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Book-Class & Star Wars project

Their banner uses |QUALITY_SCALE=inline. How do you modify that one to accomodate the book-class? Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 03:33, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Just add |book=yes below the existing |template=yes. --Tothwolf (talk) 05:31, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
What I thought, just wanted to double check that the Moon wasn't gonna explode. Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:59, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Nah, that only happens if the moon is in a certain phase when you add a TF and someone reverts you. Alderaan on the other hand...well... ;) --Tothwolf (talk) 06:28, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Book-Class and Ships project

You knew I was coming didn't you? :) The conversation about book class for wpships is here. No controversy and no hurry but we need the new class coded in. PC78 you are most awesome! --Brad (talk) 10:00, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

I've got it working in the sandbox. PC78 (talk) 14:29, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. It has already been implemented. --Brad (talk) 00:25, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

A new problem has arisen with book class and the template. Please see Template_talk:WikiProject_Ships#Problem. There was already one attempt to fix this but it's being done with an axe instead of your nice paintbrush. --Brad (talk) 01:11, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Moving from standard to "standard +book"

For example Template:WikiProject U.S. Presidents uses |QUALITY_SCALE=standard. What should the /class page be to accomodate the "standard" classes (whatever they are) + the book class? Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 21:28, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Easier to show you by doing [1]; /class subpages aren't always necessary. The "standard" classes are the usual FA/A/GA/B/C/Start/Stub/FL/List plus NA-Class. PC78 (talk) 17:50, 16 December 2009 (UTC)
I want to do the same for Template:WikiProject Animals, but there's something weird going on with the class parameter. Could you take a look at it? Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 22:43, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:49, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
I've reverted myself for now, as it is not clear to me where you have sought support for adding this class to the banner. If I have missed a conversation, feel free to reapply the edit. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 23:00, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Films December 2009 Newsletter

The December 2009 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 01:54, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Importance ratings for non-article classes

If you have a moment, I'd appreciate any thoughts you have about Wikipedia_talk:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Assessment#Importance_ratings_for_non-article_classes. — Carl (CBM · talk) 20:51, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello PC78! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 255 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

  1. Bong Tae-gyu - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs· FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 04:19, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi. Any idea if this actor is notable? Dr. Blofeld White cat 15:26, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Films January 2010 Newsletter

The January 2010 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 04:45, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Where are you??

Just wondering what has happened to you. Are you too busy for Wikipedia these days? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:16, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Film banners using the small parameter

I have started a thread at Template talk:Film regarding a feature of Template:Film/Checks, which you created. If you have an opportunity to read the discussion (link), your comments or clarifications would be most welcome. Thank you, –Black Falcon (talk) 20:12, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Harisu

I have conducted a reassessment of the above article as part of the GA Sweeps process. I have found some concerns with the article which you can see at Talk:Harisu/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. Jezhotwells (talk) 20:45, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Films February 2010 Newsletter

The February 2010 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 04:38, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

WP:ACTOR and non-standard Filmographies (redux)

Hi. I just read the long thread at:

I've stumbled into this issue during the last few days, having worked on maybe 20 filmographies attempting to clean-up poor markup and styling.

I think the time has come to sort the issue of non-standard styling in the name of a wikiproject. The whole initiative originating there reeks of article ownership, wikiprojects as "governing" bodies, and impeding site accessibility in the name of meretricious appearance.

I think the appropriate outcome is filmographies either implemented as bog-standard wikitables, or a suite of templates/css that allow central control of the styling (i.e. to site-wide conventions).

The current point of discussion is at:

I hope to see you there.

Cheers, Jack Merridew 00:06, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Coordinator election discussion

A new discussion has started about the next term coordinator election. Please join in with your thoughts so we can quickly get this moving along. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 01:12, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Biographical template mergers

Please note: Template talk:Infobox person#Mergers, redux. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:31, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Films March 2010 Newsletter

The March 2010 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 03:49, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

During a recent AFD at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A Ghost Story of Joseon Dynasty, I checked the article history and learned that back in June 0f 2009, you set a redirect from Ghosts of Chosun to A Ghost Story of Joseon Dynasty diff. In my research during the AFD, I learned that the longer title was an informal early title, and the shorter title is its offical international release title... and that the shorter title has a far greater searchability for sourcing than does the longer. Might you consider moving the long title back to the shorter? And then setting a new redirect from the long title to the shorter? Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 02:09, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

I went and did the bold thing. If you feel it should not be done, please udo. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 04:06, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Tag&Assess

Hello, I hope you are doing well. I just wanted to point out that you have adopted several range in the Tag&Asses drive that still has articles left to review. Do you think you're going to be able to finish the ranges before the end of the month? We want to make sure that all of our unassessed-class articles are assessed, and if you are facing time constraints or have other projects, I can assist you if you'd like. Since it looks like you're on a break, if you don't reply back in a few days, I'll jump in and finish the rest. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 06:08, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

WP:TAIWAN banners

Hi, I like your suggestion at WP:TAIWAN#Project banners from last year, and think you should go ahead and implement it - you've had a couple of positive responses and no negative ones. 加油! Taiwantaffy (talk) 17:47, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

WP:FILM Silver Reel
This is to acknowledge and thank you for your participation in tagging and assessing 400 articles in WP:FILMS' Tag & Assess Drive 2009-2010. You have helped to ensure our project has a better idea of the articles under our scope. I appreciate your efforts in further helping the project! --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 21:31, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

WP:FILMS April Newsletter

The April 2010 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 22:59, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Hoi Jeon Moo Sool

An article that you have been involved in editing, Hoi Jeon Moo Sool, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hoi Jeon Moo Sool. Thank you.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. jmcw (talk) 13:14, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

WP:FILMS May 2010 Newsletter

The May 2010 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 03:55, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Image cleanup listing

I hope you are doing well. I'm asking all of the coordinators who haven't already taken a look at the spotlight image cleanup listing to consider leaving comments on the images. I'd like to get the ball rolling on either keeping or removing the images from the articles, but we need more than one or two comments to ensure there is consensus. I'm sure we all the know the importance of our project's spotlight articles, and if we don't have proper examples, new editors may make MOS mistakes (say that five times fast!) if they're referring to what should be our project's best articles (which may actually conflict with MOSFILM). I plan on asking the uploaders of the images and the main article contributors to join in as well later this week. If you have any questions at all, please let me know. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 04:06, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, will be commencing a two-month trial at approximately 23:00, 2010 June 15 (UTC).

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under flagged protection. Flagged protection is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial.

When reviewing, edits should be accepted if they are not obvious vandalism or BLP violations, and not clearly problematic in light of the reason given for protection (see Wikipedia:Reviewing process). More detailed documentation and guidelines can be found here.

If you do not want this userright, you may ask any administrator to remove it for you at any time. Courcelles (talk) 23:28, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

WP:FILMS June 2010 Newsletter

The June 2010 issue of the Films WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. If you have an idea for improving the newsletter please leave a message on my talk page. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 05:37, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Rang de Basanti

Hey, according to the audio commentary for Taare Zameen Par, the climax of Rang De Basanti was drastically altered to due reactions from test audiences. I noticed that this fact wasn't in the article, so just letting you know. I can write up a ref citation for it if you want to include it. Ωphois 00:23, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Infobox film

here you tidied up (thanks), but I thought multiple releases dates were OK? --Lexein (talk) 18:50, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

See Template:Infobox film/doc. It's generally supposed to be the film's earliest release. Things like VHS and DVD release dates aren't really the sort of thing we include. Regards. PC78 (talk) 21:27, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

re: Category:Cinema of templates

Hello. Sorry for not getting back to you straight away - busy/needed to formualte a reply! I see your point, however, I think these templates "idiot-proof" the article by automatically adding the country to the categories. You'd be surprised (or maybe not!) to see how many American films, for example, are not in the parent category of Category:American films. They may well be in the sub-cats (American comedy films, etc, etc), but not in the main one (per WP:FILMCAT). Then there are other issues with the infobox; still plenty of articles using the country's flag, the language being piped when it doesn't need to be. I see this template as good as that pesky new film date one. Why use that one too, if it adds the category (which can be done manually) and we can't link to dates either? No doubt, the debates will rage on! Lugnuts (talk) 07:01, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Hmmm, I just think that there is a very dubious value in a series of templates that merely add a bit of text and a category; they aren't particuarly intuitive, and it would be just as easy to type out the text and add the category manually. Perhaps I should dust off some old code that would have the infobox do this by itself? PC78 (talk) 11:20, 23 August 2010 (UTC)


Nomination for deletion of Template:Upcoming film

Template:Upcoming film has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. —Justin (koavf)TCM08:38, 29 August 2010 (UTC)


Template:WPFILMS Films to be released category has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. WOSlinker (talk) 09:02, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Coordinator election

I started a discussion about this month's election that I'd like to get started in the next few days. Please comment there so the nomination period can be initiated quickly. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 04:16, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Greetings!

Wilhelmina Will (talk) 20:34, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

WP:FILM September Election Nomination Period Open

The September 2010 project coordinator election has begun. We will be selecting five coordinators from a pool of candidates to serve for the next year; members are invited to nominate themselves if interested. Please do not vote yet, voting will begin on September 15. This message has been sent as you are registered as an active member of the project. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talkcontrib) 03:49, 3 September 2010 (UTC)


Hi and thanks for helping to sort out the infobox on the above mentioned page, I was just wondering if you know how to or could help me get the signiture that I have uploaded below the infobox into the infobox, i am teaching myself how to use wikipedia but find the info boxes quite restrictive ie you can only add info that the particular infobox lets you, I have seen a signiture in an infobox within an infobox but not sure about doing that,and I think his page should have an aviator infobox so dont want to change that, if you or anyone else could help that would be great Jimmy3d0 (talk) 12:41, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Infobox aviator

Very good job in cleaning it up! :) -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:20, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Infobox film

Hey. It appears that the discussion of how to use the "Based on" field has died out completely. As many issues are still unresolved, I feel that we need to breathe new life into the discussion.–FunkyVoltron talk 10:54, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

I won't have time now, but I'll try and have a look at this tomorrow. To be honest I haven't looked at this discussion for the past two weeks, but my general feelings on the matter haven't changed. Regards. PC78 (talk) 17:20, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

C.W.A. Scott

Thankyou for your help the infobox is so much better now! I agree that the signiture would be better if it were more like 220px or whatever size makes it span the whole infobox, how would you change that ? I tried just adding |220px after the file name like you would on an image insert but nothing happend, do you have to change at source ei on ite wikimedia page? I know there are discrepencies on the page but I am working on them, I know that he did marry a third time as he was my great Uncle and my second cousin has the documents to prove it but I havent mannaged to get to his place to scan everything yet, everything on the page so far is stuff I have researched myself on the internet and in books, for instance I only found all the newspaper articals (on the net) about his second wife last week, after i had found her name in an old photo album at my parents house. the error in saying " he was 42 years old" is that of the auther, Arther Swinson, I'm not sure what I should do about that as I cant change a quote from his book and call it an excerpt but it is equally wrong having false info on the page, maybe I should just add another note saying he misscalculated his age at time of death? Jimmy3d0 (talk) 17:22, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Use of this category

What is the use of the Category:Film articles using image size parameter? Does the image size parameter need to be replaced in the pages included in this category? --Sreejith K (talk) 14:25, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Replied on the category talk page. PC78 (talk) 15:37, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Can you please check the talk page again? Another use has a comment as well. --Sreejith K (talk) 14:42, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Yobot blocked

Can you please leave a comment in User talk:Yobot? Thanks, Magioladitis (talk) 17:04, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Hey,

I've tweaked the display of the title in this infobox so that it works better with {{infobox person}} subclassing. Give me a shout if you've got any questions. Chris Cunningham (user:thumperward: not at work) - talk 11:40, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

"Cinema of" templates

Hello! A discussion about the use of {{Cinema of XXXX}} (like {{Cinema of France}}) in individual film articles has opened here. Your input would be greatly appreciated! BOVINEBOY2008 08:23, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Signature size in infobox ?

Seeing as how you recently assisted with the info box, do you know how I could make the signature smaller at Che Guevara. Thanks, plus please see if you could assist with the other 2 tasks I requested on the article's talk page there. Also seeing that you put the "revolutionary" box up for deletion, I switched to the more generic "person" one.   Redthoreau -- (talk) 06:07, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

I'll reply on the article talk page. PC78 (talk) 11:24, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you, I'll reply there as well :o).   Redthoreau -- (talk) 20:44, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

re: Country parameter in Infobox film

Nice work. So what exceptions are there and how does it work with multiple countries? I think the project needs to setup a film bot to cleanup this and several other infobox parameters and categories in one sweep. Lugnuts (talk) 07:17, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Infobox dancer and Infobox artist

Could you help in changing the code of Template:Infobox dancer so it supports |birth_place= and |death_place= instead of |cityofbirth=, |countryofbirth=, etc.?

Template:Infobox artist needs |birth_place= to be added as alternative of |location=. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:36, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

I've added duplicate parameter names to {{Infobox artist}}, but it might be best to wait a while and see if the changes stick before doing anything else. {{Infobox dancer}} has relatively few transclusions and could do with a complete overhall, so I'll have a look at that later. PC78 (talk) 17:33, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Done {{Infobox dancer}}. PC78 (talk) 23:11, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

PediaPress renderer for Wikipedia Books

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Infobox film

Hey, good thing you bumped that; amazingly enough, I had forgotten about it. I apologize about that, I've been busy. I realize it looks dumb asking people to rejoin a discussion and then not participate yourself. Perhaps I thought my last post in the discussion was enough to disclose my position.

So in order to not reiterate what I've already said: I propose we add the "Based on" field using the Template:Basedon as it currently looks (meaning infoboxes would appear as they do in examples 8 and 9). This currently has the most support.–FunkyVoltron talk 17:23, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

I'll add a post to the discussion about "problematic cases".–FunkyVoltron talk 17:27, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Categories for discussion nomination of Category:Rain albums

Category:Rain albums, which you created, has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. — ξxplicit 07:23, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Catmore

Thank you for the suggestion. See Template talk:Catmore#Rename this template. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 21:34, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Infobox television personality

Can you please modify {{Infobox television personality}} to use the {{Infobox}} coding? -- Magioladitis (talk) 08:56, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

TfD'd it instead. I can always convert it later if it's kept. PC78 (talk) 17:39, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Please see here Thanks. —Justin (koavf)TCM22:26, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Your opinion is requested

You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:WPBiography#Redirect-Class. Funandtrvl (talk) 23:24, 30 September 2010 (UTC) (Using {{Please see}})

See Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_72#Help_with_javascript-based_noticeTheDJ (talkcontribs) 10:47, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Film cleanup

Hi PC78 - I've added a section on the co-ordinators page here. Input welcome. Lugnuts (talk) 08:22, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Regarding the {{italic title}} template in the film infobox, why is it not working for most film articles that have disambiguation terms? (It works for articles without disambiguation terms.) I thought that it was not working for all articles, but then I saw very occasional examples like Revolver (film) and Adulthood (film) that had their titles italicized. I had thought that it was a matter of server processing or similar like that, but it seems like by now all of these articles' titles should be italicized. Is it still just taking time or what? Erik (talk | contribs) 18:31, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

There are two deleted revisions.


Yours. :D

Any-ways, we'll see how semi-protection fares here. Courcelles 15:33, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Infobox Luxembourg commune

I performed the initial steps by converting the backend of the template, and adding the min/max elevation ranks to the parent template. It appears as though the next step is to substitute it, but I personally would not be opposed to leaving it as a wrapper for {{Infobox commune}}, but substitution would work as well. It calls some other templates for the elevation, population, mayor, and area data, which allows for these data to be updated in a central location. Let me know if you have any comments. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 05:00, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Hello. Hope you're having a nice day. I seem to have come across something I find rather odd and thought you might know the answer. After the rearrangement of the Claudine pages, I was attempting to fix all the links incoming to the dab page. However, I can't for the life of me figure out this. All the links from Claudine (album) redirect to Claudine (disambiguation) however I believe all if not almost all of these items are Curtis Mayfield album pages that should point directly to Claudine (soundtrack). Despite the fact that this appears to be a simple fix, I can't for the life of me figure out where the links are on any of the Curtis Mayfield pages. I think perhaps it might be an error in the albums template, see here but I can't see anything amiss. I thought perhaps you might have some idea what's going on. Thanks, -France3470 (talk) 12:19, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

The links will either be coming from the nav template or the infobox. I see the nav template has already been updated, but it may take a while for the "Pages that link to.." page to update. PC78 (talk) 12:40, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
Okay. Yes, I think I did see the correction to the nav template. But isn't four days kind of a long time? -France3470 (talk) 12:43, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
It can sometimes take weeks, but it should be fine now. I fixed another half dozen links as well. PC78 (talk) 00:07, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Great, thanks! -France3470 (talk) 09:24, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

country

you wrote: "Country" simply means "country", i.e. where the film is from. PC78

Are you aware that this is not how the Country field is supposed to be used according to the current guidelines? On one level, I agree with your view, but there are two serious problems with this apparently simple assertion in the context of our discussion: 1. the guidelines say that Country does NOT refer to where a film is from; they say that Country means this: where the main production company is located. 2. it actually is not simple to determine where a film is from in many many cases. I consider 2 the lesser problem, but it does make your view a little bit problematic for me to be on board about. Thanks. --Ring Cinema (talk) 03:22, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

I recommend not having any further exchange with Ring Cinema. He has been disrespectful to us, and it is not conducive to the discussion to respond to him. Erik (talk | contribs) 01:52, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Re-think

Hi there, Please re-think your vote on Talk:Jessica (entertainer). Thank you. 222.124.8.13 (talk) 23:07, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Timeline of thermodynamics template

I just reverted your move of the link to timeline of thermodynamics in the Herman von Helmholtz article but have now noticed that you have done a whole batch of these. I think this is a bit of a mistake, hatnotes are meant for guidance of readers who might not be at the right article or exactly the right article. This link is not any kind of disambiguation and it is unlikely that a reader typing "Herman von Helmholtz" or following that link was really looking for "timeline of thermodynamics". They may, however, be interested and the link makes a suitable "See also" or else can be incorporated in the body of an article. Do you have some other reasoning for making this change? SpinningSpark 08:37, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

It was done off the back of the TfD discussion, with some follow up here, where there was some enthusiasm for "de-uglifying" the templates and relocating them. They are essentially just glorified "see also" links, so the hatnote styling is not inappropriate; dablinks may be hatnotes, but hatnotes need not necessarily be dablinks. PC78 (talk) 11:44, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Agreed hatnotes are not necessarily dab links but that does not amount to a justification for making this template a hatnote. I also agree that in essence it is a "see also" link, but these links have never been article hatnotes. "See also" by convention and MoS has its own section. The "see also" template says in its documentation it is intended to be inserted at the head of article sections. Basically, my objection is that putting them at the head of the article is an unecessary distraction for the reader prior to getting on with the article they actually want to read. Placing them at the head of an appropriate section serves a similar purpose to {{main}} but otherwise the link should be at the foot of the article as normal. You provided the wrong link by the way, but having found the right debate, it does not exactly support your practice of placing the template at the head of articles. SpinningSpark 12:33, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
In some case, the template already was placed at the top of the article. It's a pity there was only limited participation in the TfD, but there was a clear concensus between those participating for some kind of change, and my suggestion of a hatnote was supported by Dhollm. Perhaps as you say the hatnote works best for sections, otherwise a link should be placed in a "see also" section at the foot of the article. PC78 (talk) 13:53, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Infobox musical artist

Maybe you could help in Template_talk:Infobox_musical_artist#Tracking_category_for_invalid_or_missing_Background_field? -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:46, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

City-region

FYI, I just found {{City}}, which used to redirect to the City-region template, but has been revived. Plastikspork (talk) 08:12, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Cheers. Just Tfd'd this one as well. PC78 (talk) 13:59, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Kennewick

I thought it odd that you used Kennewick and excuse me for asking this but do you live in the Tri-cities? I grew up there myself in Pasco. --Kumioko (talk) 02:41, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Heh, no, I just used the example from the documentation. :D PC78 (talk) 09:20, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

The Presidents of the United States of America template

Hey, thanks for moving the template. It somehow got moved to the "controversial moves" section (Anthony Appleyard's doing, I believe). Could I ask you one more favor? At the same time I listed The Presidents' template in the uncontroversial section, I listed a move request for Template:TheOffspring to Template:The Offspring because the band name is two words not CamelCase. For some reason, this was outright denied by the arbiter (Anthony Appleyard again, I believe). Cheers! Wikkitywack (talk) 09:56, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

I can't move it myself because the other page title has an existing page history, but I have put it back in the uncontroversial section. It's hard to gauge Anthony's intentions from his edit summary, but if he contests the move he should at least move it to the controversial section, as he did with the other template (which, incidentally, I didn't know he had done, though in either case it's not at all obvious what the supposed controversy is). PC78 (talk) 10:12, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Cool, thanks! Wikkitywack (talk) 10:23, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Spin Kick

I deleted 'Spin Kick' because, once all the copyvio was gone, it wasn't an article. It was just raw unformatted information.

CSD exist as a guide, but it's not compulsory that they be followed. I don't usually bother with remembering the numerical codes because I know what they all mean.

Okay? DS (talk) 15:11, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

People infobox templates

I'm planning on going through the infoboxes as Category:People infobox templates and converting those that don't already to use {{Infobox}}, so if you spot any others in there that you think are worth merging then sooner rather than later would be good. {{Infobox sports announcer}} may be worth nominating as it's not used on very many articles. I think I'll be looking at {{Infobox comedian}} and {{Infobox writer}}. first. -- WOSlinker (talk) 19:53, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

{{Infobox writer}} looks like a good merge candidate, but I'd be surprised if it went without a fight, if at all. Maybe {{Infobox comedian}}, but that may need a bit more thought. {{Infobox Playboy Cyber Girl}} and {{Infobox Playboy Playmate}} are perhaps worth merging into {{Infobox model}}, but it may be best to see how the merge discussion for {{Infobox pageant titleholder}} pans out first. {{Infobox pirate}} seems to be based on {{Infobox military person}}, so perhaps there is basis for a merge there. PC78 (talk) 20:55, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
I just noticed that you merged a couple infoboxes for military folks. Do you have code that does that or are you doing that manually? --Kumioko (talk) 20:57, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Manually. I'm working from a list, hence AWB. PC78 (talk) 20:58, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
How big is the list may I ask. I might be able to craft some regex code to do that but it will likely require some tweaking as we go. --Kumioko (talk) 01:32, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Not very big at all. I only found twenty-something intersections of {{infobox person}} and {{infobox military person}}, and I'm already about halfway through. PC78 (talk) 06:36, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
Oh ok thanks. --Kumioko (talk) 12:32, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Check User:Magioladitis/Infoboxes for the current status of infoboxes. You can always help updating. -- Magioladitis (talk) 02:16, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Basketball player infoboxes

-- Magioladitis (talk) 02:18, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

I would say so. Again, they look very similar. PC78 (talk) 10:48, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
We also have {{Infobox NBAretired}}. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:55, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
Merge the lot, I say. :) PC78 (talk) 10:50, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi PC78. While I don't have any problem with the method you used at the power station infobox, could you explain why is it a bad idea to increase the rows in the main Infobox Template, at least to 100 rows? Please explain here. This is just for my knowledge, no offence or disagreement. Kind regards. Rehman(+) 11:08, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Just saw your message there. Thanks, I understand now. Maybe a round figure 100 will be preferred one day though ;) Kind regards. Rehman(+) 11:11, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Bombay High

Well, um, Bombay High was a film launched in 2007 produced by UTV with Tabu playing the lead role. The film later was shelved and they started Season's Greetings with the same actress. So technically, it could have been either deleted or redirected. Universal Hero (talk) 12:37, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

Fair enough. PC78 (talk) 20:58, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject U.S. Roads

Template_talk:U.S._Roads_WikiProject#Renaming_to_WikiProject_U.S._Roads. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:37, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

{{Expand}} templates RfC

Since you have recently commented on the type/color of one or more "expand" templates, could you express your opinion in the centralized RfC on this issue? The discussion is currently fragmented between various template and TfD pages, which makes a consensus on this issue difficult to form. Thank you, Tijfo098 (talk) 08:44, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

Would you mind writing some documentation for this template when you have a chance? I am not familiar with the way {{italic title}} works. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:29, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

A man of your calibre? Surely not? :D RL has been keeping me busy this past week, but I'll see if I can get to it later today. There were some changes that I wanted to make anyway. PC78 (talk) 14:49, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
Poke. If you want to make changes can you be quick because I'm going to have to fully protect it soon given how highly used it now is. I still think we should merge it with Template:Italic title though. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:37, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

Priority fixes

Can you please comment in Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Yobot 17? You are the one who asked for it in Template_talk:WPBiography/Archive_5#Category:Biography_articles_needing_priority_parameter_replacement. :) Thanks. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:29, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Template:Usagi Yojimbo Characters

All of the contents of the template have been redirected to the character sheet. I think the navbox is even more useless now. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 02:22, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Imdb is now orphan

FYI, Imdb is now orphan in mainspace, thanks to Magioladitis. -- WOSlinker (talk) 23:34, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Bond film/sandbox, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Template:Infobox Bond film/sandbox and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Template:Infobox Bond film/sandbox during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Kumioko (talk) 04:46, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Soap characters

See Wikipedia:TFD#Characters templates 3. 134.253.26.6 (talk) 21:40, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

AnyBand (single)

With reference to your recent move of the article named above. Please note WP does not disambiguate articles by the word (single), as its unreferenced with no claim of notability I have prodd'd the article, rather than request a move back to (song). Cheers.--Richhoncho (talk) 17:14, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

There is no reason why "(single)" cannot be used as a disambiguator, especially when it is the only appropriate option. I have no further interest in the article though, so I have no intention to dispute the prod. PC78 (talk) 22:15, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

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Ding dong

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film seems to be building up requests with no replies. Please be so kind as to provided comments to those requests. Thanks. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 10:41, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Merry, merry

Bzuk (talk) 01:50, 25 December 2010 (UTC)