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Contents 1 Open requests 1.1 Barry Manilow Template 1.2 Google search 1.3 His Dark Materials 1.4 Infobox Speed Skater 1.5 Devil May Cry Task Force 1.6 Verify spelling tag template 1.7 runescape template 1.8 Proposed template for serious copyright violators 1.9 LocateMe (for articles lacking coordinates)

[edit] Open requests

[edit] Barry Manilow Template

A template for Barry Manilow is needed similar to the one for Paul McCartney

v • d • e Paul McCartney

Discography Studio albums: McCartney • Ram • McCartney II • Tug of War • Pipes of Peace • Press to Play • Снова в СССР • Flowers in the Dirt • Off the Ground • Flaming Pie • Run Devil Run • Driving Rain • Chaos and Creation in the Backyard With Wings: Wild Life • Red Rose Speedway • Band on the Run • Venus and Mars • Wings at the Speed of Sound • London Town • Back to the Egg • Band on the Run: 25th Anniversary Edition Live albums: Wings Over America • Tripping the Live Fantastic • Tripping the Live Fantastic: Highlights! • Unplugged (The Official Bootleg) • Paul Is Live • Back in the U.S. • Back in the World DVD albums: Live at the Cavern Club • Back in the U.S. • Live in Red Square • The Space Within US Compilations: Wings Greatest • All the Best! • Wingspan: Hits and History Soundtracks: The Family Way • Give My Regards to Broad Street Experimental albums: Thrillington • Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest • Rushes • Liverpool Sound Collage • Twin Freaks Classical albums: Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio • Paul McCartney's Standing Stone • Paul McCartney's Working Classical • Ecce Cor Meum Related articles Discography • The Beatles • The Fireman • Linda McCartney • Heather Mills • MPL Communications • Paul is dead • Wings tours

that shows studio albums, soundtracks, compilations or greatest hits albums, other related albums, singles.67.98.154.56 19:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, I'm not a fan, but this is a repeat request so I created Template:Barry Manilow. —dgies^t_c 20:02, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Dgies, thank you for making the template! It is just what the article needs. Great job on it! 67.98.154.56 12:43, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Google search

I have not been able to find a Google search template; specifically, I'd like a template that I could use as a shortcut to a Google search. For example, I'd type {{Google|Teawood Fighters}} and it would produce a Google search for Teawood Fighters. If one like this already exists, please forgive my shortsightedness. V-Man - ^T/_C 04:14, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

What exactly would you need this for? Mr.Z-mantalk¢Review! 04:25, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Also, the problem is with spaces. Google searches replace a space with a +, but a space in an external link ends the URL. For example [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow Fever Yellow fever on Wikipedia] returns Fever Yellow fever on Wikipedia, not what you would want, Yellow fever on Wikipedia. Mr.Z-mantalk¢Review! 20:29, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

This would be used in the Reference desks, and possibly on article talk pages, to help generate sources from the internet more quickly. I have to shrug at the "space" problem; is there a way that you could get the template to just translate a space as a "+" as a text bit for the URL? V-Man - ^T/_C 01:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

What about something like: [http://www.google.com/search?q={{{1}}}{{#if:{{{2}}}|+{{{2}}}}}{{#if:{{{3}}}|+{{{3}}}}}{{#if:{{{4}}}|+{{{4}}}}}{{#if:{{{5}}}|+{{{5}}}}}&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Google search of {{{1}}}{{#if:{{{2}}}| {{{2}}}}}{{#if:{{{3}}}| {{{3}}}}}{{#if:{{{4}}}| {{{4}}}}}{{#if:{{{5}}}| {{{5}}}}} ? It isn't a great solution, but without StringFunctions, we can't do anything really fancy. Nihiltres 20:24, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

The space thing can be dealt with using the built-in {{urlencode:}} parser hook. That is, something like this:

[http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF8&q={{urlencode:{{{1}}}}} {{{2|a Google search for ''{{{1}}}''}}}]

If this template is made, it should probably have documentation that discourages its use in articles themselves. Mike Dillon 20:52, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

FYI, this template already exists as {{Google}}. Mike Dillon 20:58, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Yay!!!!!1eleven11 I couldn't find that for the life of me, thanks for showing me the way. V-Man - ^T/_C 04:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] His Dark Materials

Can you make a te,plate for His Dark Materials Characters, ie: Name: Age: Dæmon: First Appearance: Eye Color: Hair Color: Affiliation: 89.243.35.49 18:24, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Were there that many characters in the series? Also, perhaps there's a general book character template that would suit your needs in the template namespace? (I don't know, but it's possible there's one. Try a template namespace search.) Cheers, --unforgettableid | how's my driving? 06:51, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox Speed Skater

I'm requesting an infobox template for Speed Skaters, if there isn't one already made that is suitable. It would need the basics of Template:Infobox Athlete, but with sections being "hidden" if no data is entered: image (with the option of adding a caption beneath), name, nickname, age, height, weight, country, personal best (time), World Cup wins, World Championships won, website, and perhaps making it the same width as Template:MedalTableTop because most speed skaters' articles use that template to display what medals the person has won. Although, if there was a way to better represent/include their medals/times in the info box, that would be great too... Examples of articles that will need/use this are: Apolo Anton Ohno, Joey Cheek, Chad Hedrick... oncamera^(t) 01:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, made Template:Infobox Speed Skater and added it to Apolo Anton Ohno. How does it seem? If you like it, I will trust you to add it to the other articles as needed. —dgies^t_c 05:59, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, it looks awesome. Thank you for your hard work. Cheers, oncamera^(t) 15:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Devil May Cry Task Force

Here requesting an userbox template for Devil May Cry Task Force, I already made the content of the template my self but I am kind of new to creating templates and I need help, for the proto template please see the bottom of my user page, thanks in advance for your help.-DDF 01:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

:Actually I'll leave them here to save people the work of looking for them. -DDF

It has been done. -DDF

[edit] Verify spelling tag template

I think a tag template along the lines of the "vague" template could be very helpful for prompting editors to recheck the spelling of, in particular, obscure proper nouns. For an example of it use as I envision it, see Wrocław#Feudal era. I've given this a try at Template:Verify spelling, so please delete if it is judged useless. Thanks and best regards, Jim_Lockhart 12:57, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] runescape template

Alot of us play runescape so i would like it if there was a template for runescape with maybe a link to www.runescape.com in it thanks Kinglou135 21:03, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

ok but can you be more descriptive as in what do you want in the template or where do you intend to put it or do you just want a userbox like this

(Can't find a good looking picture for it, if you got a better one, I'll swap the image.) Af648 21:58, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I have replaced the logo you just picked. Images licensed as fair use cannot be for purely decorative purposes, such as in userboxes as it is a copyright violation. Your userbox seems fine otherwise, do you need help with anything else? —dgies^t_c 23:15, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Let it be, damn copyright. Af648 23:41, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Maybe.. a link to the Runescape article in there? :) --Quasar 02:32, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

I'll fix Af648 09:14, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

This template is at {{User:Quasar Jarosz/Userboxes/Runescape}} Af648 23:31, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed template for serious copyright violators

I'm of the mind that we need a template for users who are suspected of massive copyright violations (like Primetime). It would be a red flag to people who come to their talk pages. Blueboy96 01:11, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Is {{uw-copyright}} not bold enough for you? Persistent violators may be blocked anyway so it seems unnecessarily combative to post a notice like "this user is suspected of violating copyright a lot". —dgies^t_c 04:05, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

I had in mind something that could be posted on the front of their userspace, to be used along the same lines as Template:sockpuppeteer. Blueboy96 13:28, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

For a single user, you should just use talk page warnings until they get blocked, at which point there's no need for further tagging. For a puppeteer, there are the {{puppeteer}}, {{sock}} and {{blockedsock}} templates which can be used to tie them all together, including a WP:SSP or WP:LTA case which describes their modus operandi. —dgies^t_c 17:25, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] LocateMe (for articles lacking coordinates)

I started {{LocateMe}}, for putting on talk pages of articles about specific locations, which don't have coordinates, but it needs some additional work, please - a date field (like in "cleanup") and I can't figure out how to get it to put the article, rather than the article's talk page, on which it sits, into the category. Thank you. Andy Mabbett 19:12, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

I added the optional date parameter. Just write it as {{LocateMe|March 2007}} and it will add it. I wasn't sure if you wanted to categorize it by date like with cleanup (Articles needing coordinates from March 2007, etc.) or just have the date as a reference. Also, if you are putting the template on talk pages, I don't think there is a way to put the actual article into the category, as it will add the cat to the page it is transcluded on. I also expanded the wording a little (it looked a little empty), added a link to edit the base page, and put in a different icon. Mr.Z-mantalk¢Review! 21:22, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. We've had our first success, Great Barr School - I was trying to figure out why it had disappeared from the category page! I think we will need to add the date to the category - I expect there are a lot of untagged pages about places, and I intend to ask for bot help in finding them. Could you do the necessary, please? Andy Mabbett 21:38, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Come to think of it, does the template belong on talk pages, or on the articles themselves? Andy Mabbett 21:46, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure if its major enough for the article itself. You could ask around at the Wikiproject, the Help Desk, or maybe the Village Pump though. Also, you dated some without the sapce between the month and year. I fixed them, but the category is still there. Just tag it with {{db-author}} and it will get deleted. Mr.Z-mantalk¢Review! 21:57, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

All noted; thanks again. Andy Mabbett 23:23, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Update: there seems to be consensus for putting on the article proper; and that seems to have good results, with a high proportion of articles being updated accordingly. Thank you again. Andy Mabbett 18:23, 1 April 2007 (UTC)