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Subject bar—what do you think?

I noticed that you made a few changes to the static "Subject bar." So what do you think of the new version? Better? Or still wishing for something else? – VisionHolder « talk » 04:08, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thanks for the template, it wasn't my firt article, but thanks for asking.·Maunus·ƛ· 11:13, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos for your Signpost "Building a pantheon of scientists from Wikipedia and Google Books" article

As covered in this 31 January 2011 issue of The Signpost, the New York Times prints an article to announce to the world "Wikipedia's gender gap" merely by selecting a few Wikipedia articles purportedly on "topics more likely to be followed by boys" and "topics more likely to be followed by girls" (which itself has bias, scope, author age, and target audience problems) and eyeball compares them to draw a predetermined conclusion.[1] In contrast, as covered in the same 31 January 2011 issue of The Signpost, the Signpost publishes "Building a pantheon of scientists from Wikipedia and Google Books," an objective analysis based on analytical thought that publishes its support for the conclusions drawn by the article.[2] The New York Times continues to be held out as THE reliable source of reliable sources, whereas The Signpost is held very low on the totem pole when it comes to usage in Wikipedia articles. What's wrong with that picture? Headbomb, congratulations on another outstanding job. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 11:16, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Nehrim: At Fate's Edge

On 4 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nehrim: At Fate's Edge, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Nehrim: At Fate's Edge is an award-winning total conversion mod of Bethesda Softworks' The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion developed over the span of four years? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:03, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Table layout

center (indenting tables causes problems). I can't remember how long I puzzled over what was happening there before giving up. Thanks! DMacks 14:06, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jules Verne Talkback

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Smallman12q (talk) 23:42, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bot question

I left a question at Wikipedia talk:Article alerts, just making sure someone sees it or if you're watching that page. Thanks! _WM^O 04:02, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Hello. I hope Im not disturbing you but would you explain why are you continuously reverting my changes in Pre-Madonna? I have never seen any article including url link to books, except for wikifying them. All FAs and GAs I have seen follow this. — Legolas ^(talk2me) 09:51, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Because you constantly make changes for spurious reasons. There's absolutely nothing in the MOS, or any policy/guideline out there supporting the removal of links to google books, and plenty of FAs and GAs have them. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 09:53, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Are you aware of any FAs using them? If so, will you point me out to them? — Legolas ^(talk2me) 10:00, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Quark, ref 42 for example. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 10:05, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you HEadbomb. I will just remove the extra search part of the urls, as they are not needed. — Legolas ^(talk2me) 10:16, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, no need for those, although try to keep the page links if there are any. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 10:19, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I tried to add the page link for Madonna: An Intimate Biography, but its giving rise to an erroneous url in the template. Can you please check? — Legolas ^(talk2me) 10:23, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You can't have both a URL and a wikilink for the same link. In this case, a link to the passage in the book is more helpful to the reader than a link to the article on the book so I wouldn't chance anything. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 10:29, 9 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

e book

HEy, could you tell me more about ebook being investigated? What does that mean? Is a group looking into how to incorporate wiki pages with ebooks? By who? Staff? Volunteers? Any info would be appreciated. Shabidoo | Talk 01:22, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's beeing investigated by the PediaPress staff. It's one of the most requested feature as far as I'm aware. No idea what the current status is however. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:45, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hi Headbomb, thanks. I forgot about Article Alerts. Cheers, Crowsnest (talk) 00:00, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bibcodes

User:Rjwilmsi/Bibcodes. Feel free to post & comment there. I will need your help to ensure that we won't upset people by tidying up of bibcode URLs on featured articles. Once that's agreed the actual work won't be problematic. Rjwilmsi 21:47, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll ask the WP:ASTRO people for feedback, although I doubt this is controversial. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:02, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Help with a minor infobox issue on a wiki other than wikipedia

Hello Headbomb,

I hope I am not being too presumptuous in asking for your help with this minor issue that is not on wikipedia, but as you are a self-identified template guru I thought you might be able to help me. I have a minor infobox issue on a wiki I have been working on, the Halo Stunting Wiki, which I have been unable to fix. Specifically: http://halostunting.wikia.com/wiki/The_Final_Act using this infobox: http://halostunting.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Video_Infobox, I have tried multiple times to adjust the font size of the title to be larger (but for some reason it doesn't seem to be working) and I want to remove the ugly dark gray line seperating the caption parameter and the other parameters. If you could help me fix that or point me to someone/something that could that would be awesome! (Note: The infobox does not use transcluding templates, it is made from scratch)

Thanks, Matortheeternal (talk) 19:43, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll check, but no promise. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:23, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

First thing that strikes me is that you have a lot of things like

<span style="display:block;float:left;text-align:left">{{{game}}}</span>

This should be changed to

<span style="display:block;float:left;text-align:left;">{{{game}}}</span>

Likewise for the

<li style="padding:4px{{#if:{{{game|}}}||;display:none }}">

Which should be changed to

<li style="padding:4px;{{#if:{{{game|}}}||display:none;}}">

Basically you need to make sure that <span or div style="thing:value;"> ends with ;"> and not ">. Ending with "> works if you only have one thing (<span or div style="thing:value">), but not if you have two (<span or div style="thing1:value1; thing1:value2">) or more. Which is your problem for font size. As a side note, font-size in em is weird (aka font-size:18em;) is weird. You will have better control if you use font-size:18pt; or font-size:120%;

For the border, you have a line which reads

<div class="image" style="min-width:300px;text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid #999">

Changing it to something like

<div class="image" style="min-width:300px;text-align:center;">

Would remove the line.

Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:57, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much Headbomb! :D Matortheeternal (talk) 21:25, 13 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hey again Headbomb. Thanks again for the help on my previous problem. I'm sending you this message today because I came up with a nice piece of parser code for my templates and want to know if it is original/at all notable. I created it to omit an infobox from appearing on it's page without omitting the sample infobox also placed on its page through its documentation page without having to modify all of the articles the infobox is used on to have a new parameter. Here's the code:

{{#ifeq: {{{c|{{#ifeq: {{PAGENAME}} | Video Infobox | | 1 }}  }}} | 1 | <div class="infobox" ... the rest of the templates code ... </div> |  }}

I then proceeded to add | c = 1 to the page's documentation subpage. And it worked! I thought it was pretty cool, and I haven't anything similar to it on wikipedia for infoboxes (though I'm fairly new and probably couldn't find it if it was there). I mean, when I look on infobox pages I still see a small piece of the infobox above the documentation section (above the edit and purge links), this code could get rid of that. So... whadaya think?
Thanks, Matortheeternal (talk) 00:08, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]