Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Templates

Template for electricity generation???

Please look at the tables in this section: Nebraska#Energy.

Would you please recommend an existing template that I can use to produce the first table? Thanks.
--LukasMatt (talk) 02:40, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Is there something wrong with the table as it currently exists? VanIsaac_WS^cont 03:33, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

For the Checkwiki Project, I need to convert the table from HTML to wiki markup. Needless to say, it makes more sense to use a standardized template than to reconstruct the same table over and over again in separate articles. I'm looking for something similar to {{Weather box}} but for electricity generation.

--LukasMatt (talk) 03:42, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Ahh, got it. I don't know of one offhand, but I'd be happy to program it up for you if you can't find anything. What's your timeframe on this User:LukasMatt? VanIsaac_WS^cont 03:59, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

You are very kind. I couldn't find anything, so I came here. Whatever is convenient for you. Thanks.

--LukasMatt (talk) 04:10, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

I'm posting to prevent topic archiving. I'm a programmer with minimal template experience. I'm making no promises, but there's a chance I may pick up this up in the future as my first try at a real template project. Alsee (talk) 14:49, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

{{Template test cases notice}}

Template:Template test cases notice (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been proposed to be renamed -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 06:53, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Where is the discussion? --Redrose64 (talk) 11:48, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

talk page. VanIsaac_WS^cont 18:59, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Playboy Playmates templates

I ran across several templates, such as the template on List of Playboy Playmates of 2014, that has an upper names section and a lower dates section. The names section in this template are of the 12 playmates that are on the article and redirects back to that section. The future months, currently listed as Miss August through December also link back to this article. I can not imagine what purpose this would serve. None of the names currently have a separate article and this is the same for List of Playboy Playmates of 2013, List of Playboy Playmates of 2012, 2011, and so forth. If there was a link to point to it seems to me that the first sentence, where the name is bold, would be the appropriate place to place a link to that person. Would someone check this out please? Otr500 (talk) 07:41, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

• Before anyone wades into this, just an fyi that there is already discussion at Talk:List_of_Playboy_Playmates_of_2014#Maintenance_tag and its all a tail following a contentious AFD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Playboy Playmates of 2014.--Milowent • ^hasspoken 13:20, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

I am glad you weighed in and I sincerely hope others do decide to "wade in". These editors can make up their own minds if my concerns are valid or not, regardless if someone tries to poison the pot. By stating that there is a current discussion going on per above is totally false and any reader can see that. After I could not get any discussion about my concerns I posted here. "After that" I was informed "You keep bringing up Playboy template concerns (here, at AfD, etc.) apparently everywhere but in the right venue, which is the talk page for the template in question.".

My concerns and reason for going this route:

• 1) No constructive discussion on the article talk page. Why is information or content in an article "not" appropriate to discuss on that article?
• 2)- If the problem is concerning many templates are we not suppose to inquire here? It would not make sense to have to post to every template talk page on every article in question?
• 3)- When I am told that the AfD is over so move on, drop the stick, and "Move on...I'm done discussing these settled issues with you as well "Otr500".". I think it is time to seek assistance elsewhere and this seems the appropriate place.

Mr. Milowent stated on the article talk page "It allows for easy navigation within and among articles; when a playmate has a separate article, it directs there.". The whole stated purpose for these "list articles" instead of a regular article was because most of the Playmates are not notable enough to have an independent article. "The majority" of the more than 700 Playmates will be notable for only their appearance in Playboy. When an article title is created, which happens to be of people, that redirects to a list article, and there is a template on that list article that lists the very same names, as blue links, that redirects "back" to the very same article, I think I have valid concerns as to how this helps Wikipedia. The entire link coloring is pretty much all but done away with. It can't very well aid navigation as it doesn't navigate anywhere and the top halves of the templates on the other articles (some listed above) are specific to that article with the same circular links. I have not even looked to see if a "to be announced" for future names is acceptable but again these "links" redirect back to the same article.

I see problems and the project page states "If you would like to help, please inquire on the project's talk page" and I have simply asked "Would someone check this out please?". Otr500 (talk) 07:39, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

I will ask for assistance else where, Otr500 (talk) 08:37, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Some improvements to the Notenglish template desired

Hi, I would greatly appreciate if someone could make some improvements to Template:Not English, detailed at the talk page. Thanks, Oiyarbepsy (talk) 04:17, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

"lang-en-XX" templates for deletion

I nominated such templates on 2014 August 13. Join in discussion. --George Ho (talk) 05:53, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Bug on Template:Former TAFI

This template (a template used on talk pages of former Today's article for improvement) only ever displays the articles new class as B class, which makes it really not useful. Since there are so few people watching that template and it had no talk page before I posted about the bug, I thought I'd mention something here for it. I don't suppose anyone would mind taking a quick look and seeing if they see anything. Zell Faze (talk) 14:16, 17 August 2014 (UTC) Please {{ping}} me in your response as I am not watching this page

It appears that there is also a discussion of this issue taking place on a user talk page. Zell Faze (talk) 15:48, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

{{Tlf}}

Template:Tlf (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been proposed to be renamed. -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 01:36, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Tagging template link templates?

Shouldn't templatespace maintenance templates such as {{tl}} sport some sort of WPTemplates indicator on their talk pages? (Though I do understand the diffculty in coding a method to restrict it to such templates, as it may require pagename detection for rejection criteria) WP:AFC has two different banners, so there may be something for a second banner template. -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 01:36, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

{{Tlc}}

Template:Tlc (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for renaming -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 01:45, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Unwanted line break

When I add the documentation link to the template I end up with an annoying line break User:CambridgeBayWeather/Test. I've removed it from the template I had it in. So what am I doing wrong? CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 23:17, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

The opening noinclude tag must go at the end of the final line of the template, not start a new line. --Mirokado (talk) 23:27, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. I knew it would be something simple. CBWeather, Talk, Seal meat for supper? 02:11, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Help with template for WikiProject Women writers

Thanks a bunch! Monumenteer2014camper (talk) 17:09, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Need help with talk page template for WikiProject Women writers -- want it to have parameters class, importance, photo requested, infobox needed. Could someone take a look? Monumenteer2014camper (talk) 15:19, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

@Monumenteer2014camper and Rosiestep: OK, now done, incl. doc page. I moved the template to {{WikiProject Women writers}}, partly because it's normal to have the template name match the WikiProject page name; partly because some of the internal coding is easier if they match. Please note that the last two parameters are |needs-photo= and |needs-infobox=, these being the "normal" names for such parameters. There are a number of categories that need creating, as noted by the error messages with redlinks. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:02, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

@Monumenteer2014camper and Redrose64: Thanks for that. I'm working on creating cats. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:04, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Template Style

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I was drawn to the issue of template style by the bugtrack Template:Tracked. The pale gradient effect makes my eyes itch, and the rounded counters clash with the rest of Wikipedia style. I wasn't aware of WikiProject Templates at the time and I started a discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Bugtrack_template. So far it has small but unanimous support.

Thinking more generally, perhaps there should exist a WP:Manual_of_Style/templates similar to WP:Manual_of_Style/Infoboxes. My immediate focus was be something similar to WP:Manual_of_Style/Infoboxes#Style.2C_color_and_formatting:

Style, color and formatting

General consistency should be aimed for across articles using the same infobox in template style. A good guideline is not to add extraneous style formatting over that in a default infobox template without good reason. Infoboxes may tend towards greater abbreviation than that generally used in article bodies. The general guidelines WP:NBSP (use of non-breaking spaces), WP:MOSNUM (numbers and dates), and WP:COLOR (use of color) are likely to be particularly relevant. As with navigation templates, the purpose of the infobox template is for its utility, not appearance; therefore, infobox templates should not be arbitrarily decorative.

Eliminating the crazy colors doesn't help much, chuckle.

Perhaps some of the style docs should have some text discouraging their use without good reason. This would include, but not limited to: Template:Radial-gradient, Template:Box-shadow, Template:Border-radius, Template:Linear-gradient, and probably the {dotted, dashed, double, groove, ridge, inset, outset} styles in Template:Border.

At the moment templates in general are great and I was merely suggesting a Manual_of_Style to reflect existing style. There's just something about that pale gradient in Template:Tracked that gnaws at my eyes. The rare occurrence of round corners is also a bit out of place. Alsee (talk) 16:05, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Toolserver

Since WMF killed Toolserver several of the templates include URLs which are no longer functional. An example of this is {{ISP}}. I posted to the talk page of this template to have it updated but it has few watchers so IDK when it'll be resolved. Is there a way to produce a list of templates utilizing Toolserver so they may be updated as well? -- dsprc ^[talk] 11:39, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Please can we not have libellous comments like "WMF killed Toolserver"? Credit where credit is due: Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE), not WMF, maintained Toolserver, and it was WMDE's decision to stop supporting it after 30 June 2014. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:57, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Template:MGH

This template seems not to be working - even the example given on its own documentation page simply spits out an error message. This is a shame because it would be really neat if it did work. I am technologically illiterate, so I was wondering if someone here might be able to identify the issue. Furius (talk) 16:45, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

I don't think that it's ever worked in full; it only seems to work as documented when the first parameter is either |SSrerGerm or |Staatsschriften. Bermicourt (talk · contribs) may have more information. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:53, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

It uses sub-templates, but only those two exist. Need to copy the sub-templates from the German Wikipedia. But there should be a better way to do this. --  Gadget850 ^talk 17:58, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

I think I've fixed this. I've added the additional templates and the existing links now seem to work, including the example. Let me know if you pick up any problems. --Bermicourt (talk) 19:42, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Fantastic! Furius (talk) 20:09, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

GLAMwiki Directory template

Hi all, I'd like some help with a template I'm piloting for use on the GLAMwiki pages. I made a formal request but nothing has happened. The plan is to create a directory of pages for each institution which has worked with the GLAMwiki movement. This was approved by the GLAMwiki community at my session at Wikimania. There is a rough template in my sandbox based on the Foundation's Template:User info. I've produced some mock ups in this Prezi that was presented at Wikimania. Unfortunately I can't seem to get my head around the JSON elements and how to create the whole range of new fields that are required. Some help would be massively appreciated! I'm sure that there will be questions about it so please do get in touch. Many thanks! PatHadley (talk) 15:32, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

The "See"s have it in for me

I don't know if this is a bug, or if I'm doing it wrong:

Ebola virus disease article, at present, contains the following hatnote ("{" changed to "(" so they'll display; boldface indicates changes from previous):

((redirect|Ebola))

...resulting in:

"Ebola" redirects here. For other uses, see Ebola (disambiguation)."

Wishing to link the ungainly-named ongoing outbreak article in the hatnote to have the following desired appearance:

"Ebola" redirects here. For other uses, see Ebola (disambiguation). For the ongoing outbreak, see Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.

...I extended the template thus thus:

((redirect|Ebola|the ongoing outbreak|Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa))

...resulting in

"Ebola" redirects here. For the ongoing outbreak, see Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.

...which killed the disambiguation link. Grr...

Next attempt, long-handing the disambig back in:

((redirect|Ebola|other uses, see|Ebola (disambiguation)|the ongoing outbreak|Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa))

"Ebola" redirects here. For other uses, see, see Ebola (disambiguation). For the ongoing outbreak, see Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.

...resulting in multiple "see"s. Derp!

So, all I have to do now is remove the ", see" -- right?

((redirect|Ebola|other uses|Ebola (disambiguation)|the ongoing outbreak|Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa))

"Ebola" redirects here. For other uses, see Ebola (disambiguation).

...which is identical to just ((redirect|Ebola)).

Ugh. I'm fetching my shotgun to put this thing down.--Froglich (talk) 21:14, 28 October 2014 (UTC)