Wikipedia talk:Userboxes

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For userbox ideas, see Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Ideas

Generational boxes

For people born in some decade, or who are here and claim to be born in a particular decade. For example I was born in 1944 so I would have the box for 1940-1944. User:AlMac|^(talk) 16:14, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Adult child boxes

Some kids may desire userboxes declaring themselves to be teenagers, teenage boy, teenage girl, enrollec in a particular level of schooling.

I have seen bumper stickers:

• A member of my family has _____ (very good grades) at _____ (fill in name of school).

User:AlMac|^(talk) 10:38, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

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Archives

Since certain wonderful people have fixed problems addressed in these talk pages, perhaps something should be archived. That is something I can do, if someone asks me to. I did not say I could do a good job of it. Practice makes perfect, and I have not had a lot of practice yet. User:AlMac|^(talk) 11:40, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

I think there should be subtalk section for Userbox ideas! --RaptorX 12:03, 25 December 2005 (UTC) -- Not a member Userbox Wikipedia Project

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Where would these go?

This is an old box template:user copyright and I just made something in the same vein template:User copyright mid dealing with copyright on Wikipedia. Where would you put them? Ifnord 17:27, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

BIG PROBLEM

Have a look at the deletion proposal for {{user NoSanta}} at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:User_NoSanta.

Adrian Buehlmann brought up the point that this is in violation of WP:AMT... which means that half the userboxes on WP:UBX are also in violation.

Furthermore, the outcome of this proposed deletion has repercussions for the entire WP:UB. If it is deleted then many of the arguments for deletion will be valid for countless userboxes... which once again illustrates the fundemental importance of this proposal.

SO - something needs to be done. And I have no idea what. File:Anglo-indian.jpg Deano (Talk) 18:52, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Subst the boxes into the User __ templates? --AySz88^-^ 19:00, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I made several suggestions:

• Put all the User ______ templates on the list of templates that should be subst'd
• Subst within the User ______ templates
• Permanently protect {{userbox}} and never change it

If the last method works to get rid of the WP:AMT problem, that'd probably be the best solution.

I just realized; don't templates like {{user en}} also violate the same thing? Nope, they subst it in the User ____ templates, at least for "en".

--AySz88^-^ 19:25, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

THIS IS COVERED AT Wikipedia talk: WikiProject Userboxes. File:Anglo-indian.jpg Deano (Talk) 19:51, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:List of userboxes merge to somewhere in this space.

Once it's sorted this should be done.

Or actually, once stuff is sorted from the automatic list, the template link should be moved here, really. --Mistress Selina Kyle ^{(Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉)} 04:49, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

That was my first thought when I saw the new list. The automatic listing of userboxes is a great idea, but it should all be in one place. --¿ WhyBeNormal ? 05:50, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

I disagree. The automatic list is too long to be included here, and includes no discussion of what the user boxes are. Keep it separate, but link to it from here. --Angr (t·c) 08:12, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

That's what I said. Or meant, anyway. See above. :)

Once the stuff is sorted', then merge: Of course adding them to the appropriate relevant categories here, not just as one big list. :)

One thing people should note is that list isn't actually automatic - someone just got the list somehow by running that script it seems and then added the result to the article - the page itself doesn't automatically update so new userboxes won't get added to that list unless someone else adds them --Mistress Selina Kyle ^{(Α⇔Ω ¦ ⇒✉)} 09:04, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Keep separate - this page is too colossal and user-unfriendly to be subsumed by WP:UBX. Keep it separate, and have links from WP:UBX and WP:UB. Also, surely someone could just update the script every week or so? File:Anglo-indian.jpg Deano (Talk) 11:38, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

• 'Keep separate - The list is too big & will be very silly & crazy to merged with userbox

'Keep separate - adequate reasons are listed above, and I concur. --Joe Sewell 03:20, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Merge - I think users would find it easier to see the userboxes on a page with the title 'userboxes'. I mean, it's just common sense really. Although, in defence of others, I do think the argument of the page being too big already is right.--Dan ^(Talk) 20:07, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Interests: Hobbies

I feel that Userboxes/Interests/Hobbies has enough userboxes to have it's own category under 'Interests'. Does anyone else agree? Morgan695 21:44, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

If you mean Wikipedia:Userboxes/Hobbies then it's all yours! I've even made a red-link for you! File:Anglo-indian.jpg Deano (Talk) 21:52, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Interests being grouped with Beliefs

I see that the "Political, social, ethical stances etc." section has been merged into the "Interests" sections. I fail to see why. Since when is your religion, sexual orientation, gender, status, your mental health, etc. an interest? The page doesn't flow well anymore, and the interests section seems too crowded. I propose that we keep it the way it always was. Morgan695 00:57, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Hmm... I didn't know this had happened. This is what happens when you check your watchlist from the bottom upward... I'll be right back. File:Anglo-indian.jpg Deano (Talk) 15:39, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, I think it should go back as before. Ian¹³_ID:540053 16:14, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Template:User soccer am2

Well I still have no idea what has happened... but from what I know (no a lot), I know that change is not good. So turn it back! File:Anglo-indian.jpg Deano (Talk) 16:39, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Featured User Box

Can I add a featured user box of the week? So we could showcase new and creative user boxes or new user box series like the astrological sign boxes.--God_of War 20:54, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

userbox fix please

can someone please fix the userbox for capitalist? its too big, unaesthetic.--Urthogie 04:05, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

What are some of the things needed changing? Zach ^{(Smack Back)} 04:09, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

I've resized the image on {{User Capitalist}} from 50px to 45px. Does this help? — Jeff | (talk) | 05:47, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

I would probably shrink the outline by a few pixels, since most templates have their outlines as 1px. Zach ^{(Smack Back)} 05:54, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for quick help, have a wonderful life for this!--Urthogie 05:56, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

laste 2 requests :)

{{User WikiProject Spam}} {{User Carnivore}}

In both of these, the left cell that contains the word("spam") or the picture (its of meat) goes too far to the right, and its out of order in comparison to user userboxes. Thanks for fixin it.

--Urthogie 08:10, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

I've fixed the one at {{User Carnivore}} by scaling the picture down to 45px, then using a black background so it's not as obvious that the original picture was rectangular. The original author of the template has already reverted one attempt to resize the picture; so, if my edit gets reverted, you can just use the following code in place of {{User Carnivore}} on your user page:

{{subst:userbox
  |id = [[Image:FoodMeat.jpg|45px]]
  |id-c = black
  |info = This user is a '''[[carnivore]]'''.
  |info-c = white
  |border-c = #e80000
}}

As for {{User WikiProject Spam}}, this could be fixed by decreasing the font-size slightly, but I'm hesitant to make the change since the current font-size seems to be a good Userbox standard. — Jeff | (talk) | 10:18, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

maybe it should be SPM?--Urthogie 17:10, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Deleted Userboxes

Admin User:Kelly Martin has deleted many userboxes. About 5% of these deletes was for a genuine good reason. How should we deal with this? Morgan695 22:39, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

UPDATE To help mediate this clear abuse of adminship, please sign the form at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Kelly Martin.Morgan695 22:57, 31 December 2005 (UTC)