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[edit] FlagIOC usage
Hi Jonel, welcome back. I noticed in your new pages that you put extra spacing around the NOC name when you use the flagIOCxxx templates. Is that intentional? The effect is to render the IOC code with spacing between it and the parenthesis, plus put an extra space (in addition to the nbsp from the template) between the name and the flag For example:
- {{flagIOCmedalist | Joe Schmo | USA | 1964 Summer}} renders as
Joe Schmo
United States ( USA )- and
- {{flagIOCmedalist|Joe Schmo|USA|1964 Summer}} renders as
- Joe Schmo
United States (USA)
Andrwsc 00:21, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
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- The condensed form is a pain to work with in the edit window, is all. Hadn't realized it had that effect on output; I'll not use the extraneous spaces from here on out. -- Jonel | Speak 03:07, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Canoeing at the 1964 Summer Olympics - Men's C-1 1000 metres
Hi again. Before you create many more pages in 1964 canoeing, might I request that you take a look at what I did for the 2004 pages? (for example: Canoeing at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's C-1 1000 metres). To be honest, I have trouble with your event page format. I find the colors very distracting, especially since they span the whole line and often the whole table. WP:WAI suggests using color sparingly. Also, the tables for multiple heats don't line up together. On the 2004 page, I use a table to get alignment across multiple races, but I don't display the table lines. The result is quite clean, in my opinion (but then again, I could be accused of "not invented here syndrome"). I'm just suggesting you consider that format. Thanks, Andrwsc 00:54, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
- Sure, no problem. I've started to care less and less about format--coming to the realization that what I like in a results display doesn't seem to match very well what most other people like. Also, the style seems to undergo a massive alteration at least every two years... only 625 or so more days to go before the next big crush of new editors with their own tastes. I'll stick to data, that tends to last longer (even accounting for things like this diff). Feel free to make any changes, I'll try to catch on and keep new pages in whatever the most modern style is. -- Jonel | Speak 03:14, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
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- Ok, great! Your point about the "next big crush of new editors" is spot-on. I think that's why I've been on such a mission lately. My biggest peeve is that we have so many styles on the Olympic pages. I'd like to have everything done consistently so that when that crush arrives, we can simply tell those people to "do it like all those other pages". It would be harder for them to introduce something new when there were literally thousands of pages all formatted the same way. Or so I hope.... Andrwsc 05:58, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Larissa Latynina
Can you please rewrite the sentence that you added here. It is difficult to understand that line. Tintin (talk) 03:14, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- I think it's significant and should be mentioned that she won a medal in every Olympic event she competed in over the course of 3 editions of the Olympic Games. I've revised the sentence, hopefully it's easier to understand now. -- Jonel | Speak 03:40, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] They are very encyclopedic
In fact they are not only encyclopedic but fact. If you knew the guy, maybe you would know that they are the truth, nothing but the truth so help you God. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thelaststallion (talk • contribs).
[edit] Opinions
Opinions like Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine is consistently heralded as one of the top Podiatric medical schools in the United States is not a fact or printed anywhere. There is no ranking system of Podiatric Medicial School. Until you find one and site it, that doesn't belong in wikipedia. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Thelaststallion (talk • contribs) 09:14, 19 December 2006 (UTC).
- It's true enough that we need a citation for that, and I certainly won't add it back in. I'm glad you've decided to be constructive with your editing. -- Jonel | Speak 13:11, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Change to Common.css
Per recent discussions, the way in which Persondata is viewed by Wikipedia editors has changed. In order to continue viewing Persondata in Wikipedia articles, please edit your user CSS file to display table.persondata rather than table.metadata. More specific instructions can be found on the Persondata page. --ShakingSpirittalk on behalf of Kaldari 01:18, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Lukoff ISBN
Re: your edit to J. Presper Eckert. The ISBN as printed in the Lukoff book is 89661-002-0. (I have this book.) I can understand adding a leading zero to make it 0-89661-002-0, but what is your reason/source for moving the 1 to the other side of the hyphen to get 0-8966-1002-0? Robert K S 11:57, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- Oops, didn't mean to move the hyphen. I'll fix that. Also, out of curiosity, is the number printed labeled as "ISBN" or "SBN"? -- Jonel | Speak 18:28, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
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- ISBN, and it only appears on the colophon, not on the dust jacket. Robert K S 20:12, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] OlympicYear(Header/Footer)
Hi, Jonel. As creator of the templates {{OlympicYearHeader}} and {{OlympicYearFooter}}, you should know (if you haven't seen my reply to your topic at the WikiProject discussion page) that I developed your code so that both could be applied for the Winter sports also – see the header code and its usage; the same would be applied to the footer code.
However, I believe it's better if those years where a specific sport was not included in the programme simply don't appear, saving unnecessary columns and preventing confusion on table format (e.g. applying empty rowspan-shaded columns on nation tables which can be very long). What do you think? Parutakupiu talk || contribs 05:48, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hey, I saw you did the winter thing, looks great. As for the non-inclusion of noncompeting years, it's something that I think works better in some cases than others. I mean, leading blank columns, such as the template as I made it would provide for Synchronized swimming at the Summer Olympics, are quite pointless and look dumb, but for sports where there are gaps in the middle of the appearance years (such as Bobsleigh at the Winter Olympics) hidden years wouldn't let the reader know at first glance that there was a gap--the year "60" is missing, but that's not immediately obvious, nor is it clear what it means, since "40" and "44" aren't there either. I don't have real strong opinions either way; whatever you folks decide is fine with me. -- Jonel | Speak 12:24, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
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- It all comes down to good sense about which format would fit better. But then we would have the good old "inconsistency" issue revived. Since these header/footer templates are to be used mainly on the top-level "Sport at the Season Olympics" page's tables, I'd vote for leaving out the noncompeting years since the reader can find info on which years that sport was competed. Parutakupiu talk || contribs 00:31, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Finland's flag at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Hey how come the Finnish participants of the Shooting at the 1912 Summer Olympics - Men's 100 metre running deer, single shots have the Russian flag by their name!! Ernst Stavro Blofeld 21:57, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
- The flags are controlled by {{Country flag IOC alias FIN}}, through {{flagIOCathlete}}. User:Andrwsc created that series of templates; I'm guessing there was a reason he created an exception for 1912 in the template that causes Finland's athletes to have Russian flags. You should ask him, though I imagine it has something to do with the political status of Finland at the time. -- Jonel | Speak 22:05, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
yes your probably right about the Winter War and everything wa sabout that time I think. Good work it would be great if you could start articles on the particpants -who have probably done a lot of work in this field I have't really seen your work. I started a few historical Olympians several months back such as Harry Mallin and Leon Moreaux including some shooters and Category:French fencers. Ernst Stavro Blofeld 22:10, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
- I created Category:French fencers ;). Henri Callot, Henri Delaborde (fencer), Georges de la Falaise, Eugène-Henri Gravelotte, Henri Masson, and Jean Maurice Perronet are a few of the French fencers I started articles on. I have also made sure every competitor from the first modern Olympic Games has an article - see Category:Competitors at the 1896 Summer Olympics, quite a lot of those articles were started by me. The problem with creating articles on participants is that there are a *lot* of them, and getting anything more than stubs on each takes a good deal of time. I'm focusing on making sure Wikipedia has results for all Olympic events first - quite a large undertaking in itself. Glad to have support in writing articles about the individuals though, great work. -- Jonel | Speak 22:17, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Yes what I meant is i started many in that category (not actually create it!) e.g Marcel Jacques Boulenger, Henri Masson etc. I noticed 1896 was fully covered and I beleive several months ago I almost completed every competitor for 1900 . I feel it is an honour for every olympic medalist to have an article however stubbed on wikipedia. I am concentrating on films at the moment by country adding Category:Argentine films and actors e.g Roberto Escalada first to the project which was missing. THat category only had 9 films about 6 weeks ago!! Now its nearly at the 200 mark. I'm documenting a cinematic chronology by country e.g List of Argentine films. I'm sure I'll help you somewhat on olympians in the future when I have the time!Ernst Stavro Blofeld 22:25, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pentarid Converter
You didn't take the hint did you? You've just been reported for vandalism. I don't care that you are a different user (or a sock). I B Wright 15:42, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
- You seem to be confused both as to what vandalism is and as to how to write an article here. If you want to indicate that "a Pentode is an unlikely choice of valve to function as a frequency converter", find a source that says so, write a sentence that meshes with the rest of the article (quoting from the source if appropriate) and attribute it to the source. Wikipedia's encyclopedic content does not include editorial comments such as the one you insist on adding despite having been told by numerous people why the comment does not belong in the article. -- Jonel | Speak 15:55, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
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- I'm not confused at all. I was writing technical books, articles and documentation long before you were in nappies (diapers if you're a yank), many of which are still in print. I B Wright 16:08, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Inappropriate comments on article talk page
I have removed your personal comments on one of the contributors to the article 'Pentagrid Converter'. Your personal comments have no place there, and I would suggest that you refrain from making such comments in the future. I refer you to the Wikipedia page on article talk pages Wikipedia:Talk page.
I have sent the same warning to the other offenders. 20.133.0.14 11:02, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
- I'm going to repeat myself. "When discussing the quality of articles is seen as a personal attack, we might as well abolish talk pages altogether because they are there for, you know, exactly that. Referring to other editors as "children" or "wet behind the ears student[s]" is a personal attack, saying that an article's quality is not great is not a personal attack." The article in question has serious stylistic issues; saying so is not a personal attack. It is a comment on the content of the article. Do not remove such comments in the future. -- Jonel | Speak 13:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
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- I don't wish to get drawn into this. I'm merely pointing out the editing rules for Wikipedia article talk pages in the most appropriate way I can. If you do not wish to abide by them, that's your choice, but you do risk having your user ID blocked.
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- The only reason I have seen this is because I haven't yet logged out. I am currently using a pooled IP address that can be used by a very large number of people (I have no user ID of my own). Once I log out, which I am now about to do, I am very unlikely to get this IP address again.
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- Deleting other people's comments, especially when they consist of criticism of the article, is not only not the most appropriate way to do anything, it is highly frowned upon. You have also completely failed to identify any personal attack in my comments; the sentence which you referred to as such was "However, the rest of this article is in similarly shaky shape; the current wording is at least no worse than the rest of the article." One does not have to be all that familiar with Wikipedia:No personal attacks to realize that that isn't one; it is a comment on the content rather than the contributor. -- Jonel | Speak 23:43, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] 6 Round Bracket
I noticed you made a 5 round tournament bracket. Is it possible you can make a 6 round bracket? Kingjeff 01:07, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
- Holy cripes, I somehow managed to completely miss that request of yours (I blame Ralbot, of course!). Terribly sorry about that. The templates I made were modified from somewhere else (can't remember where I got them from, might have been fr: or de:) and I really didn't understand most of what I was doing, but got them to work averagely well. As for a 6 round bracket, I've attempted it before and haven't managed to make something that looks decent on an average size screen. There is, however, a {{64TeamBracket}} template which might work for you. Category:Tournament bracket templates is a great place to look for these (or find someone with more skill than I have). Again, sorry about the delay in responding--hope this helps. -- Jonel | Speak 07:31, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- I've tried the one in that category and it doesn't seem to work. The 64 team bracket only works for so many brackets. Kingjeff 16:41, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- Can you give me an example of what you'd like to use the bracket for? I can't promise anything, but I might be able to work up something that fits what you need. -- Jonel | Speak 21:59, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- Take a look here. After filling in so much, it kept repeated in some lower brackets in the 64 team brackets. Kingjeff 22:03, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- Ah, alright. Think I found the error in the template code. Try it out now - the repeating bracket should be fixed. -- Jonel | Speak 22:22, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- Can yu check the Infobox code and see if it's correct? Kingjeff 22:29, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- Ah, alright. Think I found the error in the template code. Try it out now - the repeating bracket should be fixed. -- Jonel | Speak 22:22, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- Take a look here. After filling in so much, it kept repeated in some lower brackets in the 64 team brackets. Kingjeff 22:03, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- Can you give me an example of what you'd like to use the bracket for? I can't promise anything, but I might be able to work up something that fits what you need. -- Jonel | Speak 21:59, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- I've tried the one in that category and it doesn't seem to work. The 64 team bracket only works for so many brackets. Kingjeff 16:41, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Looks Perfect. Kingjeff 05:18, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
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