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Hi, I am been puzzling how to set up the "Template:Physical oceanography". It is on the ] page where it takes up too much room when it is not collapsed. I think that it would be better to have it collapsed or is there might be way to make it expand only on one page, but I do not know how to do it. Any comments. ] (]) 14:45, 14 September 2013 (UTC) Hi, I am been puzzling how to set up the "Template:Physical oceanography". It is on the ] page where it takes up too much room when it is not collapsed. I think that it would be better to have it collapsed or is there might be way to make it expand only on one page, but I do not know how to do it. Any comments. ] (]) 14:45, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
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At Category:Austria-Hungary templates, Template:Cisleithanian elections in Austria-Hungary, Template:Croatian elections in Austria-Hungary, Template:Hungarian elections in Austria-Hungary all say unable to determine where to put the state parameter.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 03:03, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
if you look at the template, you will see there is no / button, so these templates do not collapse or uncollapse. hence, adding instructions about collapsing something that does not collapse is not a good idea. if there is no or button, we don't add {{collapsible option}} or |state=. Frietjes (talk) 15:08, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Here's something 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)

Barnstar for you!

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)

Break tags in Infobox Christian leader

{{Infobox Christian leader}} needs some adjustment to include break tags in honorific-prefix the same way {{Infobox officeholder}} does. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:42, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

I discovered this problem while trying to remove break tags: -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:48, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
that template is fully protected, so I can't really help you. Frietjes (talk) 17:12, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
If you provide me a sandbox, I can finish the job. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:37, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Waikouaiti - something needs to be done

I'm in transit at the moment (currently Kuala Lumpur airport) so I'm not able to give this the attention it deserves. And I'm not sure what sort of internet service I'm travelling to. If you haven't got time for this, just tell me where I should start - is there an {{infobox NZ places}}? John of Cromer in Philippines transit (talk) mytime= Fri 20:01, wikitime= 12:01, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

fixed, there are more in Category:Populated places in the Otago Region. Frietjes (talk) 16:21, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Maybe animal infoboxes could be merged?

Can you please check Category:Animal infobox templates. I think some of these infoboxes could be merged to a single one or share the same code plus some child infobox. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:32, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

you should suggest this to Pigsonthewing, since he is the creator of most of these templates. Frietjes (talk) 15:43, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
I left Andy a note. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:03, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Happy for that to be done. provided the marked up (with a microformat) species names are preserved. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:36, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Frietjes is it possible to do it? -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:36, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
certainly possible, but would take some time to sort out all the overlaps. Frietjes (talk) 21:45, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Bubble Award

The SpongeBob SquarePants Bubble Award
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)

Template:Infobox men's college basketball team‎, etc.

Frietjes, here's a template merge I would support in a heartbeat: Template:Infobox men's college basketball team‎ and Template:Infobox women's college basketball team‎.

Have you ever contemplated a comprehensive merge of all the college sports team infobox templates? With a handful of options, I think all U.S. college sports could be accommodated and the team infoboxes would then have a uniform appearance across all sports. Just a thought . . . . Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:48, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

the first is already proposed here. I had thought about the second as well, but it will take more time to work out all the details, since there are differences in the post-season tournament section for various sports. Frietjes (talk) 22:19, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
I just posted a comment in support of the merge of men's and women's college basketball templates. That pending merge should be a no-brainer, and you are clearly already on top of the two minor issues to be addressed in the combined template.
The creation of a combined infobox template for all U.S. college sports teams would require a lot of work and the inclusion of several options, but the core information to be included is common to all. Differences in NCAA playoff structure, etc., could be accommodated by options to be toggled as needed. The payoff would be worth the effort. Not only should these infoboxes have a common appearance within a given sport, the teams affiliated with a given university should also have a common appearance and graphics style, and that can only be accomplished by a common template across all college sports teams. I think you would find the college football, basketball and baseball sports projects to be supportive, and the other college sports do not have active/vocal WikiProjects and tend to follow the lead of the football, basketball and baseball projects. I would be grateful for your help in making this happen, but I also understand that you have numerous pending template projects already. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 11:14, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Barnstar

The Template Barnstar
For getting better performance and adding options to the chess diagram template. Bubba73 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)

Infobox Indy500 needs conversion to use Infobox

Template:Infobox music conference, Template:Infobox chord, Template:Infobox artist discography and Template:Infobox producer discography. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:37, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

first two fixed. Frietjes (talk) 22:50, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Template:Infobox television channel too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:52, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

User:Magioladitis, see this thread. the number of fields is about double what was previously possible. it is still possible if without lua, but we would need to use more child boxes. Frietjes (talk) 16:19, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
will make an edit request. Frietjes (talk) 15:42, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

A bowl of strawberries for you!

Thank you for editing Sandhani page. Dr. Kabir Hossain (talk) 18:41, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
Module:testcase table is great! Thanks for making it! —hike395 (talk) 03:58, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Category:Infobox wrapper templates

I have created Category:Infobox wrapper templates. Please feel free to make use of it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:56, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikisource in Book

In case you are not busy eating your well-deserved strawberries: I have a question on Template talk:Infobox book#Wikisource in another language, perhaps you can help again? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:09, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Template: Heads of State of Kenya (Edit)

I really don't get why this template shouldn't look unique and better than it does right now, it has the colours of the current Presidential Standard and Coat of Arms of Kenya and it has absolutely no affiliation to anything else. If the reason is that is stands out in the Titles and Succession section of the Elizabeth II page I suggest that there be a separate template for the leaders of the Kenya (Commonwealth Realm).


(Nairobi123 talk) 00:54, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Swiss town Infobox

Hi Frietjes, I made some changes to the infobox settlement wrapper you created at Template:Infobox Swiss town/sandbox. Perhaps you will want to review those changes, and make a few more tweaks before proposing it as a replacement for the current version. Cheers, Nero the second (talk) 14:11, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi Frietjes, did you have time to check this template? I think it's working pretty well, you can see a few test cases here. If you don't object, I will renominate it at TfD soon.--Nero the second (talk) 10:21, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
I haven't had a chance to look at it too closely, but moving the ugly mapfinder to a separate template is a good start. I will look at it closer in a day or two. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 18:02, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
looks like the sandbox has been repurposed, but I see you have Template:Infobox Swiss town/sandbox2? Frietjes (talk) 22:08, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

CollegePrimaryStyle?

Could you explain the CollegePrimaryStyle property for templates? Can this be edited? I couldnt really find much documentation on it, but I might have been looking in the wrong places. You seem to be heavily involved in template editing so I figured you'd know. Srm038 (talk) 21:51, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Template question

My understanding of templates is improving, but still weak. It was brought to my attention that uses of the {{Infobox NCAA team season}} for women's basketball team sis producing a header which refers to Men's teams.

For example, see: 2013–14 Texas Tech Lady Raiders basketball team

I don't know if this is a result of the edit you proposed in July and simply not noticed until now, or because of something else.

However, I took a look at {{Infobox NCAA team season/succession}} which has the sex parameter. When I look at the source, I do not see it being used. Again, my template knowledge is weak, so I may be missing something, but I notice that every one of the listed parameters is used except for sex, so that why I am asking you.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 22:36, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

I've now been told this was a deliberate change, with an intention to use the mode option, so the question is now moot. --SPhilbrick(Talk) 00:21, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
there was no intent to break backwards compatibility. the fact that the old syntax doesn't work is a mistake. I will see if it can be corrected. Frietjes (talk) 15:41, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
Don't make it a high priority, in fact, I can't justify doing it at all. I reviewed all entries in Category:College women's basketball team seasons in the United States and changed where needed. If anything needs to be done, it is to update the documentation to note the change, and remove the |sex= parameter, so it doesn't get accidentally used by someone who doesn't see the announcement of the change.
I noted the change at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Basketball/Women's_basketball#Announcements--SPhilbrick(Talk) 16:41, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
(Having said, that, I'm involved with basketball but not other sports, so there may be issues with other sports)--SPhilbrick(Talk) 16:43, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
@Sphilbrick: thank you for fixing them. I think we can scan 'what links here' for the template and search for 'women' or 'lady' or 'girl' in the article title. one of the outstanding questions is how to deal with situations where 'lady' (e.g., 2008–09 Savannah State Lady Tigers basketball team) or 'girl' (e.g., 2009–10 Wyoming Cowgirls basketball team) is used to distinguish between men and women. here, we probably want the template to remove the 'women's' prefix? Frietjes (talk) 16:48, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
this is the list of all transclusions with women, lady, or girl in the title. Frietjes (talk) 16:55, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
They are all women's basketball teams except for one tennis team, which is fine. My earlier check did not look at user space, but only two, and they are fine. However, I didn't answer your other question. No obvious answer is jumping out at me, so my current thinking is to let it go until and unless someone else raises it. Tennessee is a more trafficked article, one doesn't have the issue because it is a redirect, but 2008–09 Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team shows the issue. Frankly, if you didn't notice a problem, I don't think it would jump out at you.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 17:20, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
@Sphilbrick: I created template:Infobox NCAA team season/team which removes the text if the team has 'lady' or 'cowgirl' in the title. let me know if you see problems and I can undo the change, or fix it. thank you again. Frietjes (talk) 17:34, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

George Matheson Murray

Hello, Frietjes. This is a courtesy notice that the copy edit you requested for George Matheson Murray at the Guild of Copy Editors requests page is now complete. All feedback welcome! Miniapolis 21:52, 13 August 2013 (UTC)


harassment

Why don't you make some real edits, instead of shadowing me? This behavior is akin to harassment. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 17:06, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

just fixing punctuation. perhaps you can help? Frietjes (talk) 17:08, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Still stalking me. What's your problem with my edits? -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 19:52, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

I am fixing the formatting of articles in the tracking categories, and ones that are on my watchlist. there seems to be a problem with your browser in that it is adding spurious newlines above some templates? I have removed the ones from the articles on my watchlist, but you should probably have that fixed. both AWB and bots routinely remove these, but there is no reason to add something that is going to be removed later. Frietjes (talk) 19:54, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Audio in infobox

Hi,

We have some biographies with an audio recording of the subject's voice, using {{Listen}}, below the infobox, and this looks awkward. See, for example, Corrie Corfield. I'm experimenting, using {{Infobox gymnast}}, with different ways to include the audio file in an infobox; see User:Pigsonthewing/sandbox2 (I've left the three infoboxes aligned vertically, so that their widths can be compared). The first infobox is as it was, with no audio; the second includes {{Listen}} and the third has three separate parameters. Is there a better way to do this? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:14, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: I added a fourth example. to me all three of the four are perfectly acceptable. the one with the embeded box without the |plain=yes is suboptimal. a fifth choice would be to not embed the box, but stack it below. Frietjes (talk) 22:21, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
Thank you; not least for the impressive promptness of your response. I think I prefer option 3, with your changes to the template; it takes up less width. I'm going to ask for the parameters to be added to {{Infobox person}}, and other templates as the need arises. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:30, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
@Pigsonthewing: it may be useful to have a default heading when no heading is specified, say '{{{name}}}'s voice'? otherwise, you could have the audio link in there with no context. Frietjes (talk) 22:34, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
Yes, that would be good. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:37, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
Oops. I tried to make |voice_header= a link, but that didn't work... Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:35, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Brillaint work - thank you! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:51, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: no problem, I may tweak it a bit more, but I think the basic idea is there. I can simplify it if we aren't allowing someone to pass a {{listen}} template as an arg to |voice=. Frietjes (talk) 22:52, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
I suggest we don't allow that. I've already made the request at {{Infobox person}}, so please mirror any changes there. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:09, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
commented there. Frietjes (talk) 17:15, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Infobox cricketer

Sorry, I have another job for you ;-)

{{Infobox cricketer}} already has |female=true for women. Please can you modify the code there (which I copied from {{infobox gymnast}} so that if that parameter is set to "true", it displays the female symbol, otherwise the male? I would do so myself, but I'm not sure, in |female|f=&nbsp what each component ("female", "f", the nb space) represents or does. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:34, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Why these symbols even exist? -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:20, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
I've already answered that question at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Infoboxes#Gender. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:50, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. I should have realiaed it could be done like that. It's working well. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:29, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Frietjes. You have new messages at Talk:SpongeBob SquarePants#Episode overviews.
Message added 03:27, 17 August 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Cyphoidbomb (talk) 03:27, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Convert to use Infobox settlement

A new template, FYI: {{Convert to use Infobox settlement}}. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:31, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: how is this different from Template:Convert to Infobox Settlement? Frietjes (talk) 16:48, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
I don't recall the content of that template, but this one includes the word "may", and I'm using it to replace a hidden category with something more visible. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:01, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
I believe the content was nearly identical. an admin could compare the two, but the outcome of that discussion was that it was preferable to not have something so visible. however, if you keep away from the Aussies you will probably see less blowback. Frietjes (talk) 17:06, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
;-) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:32, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Frietjes. You have new messages at Template talk:Infobox person.
Message added 18:01, 17 August 2013 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:01, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

American college ice hockey roster templates

Hello! I closed the tfd for the hockey roster templates, and noticed there are more in Category:American college ice hockey roster templates. I didn't know if there was a reason why these were not nominated as well. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ 20:53, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

just did not have a chance to merge them yet, or they were being used in more than one article. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 15:27, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/GIR (Invader Zim)

Closed as a bold redirect. The article was redirected back in 2009, and an IP undid the redirect without consensus. Ten Pound Hammer • 22:49, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Exclude Help pages from tracking category

Can you please exclude Help namespace from Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:06, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

not immediately obvious, try asking Gadget850, or one of the other editors who work on the citation templates? Frietjes (talk) 20:13, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Technically possible through {{broken ref}}. Why? Is this because the Cite error help pages show up in the categories? --  Gadget850 20:55, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Gadget850, I would like to see this category empty at some point. I would like Help pages not to show as incorrect ref formatting. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:47, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
That would mean that no help pages would show in the category. This needs to be discussed more publicly. --  Gadget850 16:29, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Third gender option

There's a version of the "subheading and gender" code from {{infobox gymnast}}, in {{Infobox user}}. As discussed on its talk page, we need to add a third gender option ("other"; for "gender queer" folk). There is a symbol for this, but not an ASCII code, only an image, File:Gendersign.svg. Can you make this work, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:05, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

added in infobox user, and fixed a bug which was showing anyone with no specified gender as other. not everyone takes the time to set this parameter in the preferences. the use of an image here is going to cause some consistency difficulties since the male/female symbols are sized as text by the browser, while the other has a fixed size. Frietjes (talk) 16:40, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
Thank you. Yes, I thought that might be a concern. Hopefully not a major one. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:57, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Film director navboxes

As someone who clearly knows their way around templates and navboxes, at what point would you have thought that a film director's navbox would need splitting down into decades (which I consider an arbitrary split anyway)? The reason I'm asking is that I'm been tidying up some navboxes and removing decade splits when they only have about 5-10 entries, and another editor keeps reverting. --Rob Sinden (talk) 14:04, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

yes, splitting by decade is arbitrary. I, personally, don't think this is ever needed. it increases the size of the navbox, and reduces the natural wrapping the occurs when the browser window is resized. Frietjes (talk) 15:14, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
Thanks - That pretty much mirrors my opinion. I've left something on the editor in question's talk page. Let's see what happens... --Rob Sinden (talk) 15:34, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
The editor wasn't happy, so I've started a discussion at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Film#Film director navboxes. --Rob Sinden (talk) 18:15, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Bare filenames in image field

Maybe you can help: User_talk:WOSlinker#Bare_filenames_in_image_field. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:02, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

 Done Thanks!!! -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:04, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Your Template revert

Question: If its not a place for template review then where should I put it?:

I personally believe that it should be deleted under vandalism criteria.--Mishae (talk) 22:03, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

@Mishae: see Misplaced Pages:TFD#Listing a template or try one of the criteria listed in WP:CSD. the holding cell is for templates that have already been discussed. Frietjes (talk) 22:05, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
Thanks,
 Done Went to the Misplaced Pages:Templates for discussion/Log/2013 August 20 instead. :)--Mishae (talk) 22:13, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Template:Infobox cricketer

Hello. I thought I had left the height parameter there. It was not my intention to remove it completely. I was just trying to "dispense with the various height parameters in the infobox, to be replaced by a single "height" parameter, in which can be placed a {{convert}} template" as per the discussion mentioned. Are you able to help us achieve this? Many thanks.--Gibson Flying V (talk) 20:53, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

@Gibson Flying V: yes, I believe so. you should be able to use |height={{convert|5|ft|11|in|cm|abbr=on}} now as alternative syntax. the old syntax should also work as well, but can be deprecated. Frietjes (talk) 20:56, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Needs infobox

2010–11 FC Vaslui season. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:48, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

 Done thanks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:01, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Embedding voice files in infobox

Solitaire Townsend
NationalityBritish
OccupationBusinesswoman
Known forSustainability advocacy
Solitaire Townsend's voice recorded August 2013

Now working, thank you, but seems a little off-centre; see Solitaire Townsend or Evan Davis. Is there more to do? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:55, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: which browser and operating system? looks fine in FF in Linux. Frietjes (talk) 20:58, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
Chrome/ Win XP. Stand by for screenshot. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:03, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
There you go. Please speedy it when you've seen it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:19, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
@Pigsonthewing: don't have access to Windows XP at the moment, but I will later today. I made some changes in the sandbox version, see example here. does this look better? Frietjes (talk) 21:40, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
Thank you, but no; it's the same. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:42, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
@Pigsonthewing: strange. I work on it later today. Frietjes (talk) 21:43, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Its nothing to do with the above issue, but FYI: WP:VPT#'Listen' template not rendering in mobile view. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:29, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

okay, still checking on the other issue. my WindowsXP laptop is pretty old, but I should be able to install Chrome on it. I did not see the same problem in Chrome on Linux. it could be the negative margins, but will have to do some more checking. Frietjes (talk) 15:14, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
I wasn't able to reproduce the problem on WindowsXP with Google Chrome. which version of Chrome? Frietjes (talk) 21:25, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
Was 29.0.1547.57 m Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:36, 27 August 2013 (UTC)
Please follow the link on top of my user to ask for continued collaboration, it's too late for help, but not for support, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:57, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

Templete: Kolkata topics

Respected Madam, I would like to draw your attention to your removal of the "Bands" category from http://en.wikipedia.org/Template:Kolkata_topics. I think Bands of the city are also "topics" of the city. So please let the "Bands" category be in http://en.wikipedia.org/Template:Kolkata_topics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.227.157.41 (talk) 20:19, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

you should create an article on Bands in Kolkata if it is a notable topic with sources. there is no section for bands in Kolkata, hence there is no need for it in the navigation box. Frietjes (talk) 13:51, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Lowercase parameters / bare filenames

Template:Infobox disease, Template:Infobox brain, Template:Infobox diagnostic, Template:Infobox hospital, Template:Infobox lymph, Template:Infobox neuron need lowercase name, caption, alt, image. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:37, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Template:Infobox alternative medicine, Template:Infobox birth control need to support image_size. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:43, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Template:Infobox economy, Template:Infobox Charmed artifact, Template:Infobox business park too. The later needs conversion to use Infobox too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:55, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

@Magioladitis: should be all fixed except for {{Infobox disease}} which requires a copy from the sandbox (fully protected). Frietjes (talk) 00:07, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Thanks. I took care of {{Infobox disease}}. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:26, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Template:Infobox enzyme, Template:Infobox fossil need lowercase image, image_size. Template:Infobox diamond needs to support name, Template:Infobox eruption needs image_size, image, Template:Infobox flood and Template:Infobox rock need image, alt, captio, image_size. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:45, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

done. note that there was a small, and entirely inconsequential typo in the update to {{Infobox disease}}. I used |defaultsize= instead of |sizedefault= (see Module:InfoboxImage. it's inconsequential since the module uses frameless when this parameter is not set. Frietjes (talk) 22:30, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
Fixed it. I wonder if could find a way to record all cases with problems instead of finding them randomly. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:32, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Template:Infobox rocket rename imsize to image_size. Template:Infobox space program use Infobox. Template:Infobox rocket engine rename imsize to image_size. Template:Infobox rocket stage use Infobox. Template:Infobox space expedition use lowercase parameters. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:03, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

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Template:Infobox fieldbus protocol convert to use infobox and enable bare filenames to the following: Template:Infobox electronic component, Template:Infobox standardref, Template:Infobox top level domain, Template:Infobox battery, Template:Infobox desalination plant, Template:Infobox factory, Template:Infobox technology festival, Template:Infobox storage medium, Template:Infobox product.

Template:Infobox computer virus use lowercase parameters. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:58, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Template:Infobox education in country, Template:Infobox laboratory, Template:Infobox law school convert to support bare filenames. -- Magioladitis (talk) 00:26, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Magioladitis, update in Template:Infobox law school/sandbox. Frietjes (talk) 22:57, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Template:Infobox particle bare filenames. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:25, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank You

Thanks for the correction on Template:Airports in Ghana. I didn't see the first category at all. Enock4seth (talk) 20:41, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

You haven't had one for a while so...

The Barnstar of Diligence
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)

GT Navboxes

Please let me know why you are changing the colors on GT Navboxes? - Mistercontributer (talk) 19:44, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

@Mistercontributer: according to Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets the official colors are old gold and white. the colors are set by {{CollegePrimaryHex}} and {{CollegeSecondaryHex}} for uniformity across all Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets templates. if these colors are incorrect, the place to change them is in {{CollegePrimaryHex}} and {{CollegeSecondaryHex}}. Frietjes (talk) 15:13, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Georgia Tech also has Navy blue as an official color per Georgia Tech's Licensing and Trademarks web site. Navy blue is also used as a background color on Georgia Tech's Official Athletic Site. These were the colors used when standardizing the GT Navboxes. However, you completely removed Navy blue from the GT Navboxes. In the future I recommend you build consensus for changing the GT Navboxes on the WikiProject Georgia Tech talk page before making any additional changes. Thanks - Mistercontributer (talk) 17:30, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
then change Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, {{CollegePrimaryHex}} and {{CollegeSecondaryHex}}? no need for Georgia Tech to use a scheme that is different from all other universities. let me know if you need helping editing the templates or articles. Frietjes (talk) 17:52, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for adding Navy Blue back to the GT Navboxes. Georgia Tech has more than 2 official colors which is why Navy Blue is not listed as one of the two official colors on Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. I believe the colors keep changing on the GT Navboxes partly due to this issue. I understand the need to follow the same scheme used for other universities. However, most universities only have 2 official colors so the other universities do not have this problem with regards to their Navboxes. - Mistercontributer (talk) 19:44, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

unclosed tags

List of monastic houses in West Sussex contains 77 unclosed small tags. Maybe you could help with this too? -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:59, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks... once more. I also closed all the remaining tags. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:54, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Your submission at AfC Marjan Jugovic (September 2)

Thank you for your recent submission to Articles for Creation. Your article submission has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. You are welcome to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit if you feel they have been resolved.

Thank you for your contributions to Misplaced Pages! Dori ☾Talk ☯ Contribs☽ 09:11, 2 September 2013 (UTC)


Teahouse logo Hello! Frietjes, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Misplaced Pages where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there!
@DoriSmith: wrong editor, you probably want to inform the editor who submitted it (User:Rankersbo). Frietjes (talk) 16:54, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
Sorry Frietjes, my mistake, I thought you'd taken that article on rather than just doing a bit of copyediting. I'll redirect this to the IP who started the article, although I don't suppose that will get very far. However with a decline it can be deleted at some point. Rankersbo (talk) 17:40, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Needs infobox

Riverview Alternative Public School. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:10, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Talk page thread move

I'm sorry. I agree, you should have been pointed to the thread. The other editor in the discussion copied and pasted it to your user page and I moved it here as a courtesy. Sorry again. The issue appears to have resolved itself. Walter Görlitz (talk) 22:25, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Spaceflight infoboxes

Hi! I was wondering whether you could possibly withdraw your proposal to merge Template:Infobox space mission (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) and Template:Infobox space expedition (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). These templates are actually part of WikiProject Spaceflight's infobox standardisation drive, and have both already been merged into Template:Infobox spaceflight (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). Since around 1,800 articles were affected, several templates with very different syntaxes are involved and very few editors are actively involved in large-scale replacement, this process is taking a while, but those templates are on their way out as it is. --W. D. Graham 20:38, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

@WDGraham: so, how about if we formalize it and make the recommendation to delete both after replacement with {{Infobox spaceflight}}? this would place them in the holding cell at WP:TFD/H until they are replaced, but would probably accelerate the process. Frietjes (talk) 20:45, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
If you think it would help then by all means go for it. Otherwise I've really broken the back of it now and having the replacements performed by users familiar with the subject rather than backlog-clearing users does have the advantage of allowing other cleanup to be done at the same time. The merger was discussed at WikiProject level so there is already a consensus to proceed. I'm currently working on transclusions of {{Infobox spacecraft}}, but I'll take a break once I've finished the current batch and get rid of these two. --W. D. Graham 20:53, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

RfC: Should Userbox templates in Template: space be nominated at TfD or MfD

This is a quick notice to inform you that there is a WP:RfC being conducted at WT:Templates for discussion#RfC: Should Userbox templates in Template: space be nominated at TfD or MfD that I think you may be interested in. Happy editing! Technical 13 (talk) 21:00, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

2013–14 Real Madrid C.F. season

Hello, I have added it to my watchlist now and will monitor :) Thanks, JMHamo (talk) 23:24, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Updating infobox building

Hi, can you update this with the infobox hotel parameters? Sevral of the parameters in The Dorchester aren;t showing. The infobox hotel was voted to be deleted ages ago but it still hasn't and it's now got a nasty mint colour in it..♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:28, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

@Dr. Blofeld: what parameters aren't showing? I added suites, and alternative syntax for rooms. Frietjes (talk) 19:34, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
here is the translation table, the ones in pink will require new parameters to be added to {{infobox building}} or removal.
Translation table
Hotel Building
embed embed
hotel_name name
logo logo
logo_width logo_size
alt alt*
Logo_caption logo_caption
image image
image_size image_size
caption caption
image_map image_map
map_type map_type
map_alt map_alt
latitude latitude
longitude latitude
latd, latm, lats, latNS latd, latm, lats, latNS
longd, longm, longs, longEW longd, longm, longs, longEW
pushpin ?
map dot label, map_dot_label map dot label, map_dot_label
relief relief
map_caption map_caption
map_size map_size
location location
address address
iso_region iso_region
location_country location_country
coordinates_display coordinates_display
coordinates_format coordinates_format
coordinates coordinates
chain hotel_chain
former_names former_names
opening_date opening_date
closing_date closing_date
developer developer
architect architect
operator management
owner owner
affiliation ?
cost cost
number_of_rooms number_of_rooms
number_of_suites number_of_suites
number_of_restaurants number_of_restaurants
number_of_Bars number_of_bars
floor_area floor_area
floors floor_count
height height
Facilities ?
parking parking
website website
footnotes footnotes

note that there is a typo in the alt parameter in the hotel box, where it is used for both the logo and the image, so this should be corrected as well. Frietjes (talk) 20:15, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Pushpin support on the map was added for an editor. As was the option to choose a symbol for hotels. This probably needs to be kept and the pushpin choices expanded for different types of buildings over time. 'map_dot_label' sounds like the label for the pushpin and probably should be phased out and replaced with pushpin_label. Vegaswikian (talk) 21:31, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
could do that, perhaps call it |pushpin_type=? what about affiliation and Facilities? where are these used? Frietjes (talk) 22:46, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. At one time Vegas I advocated the keeping of it but I really think it's redundant now. It was voted to be merged long ago anyway.. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:00, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

Lanuages spoken by the Zhuang

Languages spoken by Zhuang people include but are not restricted to Zhuang, and Yue, Pinghua, and South Western Mandarin, in more recent years Putonghua. For each of the four Chinese dialects/languages mentioned whilst often a second language it is possible to find some Zhuang people who consider that to be their first language. One could argue that the number of Zhuang mother tongue speakers is so small that they should not be included, or argue that all should be included for completeness. Please may I ask why in your edit you decided to leave only Yue but not other Chinese dialects/languages spoken by Zhuang people.Johnkn63 (talk) 03:06, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

@Johnkn63: I did not remove or add any languages or other content in my edit to Zhuang people (see before and after. you must have my edit confused with the following edit by the IP editor. Frietjes (talk) 14:09, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
My sincere apologies for making the mistake of attributing this edit to you. Johnkn63 (talk) 14:30, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
no problem. Frietjes (talk) 16:10, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Format Dispute

Frietjes, thank you for your interest in contributing to the University of Westminster page. However, I feel that you have been purposely formatting the the navbox with blue cells. I will assume good faith, but this change damages the aesthetics of the navbox, and pages connected to them. I ask you to please refrain from creating this format error. I understand that certain links are missing, but these are being worked on. Thank you for your understanding. Ash Chetri 17:14, 10 September 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayoopdog (talk • contribs)

Template Deletion

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Proposed deletion of Chad Johnson (cornerback)

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No evidence he meets WP:ATHLETE, never played 1 NFL game, lack of sourcing for GNG

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Cycling infobox at nations pages

Hi Frietjes, thank you for making all the cycling infoboxes at the nations pages of the cycling championships! It looks really good that all the pages have the same infobox right now and that the infoboxes are much shorter and more standardized than before! Well done :) Sander.v.Ginkel (talk) 10:51, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Template

Hi, I am been puzzling how to set up the "Template:Physical oceanography". It is on the sea page where it takes up too much room when it is not collapsed. I think that it would be better to have it collapsed or is there might be way to make it expand only on one page, but I do not know how to do it. Any comments. Snowman (talk) 14:45, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

fixed. Frietjes (talk) 15:04, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
Great. It works. Snowman (talk) 15:33, 14 September 2013 (UTC)