User talk:Chochopk/Archive 6
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ProposalHello. I saw that you are a member of the Templates project, and thought it would be good to bring this to your attention. I have made a proposal that would take care of the userbos issues and the general clutter of the Template namespace. Please see it here and make comments conserning it. Thank you for your time. SadanYagci 14:54, 1 April 2007 (UTC) Pound sterlingThanks for the explanation of the revert. Hadn't looked at the infobox page properly - although in my defence, I did look at the Bank of England statistics and noticed that the value of issued £50 is greater than the value of £5, which I thought must count for something! GDallimore (Talk) 13:18, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
More categories to reviewDRV, SFD, SFD. (Thank you last time.) - Privacy 18:26, 7 April 2007 (UTC) Template:Currencies of OceaniaI removed Template:Currencies of Oceania from Category:Circulating currencies beacuse of Ingrid’s concern voiced here. She was advocating removing templates from main namespace categories. Template:WorldCurrencies is the only currency template in the category because it contains templates that automatically link in to the category page (i.e. all pages with Temp:Currencies of Africa link to Cat:Circulating currencies). – Zntrip 03:12, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Don’t worry, about it, it was not a waste of time. After all, “Time Is on My Side”. – Zntrip 03:19, 11 April 2007 (UTC) Re "Template and |"Hi again Chochopk,
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No secret, really; it's either by copy-replace in a word processor, by hand, or I've sometimes managed to coax WP:AWB into making these sorts of edits, although not consistently. Hope you're enjoying more non-Wikipedia time! Best wishes, David (talk) 03:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC) Template:PesoClever! One-place change that solves it all! --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 00:38, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
DRV[1] Michael G. Davis 21:32, 15 April 2007 (UTC) Philippine pisoI know you're taking a well earned break but, when you "get back", please take a look at Philippine piso as we're going through a piso/peso debate. We really need to get ISO4217 off the style page. How do we go about doing that? Reflist questionI noticed that you went to all the trouble of changing the <div class="references-small"> style codes to {{Reflist|2}} type of codes. What is the difference? Vala M 02:31, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation and info. Thanks for the compliment about my name! You have a very organized user page and user talk page. I love the blue on the talk page. Vala M 13:12, 19 April 2007 (UTC) Circulating/ObsoleteSome of the templates still shows the old wording Current/Defunct like Template:Rupee, while some others have been updated to Circulating/Obsolete like Template:Dollar. What's the latest standard? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 03:24, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
ISO 4217Thanks for editting the style guide. In my naivity, I though we had to go through some kind of formal process, hence my not having done it earlier. Can I suggest that the ISO 4217 name is added to the infobox template for those cases where it doesn't match the real name?
I've been working on this article, just for fun (I know, I'm supposed to be finishing the denomination templates, but sometimes I need a change of focus). Anyway, next time you're looking for something to do, would you mind looking at it? I'd appreciate any thoughts or advice, especially about formatting, improving the infobox, and adding coins/banknotes tables. I've never dealt with images, and don't want to waste my time putting them on en if they belong on commons or vice versa. I'll look into it and see what I can figure out, but I know you've done a lot, so thought you might be able to save me some time. Ingrid 22:51, 29 April 2007 (UTC) Barnstar and navigation boxesThanks for the barnstar. I have followed the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Navigational templates#Style guideline for footer templates and agree that some consolidation of those templates is in order. I will keep an eye on that page and join in if I have something to add. -- Zyxw 06:13, 30 April 2007 (UTC) UnicodeThanks for catching that. I've corrected it. -Will Beback · † · 20:58, 30 April 2007 (UTC) Central Bank of ChinaTrouble has arisen. Please reply back when you return. Thanks. TingMing 05:28, 3 May 2007 (UTC) Central Bank of ChinaThe Central Bank of China issue needs to be addressed. Since you have seen the previous information given by Alex678, please have a say in the process. Also, you moved the page to Central Bank of China before. Please reply on talk page of the article and give your input. I have reputable authoritiave sources, but those TIers are citing only Pro-green newspapers. TingMing 08:33, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Standardising currency symbols redirectsI've just added an idea to record some standardisations at [2] based on your comments there. Tell me what you think. Thanks -- Chris Wood 19:16, 9 May 2007 (UTC) Views on U.S. CurrencyI just read your post on Blogspot at [3], and let me just say, your views are pretty much the same as me. While in Europe, I (and my friends) realized just how crappy our system of currency is, and since then I've been hoping for some change. Ideally, the currency would have many of the suggestions you made, but still have national individuality, and shouldn't be exactly like the Euro. After all, we're all the way across the pond. BirdValiant 03:30, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
UnicodeHey, I was hoping you could help me. I would like to find the unicode for the Greek Iota, most specifically like Image:Greek uc iota.png (first choice) or Image:Greek lc iota.png (second). It's for my sig. I know most people see the "I" as a line instead of an I, the greek letter should add a nice touch. Anyways, if you could please, thanks. Joe I 07:00, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
ThanksThanks for the congrats. If there's anything you need, just lemme know. :) Joe I 05:41, 15 May 2007 (UTC) Why did you restore Note that some of these currencies may not be dollars - would it not be as accurate to say Note that some of these currencies may not be euros? Similarly any number of variations. The preceding sentence makes it clear that there's a number of currecies to which this applies. Pseudomonas(talk) 18:34, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Hi again Chochopk,
User:Fabartus certainly thinks so (see original thread) and I'd also say it seems sensible.
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Re your second point, I've left each template in its default state on its own page so that default state is apparent when the page is first loaded. I realize this assumes that's what folk are likely to think/assume, i.e. that a template's appearance on its own page may be taken as its defualt state, but if you think otherwise and/or believe a template is best expanded/uncollapsed on its own page regardless of its default state, that's fine by me. Yours, David (talk) 23:12, 15 May 2007 (UTC) rate rate rateCan you rate my Userpage?? Just tell me how u like. I tried really hard on it. Look in all my sandboxes too! Thanx you're a doll! ~FonzieBabyBEATLES RULE!!! go fonz! 18:01, 20 May 2007 (UTC) More template helpHey, would you mind taking a look at Template:WikiProject Indiana? There's a comment on the talk page. I had some else look at it, but I'm not real sure about his answer. I would like it to look like the numismaticnotice, that's fairly simple and I can almost understand it all. :) I think the comments section was messing me up, but I would like to keep it. Thanks if you could. Joe I 18:07, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Currency exchange ratesHi Chochopk. Thanks for your message. Your system sounds sensible to me and I have no objection to it. The reason why I standardized the Scandinavian entries is that the three currencies DKK, SEK and NOK were all established due to a monetary union, so there is a close historical link (1873-1914), even more so since our languages are mutually understandable. A second issue was the traditional "sibling rivalry" between the three Scandinavian nations, so when I saw two of the three currencies listed in one place, it was simply easier to add the third right away, to avoid somebody's feelings getting roughed. It would make sense to me to include links to currencies that have strong historical relations to each other; most notably linking the Czech (CZK) and Slovak (SKK) crowns. Regarding the Scandinavian examples, I also found these links useful since Scandinavians often can't rely on what they learned in school regarding the three currencies. E.g. my textbooks told me that the Danish and Norwegian crowns were close to par, but that 1 SEK was 1.5 DKK. Others have probably learned similar "rules" but the 1990s changed the exchange rates so much that the old guidelines have become useless. Just my thoughts. Valentinian T / C 10:26, 23 May 2007 (UTC) US DollarI see you're back. I was in the midst of adding a table when you edited the article. I couldn't figure out what you had changed, so I overwrote it. I took your advice on archiving the Talk page and did that last night. That was a learning experience. BeeTea 19:36, 23 May 2007 (UTC) Okay -- I see what you did now. Sorry -- the table was my first wikitable and it took me two hours to figure out -- I did not want to lose it. Regarding "Value" and "Historical Exchange Rates" -- I would argue that these do not belong together. The reason is that "Historical Exchange Rates" relate to the value of the USD outside the USA versus other currencies. Therefore, it belongs with information on the USD Index, its reserve currency status, its international use, etc. But the information about the "Value" of the USD shows its value over time inside the USA, as inflation or deflation has taken it up or down. What a dollar will buy you inside the USA is part of the history of the currency back to 1776. What a dollar will get you in francs or yen is all external and has no connection to inflation or deflation but the trade value of currencies to currencies internationally. BeeTea 19:43, 23 May 2007 (UTC) Seattle Meetupsnp, issues are issues. You're a reasonable person in an area I've come to avoid because of the unreasonable people. Somebody probably needs to take initiative to want a meetup 5. Should we start the ball rolling? SchmuckyTheCat 16:11, 27 May 2007 (UTC) currency imagesI've been looking into the image copyright situation a bit, and have come up with some ideas to help our fair use images stay around. I just uploaded Image:East Africa 1 cent (KM22).jpg. You can see the tags and text I used. I noticed you've been getting warnings about missing fair use rationales and thought you might like to copy what I used. It's at User:Mom2jandk/FU obsolete coin. You can subst it with the linked page name as a parameter. I'd make it a template, but it's considered bad form to put a fair use rationale in a template (for reasons I don't understand). It's specific to a coin that is no longer produced or sold by the original country/bank and used in a page about the currency (rather than a page specific to the coin), but shouldn't take much modification to make it more general. As I work with more images, I imagine I'll make more such pages for other cases I come across. I just used it, and haven't checked with anyone that it will stand up to the recent harsher restrictions on fair use, but I think I followed the policy at WP:FUC. Let me know if you find this useful, or have any questions or comments. Also, I've put detailed info into East African shilling for the coins. I plan to add more images as I have time, and do something similar for banknotes once I get my SCWPM which I finally ordered. If you get a minute, I'm always interested in your thoughts, especially since you've put so much effort into standardizing page formats. If you have an example of an obscure obsolete currency layout I'd be happy to modify EAS to match it. Ingrid 20:13, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
East African shillingJust happened to check the page after your change to the first table. Thank you. I had wanted to follow the standard, but wasn't sure how since I didn't have much of the suggested info. Don't worry about changing the other tables -- I'll take care of it (unless you want to, but I know you have a lot of other things you're working on). Ingrid 00:57, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
A couple of comments/questions about your revisions to EAS:
Ingrid 20:13, 5 June 2007 (UTC) SchillingNo problem, I undid my edits and its back to the original way. Black Harry 04:07, 4 June 2007 (UTC) My PageThanks for fixing my page, it does get tiresome fixing the spacing constantly. Black Harry 05:10, 4 June 2007 (UTC) Template IssueHi - I saw your userbox for template editing skills, and I wondered if you could help me sort out a problem with some templates. There are four of them located here: Districts of Tajikistan that have some naming problems. If I want to edit them in an article, clicking the edit button takes me to a blank (uncreated page). Also, when I move the templates to a different category, the articles tagged with the templates don't move. I don't know if I'm being very clear, so if you need a better explanation...well...I'll try. Thanks for reading! Aelfthrytha 04:36, 7 June 2007 (UTC) Your RfAGood luck, it should pass fine. Cheers, Dfrg.msc 08:53, 10 June 2007 (UTC) Scrollref brokenIt was pointed out by one comment that, when using the printable layout, the scroll box stays put. Probably something that needs to be fixed at Scroll box, rather than scrollref, however, as it would be applicable to any use of that template. MrZaiustalk 05:39, 11 June 2007 (UTC) US$/Euro mapI'm surprised to see that nobody has welcomed you! Welcome! It's amazing that you are already making incredible contribution, such as the US$/Euro map. I just have three questions.
By the way, what software do you use to create these maps? I might one day do this myself too. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 11:27, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
If we include loosely pegged, I fear that it may open up a can of worms. That means we also have to include Hong Kong dollar, Kuwaiti dinar, and possibly more. Central banks may have a unpublished policy to loosely peg against the USD or the euro. In addition, some peg to a basket of major currencies, which is even more problematic when making the map. I'm starting to use inkscape and I do enjoying it. One question, how do you change the color of a shape that was previously grouped, without ungrouping the shape first? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 22:10, 19 June 2007 (UTC) Re: this editIf there's a general issue with the use of DEFAULTSORT by AWB I'd suggest you raise it with the developers on the AWB talk page. Thanks Rjwilmsi 17:09, 13 June 2007 (UTC) Your RFAWith your RFA closing in 4 or 5 hours, I would like to congratulate you. It looks like you will becoming an admin. I will get back to you for a formal congrats! Politics rule 19:32, 16 June 2007 (UTC) You're an Admin!It is my pleasure to inform you that you are now an admin. Congratulations. You can feel free to do everything you're supposed to do and nothing you're not supposed to do. If you haven't already, now is the time look through the Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide and Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me, or at the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. -- Cecropia 06:14, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
RfA CongratsCongratulations on becoming an admin! Just out of curiosity, how did you use AWB to send the thank you message? G1ggy Talk/Contribs 23:47, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
Congrats. Here is your first mistake (very minor and not as an admin): Take a look, if you will, at my welcome page. You'll find footnote Congratulations. --wpktsfs 00:32, 18 June 2007 (UTC) It was my pleasure to support your RfA Chochopk. Good luck and happy admin-ing!--VS talk 01:36, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Sorry for the late congratulation. You really deserve the adminship. Timur lenk 20:28, 5 July 2007 (UTC) Ghana CediGood evening - I noticed that you removed some of my updates to the Ghana Cedi page. - First of all - I thought I had logged on as myself (pgcohen), but clearly must have forgotten - mea culpa, etc. Just FYI - we received an official notice from the ISO this past week that Ghana will use the new currency GHP - I actually double checked with the ISO, because I suspected that GHP stood for Ghanian Pesewa. However the ISO confirmed that this currency change is correct. I am somewhat of a Wikipedia novice - although I have made changes before - please let me know how you want me to proceed from here. - Peter Cohen - 8:35 PM, 17 June 2007 (EDT)
Bills of PeruThanks for the Category. All of them are in my collection. --Ernesto Linares 02:44, 18 June 2007 (UTC) display issuesOk, ambition kept me awake. I fiddled around with Tennisman's code and the main difference seems to be that I didn't define an H5 header line, just left it blank. I defined one now (the standard "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia") and colored it like the background. Please let me occasionally know if it displays correctly for you now. Thanks once more. —AldeBaer 02:58, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
QuestionI know you're just now an admin, but did you happen to look at that Rfa and/or the editing history of the account that created it? Lets not support trolling on Wikipedia please.--MONGO 04:51, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
You're welcomeYou're welcome for the support. :) Acalamari 19:30, 18 June 2007 (UTC) The Original Barnstar
TfD requestAs I mentioned in your recent RfA, (congratulations, by the way) I have decided to close This TfD as merge, as you wisely suggested. However, I am terrible at templates (ironic, isn't it?), so I would have no idea how to go about replacing these templates. Would you be so kind as to either implement your own solution, or explain to me how it may be done easily? Thanks again for a great solution to a complicated TfD. RyanGerbil10(Don't ask 'bout Camden) 04:16, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
Request for comment on template proposalI've proposed a new template that I hope will bring the overabundance of cleanup templates under control, but it hasn't attracted much attention. I noticed that you're a member of Category:User template coder-5, and that you do a lot of work with templates, and I wondered if you'd care to comment on the idea (or create it, if you felt the urge, as I've no expertise with implementation. PaladinWhite 01:50, 23 June 2007 (UTC) Template:ATWT historyNo articles use this template. I'm guessing that you thought this this section uses this template. It doesn't. In fact, no articles use the template. What is in the ATWT history section are simple links to the history articles, not the template. So removing the template would have no effect on the ATWT article. Essentially, this template is just taking up space. --WoohookittyWoohoo! 20:46, 25 June 2007 (UTC) That Scrollref template we created apparently has a number of descendants alive and kicking. However, for the accessibility reasons stated in the TfD, it really shouldn't. I don't have the patience anymore to delete each and every use of the template in Main namespace, and, more importantly, if I did that they'd just start popping up again, requiring endless cleanup. It seems advisable to either have the template not render in Main space or to have it post a big red unsubstituted-prod-like warning saying "Don't use me in Main" to prevent the problems recurrence. I'm not all that terribly adept at template coding, however, so I wonder if you wouldn't mind helping out. Got a quick fix? MrZaiustalk 15:41, 27 June 2007 (UTC) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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