User talk:Ed g2s

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FPC changes

Soon, most of the tasks of promoting an FPC will become automated, but we will be required to put a template tag with specific information on the FPC's vote page. Check out User talk:AllyUnion for the discussion. I'll probably make the template tomorrow sometime, and update the instructions for FPC promotion. --brian0918™ 06:33, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Old POTD mechanism

Hi Ed,

Do you know how the older version of POTD used to work?.

Today, I came across a couple of users who include

{{msg:pic_of_the_day_{{CURRENTDAYNAME}}}}

on their user page. However Template:Pic of the day Tuesday and similar are stuck on POTDs from last November, because no one has been updating them since the move over the the newer auto-archive version of POTD.

I was thinking to replace each of the [Template:Pic of the day Daynames] with a redirect to Template:Pic of the day, but I wasn't sure this would do the trick and it would lead to some double/tripple redirects. There also seems to be a set of MediaWiki:Pic of the day Tuesday, but I have no idea what they are for (interface messages?).

An alternative might be to update each user page linking to the older templates and then delete the POTD-Dayname templates. -- Solipsist 17:04, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Caption fiddling on TV pages

Hi,

I understand why you changed the caption layout on TV show pages to which I added an info box, but the caption on Good Times is not showing up now. Can you look at it again and get it to show? The caption is important, so I will revert to the old way if you can't get it to appear. Thanks. Moncrief 18:44, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

infobox television/movie

If you're going to change one, change both. I don't want to change the movie box. Be prepared to explain your changes there, though. – flamurai (t) 21:58, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

Infobox television

Could you do a link to TV Tome? - 69.216.232.13 02:54, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes, but you will need to add the variables to all the pages first. ed g2s • talk 12:31, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

images

ed, who r u to tell me what images to upload? (User:Gregz)

well i got a gd 1 4 ya, pleased? (User:Gregz)

images for the MainPage

Hello, Ed g2s. Please be reminded to protect all images on the MainPage before posting them, and tag them with {{mprotected}}. We have been doing this since February to prevent vandalism on the MainPage. Many thanks. -- PFHLai 07:04, 2005 Apr 17 (UTC)

Pope Infobox

Hi. I was just wondering: why did you drastically change the appearance of the pope infobox. I thought it had looked pretty nice the way it was, and your changes have altered a lot of pope pages that need to be fixed now (they're not all uniform). A few users have been trying to perfect many of these articles, and now it seems there is more work to be done. User:Bratsche/sig 03:37, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)

Also, what is this "toccolors" keep mentioning? Is it some template, or policy? Thanks, User:Bratsche/sig 01:13, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

I don't really understand what you mean, but thanks for the reply. I've posted a message at the main infobox talk page. User:Bratsche/sig 03:59, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC) Source of Reply

I want to apologize for my comrades over at pope infobox. I know that yuou're trying to keep everything consistent, and according to the CSS formats here. Some of the comments haven't been so charitable. I do think that the new (Gerald's) infobox is better, and so I followed your advice and posted it on main infobox talk page. Have a good day, User:Bratsche/sig 23:15, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

National football teams

The naming convention for national football team pages is "Country name national football team". ed g2s • talk 11:57, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Any conventions you agree upon should follow the rules of English grammar. In the above phrase "country name" is used as an adjective, and the adjective form of "Germany" is "German" (as in "German nation", not "Germany nation".) Mkweise 19:37, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Citations/Source Templates

Hi, thanks for you attention for those templates, however, I disagree with the choice of reducing the conspicuousness of the design. I consider the templates advertising for the project. To make it known to the user that Wikipedia is recognized as a source of excellent information, I wanted to place an overbearing box across the page. IMO, the usefulness of raising Wikipedia's credibility is justification for the unconventional format. Regards, Lotsofissues 13:09, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The Pope Infobox

I have proposed Gerard's pope infobox on Infobox policy for all religious leaders. There has been no objections since Friday, so if that continues I am planning on helping to implement the Infobox pope where needed. User:Trödel/sig 17:31, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Can you point me to some reference on the toccolours class - I would be happy to work to conform the box so that it will look good regardless of the Skin chosen by the reader. I am asuming that toccolours is a css stylesheet for html (http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/style-html.html). I must say however that if it primarly uses gray I am going to be reluctant to make changes - gray is such a drab color. Anyway - I am going to search for it too so I may be back before you read this. User:Trödel/sig 00:57, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Well I found some stuff on it over at meta - but it is really not an attractive colorscheme and when I tried to add it into the infobox at differnt levels to see if we could tie it in somehow by using it as a minor design element the results were not good. Other than matching the infobox and the interwiki boxes, are there additional reasons you would like to use the sytle? User:Trödel/sig 01:14, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Civility

Ok. --brian0918™ 17:17, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Football club infobox

Hi, I've started to expand the Swedish football articles and would like to suggest an improvement to the infobox. How about adding a place for the logo, which would make things look neater than they do currently when adding a logo to a page? -Elisson 00:21, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

AFAIK, the problem with logo's not available under free use seems to only affect English clubs as hqfl.dk has logos for almost every other country in the world. And I do believe that the English logos can be acquired in other ways. As you say, for clubs with no logo available, just adding a picture relating to the club will do fine. --Elisson 10:30, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Of course, I meant fair and not free use. Sorry for that. :) --Elisson 12:32, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Edit, I've created a test template at Template:Football_club_infobox/badge and it seems to work fine even for clubs without any badge available. Just add badge = | and there will be no noticeable difference between this template and the old. For clubs with logo, just add the usual image link and it works fine. See IFK Göteborg for infobox with badge, Gefle IF for infobox without badge. --Elisson 11:12, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I can change it, it will take some time, but I'll do it. Should we move the infobox/badge template over to to the regular infobox template? --Elisson 13:12, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi, I updated all the teams listed below with image = |:

Paysandu Sport Club - Guarani Futebol Clube - Galicia Esporte Clube - Coritiba Foot Ball Club - Associação Atlética Ponte Preta - Brasiliense Futebol Clube - Figueirense Futebol Clube - Goiás Esporte Clube - Esporte Clube Juventude - Olimpia Asunción - Esporte Clube Santo André - Criciúma Esporte Clube - Associação Portuguesa de Desportos - Ipatinga Futebol Clube - Sociedade Esportiva do Gama - Sociedade Esportiva e Recreativa Caxias do Sul - Clube de Regatas Brasil - Vila Nova Futebol Clube - Ceará Sporting Club - Avaí Futebol Clube - Paulista Futebol Clube - Marília Atlético Clube - Ituano Sociedade Civil de Futebol Ltda - América Football Club - Americano Futebol Clube - Associação Desportiva Cabofriense - Bangu Atlético Clube - Volta Redonda Futebol Clube - GIF Sundsvall - Associação Atlética Portuguesa (RJ) - Friburguense Atlético Clube - Madureira Esporte Clube - Olaria Atlético Clube - Campo Grande Atlético Clube

I hope that this will help you, Elisson and Ed g2s --Carioca 18:59, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Together with the changes made by Carioca, all pages (hopefully, I've gone through the whole list but I might have missed a few pages, although I don't think so) using the template have now been changed, and I've also changed the template itself. Now I'll start going through badges and fixing them. --Elisson 12:19, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Not completely related to this, but still close enough, I've edited the Template:Hqfl logos so that it should put the image pages which use the template in a separate category (Category:HQFL Logos) and not the usual logos category but it doesn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong? Is there somo special syntax to be included on the category page or is my browser just not updating the page correctly? --Elisson 17:10, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Okay, that's not good. :) You're right, removing and adding the tag will fix it. I'll just have to do that whenever I stumble upon an old logo. I think having the HQFL logos in a separate category will ease up work for anyone searching for already uploaded badges. Good or bad idea? --Elisson 17:25, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

• Strangely enough: the template switches leftarm and rightarm in the names. Now they're named after the viewers l/r. Of course it should be the players l/r. This is especially counter-intuitive when the armcoulours are different: AS Monaco FC, Feyenoord. In the end the face is OK (in these examples), the mistake is corrected in the edit-page (i.e. the reader doesn't see the mistake; the editor should beware). -DePiep 12:50, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

I don't see a problem in this. As you say, they're named after the viewers PoV, but does it make things harder in any way? In case someone actually manages to colour any jersey the wrong way, they should learn to use the preview button. :) --Elisson 16:20, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

The problem is as big or as small as I wrote: prone to a mistake, because counter-intuitive. You wrote how to solve it, thereby illustrating that the editor should try (instead of read): q.e.d. When we make a box to illustrate the players shoes (innit an important thing, here?), would you still describe his left shoe as 'right'? I think that wouldn't fit. -DePiep 12:10, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Well I haven't had any problems with it and I doubt it is a real problem to anyone else either. IMHO, it's not counter-intuitive, and the creator of the kit templates mustn't have thought so either, as he chose to put the left arm template on his left. As to a pair of shoes, yes, I'd describe "his" left as "my" right and I wouldn't have a problem with it. And I don't believe the shoes are important, different players in the same team uses different models with different colours. -- Elisson | Talk 20:10, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

Indeed, when I created the template - I thought it was intuitive to label the arm on the left "left_arm". ed g2s • talk 02:33, 10 May 2005 (UTC)

Superherobox

Ed, thanks for the cleanup you did to Template:Superherobox. You're my superhero. Heh heh. --NormanEinstein 13:59, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Now that the infobox is sized with em instead of pixels, should the images also have their size specified in em? --NormanEinstein 14:33, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Be a bad idea, because the images might end up stretched in some instances. And the images themselves are absoultely-sized with the way the Wiki calculates the images, so I don't think it'd work anyway - SoM 15:02, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

• Re: align="center" doesn't exist in XHTML, nor is it necessary as the tables are the same width

I know it doesn't exist in XHTML, but I can't remember the CSS way of making the table itself (as opposed to the text within) centred in CSS, so I bunged the "align=center"s in as a stopgap until someone (you?) puts the CSS in.

And it's necessary because there are tons of articles out there which use images which are now too wide for the box, and thus stretch the box. This means that the inner boxes are not the same size as the outer box, and thus look wrong. Until they're fixed, it's best to have something in there. - SoM

• this is how to do it with CSS, and if you see any very large images, scale them down

Danke. And I plan to, I just think that allowing for graceful degredation is a good idea :) - SoM 15:21, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Image:USAF seal.png

Unfortunately I lost the source file when my hard disc crashed. ed g2s • talk 11:46, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)