Template talk:Main Page toolbox

Untitled from 2006

I like this template, but I find the name misleading. How about "Template: Main Page toolbox" instead ? -- PFHLai 14:09, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

• Done. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:28, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Edit request

Change the link to WP:ERRORS to Talk:Main page. ffm ^yes? 13:09, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Why is it protected anyway? It is not actually on the main page. ffm ^yes? 16:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Y Done. You're welcome to request unprotection; I haven't looked into that at this time. – Luna Santin (talk) 22:25, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Revert to previous target please (Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors) (to fix dbl-rdr, now that it's transcluded instead of redirected) Thanks --Quiddity 19:43, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Scratch that (well ignored!) it works fine as is. --Quiddity 19:07, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

"Yesterday" link

{{editprotected}}

Might be worth bypassing the redirect from Main Page alternative (yesterday) to Wikipedia:Main Page alternative (yesterday) on this template, people will no doubt start trying to get these "cross-namespace redirects" deleted soon – Gurch 12:15, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Y Done --ais523 13:27, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

ITN

{{editprotected}} Can an admin change "ITN Candidates" to "In the news suggestions"? --Howard the Duck 15:42, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 04:47, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Sandbox

{{Editprotected}} See my proposed edit here. -- IRP ☎ 02:22, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

 Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:08, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Suggestion

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(Code removed to improve readability. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:03, 17 August 2009 (UTC))

Can a link to the In the news discussion page be added like so? It is often overlooked. --candle•wicke 21:31, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

 Done, hope you like my changes. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:03, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Today's featured list

At time of writing there is unanimous support at Talk:Main Page for Today's featured list to start on 13 June. Assuming that there are no unforeseen hitches between now and the end of the proposal on Saturday, would it be possible to add TFL to this template on Sunday?

Thanks in advance, —WFC— 10:36, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Yes, it will be added when TFL goes live on the Main Page, but not before then. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (talk) 02:51, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Main Page Toolbox
Yesterday June 12	Today June 13, 2011	Tomorrow June 14
TFA	TFA	TFA
SA/OTD	SA/OTD	SA/OTD
POTD Main Page v. POTD regular v.	POTD Main Page v. POTD regular v.	POTD Main Page v. POTD regular v.
	TFL (Mondays only)
In the news: candidates · discussion · admin instructions
Did you know: suggestions · prep area · queue
Protected main page images Protected pages associated with Main Page articles
Error reports · General discussions · FAQ · Help · Sandbox
It is now 08:41 UTC Purge the Main Page Purge this page

Speaking of which, since the TFL will only be shown on Mondays for the time being, I'm going to have to add some complex coding for that row, like this mock up for now. Cheers. Zzyzx11 (talk) 06:20, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Of course, the question then becomes what to display from Wednesday to Saturday: Hide that TRL row completely, or have a generic link to WP:TFL and/or WP:TFLS? Zzyzx11 (talk) 06:28, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

POTD Main Page v. POTD regular v.	POTD Main Page v. POTD regular v.	POTD Main Page v. POTD regular v.
Today's featured list (Mondays only): requests
In the news: candidates · discussion · admin instructions

Currently I have the TFL row below the POTD row. It looks better when the generic WP:TFL link is displayed from Tuesday thru Saturday. Otherwise it will look like this below. And the code will get messy if I try to do two #switch parser functions. Zzyzx11 (talk) 00:33, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

SA/OTD	SA/OTD	SA/OTD
Today's featured list (Mondays only): requests
POTD Main Page v. POTD regular v.	POTD Main Page v. POTD regular v.	POTD Main Page v. POTD regular v.
In the news: candidates · discussion · admin instructions

Multiple POTD versions

The links to POTD, protected and "regular", don't work when there are multiple versions of the same page, such as Template:POTD protected/2018-10-09/1 and Template:POTD protected/2018-10-09/2. Multiple versions have been more frequent lately. The toolbox works if we can remember to add /1 to the title, make the edit, repeat for /2, and repeat for however many other versions may exist – but if we could remember things like that, we wouldn't need the toolbox (personally, I find multiple versions by Googling). I just fixed typos that had gone unfixed for over an hour, and I wonder if anyone else knows how to find multiple versions (further complicated by the "regular version" gotcha; nobody seems to understand that either). Art LaPella (talk) 03:06, 9 October 2018 (UTC) Art LaPella

Apologies for the typos, I should have proofread the prose back again before leaving it to be published. As for the multiple images, there are quite a few FP sets towards the back of the FIFO queue for POTD. It makes sense to feature coins etc. as a set, but perhaps today's would have been better as just one or the other.  — Amakuru (talk) 05:27, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

I must have missed it too - the picture was unfamiliar to me when I fixed it, but it was there to see for a few days. To fix the toolbox, I suppose there would need to be a separate link for each page that can appear, and a way to automatically update them. Art LaPella (talk) 06:01, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Columns not lining up?

File:Main Page toolbox in Firefox.png

What Izno sees in pre-TStyles template

@MSGJ: I would guess you mean the borders here, but Firefox does not display clean borders with the pre-TStyles template. (This happens to be mobile browser in Timeless but desktop is the same; I experienced the same issue in Vector.)

I also see this post TStyles, so I guess whatever trick is being done then is actually enforcing browser expectations rather than browser defaults. :) --Izno (talk) 16:01, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Or not, this appears to be a Timeless pain. wtf timeless. --Izno (talk) 16:06, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Okay, so it was addition of the fixed width plus the margin hacks I think? --Izno (talk) 16:09, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

I don't understand half of what you've written above, but if necessary I can make a screenshot of what I saw on Chrome which was pretty ugly! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:19, 9 December 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw it after switching skins. --Izno (talk) 08:22, 9 December 2020 (UTC)