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Recent work on List_of_TED_speakers

The recent work on List_of_TED_speakers is being considered for reversion at Wikipedia:External_links/Noticeboard#List_of_TED_speakers (a note of that discussion is at Talk:List_of_TED_speakers#Discussion:_removing_external_links_from_the_list_entries).

I hope you will contribute to the discussion, as you are the editor who did the bulk of the work, and made many of the decisions about formatting, and what to include. — Lentower (talk) 19:23, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Elmer Holmes Bobst Library

could you fix the embedding in this article? 198.102.153.2 (talk) 01:05, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Good morning, Zyxw. Got a question for you: why are you distinguishing between the parameters imported from Infobox sportsperson and those those parameters that are specific to Infobox swimmer [1]? Is there some reason to do this? It was agreed several years ago that Infobox swimmer could be merged with Infobox sportsperson but maintained as a wrapper with its own swimming-specific parameters, but without importing the long list of optional parameters that Infobox sportsperson includes. That's the background, and most swimming editors want to maintain those boundaries and keep a shorter, simpler infobox for swimmer bios. To that end, I would like to understand the purpose(s) of your last change to the template documentation. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:14, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I felt it would be helpful to go through the documentation of all the infoboxes implemented via {{Infobox sportsperson}} to make it clear which parameters were added that did not exist in the main template. Part of what prompted this was that I recently noticed a new infobox created with {{Infobox sportsperson}} which did not have any additional parameters and only defined a value for |sport=. I have revised the documentation at {{Infobox swimmer}} to remove the highlighting and list the descriptions in the order displayed, with a less obtrusive table row header showing the parameters added for swimmers. I hope that will address your concerns. Thanks. -- Zyxw (talk) 16:04, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your explanation, Zyxw. I now understand what you were trying to accomplish. The merge/wrap of this Infobox swimmer into Infobox sportsperson was a compromise coupled with a promise: that Infobox swimmer could maintain its character and sport-specific parameters, without importing the long list of optional parameters that Infobox sportsperson includes. Your latest round of edits appears to be in keeping with that understanding. Hope to bump into you again around the encyclopedia. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 03:41, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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. . . for "Login page on iPad 1" help!! -- Jo3sampl (talk) 02:02, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Paralympic track and field athletes of Canada

I moved the speedy discussion to a full discussion at CSD now. Please comment there if you can. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 08:17, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox college football player

Zyxw, I have reverted your recent edit to Infobox college football player. I didn't do this because I disagreed with your addition of date and place of death parameters; in fact, they are at the top of the list of parameter changes that will probably be made to this template in the near future. The template's design is under active consideration by members of WP:CFB and WP:NFL (see User talk:Dirtlawyer1/sandbox), and we are presently waiting on a mock-up of the revised infobox before we commence !voting on the final changes. If you would like to express your opinion regarding the proposed addition of date and place of death parameters, we would welcome your participation. We would also welcome your critique of the revised template coding when the mock-up becomes available. Thanks for your understanding. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 23:47, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:FIPS

The {{FIPS}} template recently stopped working for me. It used to function as advertised, but now every link takes me to data for Salton City CDP in California. Can you correct this?—Stepheng3 (talk) 06:48, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Now it's working again. I don't know why. Sorry to have bothered you unnecessarily.—Stepheng3 (talk) 04:58, 20 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed deletion of List of Miami City Ballet performers

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hello

hello — Preceding unsigned comment added by Heather Court (talk • contribs) 14:37, 27 April 2015‎ (moved here from top of page)

Hello to you too. Thanks for stopping by. -- Zyxw (talk) 23:11, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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USATF thanks

Thank you for catching up with the links from USATF. There are so many bios with dead links because the succession of USATF webmaster keep moving the content address. I've complained to the webmaster face to face. He understood. He quit a month later, and the replacement to his replacement to his replacement didn't get the memo. So again, thank you for taking care of this overwhelming task. Trackinfo (talk) 21:27, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thanks for the message. It's always nice to hear that someone appreciates the effort. The external links I am updating all start with www.usatf.org/athletes/bios/oldBios/ and so far all but one was converted to a working link by replacing /oldBios/ with /TrackAndFieldArchive/. If you are aware of any other links that need fixing, please let me know. -- Zyxw (talk) 23:11, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are probably hundreds. I just haven't revisited articles looking for them. Trackinfo (talk) 02:13, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:TED speakers

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Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox SMS station

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conditionals on Infobox rugby biography

• Look at Dave Gallaher. The darker blue Rugby union career appears twice, once at the bottom of the infobox. If I populate the referee values, it disappears (but Gallaher doesn't need ref values). I think the logic is more than a little off. • Lingzhi♦(talk) 09:50, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I've noticed that problem in other rugby player articles. I have posted a request at Template talk:Infobox rugby biography#Error: Template displays duplicate "career" headers for coaches who were also players asking that someone take a look this and fix it. -- Zyxw (talk) 13:15, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If you know an admin, this fixes the prob

{{#if:{{{ru_position|}}} | ! colspan=4 style="background-color: #b0c4de; text-align: center" {{!}} if output {{!}}-| {{#if:{{{ru_currentposition|}}} | ! colspan=4 style="background-color: #b0c4de; text-align: center" {{!}} if output {{!}}-| {{#if:{{{ru_coachclubs|}}} | ! colspan=4 style="background-color: #b0c4de; text-align: center" {{!}} if output {{!}}-| {{#if:{{{ru_refereecomps|}}} | ! colspan=4 style="background-color: #b0c4de; text-align: center" {{!}} if output {{!}}-| {{#if:{{{ru_referee|}}} | ! colspan=4 style="background-color: #b0c4de; text-align: center" {{!}} if output {{!}}-| }}}}}}}}}}

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Lingzhi (talk • contribs) 14:18, 18 July 2015‎ (UTC)[reply]

This appears to have been fixed within the past hour, see this diff. -- Zyxw (talk) 15:08, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Module:InfoboxImage's "upright" parameter

Hi, I've seen you remove Module:InfoboxImage's "upright" parameter from infoboxes, because the infoboxes provide no way to change it. Could we instead be adding an |image_upright= parameter to replace |image_size=, as we've already done with lots of other infoboxes, like {{Infobox station}}? By the way, |sizedefault=frameless has also got no effect, as the default is "frameless". Alakzi (talk) 18:07, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing out that |sizedefault=frameless could also be removed, I wasn't thinking about that at the time. I am aware of the changes at {{Infobox station}} but would have preferred that |image_size= not be removed, at least until Module:Location map supports "upright". Right now there is no way with that infobox to make the image and the map display at identical widths for all thumbnail size settings in Preferences. Workarounds such as setting the map to "300px" are only equivalent to the infobox image default of "upright=1.35" for users who have not changed from the default thumbnail size of 220px. -- Zyxw (talk) 04:59, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of TNCC

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Deletion discussion about TNCC

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Thanks for the heads up. When I created TNCC five years ago it was a redirect. It got nominated for deletion about one hour after another user converted it to a disambiguation page with one blue link and one red link. I have commented on this at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TNCC. -- Zyxw (talk) 01:17, 21 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please, with any work you do

…at the Gilsig article, assist us on preventing the continued addition of material without sources. See ALL CAPS messages appearing in the article in edit mode. Le Prof [Leprof_7272] 73.210.154.39 (talk) 17:48, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your work on the Jessalyn Gilsig article. My only edit there occurred over a year ago, when I fixed a non-working external link (no changes to the content or references). I see you posted this same comment on a few user talk pages, so I presume that edit is why I was included. -- Zyxw (talk) 20:08, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes indeed — note was intended to seek your help in moving it toward being a sourced article (in line with your earlier constructive edit), rather than to continue as a dumping ground of unsourced one-liners. I rarely get involved in entertainment articles for this reason, but a family member had pointed out the issues with this article, and so I did my academic usual on it. Cheers. Le Prof. [Leprof_7272] 73.210.154.39 (talk) 09:26, 9 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"U. S." After City, State in basketball infoboxes

Hi - I see you have been adding this to a large number of American basketball player articles. I have been removing them as "U. S." Is not required after city, state and is not the existing consensus for basketball infoboxes. thanks. Rikster2 (talk) 23:51, 5 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the information. I didn't see any mention of this in the documentation or talk page for Template:Infobox basketball biography, so I followed what appears to be a common practice with most infoboxes of including the country in the "birth place" field. I noticed you also reverted one where I added "Canada". Out of curiosity, have there been any discussions about not including the country? If so, I'd like to update the template's documentation with a link. -- Zyxw (talk) 02:21, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:S-religious

Would you please delete Template:S-religious so that User:Tahc/Template:S-religious can be moved to that page when it is ready? tahc ^chat 18:03, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am not able to delete pages because I am not an administrator. Also, I think the existing Template:S-rel is what needs to be moved to Template:S-religious, with the new codes added there either before or after the move. This maintains the edit history for an eight-year-old template and avoids having two active templates for the same function. I've added two comments at Template talk:S-rel, so probably better to continue this there. Thanks. -- Zyxw (talk) 02:23, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

D25 Manitowish Waters WI

Zyxw, Nice work with the page for the 5N2 airport, could you start a page for Manitowish Water, D25? See airnav.com and I can assist once the new page is formed. 99.55.210.74 (talk) 22:42, 13 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note. I haven't forgetten this and am leaving it here as a reminder. -- Zyxw (talk) 21:57, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks + invite

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Two airports at Kabale, Uganda

Hi and thanks for all the editing you've done.
Please visit the Talk page at Kabale Airport. There are two airstrips at Kabale, one east and one west, and I'd like some help deciding whether we need a new page or dump one of the two.
Thanks, Cptmrmcmillan (talk) 16:09, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I added a comment on that talk page on 22 November 2015. -- Zyxw (talk) 21:57, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Templates ProCyclingStats

Hi Zyxw. Can you do one alone template for ProCyclingStats, like we have in French ans in 15 other languages ? It will more easy to an user to add a same template to all Wikipedias. Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick (talk) 13:47, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I did have some thoughts on this at the time and will take another look at it. -- Zyxw (talk) 21:57, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Show errors in preview

thank you for this edit. I have been meaning to integrate this feature into the module, so you could say 'unknown=' and 'unknown_preview=', but just haven't had the time to implement it. if you want to implement such a feature in the module, please feel free to do so. thank you. Frietjes (talk) 15:14, 9 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

now implemented ... thank you again. Frietjes (talk) 17:34, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for adding that. One thought I had was that it would be nice to displayed a single message listing all of the unknown parameters, instead of repeating the message for each one. I looked at the module after your message and I believe it was already storing the parameters, so it seems this might be an easy change. -- Zyxw (talk) 21:57, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]