User talk:Matthewedwards

Thanks for help with {{shortcut}}

The for the help. I think they are all cleanup up for now. More have been showing up as pages get recompiled but I hope we've got most of it now. Best wishes.

--DRoll (talk) 04:52, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a bundle, both of you, for helping to clear out CAT:SHORTFIX !!! Now I'll wait a day or so to see that no more delayed category updates show up and then I'll add the new anchor dropping functionality to the shortcut boxes.

--David Göthberg (talk) 16:19, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi again. I see that you noticed that some of the templates listed in Wikipedia:Template documentation/List have become protected since that list was created. When you discover several similar things that are protected don't do a {{editprotected}} request for each of them, since that is more work for both you and the admin who have to mark it done on all those talk pages. Instead do a single request somewhere and list all the pages needed handling in one request. And you can add more requests to the same list later and activate the {{editprotected}} again, as long as you strike out the already done ones.

But in the Wikipedia:Template documentation/List case you can do it even easier, just add a comment next to the item saying "Protected page" and I or some other admin who checks that list will take care of it later.

Oh, and I took a look at some of your edits. I think you should reread the Wikipedia:Template documentation carefully since you seem to be missing parts of how to do it. (Sorry to complain. I love your hard work.)

Hmm. I'm not really sure what the right way is, then. I thought it was simply replacing {{/doc}} with {{documentation}}. I'll stick to the other two for now! -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 18:05, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

What tools are you using? You seem to be able to work very fast.

--David Göthberg (talk) 13:08, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

No tools, it's all manual. I have AWB and VandalProof, but they're a real pain and I rarely use them! -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 19:01, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Degrassi FT

Hey Matthew, I missed it (been busy) but well done on your FT with Degrassi. Excellent work! The Rambling Man (talk) 16:57, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you! The first of many I hope! -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 18:03, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

I forgot yours passed too! Congratulations! -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 19:01, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Copy-editing request

Hi there. I am writing for your assistance for the article NeXT. It is currently up at FAC, and has done very well so far, but one reviewer has noted the article needs a copy-edit from an editor not already involved. I am the main contributor, and would love to see this finally become a featured article (it's failed three times already). A list of the main issues which need addressing can be found at Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/NeXT. Please let me know if you can get around to copy-editing this within the week. Thanks! — Wackymacs (talk) 20:21, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I'm really sorry but I'm going to have to pass. I'm moving out of my apartment today and tomorrow, and my new one won't be ready until the 9th (it needs new paint, carpet and appliances because the previous tenants trashed it). Until then I won't have access to a computer because I'm going to be sleeping in my truck or something, I guess. Sorry. -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 20:29, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Understood, No problem. Good luck with the move. — Wackymacs (talk) 22:01, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Nowrap edits

Please be careful with the edits you have made: 1. Instead of {{•w}} being placed {{w}} was. This transcluded the welcome template on a few pages. Thanks. §hep • ¡Talk to me! 01:23, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

My apologies. I've been doing hundreds manually, but that's my only major slip-up! Thanks for fixing it! -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 01:28, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Robinepowell and Degrassi

She's back and reverting everything again, despite the blocks and page protections. I've reported her to AN/I if you'd like to add/comment. I've also reported her to 3RR for five reverts on the season 4 list and requested that all the pages be reprotected. *sigh* You'd think 4 blocks since January, and 6 since she started editing would be enough already. Collectonian (talk) 02:23, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Wonderful. Thanks for giving me the heads up. Unfortunately I won't be around for 14 days or so to keep an eye on things :(. She's gotten on my last nerve already.

BTW, did you notice User:The Rambling Man has taken a wikibreak? I think it's from the recent vandalism to his page and an argument about the letter "s" :( -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 02:26, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

No, I hadn't noticed :( I'm extra grateful he commented on my current FLC now. Can't say as I blame him...dealing with stuff like this is draining while trying to do real edits. And ditto on Robin and nerves. :( Collectonian (talk) 02:32, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

"Cleaning up etc usage. Learn more at WP:NOWRAP"

Hi. One small request re the above: Please retain any <div>s you find framing a {{nowrap begin}}...{{nowrap end}} as they reduce the relatively wide gap between wrapped lines. Thanks for taking on some cleaning. Sardanaphalus (talk) 02:56, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Sardanaphalus: Eh? That is usually not true. When one add the {{nowrap begin}} + {{nowrap end}} then the the DIVs has no function anymore and can be removed. Usually has no effect on the margins, except in theory if the DIVs contain style="" code that tinkers with the margins. But I have never seen that in any navboxes. Are there any such cases around?

Anyway, Matthewedwards cleaned out the whole list I gave him so he's done!

--David Göthberg (talk) 04:18, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

• I find the difference between this:

|listN = <div>
{{nowrap begin}}....{{nowrap end}}
</div>

and this:

|listN = {{nowrap begin}}....{{nowrap end}}

is that the gap between wrapped lines within the {{nowrap begin}}....{{nowrap end}} isn't too wide when the <div> is used. At least, not with Firefox. (I'm assuming something like |liststyle = line-height:1.4em; hasn't been set.) Here's a navbox test:

Sardanaphalus (talk) 12:04, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Hm. It looks to be rendered exactly the same in Firefox and IE7 for me.. I don't understand this, and the list is done, anyway. -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 16:27, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

• This is how it looks here, i.e. the lines in the "with <div>" are slightly closer together -- and, as I forgot to include above, there's also a little more padding above and below the list as a whole, making it more clearly distinguishable from lists above/below it. Perhaps all this might be clearer in an extended example:

Screenshot for the navbox above as it appears here is here. Yes, it's subtle but I find makes a significant difference when actual lists of links with varying names are used. Setting liststyle = line-height:1.4em; is an alternative, but the consequent lack of padding between lists can sometimes defeat the effect. I guess what I'm driving toward is lists formatted something like: <div style="padding:0.35em 0; line-height:1.4em;">{{nowrap begin}}...{{·w}}...{{nowrap end}}</div>:

Sardanaphalus (talk) 23:13, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

OK, now I see the difference. I think that adding <div style="padding:0.35em 0; line-height:1.4em;">{{nowrap begin}}...{{·w}}...{{nowrap end}}</div> to each list in every template is a clumsy way of bogging down Wikipedia's server juice though. Can't {{navbox}} etc be amended instead? -- ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 00:04, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

• I agree and think I will ask if this styling may be implemented alongside the amended {{navbox}} about to be deployed to see what people think -- see User talk:CapitalR#Perhaps of interest. Sardanaphalus (talk) 07:55, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

...for your kind words. Good luck with your time off (if this gets to you in time) or welcome back (if it doesn't). I'm back and ready to kick ass. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:47, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

You're welcome, and thank you. I'm not back yet, just checking messages. I'm looking at the 14th to return. ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 03:02, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Image map at List of tallest buildings in Jersey City

The background should also be clickable, and should either lead to the city's article or the image :) Gary King (talk) 18:05, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

I'll address it when I properly return to Wikipedia after the 14th. ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 02:47, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles May Newsletter

The May Newsletter for WikiProject Good Articles has now been published. Dr. Cash (talk) 22:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Overhaul of FL criteria

I've re-started the process here and am notifying the four candidates for director as well as advertising at FLC talk and FAC talk. Your input would be valued. TONY (talk) 05:20, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Thriller album

If you would like to add any further thoughts at the peer review before we give FA another shoot, please please do, all support is welcome. Realist² ('Come Speak To Me') 00:22, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm away til the 14th. I'll take a look then if you still need it. ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 03:12, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Timeline of prehistoric Scotland

File:Neanderthal 2D.jpg		The WikiProject Scotland Award of Excellence
		This award is given with many thanks to Matthewedwards for assistance in helping Timeline of prehistoric Scotland to become a Featured List from Ben MacDui, 4 May 2008.

Errors in one of your edits

First: Nice work on cleaning up people’s wrong usage of {{nowrap begin}} etc. Many people don’t know how to use this family of templates, which are quite a bit more complex than the simple {{·}}…

Second: Your edit on Template:Foreign Secretary introduced a </ br> tag – I guess you meant to write <br />? Also, a formatting error broke a link in the bottom line of the template and you obviously didn’t check the preview before saving. I don’t blame you – I have done the same thing when doing bulk editing :-) Also, I haven’t checked your edit log to see if it was a one-time mistake or if you have consistently changed <br> → </ br>, but I hope you will.

Best regards, Fred Bradstadt (talk) 16:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Friends?

This user wants to be your friend.

--Taking you up on that offer... 121.209.233.237 (talk) 07:13, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

I suspect you are a WP:SOCK of User:Robinepowell... ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 02:45, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

List of East Carolina Pirates in the NFL Draft

Greetings again. I have created the page List of East Carolina Pirates in the NFL Draft and would like for you to peer review it for WP:FL worthiness, if you have time. If you are able to, please leave the comments on the list talkpage. Also, I am not sure if the naming convention is correct. This is the first kind of list like this and have nothing to base it off of. Thanks again, PGPirate 18:44, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Sure, if it can wait til the 14th, otherwise I'm on a wikibreak of sorts. ṃ•α•Ł•ṭ•ʰ•Ə•Щ• @ 03:11, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

USRD Newsletter, Issue 4

Apologies for the late delivery; my internet connection went down halfway through the delivery process.

Want to help on next month's newsletter? Don't want to receive these in future? Want to change your method of delivery? – It's all here. —Rschen7754bot (talk) 22:43, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:FLRC

I was wondering if you would be interested in running WP:FLRC. I am also asking Dweller and if you are both interested, you could co-run it. It really doesn't require two people, but you could also comment and look for unworthy lists (especially amond the early promotions). If you do want to do it, let me know. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 02:59, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Peer Review request

Hello again! You reviewed Slipknot (album) a few weeks ago and I think you did a good job with it, it should be a GAC soon. Anyway, I was wondering if you would be willing to take a look at Iowa (album), the band's second album. It's a little shorter than the last one (less controversey) but it's pretty well-written, I'm gonna do a last proof-read now. You can leave your comments on the discussion page, like last time. If you're too busy it's no big deal, just let me know. Thank you! Blackngold29 03:40, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:FLAG-BAND

Hello, Matthewedwards ...

You recently edited some of my essays, like User:The Bipolar Anon-IP Gnome/Flag-band, to remove the WP:FLAG-xyz tags with the edit summary

Removing shortcut links You can put it back in when the links work, but right now it's messing up with the functionality of the new shortcuts. See CAT:SHORTFIX for more information

You missed one of the Flag-templates, but I fixed it ... anywho, I guess I'm soliciting input to try to get these made "official" essays with "WP:" shortcuts, so I'd appreciate your comments on my Flag templates for deletion warnings.

Happy Editing! — 72.75.78.69 (talk · contribs) _{04:19, 9 May 2008 (UTC)}

List of Christmas number ones

I notice you've been editing recently (could be a public computer, if so, my bad) so could you please take another look at the FLC for the above? It's well overdue and any insight (especially considering you were about to support) would be very much welcomed. Thanks in advance, weburiedoursecretsinthegarden 15:42, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:LOTM

Congratulations on your recent WP:FL. In case you do not know, we are running an experiment to choose the List of the Month and Lists of the Day for June. Feel free to nominate your list at User:TonyTheTiger/List of the Day/Nominees/200807 for consideration next month to be the July LOTM or a LOTD. If you would like to support this experiment the most important thing you can do is come by and vote at User:TonyTheTiger/List of the Day/voting/200806. My talk page is always open.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 05:09, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

FLRC

If you still would like to be in charge of the process, it's yours although TRM and I have decided to wait until you return before making any kind of announcement. Dweller said he is also interested, so perhaps you two could work something out so that one of you handles the closing, and another looks for potential candidates and does some reviewing. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 19:54, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

List of Lizzie McGuire episodes

Thanx for the comments left at the peer review of List of Lizzie McGuire episodes. I have made most of the changes suggested by you and the list now looks much better. I wud be grateful if u could take a look at it and suggest more improvements so that i can nominate it for FLC. thanx...Gprince007 (talk) 06:32, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/AC/DC discography

Hi, a few weeks ago you made a few comments for this FLC, I was wondering if you could take a look and see if your concerns were addressed. Thanks. No-Bullet (Talk • Contribs) 17:06, 12 May 2008 (UTC)