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List of premiers of Alberta

I've reverted your upgrade to List of premiers of Alberta, as your new template does not allow for the date of the party designation of their leader, or a link to the leadership election. 117Avenue (talk) 18:08, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I support the addition of links to leadership elections. I'd rather not add an extra column because the table is already a bit cramped on small screens. I also don't think we should put it in the place of the appointment m-dash because then we can't link the leadership elections of premiers who came to power through an election. How about I add the link under the party name; that's a relatively empty column. In small font it could read for elections "leader as of 2011 contents" and for appointments "leader as of 2011". —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 19:48, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for starting this conversation, then being absent, I thought I would have more free time this week. I don't see the problem you are referring to, with replacing the dash with the appointment, it would read "2006 designation (26th Assembly)<>2008 election (27th Assembly)", it doesn't take up any more room. The problem I see is the loss of day of year, "1905 commissioning (none)<>1905 election (1st Assembly)" could be confusing. Would the table be too crowded for "2 December 2006 designation (26th Assembly)<>3 March 2008 election (27th Assembly)"? 117Avenue (talk) 04:11, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Don't apologize to me, my presence on Wikipedia was even more sparse over the holiday. The problem with changing the dash to text is that premiers who came to power by election rather than by designation (a common phenominon outside of Alberta) wouldn't have a link to their leadership race. I think that links to leadership races would be useful for every premier regardless of how they came to power, because the lists are about the people's political careers. We could, of course, add links to leadership elections on top of the first election for those premiers. However, that would make the mandates column jump back-and-forth between dates. For example, at the bottom of List of Premiers of Ontario, we would have, in this order: Harris's 1999 election, Eves's 2002 leadership race, McGuinty's 1996 leadership race, and then McGuinty's 2003 election. I don't like jumping back in time within the column like that. I think that the party column is the best place to put the leadership race because it only has one line of text in a cell that will always be at least two lines tall. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:53, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I understand you now. Sometimes I need the reminder that Alberta has a strange history. 117Avenue (talk) 03:01, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

What do you think would be a good phrasing of that line? Now I have "Named leader by {{{leadership}}}", with a link to the leadership election the word "appointment" in the variable field, but that doesn't sound quite right. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 19:47, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm thinking "Named leader in {{{leadership}}}", where the link is only a year. This way it should be universal for any terminology, elected, appointed, etc. 117Avenue (talk) 03:38, 18 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Is this better: Template:Canadian_first_minister_list/testcases#Alberta? —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 02:09, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good. 117Avenue (talk) 05:07, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your HD question

Did you notice that I replied to your question at Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2011 December 18? — Sebastian 04:22, 2 January 2012 (UTC) (I stopped watching this page. If you would like to continue the talk, please do so here and ping me.)[reply]

I've been away from my normal computer, but I did notice that today. The HTML solution seems to be the best option, thanks. Do you know if I can make only the problem line use the tr and td tags, or do I have to make the whole template use them? —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 07:30, 7 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know, but it should be easy to give it a try in your sandbox. BTW, in the meantime I became aware of Template:Chinese name, which seems to be able to do that without HTML. — Sebastian 17:50, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Virgin Festival

Hey Arctic.gnome can you possibly go back to Talk:Virgin Festival and correct this edit? I'm really surprised. You are more familiar with the {{WikiProject Canada}} than any other editor out there. An off day? :) Argolin (talk) 00:29, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You'll have to explain what you want corrected, I don't see the problem with that edit. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 04:15, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh my! You didn't use |music=yes? Argolin (talk) 07:07, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I see. I wasn't tagging articles for their specific subprojects, I was just using WP:AWB to do a mass-addition of articles to WP:CANADA. Adding the articles to subprojects and assessing them is the next step, but it is a much slower one. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs)

Ah! lol. Sorry I didn't notice the AWB. I thought it was odd that you, of all people, would misuse the template.

I'm drivven to dispair sometimes adding articles to the music project. Editors are happy to tag articles as orphan, citations needed, etc... but leave the discussion page red. My favourite is merge perposals with no projects on the discussion page. Who's going to know about it? Argolin (talk) 12:14, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

legislation template - Constitutional statutes

Hi, Arctic.gnome - I have another template issue/request. I'm planning to work on the various statutes that make up the Constitution, and would like to include a infobox for each one, using the statute template: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_legislation. The problem I've got is the image: I'd like to use the coat of arms that is used for the Canadian Constitution infobox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Canada) and the Canadian History template (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Canada). I've found the link for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_Shield.svg, but when I plug it into the statute infobox template, it never formats properly. Could you help me on this? Sorry to be a pain. Thanks, Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 10:46, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It works when I try to use it. Can you link to an example of it not working so I can see what's going wrong? —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 03:33, 30 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if you don't mind me mucking up your talk page: Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 02:04, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're having the same problem in templates as you are in your messages: full urls. Wikipedia's code uses double square brackets to for internal links instead of using the full url. If I want to send you to the article about St. John's, I only have to write [[St. John's]] St. John's, not the full url http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John's. I can also use a pipe to make a link display something different than where it goes, so [[St. John's|like this]] produces like this. This works the same way with non-articles, so I can link to Template:Infobox legislation or User talk:Mr Serjeant Buzfuz without writing the full url. These are all called wikilinks. Files work a bit differently; if you put the file name in double square brakets, it will show the file, so you have to start it with a colon like this [[:File:Canadian Shield.svg]]. In the template you want to use, the documentation says that the template will add the double square brackets and the "File:" prefix automatically, so all you have to give the template is the image's name, including the ".svg" part. When you do that, the image will be far too big, but the template lets you control the size using the parameter called "imagesize", which is set to 70px in the other templates that use the shield. You may want to read Help:Wiki markup for more information about the code that Wikipedia is written in. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 02:48, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I'll try tinkering with it. my problem is that I'm of the generation that a computer is a fancy word processor. with pictures. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 04:09, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

		The Guidance Barnstar
		For your most excellent advice and patience in assisting a techno-peasant, I remain, Your Humble Servant, Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 07:31, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the barnstar! —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 19:39, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template WikiProject Canada

Arctic.gnome, I posted at Template talk:WikiProject Canada last week. Is there anyone in particluar that looks afer it? I'm really, really, reallllly, tired of checking each day the stjohns=yes issue. Thank you kindly... Argolin (talk) 04:06, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Replied. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 02:48, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks progress! Is there a separate or special name for the talk page categories? I think I just answered myself. They are entirely predicated on the placement of a project banner, so they may have a distinct name. Argolin (talk) 04:40, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please reply at Template talk:WikiProject Canada? How long for a stats table for them? Today/Tomorrow/Next Week/Next Month/Next Year? Please give us something. Argolin (talk) 06:00, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tagging Canadian Songs/Albums

You mentioned earlier that you use AWB. Does it really speed up the talk page bannering? I added Skinny Puppy's discography of about 50 articles yesterday. It took an unholy amount of time. There are just too many Songs/Albums for one user to add. I can suggest a category if you would like to test the AWB for me in an album category. From the AWB documentation, it sounds like it would be perfect. Most items will be class=Stub or Start and the Albums project will generally not have an importance rating. Let me know. Thanks Argolin (talk) 14:17, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Talk: Prime Minister of Canada - Ministerial Infoboxes

Hi, Would you like to voice your opinion about this topic? I see you are an experienced editor, so if you want to, please contribute to the discussion. 174.7.90.110 (talk) 22:24, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

ARE YOU UP FOR IT? Talk:Prime Minister of Canada 174.7.90.110 (talk) 03:47, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Arctic.gnome. I just wanted to let you know that a discussion has been started at WP:CANADA about the infobox. I would greatly appriciate if you read my whole response; I know it's long, but I think it's worth reading. Thanks, 174.7.90.110 (talk) 06:01, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]