically Kingdom of Hungary, but the more atlases (atli? :) I look at the more different lats and longs I get. And anything one does on Hungarian articles is rather contentious, so it is probably really better deleted. Because people whose great grandfathers were part of the Kingdom of Hungary will say no that's Croatia or Slovakia or Slovenia or Yugoslavia or Jugoslavia or The People's Republic of East Kebab. Since Hungarian politics is very contentious and goes on racist grounds in far more than would be allowed in where I come from, this is better off deleted. (Hint: say Treaty of Trianon to a Hungarian and await results.) Si Trew (talk) 09:36, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
- I never did get round to this. I took the coords off of file at right, which is very high quality but seems to have an odd idea of where 0 longitude is (it suggests it is east of Paris, but that didn't seem to work). As you suggested, I tried to take well-known points at the edges of the map: Fiume, for example, at south-west. I took very good readings after printing out this map at A0 size and using ruler and compass, my trig is quite good, but I could never get it to fit. Si Trew (talk) 06:02, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
- .Oh, Template:Location_map_Kingdom_of_Hungary/test might help you. You see, Fiume's in the right place but Budapest is a bit too far left and the rest are well out. Si Trew (talk) 06:09, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Infobox NFL coach merge/wrapper
Hey, Frietjes. Was this sandbox ready for review, or were you still chewing on it? Please let me know. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:42, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
- Dirtlawyer1, I believe that was a proof-of-concept to show that one format could be converted to another format. I'm not sure which format is preferred at the moment. Frietjes (talk) 14:52, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
- parameters marked as "missing" in the sandbox are parameters which are in the coach infobox, but do not exist in the player/biography infobox. the extra stats links are probably not needed, but additional fields to differentiate between a playing career and a coaching career seem useful. Frietjes (talk) 15:01, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
- Frietjes, nice to have you back, and I hope you enjoyed your time away. Thanks for your previous work on the concept. As far as the NFL and college football players are concerned, the existing plainlist coding for team tenures and honors is strongly preferred, not least because it is already in use on 15,000+ NFL and CFB player articles. There is also the matter of consistent formatting with the teams and honors being followed by the tenures/years in parentheticals -- the format was a conscious choice of the template designers and makes a great deal more semantic sense than the revers employed elsewhere. So, yes, I think we want to preserve that choice as we replace the last 300 coach infoboxes. Please let me know what you can do. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:19, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
- I just saw your added comment above after being edit-conflicted. I will take a look at the "missing" parameters noted above, and get back to you. I agree we do not need to add any more stats fields to the merged box; stats are one of the most problematic and misused parameters out there. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:19, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
Color module for Tennessee Volunteers
Hi, Frietjes. Small problem here. The Tennessee Volunteers team colors are orange and white. Bold white text reversed out of Tennessee orange looks fine to my naked 20/40 eyes and my 20/20 corrected vision, but only renders a color-contrast ratio of something like 2.5 to 1 (not even AA-compliant). Most, if not all, of the team navbox templates are defaulted to white text on orange background, and no one complains, but there have been several edit wars regarding the contrast per WP:COLOR over rivalry series tables, with Tennessee alumni and fans inevitably preferring white text over black. Is there any way we could add a black or gray outline to the white text to achieve the AAA color contrast, while preserving the white text? No rush. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 03:07, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
- Dirtlawyer1 Tennessee? Who cares :) I thought you were one of those evil Floriduh nuts. Go Dawgs! Bgwhite (talk) 05:04, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
- @Bgwhite: After the Gators have won three national championships, 8 SEC titles, and 20 of the last 26 games over Tennessee in the past 25 years, I think we can afford to show a little noblesse oblige, my canine friend. Besides, getting their school colors right is a very small thing at the end of the day. Go Dawgs, indeed. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 07:14, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
- Small historical note, Tennessee wore black every year before 1922, e. g. 1913 team (first season with jersey numbers too). I've been having trouble making the Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels' colors both legible and show up in the navbox and infoboxes. I had a similar problem with Centre College's black and yellow scheme and somebody other than me fixed it somehow. Cake (talk) 12:19, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
- The Petrels navboxes and tables should be easy, Cake: black background, white text, gold highlights. No better contrast than white text on a black background. If this is still a problem, please ping me on my user page. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:22, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
- Small historical note, Tennessee wore black every year before 1922, e. g. 1913 team (first season with jersey numbers too). I've been having trouble making the Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels' colors both legible and show up in the navbox and infoboxes. I had a similar problem with Centre College's black and yellow scheme and somebody other than me fixed it somehow. Cake (talk) 12:19, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
- @Bgwhite: After the Gators have won three national championships, 8 SEC titles, and 20 of the last 26 games over Tennessee in the past 25 years, I think we can afford to show a little noblesse oblige, my canine friend. Besides, getting their school colors right is a very small thing at the end of the day. Go Dawgs, indeed. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 07:14, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
- Dirtlawyer1, above is an example using my limited CSS skills. note that all this extra stuff would be merged into the main module, so don't use this directly. someone like User:Redrose64 or User:Edokter could certainly come up with a better way to add a text outline. Frietjes (talk) 17:30, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
- Not really... Text-shadow is pretty much the staple for outlining. There is
-webkit-text-stroke
, but has no wide support.-- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}}
18:29, 16 October 2015 (UTC)- Made a little CSS3 template, {{text-outline}}, simulating the never-implemented
text-outline
property.-- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}}
18:52, 16 October 2015 (UTC)- Thanks, Frietjes and Edoktor. That's a pretty darn good start. As a general rule, we normally use white text reversed out of the darker of the two team colors for the college sports navboxes, and use the lighter team color for the highlight 2-point tool-line that surrounds the navbox exterior (Frietjes is familiar, since she has done most of the coding for the college color module, as well as the varsity stripe graphic that was developed for Infobox college football player.) We also have a related, but different problem regarding the lighter color in the varsity stripe graphic and also in the navbox highlight tool-line when the lighter color is either a pale yellow or gold, or an off-white color like cream or ivory. Would it be possible to add a black or gray "shadow" to these highlight colors, so that we can use them as part of the varsity stripe graphic and navbox borders? The example that comes readily to mind are the team colors for the Oklahoma Sooners, which are crimson and cream. A 2 or 3-point cream highlight disappears in the surrounding white background without some kind of dividing line. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:18, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
- Made a little CSS3 template, {{text-outline}}, simulating the never-implemented
- Not really... Text-shadow is pretty much the staple for outlining. There is
- Dirtlawyer1, above is an example using my limited CSS skills. note that all this extra stuff would be merged into the main module, so don't use this directly. someone like User:Redrose64 or User:Edokter could certainly come up with a better way to add a text outline. Frietjes (talk) 17:30, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
BTW, the series record table of the Florida–Tennessee football rivalry article provides an example of the color contrast problem in the original context mentioned above. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:47, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Infobox NFL coach
Can you please modify Template:Infobox NFL coach so that the parameter names match Template:Infobox NFL player? Or vice-versa. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:42, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
Infobox school
Can you please take a look at {{Infobox school}}? It turns it supports |url=
, |website=
and {{homepage}} at the same time one not overwriting the other? The standard name is |website=
in most infoboxes and multiple external links should be avoided. -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:55, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
- I think we were looking to combine the three into just one parameter. A tracking category would be fine. Magioladitis and I started cleaning out Category:Deprecated parameters when there was just 60 something subcategories. Now that "evil" Jonesey95 keeps adding more, now 84 and counting, what's one more new one. That Jonesey will pay.
- Category:Pages using infobox school with deprecated image parameters has been cleaned out. If you are messing with infobox, you can remove the deprecated parameters from appearing, but keep the checks in place. Same goes for Category:Unusual parameters of Infobox locomotive template and Category:Christian leader infoboxes with deprecated parameters. Bgwhite (talk) 06:42, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
- I deleted {{Infobox Fußballspieler}}. Not sure why you re-created it for a blocked user on dewiki to stage the stuff that he was blocked there for. Bgwhite (talk) 09:17, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
- see Category:Pages using infobox school with multiple external links Frietjes (talk) 14:37, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Template that produces wikipedia external link
Many pages about Wikipedia projects have an external link to the Wikipedia project. Would be possible that we create a template that takes as parameter the prefix and then generates the external link? I.e. {{template's name|en}} should give https://en.wikipedia.org. This will distinguish these pages from these pages having wikilinks written as external links. What do you think? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:36, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
- Magioladitis, there is
{{fullurl:somepage}}
for generating an external link to a page, and{{SERVERNAME}}
which returns en.wikipedia.org. I am probably misunderstanding what you want here, so can you link to an example where this external/internal linking is happening? Frietjes (talk) 14:32, 11 November 2015 (UTC)- The next time I'll encounter something like this I ll let you now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:47, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
- Magioladitis, your url breakage can be fixed like this (saw the message on your talk page from the reference bot, and seems to be related to this thread). Frietjes (talk) 01:31, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
- The next time I'll encounter something like this I ll let you now. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:47, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
- You are great. Thanks! -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:36, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
On the doc page of {{Infobox broadcast}}, it lists |former_cities=
and |former_locations=
parameters. However, in the code, these two parameters are missing. Articles with these parameters are showing up in Category:Broadcast infoboxes with deprecated parameters and there appears to be only ~10 of them. Not sure if they should be added to the code or removed from the doc page. Bgwhite (talk) 09:24, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
- Bgwhite, if you check the doc page history, you will see that
|former_locations=
was added to the doc page here and|former_cities=
was added to the doc page here. neither of these additions corresponded to any additions to the actual template (very few edits to the actual template in 2009). I don't see any particular problem with adding those parameters to the template, but there should be a proposal first on the template talk page. FYI, I found this statement offensive and a mischaracterization of the situation. Frietjes (talk) 14:50, 11 November 2015 (UTC) - it's after November 15th, and still no template. have you extended my punishment? Frietjes (talk) 19:26, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Requested comment
Frietjes, would you be willing to comment here? I figured you'd be contacted at some point! Corkythehornetfan 00:57, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Virginia Tech Project Invite
Go Hokies (talk) 04:17, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Brace
Hi. I checked Category:Wikipedia character-substitution templates and I found nothing for a single pair of braces. Can you please add it? This will help in some weird math cases. Check for {{math|{1, 2, ... , ''n''<nowiki>}}}</nowiki> at Laplace expansion for instance. -- Magioladitis (talk) 05:47, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
- Magioladitis, for sets, you can use {{mset}}. Frietjes (talk) 14:27, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks. I have forgotten about it. Can you please fix Multiset too? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:34, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
- sure. Frietjes (talk) 15:53, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
- You are great. I really tried to fix some more of Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Error 043 whitelist but I getting confused with all these double braces. When you have please... -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:05, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
- sure. Frietjes (talk) 15:53, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks. I have forgotten about it. Can you please fix Multiset too? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:34, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
A kitten for you!
For helping me today!
Magioladitis (talk) 16:06, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Template:ArchbishopsofATL
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Problem with {{Philippine Census}}
There's a problem between{{Philippine Census}} and {{historical populations}} – causes doubled column of population. Unbuttered parsnip (talk) mytime= Sat 18:45, wikitime= 10:45, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Can you link to an article that demonstrates this problem? I don't see a problem at Luzon#Demographics or Camarines_Sur#Demographics or Quezon_City#Demographics, to pick three articles at random. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:34, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- Jonesey95, already fixed it (see template talk:historical populations), just forgot to respond here as well. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 14:35, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
MBTA station signs
By longstanding consensus, the infobox headers for a number of transit systems are formatted to replicate station signs as accurately as possible. While not all systems have this (largely because the formatting is tricky to set up initially, though easy once it's been done), it's been done for a number of system including NYCS, LIRR, NJT, MNRR, Shore Line East, LACMTA, and VRE - and the MBTA. Station signs at MBTA stations do indeed use large caps; using small caps does not reflect their real look. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:27, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- Pi.1415926535, in my browser, {{sc}} renders in small caps, with a uniform font height, but at a font-size that is slightly smaller than the SHOUTING ALL CAPS. is this not the case for you? Frietjes (talk) 17:29, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- In my browser (Chrome 46.0), the small caps render rather smaller - the occupy less than half of the vertical height of the color box, while forward slashes still occupy more of the height. The MBTA graphics manual - see section V, page C6.0 - states that letters should occupy two-thirds of the vertical space of the color bar. The template before your changes reflected this; please do not change it without consensus. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:37, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- Pi.1415926535, okay, I just added text-transform:uppercase to the base style, so you can now write in standard case and it will be transformed to upper case by your browser. Frietjes (talk) 17:39, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- Ah, okay. I'm not familiar with the intricacies of actually creating the style templates so I wrongly assumed you were trying to change things. Great work cleaning up duplicate arguments by the way - I assume that's how you happened across these originally? Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:42, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- Pi.1415926535, yes, that's why I was there originally. Frietjes (talk) 17:43, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- Ah, okay. I'm not familiar with the intricacies of actually creating the style templates so I wrongly assumed you were trying to change things. Great work cleaning up duplicate arguments by the way - I assume that's how you happened across these originally? Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:42, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- Pi.1415926535, okay, I just added text-transform:uppercase to the base style, so you can now write in standard case and it will be transformed to upper case by your browser. Frietjes (talk) 17:39, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
- In my browser (Chrome 46.0), the small caps render rather smaller - the occupy less than half of the vertical height of the color box, while forward slashes still occupy more of the height. The MBTA graphics manual - see section V, page C6.0 - states that letters should occupy two-thirds of the vertical space of the color bar. The template before your changes reflected this; please do not change it without consensus. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 17:37, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
Help
Hello. Sorry to bother, but I don't have a clue when it comes to some of this technical stuff! I believe you helped me with Template:President of Emporia State University graphical timeline when it was in my sandbox, and now I'm trying to get it to collapse so that I can put it in an article. It looks sort of like a navbox with the navbar at the top (which I don't want it to be a navbox, but I want the "v*t*e" on there so I don't have to search for the template every time.) I've done everything that I know of to try and get it to have the collapsible option, but it just won't work. Sorry again, but your help would be appreciated! 🎄 Corkythehornetfan 🎄 04:01, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Corkythehornetfan, I think I fixed it for you. If not, undo my change. Nice template. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:17, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks, Jonesey95! Another question: how do I make it show in one article? I have a couple of articles I want it in -- one that shows the table (the main article), and the other collapsed. I appreciate your help! 🎄 Corkythehornetfan 🎄 18:31, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Corkythehornetfan, I set the default state to expanded. you can change it to collapsed in an article by setting
|state=collapsed
. note that, because you are using the navbox class, your timeline won't show on mobile devices, or in print, which ignore navigation boxes. if that's a problem, we can fix it by switching to {{hidden begin}}/{{hidden end}}. Frietjes (talk) 18:56, 16 November 2015 (UTC)- Thank you! I don't see it a problem now, but I'll keep that in mind. Thanks again the both of you! 🎄 Corkythehornetfan 🎄 19:23, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Corkythehornetfan, I set the default state to expanded. you can change it to collapsed in an article by setting
- Thanks, Jonesey95! Another question: how do I make it show in one article? I have a couple of articles I want it in -- one that shows the table (the main article), and the other collapsed. I appreciate your help! 🎄 Corkythehornetfan 🎄 18:31, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Football players infoboxes
Hey Fietjes, thanks for cleaning up football player info boxes. I just would like to let you know that there is sometimes an intended deviation in the arrangement of box elements. For instance, it's pretty common to arrange caps and goals before the club, just because it's far tidier on the edit layout and doesn't play a role in the actual layout. Kind regards, DrunkenGerman (talk) 18:04, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- DrunkenGerman, you should change the documentation in Template:Infobox football biography if it's a better format. Frietjes (talk) 18:09, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the link. But I guess it's far too much work to start discussions about changing the template. Also a lot people would disapprove just because then the ordering of the edit layout and actual layout wouldn't match anymore - what is actually not a big deal, but when I think of some Wikipedians... DrunkenGerman (talk) 18:13, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- DrunkenGerman, "too much work to start a discussion" and "not a big deal" is contradictory to leaving a message on my talk page about it. let me know if you decide otherwise. Frietjes (talk) 18:18, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Well, also (and maybe even especially) Wikipedia is not a perfect place and I had hoped that you would have had the will to follow a practicable approach. DrunkenGerman (talk) 18:23, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- DrunkenGerman, I'm not the one complaining about something that is "not a big deal". Frietjes (talk) 18:50, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Well, also (and maybe even especially) Wikipedia is not a perfect place and I had hoped that you would have had the will to follow a practicable approach. DrunkenGerman (talk) 18:23, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- DrunkenGerman, "too much work to start a discussion" and "not a big deal" is contradictory to leaving a message on my talk page about it. let me know if you decide otherwise. Frietjes (talk) 18:18, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the link. But I guess it's far too much work to start discussions about changing the template. Also a lot people would disapprove just because then the ordering of the edit layout and actual layout wouldn't match anymore - what is actually not a big deal, but when I think of some Wikipedians... DrunkenGerman (talk) 18:13, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
your edits of TOCs of list-articles sectioned by U.S. states
On my watchlist and in your contribution history I see numerous edits by you to list-articles organized by U.S. state sections that use {{TOC US states}}, in favor of using {{Horizontal TOC}} which seem to have damaged the articles. Perhaps in your browser or in some other way, the edits may appear to be improvements to you? From what I see, they replace a compact, good TOC by a horribly long vertically-oriented two-line per state TOC. Perhaps the problem is also in your recent edits to the TOC US states template itself.
For example, this edit by you on List of Presbyterian churches in the United States.
Could you please explain what is going on, and possibly please self-revert yourself on these? I'll watch for reply here at least briefly, and otherwise will expect to revert you on all of them, to restore the articles' TOCs into reasonable form. I expect you were trying to make some improvement, but it didn't work. --doncram 21:15, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Doncram, does {{Horizontal TOC}} not work for you in articles? if not, which browser/OS are you using? Frietjes (talk) 21:22, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- The Horizontal TOC template displays wrong on Chrome for Windows (current version), even the example template on the template's page. It may be related to the recent change that displays empty bullets in bulleted lists.
- When I load the Horizontal TOC template, I see this:
- 1. Usage
- •
- 2. See also
- 1. Usage
- I am looking at it using Chrome. What appears is roughly:
Alabama . Arizona . Arkansas . etc.
- Whatever the Chrome-related problem is, it does not apply to use of the US states TOC template.
- -- doncram 22:00, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
- Also, by your edit at my Talk page, are you trying to file a complaint, to criticize me, for posting here? And/or for not instantly replying to your reply?? I said I would watch here and I would have gotten back to it, but as you noticed I was editing elsewhere, which I am allowed to do.
- And, yes, I checked at TFD and was commenting there at your nomination for deletion of a similar states template, for the Ukraine, based on reasonable concern raised by your edits to the U.S. states template and your multiple replacements of the U.S. states template use. I hope you will please reply to my questions there about the Ukraine template. --
-- doncram 22:00, 16 November 2015 (UTC)