User talk:Edokter

Navboxes

Thank you for you recent message on my talk page. Perhaps if your edit summaries had contained a rationale such as "bringing template into line with established common practice on Wikipedia", less well informed editors such as myself might have had more of a clue? Anyway, now that you have explained, I would be grateful if you could direct me to other templates where the established common practice has been applied so that I can form a broad view regarding how this is being implemented. Maybe I could even join the We that you say have been cleaning up templates like this for some time now, to help out? After all, if all of those listed have been engaged in this enterprise, there must be an awful lot of templates requiring attention and, I imagine, you would welcome all the help you can get. That said, I don't accept that listing the stories 'by Doctor' equates to fancruft ( a term, btw, which I thought was generally deprecated on Wikipedia), and neither do I consider that reverting an editor and inviting them to take the matter to the article talk page for discussion warrants your categorisation of this as my 'venting my opinion'. In any event, call it what you will, the standard protocol is for the matter to be debated on the article talk page, and not elsewhere. So, if you wish to have a reasoned, civil discussion regarding the edits in question and my response, henceforth that is where I suggest it be conducted; not on my talk page, not here and certainly not on the DW Project page. Bowdenford (talk) 01:36, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Responded at WT:WHO#Navboxes. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 12:03, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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"mentioned"

Mentioned where? by whom? Link to the relevant edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Impact_%28typeface%29&oldid=prev&diff=692592305 Steel Wool Killer / Lanolжeð Renforsdfer Tyklovon (talk) 01:17, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

The end of the first paragraph. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 11:51, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Whoops. Didn't see that. Sorry. Steel Wool Killer / Lanolжeð Renforsdfer Tyklovon (talk) 13:01, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Dalek appearance in Hell Bent

The Daleks appear in Hell Bent (Doctor Who). You can see them in these BBC trailers: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03978pw". {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help) AND "www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p039dbhc".. Theoosmond(talk)(warn) 12:18, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Then I was confused. Still, we generally add them after the episodes have aired. See WP:NOTTVGUIDE. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 12:24, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

But Template:Dalek stories is on the page for Hell Bent, so I reckon Hell Bent should be put back on the template.Theoosmond(talk)(warn) 13:08, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

You could comment it out until saturday. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 13:25, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Template sandbox in TFA

I noticed [1] uses {{TFAfooter/sandbox}} and not {{TFAfooter}}. Transcluding a sandbox on the main page seems unusual. It also means most daily pages since Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 17, 2015 are transcluding the sandbox, with {{TFAfooter/sandbox|Month=...|Year=2015}} in the source. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:27, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

That was stupid of me... I fixed {{TFA preload}}. I'll have to fix the existing transclusions using AWB once I get home. (Feel free to fix it yourself.) -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 11:59, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing it. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:52, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

User:Redrose64

Please note, I have no aversion to good discussion, as said by User:Redrose64 on Template talk:Infobox Doctor Who episode, and I would never deliberatly hurl abuse, anything that is taken as abuse that was written by me was unitentional. Cheers!Theoosmond(talk)(warn) 21:05, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

I don't believe much in 'unintentional' abuse. If you want to avoid the pitfalls of online communication, always read back what you wrote before posting it, and imagine being someone else reading it. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 21:11, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

OK, good piece of advice you have there. Thanks.Theoosmond(talk)(warn) 21:19, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

I've had a look at my talk page especially the section Redlinked cast members, and I have found nothing abusive in there, despite Redrose64's claims.Theoosmond(talk)(warn) 21:47, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Is there anything wrong with editors patrolling over what other editors' contributions? It's just User:Redrose64 is patrolling my edits, and it is really getting on my nerves.Theoosmond (talk) 22:03, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

No. It is quite common for editors to check your contributions if they find multiple edits in their watchlist that does not agree in one way or another. If you make 'wholesale' edits to multiple articles that goes against consensus, you are bound to get noticed (and reverted). You should talk this out with Redrose64. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 22:16, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Main page redesign

Any idea how all these newcomers are finding their way to Wikipedia:Main Page (2015 redesign) and making test edits? — MusikAnimal ^talk 17:48, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Not really. Maybe the gadget has attracted some of them. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 21:07, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

I'm thinking it's something else, will look into it. Thanks — MusikAnimal ^talk 21:11, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

Help please!

Hello Edokter, could you please help us on Gan Wikipedia to resolve a flaw of gan:Template:Navbox subgroup? As you may see on the sandbox, the title of the subgroup is still visible inside the template, and the list of articles is vertical instead of horizontal. Would you be so kind to help us out?--Symane TALK 15:51, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi Symane. You seem to be missing the better part of the navbox-related CSS in your MediaWiki:Common.css. You will also need to copy all .hlist CSS to make the list items appear on one line (see Snippets/Horizontal lists). Hope this helps. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 18:20, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your replying. Il seems the flaw of the template remains, after the many ways I tried. Maybe the most critical problem is the wrongly-displayed title of the subgroup (as you may see, the buttons of "view", "history", "edit" and the "hide" option are visible on top of the subgroup), would you have any idea how to make them disappear inside the template, please? --Symane TALK 12:24, 17 December 2015 (UTC)