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== More templates == == More templates ==
:{{tl|ANZC nav}} is used at ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ].--] <small>(]/]/]/]/]) </small> 02:31, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
:: there were so few that I simply updated them by hand. ] (]) 17:23, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
:::O.K.--] <small>(]/]/]/]/]) </small> 03:20, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
:{{tl|Volleyball national squad}} and {{tl|Volleyball national squad no numbers}} are used at ] and ].--] <small>(]/]/]/]/]) </small> 02:08, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
:: currently no <nowiki>{{{state}}}</nowiki> in either of those template, so passing a value through {{para|state}} would do nothing. ] (]) 14:59, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
:::The only topic template at ] that I was unable to convert was {{tl|Americas topic}} in ].--] <small>(]/]/]/]/]) </small> 02:13, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
:::: should work now. ] (]) 15:06, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
:At ], ], ], ] all say unable to determine where to put the state parameter.--] <small>(]/]/]/]/]) </small> 03:03, 9 July 2013 (UTC) :At ], ], ], ] all say unable to determine where to put the state parameter.--] <small>(]/]/]/]/]) </small> 03:03, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
:: if you look at the template, you will see there is no / button, so these templates do not collapse or uncollapse. hence, adding instructions about collapsing something that does not collapse is not a good idea. if there is no or button, we don't add {{tld|collapsible option}} or {{para|state}}. ] (]) 15:08, 9 July 2013 (UTC) :: if you look at the template, you will see there is no / button, so these templates do not collapse or uncollapse. hence, adding instructions about collapsing something that does not collapse is not a good idea. if there is no or button, we don't add {{tld|collapsible option}} or {{para|state}}. ] (]) 15:08, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
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: <span style="display:none">],</span> see ]. the number of fields is about double what was previously possible. it is still possible if without lua, but we would need to use more child boxes. ] (]) 16:19, 11 June 2013 (UTC) : <span style="display:none">],</span> see ]. the number of fields is about double what was previously possible. it is still possible if without lua, but we would need to use more child boxes. ] (]) 16:19, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
:: will make an edit request. ] (]) 15:42, 12 June 2013 (UTC) :: will make an edit request. ] (]) 15:42, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

== Self-titled album 2003 ==

] released a self-titled album in 2003. <br>
] has a ] and is a notable member of ]. <br>
] released '']'' in 2004. --] (]) 19:00, 6 June 2013 (UTC) <br>
] is a former member of ]. --] (]) 03:35, 7 June 2013 (UTC) <br>
] is a former member of ]. <br>
] covered "]" by ]{{cn|date=June 2013}}<br>
--] (]) 18:02, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
:This starts to look at dodging a topic ban... <span style="border:1px solid green; padding:0 2px">]&nbsp;]</span> 23:11, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
:: and . ] (]) 23:16, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
<br>
], ] and ] were members of ]. <br>
], formerly of ] created ], '']'' and '']''. <br>
"]" is a song from '']'' by ]. <br>
] will likely release ] in July 2013. <br>
] was a member of ]. <br>
] recently released '']'' <br>
]' top single was "]" <br>
]'s first single was titled "]" <br>
"]" was ]'s most recent U.S. Hot 100 Pop hit. <br>
] recorded "]" in 1984 and ] in 2007. <br>
'']'' is the latest album by ] <br>
--] (]) 03:19, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

== ] needs conversion to wikitable ==

] has an ugly table. Can you please help? -- ] (]) 16:57, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
: fixed. ] (]) 17:13, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

== AN/I ==

FYI: <span style="border:1px solid green; padding:0 2px">]&nbsp;]</span> 17:03, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

== Infobox to infobox ... ==

] uses Infobox directly. Can you please replace it with the correct infobox? -- ] (]) 23:18, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
: partially done. there were a few fields that weren't in the infobox, so I used a child box for those. ] (]) 15:26, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

Same for ]. -- ] (]) 16:44, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
: done. ] (]) 16:52, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

== Template:Infobox motorsport venue ==

Hi Frietjes. I was wondering if you might be able to have a look at the bug documented at ]. Thanks. ] (]) 12:19, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
:Thanks for that. I hope to find time to look at your changes in detail within the next couple of days. ] (]) 15:35, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
:: sure. I also added optional lowercase parameters, since that seems to be the trend for infoboxes. ] (]) 15:41, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

== Show template para or not ==

Three more questions for {{tl|infobox Bach composition}}: how can a title - normally italic - be not italic? how can a parameter be not shown (example: BWV)? how can a parameter be normally not shown, but shown on demand (example cantata_cycle)? --] (]) 20:46, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
: reply to ]
# two options here, one is to make {{para|name}} show the title without italics and {{para|title}} show the title with italics, or two is to have a {{para|noitalics}} option which would remove the italics. which do you prefer?
# makes bwv fully optional.
# the way that infobox works, if a parameter is passed as <nowiki>{{{cantata_cycle|}}}</nowiki> to a data field, the field and label will only appear if {{para|cantata_cycle}} is specified and not blank.
: which ever you prefer for option 1, I can make it happen (seems like {{para|name}} is undocumented, and probably not widely used). ] (]) 20:53, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

::Thanks for your immediate response! I was not clear enough, again ;) - The BWV number that should not show is the one below the pic, - there was a concern (talk ]), that this rather technical number appears too often. - Title: I would prefer the "noitalic" version, the other seems to be a bit tricky to explain in the documentation. - Can a specified cantata_cycle not be shown, but be present as metadata (because there's this concern that the box is too long already)? --] (]) 21:04, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
::: <span style="display:none">],</span> I simply commented out the second one since it is redundant and added {{para|noitalic}}. as far as having metadata that doesn't visibly appear in the infobox, it is possible, but would be more challenging to make it work with {{tl|infobox}}. basically, you can wrap anything inside of a {{tag|span}} with style="display:none" and it won't be visible (see the start of this comment). however, you need a place to hang it, which means there will typically be a blank line, or a blank cell in the table, which doesn't really help the situation. if this is seriously needed, I can certainly work on it, but I am sure the meta-data folks would not be happy, since there is a belief that hidden metadata won't be regularly updated, since it isn't visible, and is prone to errors. ] (]) 21:14, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
::::Thank you, helped again! Cantata_cycle is not urgent enough ;) - Now how do I code a title with the noitalic option, as in ]? --] (]) 21:27, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
::::: <span style="display:none">],</span> just type {{para|noitalic|y}} or {{para|noitalic|true}} or any non-blank value for that parameter. ] (]) 21:41, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

== Lowercase parameters ==

] needs to support {{para|image}} and {{para|caption}} like all other infoboxes. -- ] (]) 16:58, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
: fixed, although neither of the two transclusions have images. ] (]) 17:15, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
::Do you know how we could find all infoboxes that use {{para|Image}} and {{para|Caption}} and change them? -- ] (]) 17:22, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
::: if they are using {{tl|infobox}}, it might be possible to find them there, using the 'parent' parameters in the lua module. I'm not sure if you can get the parent's parent's parameters, but it seems like it may be possible with lua. the more robust alternative to get ones that aren't using infobox would be to search a database dump, but I have never done this before either. ] (]) 17:26, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

] uses non-standard names. -- ] (]) 17:32, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
: updated. ] (]) 18:32, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

== ] ==

Hi there FRIEJTES, AL "here",

please leave the external links section as previously. I'm trying to keep coherence in the 1,000s of articles related to Spanish football, and this is the display i've been using.

Sorry for any inconvenience, keep up the good work, from Portugal --] (]) 18:26, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

*I think my message/approach was polite, you feel differently OK. --] (]) 19:00, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
** the NFT website was changed, so the NFT player template must be updated, and this is the format used by all of the ]. ] (]) 19:01, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

*I see what you mean. NFT.com is a template OK, but the other two are manually inserted. --] (]) 19:02, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
** and per ] we should indicate the destination for the links. ] (]) 19:03, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

== Opera ==

In {{tl|infobox opera}}, can you install the image size as parameter, as in others? Once you are there, the title is not italic, as the documentation says, or did I read that wrong? --] (]) 10:04, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
: there is a parameter, called {{para|image_size}}. the italic_title feature is for the page title, but I added font-style:italic to the infobox title as well. there are several places where this could probably be added, but this seems to be the safest place to add it. seems like most of the articles are adding the italics manually, so not a big issue. ] (]) 14:41, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
::For some reason, the template seems to alter the title of the page on which it appears, see ], --] (]) 20:04, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
::: yes, that's the {{para|italic title}}, you set it to {{para|italic title|no}} to disable this feature. ] (]) 20:29, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
:::: that means, if the box is present in an opera article, it renders the page title italic? I missed that, thinking only the title in the box, --] (]) 22:29, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
::::: yes, that's right. can certainly change this to make it default no italic, but that is the way it works right now. ] (]) 22:32, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
:::::: fine with me, thank you, --] (]) 22:37, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

== Eggs ==

Thanks for : at least I do not break templates without making eggs. --] (]) 23:12, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

==Ljubisa Stamenkovic==
I am actually doing research to see how many games coached and will fix this in a few minutes ] (]) 02:13, 26 June 2013 (CET)


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== Colors for the voice templates ==

Hello! I noticed you undid the colours I added to The Voice (U.S.) templates. Just curious, is there some manual of style I'm missing? I just wanted to colour code the templates because there are quite a few. cheers, ] ]] 02:18, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
: basically guidelines in ]. we try use the default colouring unless there is a strong reason not to do so. thank you. ] (]) 15:02, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

== Wikify ==

Do you mind wikifying this template in a simple way for me please? ]. Bless ] ] 18:31, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
: how is that? ] (]) 19:28, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

{{tb|Template talk:Ottoman battles}} ] (]) 20:30, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

== Legislature infobox colours ==

Hi. Why are you removing all background colours from infoboxes on legislature articles? The parameter has been used for years, and ] suggests using the dominant colour of the respective house. So why do you remove all these background colours without any reason given at all? In , you say "unsourced" - what exactly would need a source? I don't see the big deal about colours, in my opinion it gives familiarity to the reader by using the colour of the respective parliament, and for editors it makes it easier to see on which article you are when you are dealing with a lot of legislature articles. Most infoboxes use colours anyway. Thank you, ] (]) 21:08, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
: (1) the colours can be misleading, since they frequently correspond to the colours for a particular political party, (2) the colours can cause readability issues, and (3) there is almost never a source for the particular colour of the legislature. so, in this case, it is better to go with ], which discourages deviating from the default. ] (]) 14:45, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
:: (1) These articles are clearly about a legislature and not about a political party. With this reasoning you could say a parliament's website can be misleading when its main colour happens to be one used by a certain political party. (2) I might agree with this, but as I said, colours are so widespread on Misplaced Pages; the colour schemes being used are used on countless other pages. (3) I have never heard of colours requiring a source. Is there a source for ] using yellow? Parliaments' websites usually have a clear main colour; if not, then we can use the default colour.<br />I would really appreciate if you do not remove all colours from legislature articles. These colours have always been there and imposing their removal requires broader consensus. Regards, ] (]) 00:15, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

== Adminship ==

Hi Frietjes! I stumbled across your talk page just now, and I couldn't help but notice all the requests that you have had to respond to with "that template is fully protected, so there's not much I can do". Well, I think there ''is'' something we can do about that. Would you be interested in running for adminship? It would be great to be able to give you access to all of our protected templates, and I promise to write you up a very persuasive nomination statement if you agree to run. Let me know what you think. Best — ''''']''''' <sup>]</sup> 15:58, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
: thank you, but not right now. the primary reason being that I probably spend too much time here already, and the "not much I can do" is basically a way of reducing the workload, since I clearly know how to make an edit request. there are also other reasons. it's too bad they don't have a permission level that just allows for editing high-visibility templates. but thank you for the vote of confidence. ] (]) 16:08, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
:: Ok, I understand. (But I don't think adminship is as big a deal as you might be thinking.) Anyway, if you have a change of heart at any point, just let me know and I will nominate you. — ''''']''''' <sup>]</sup> 08:43, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

== Rail ==

Hi Frietjes. I am intending on a more descriptive, less misleading classification for Britain's railways. Please give your thoughts as to how we can improve the current classification at ] where you have been a contributor. ] (]) 15:16, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

== Fundamental theorem of linear algebra ==

Your edits have rendered much of the article unreadable due to formatting errors. Please review and correct.
] (]) 16:39, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

== For your attention ==

That the maps are POV-ed is a problem. Expanding details on the basis of a known defect complicates the mess and is no answer. See Thankyou ] (]) 17:40, 8 July 2013 (UTC)


== A barnstar for you! == == A barnstar for you! ==
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== Hebrew ==

Hi Frietjes,

Thanks for making the changes. Actually I got an answer at the village pump and it led to the new language selector extension. It appears that the font screwup was a bug, and current a free font with good ''nikud'' was implemented by Amir Aharoni just in the last hour or so. The issue is therefore no longer relevant. Sorry for making you work, I just didn't have enough time to clarify that the issue was dealt with :)

Cheers, ] <sup>(])</sup> 20:25, 10 July 2013 (UTC)


== Category:Infobox wrapper templates == == Category:Infobox wrapper templates ==


I have created ]. Please feel free to make use of it. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 11:56, 13 July 2013 (UTC) I have created ]. Please feel free to make use of it. <span class="vcard"><span class="fn">]</span> (<span class="nickname">Pigsonthewing</span>); ]; ]</span> 11:56, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

== Captions ==
Thanks! I'll avoid periods moving forward. -Mclovin'tosh <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 16:26, 14 July 2013 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Unnecessary football navboxes ==

Can you help me discuss these discussions: ]? ] (]) 12:12, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

== Musical composition again ==

In consistency with {{tl|infobox opera}}, I moved the composer further up on {{tl|infobox musical composition}}. It looks now very bold and big if there is a subtitle, as in the ] "The Rite of Spring". I could imagine to have both subtitle and composer smaller font, both title and subtitle blue. What do you think? --] (]) 20:54, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
: I removed the 'font-size:larger'. ] (]) 14:55, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

== Sports in the Tampa Bay Area template ==

Why do you keep trying to hide the ] article in ] by linking it through the section heading "baseball"? Every other section heading in that template (football, soccer, etc.) links to the generic article for the sport, which makes perfect sense. But baseball being important in the area's sporting history, there is a baseball in Tampa article, and it should be be clearly listed in the template or readers may not realize that it exists.

Also, as you probably know, it's a good idea to use edit summaries to explain your changes, like I did when tweaking your edits. Thanks. ] (]) 23:23, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

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At Category:Austria-Hungary templates, Template:Cisleithanian elections in Austria-Hungary, Template:Croatian elections in Austria-Hungary, Template:Hungarian elections in Austria-Hungary all say unable to determine where to put the state parameter.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 03:03, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
if you look at the template, you will see there is no / button, so these templates do not collapse or uncollapse. hence, adding instructions about collapsing something that does not collapse is not a good idea. if there is no or button, we don't add {{collapsible option}} or |state=. Frietjes (talk) 15:08, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

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Break tags in Infobox Christian leader

{{Infobox Christian leader}} needs some adjustment to include break tags in honorific-prefix the same way {{Infobox officeholder}} does. -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:42, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

I discovered this problem while trying to remove break tags: -- Magioladitis (talk) 12:48, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
that template is fully protected, so I can't really help you. Frietjes (talk) 17:12, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
If you provide me a sandbox, I can finish the job. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:37, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Waikouaiti - something needs to be done

I'm in transit at the moment (currently Kuala Lumpur airport) so I'm not able to give this the attention it deserves. And I'm not sure what sort of internet service I'm travelling to. If you haven't got time for this, just tell me where I should start - is there an {{infobox NZ places}}? John of Cromer in Philippines transit (talk) mytime= Fri 20:01, wikitime= 12:01, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

fixed, there are more in Category:Populated places in the Otago Region. Frietjes (talk) 16:21, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

Maybe animal infoboxes could be merged?

Can you please check Category:Animal infobox templates. I think some of these infoboxes could be merged to a single one or share the same code plus some child infobox. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:32, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

you should suggest this to Pigsonthewing, since he is the creator of most of these templates. Frietjes (talk) 15:43, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
I left Andy a note. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:03, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Happy for that to be done. provided the marked up (with a microformat) species names are preserved. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:36, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Frietjes is it possible to do it? -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:36, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
certainly possible, but would take some time to sort out all the overlaps. Frietjes (talk) 21:45, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

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Hey Frietjes! Thanks for your wonderful and helpful contributions in SpongeBob related areas. I really appreciate it. Keep it up! Thanks and happy editing! :) Mediran (tc) 03:12, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

Template:Infobox men's college basketball team‎, etc.

Frietjes, here's a template merge I would support in a heartbeat: Template:Infobox men's college basketball team‎ and Template:Infobox women's college basketball team‎.

Have you ever contemplated a comprehensive merge of all the college sports team infobox templates? With a handful of options, I think all U.S. college sports could be accommodated and the team infoboxes would then have a uniform appearance across all sports. Just a thought . . . . Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:48, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

the first is already proposed here. I had thought about the second as well, but it will take more time to work out all the details, since there are differences in the post-season tournament section for various sports. Frietjes (talk) 22:19, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
I just posted a comment in support of the merge of men's and women's college basketball templates. That pending merge should be a no-brainer, and you are clearly already on top of the two minor issues to be addressed in the combined template.
The creation of a combined infobox template for all U.S. college sports teams would require a lot of work and the inclusion of several options, but the core information to be included is common to all. Differences in NCAA playoff structure, etc., could be accommodated by options to be toggled as needed. The payoff would be worth the effort. Not only should these infoboxes have a common appearance within a given sport, the teams affiliated with a given university should also have a common appearance and graphics style, and that can only be accomplished by a common template across all college sports teams. I think you would find the college football, basketball and baseball sports projects to be supportive, and the other college sports do not have active/vocal WikiProjects and tend to follow the lead of the football, basketball and baseball projects. I would be grateful for your help in making this happen, but I also understand that you have numerous pending template projects already. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 11:14, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

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Infobox Indy500 needs conversion to use Infobox

Template:Infobox music conference, Template:Infobox chord, Template:Infobox artist discography and Template:Infobox producer discography. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:37, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

first two fixed. Frietjes (talk) 22:50, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Template:Infobox television channel too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:52, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

User:Magioladitis, see this thread. the number of fields is about double what was previously possible. it is still possible if without lua, but we would need to use more child boxes. Frietjes (talk) 16:19, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
will make an edit request. Frietjes (talk) 15:42, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you for editing Sandhani page. Dr. Kabir Hossain (talk) 18:41, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

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I have created Category:Infobox wrapper templates. Please feel free to make use of it. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:56, 13 July 2013 (UTC)