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Contents 1 Moving images to Commons - a talk page template 2 Expand inline 3 Article titles in italics 4 Singaporean actor and/or singer 4.1 Make it 4.2 Scrap it 5 Collapsible table rows 6 Current squad / navbox

Moving images to Commons - a talk page template

To go with {{Copy to Wikimedia Commons}}, how about a talk page template. Something like this:

Some or all images in this article are candidates to be copied to the Wikimedia Commons.

Appropriately licensed media are more accessible to other Wikimedia projects and browsers in general if placed on Commons. Any logged in user may move the image(s) - see Moving images to the Commons (CommonsHelper) for more information. If appropriate, a new category/gallery could be created as well. Please do not remove this template until all the images have been moved to the Commons.

What do we think?

Richard001 (talk) 11:41, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

well, if you have an article 'X' with multiple images that are not part of the Commons, it would seem more reasonable to place individual tags on each image pages, rather than place a collective tag on the article 'X' page. less confusion that way about which images should get moved. I'm not certain that a new template would add anything useful here. can you point to the page where you think it would be useful? --Ludwigs2 21:49, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

It would be useful on any of the many pages where there are a lot of images that should be at Commons that aren't. It both saves placing it on each individual image, and makes it more visible (that they should be moved is not otherwise clear without viewing the image pages themselves, which people often don't). Richard001 (talk) 03:08, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

My biggest concern would be that the tag wouldn't likely be seen by the sort of people who knew how to fix the issue. At least by tagging the individual images, they can be categorized and thereby found, but I wholeheartedly disagree with tagging an article with such a template. You could have a featured article with such images and tagging one of those would not be advisable. I suppose the question is "How do you see such a tag working?" I personally don't see it as a good idea. Adam McCormick (talk) 22:48, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Anybody with an account can fix the issue, though being familiar with Commons and the CommonsHelper would help. Talk pages could also be categorized and thereby found, though I think they are a lot more likely to be noticed on a talk page than at some obscure category. Tagging a featured article would be great; the real question is why it was allowed to become featured in the first place with such a glaring issue. But, if people don't like the idea, I guess I can get by. Richard001 (talk) 07:48, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Examples: Omana Regional Park, Mount Ophir. Richard001 (talk) 09:48, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

well, the advantage of tagging each individual image is that each image is then added to the appropriate category, where it will be seen by people who are likely to be looking for images to copy to commons. however, what we could do is create a subcategory of Category:Copy to Wikimedia Commons called category:articles with multiple images for transfer to commons, and then make a template with no display, that only adds the article to that category, like this User:Ludwigs2/:sandbox. would that work? --Ludwigs2 02:45, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Why would you not want to display it? This is something that would go on a talk page, something editors should see. Not displaying defeats the purpose of using it.

Another possibility/alternative is a template that says 'a page (category or gallery) on this subject should be created at Commons'. It is a fairly different sort of request, though it overlaps a little with the above one. For example, Omana Regional Park wouldn't be suitable because there is already a Commons category that I created - it just needs to have many more images moved there. However, for Mount Ophir a commons page would be suitable, as well as a 'move images to commons' one. And some may already have all their images at Commons, but there may still be no page (category/gallery) there. I don't know if we need to create both of these templates, but it would be nice if at least one was available. Richard001 (talk) 10:29, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Y Done {{Commons page}} Richard001 (talk) 09:38, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Expand inline

Hello everyone, so I'm thinking of created Template:expand-in (^{[Expand sentence]} or ^[Expand]) for specific sentenes (or perhaps multi-sentence phrases) that need to be expanded. I realize this would not be as popular as Template:Expand, but I'm thinking it could still come in use enough that it might be worth having; I'd just like to get some second opinions before I create it. Any thoughts?--danielfolsom 18:12, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

• [{{fullurl:{{PAGENAME}}{{#if:{{{section|}}}|#{{{section}}}|}}<|action=edit}} Expand]
  • Something like that perhaps?--danielfolsom 18:18, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
    • Sorry that wouldn't work - ignore the if section part--danielfolsom 18:22, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Article titles in italics

Can anyone whip up a template along the lines of {{lowercase}} and other title-transforming utilities to allow articles titled with a binomial species name to have their headings italicised, as Wikipedia is careful to do with occurences of binomial names in the text of articles themselves? This has been raised previously at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (technical restrictions) and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biology. Is this technically possible? If a template could be created I should think it would be quite easy to request a bot to go through all the many thousands of affected articles to insert the template. It seems a shame when you look at articles like Acer rubrum and care has been taken throughout to italicise the name, but the heading is out of reach. This sticks out like a sore thumb to biologists. 85.189.221.65 (talk) 11:54, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Ok. after some investigation, I'm pretty sure this issue is not resolvable without some modifications to wikipedia's basic workings. the problem is that the only access we get to the page title is through the DISPLAYTITLE magic word, and that only works if the new title is practically identical to the old title. adding wikitext or html italics, or span elements, or somesuch, craps out DISPLAYTITLE.

that being said, it shouldn't be too difficult to modify the code for DISPLAYTITLE so that it distinguishes between formatting and text elements. I'll take a look for the code myself, but you might want to put this request up at wp:village pump (technical) where the real wikigurus might see it. it's kind of out of my league. --Ludwigs2 18:50, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

over at the wp:village pump (technical) I found a solution - see {{wrongtitle}} which will allow you to italicize the title. there is some concern about whether italics in titles are appropriate, and it apparently needs javascript to be enabled for it to work, but... --Ludwigs2 21:24, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Singaporean actor and/or singer

I think it's time we made the template Singaporean actor and/or singer. The existing actor infoboxes don't state the fields we need, for example: the Star Awards field and others. Please give your opinions below under the headings. Paul 1953 (talk) 11:03, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Make it

Scrap it

Collapsible table rows

I know there are collapsible tables already, but collapsible rows would be great for sifting through comparison tables when one selects an item based on a list of requirements and needs to easily weed out candidates as they fail the requirements. Dandv (talk) 06:07, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Current squad / navbox

Please could someone help me to work out a way of combining the current squad and the navbox on Association football pages, I have asked a couple of experienced editors directly, at Wikiproject football but apart from a few positive comments and an unsuccessful attempt to help I got nowhere. I tried the village pump and got girected here.

Using Arsenal de Sarandí as an example the proposal is that since the navbox and current squad display almost exactly the same information, using almost the same code:

• {{Fs player|no=1|nat=Argentina|name=[[Mario Cuenca]]|pos=GK}} (currentsquad)
• {{Football squad2 player|no=1|name=[[Mario Cuenca|Cuenca]]}} (navbox)

We could amend Template:Football squad or make an alternative, using switch functions and code like:

• {{Fs ??????|no=1|nat=Argentina|name=[[Mario Cuenca|Cuenca]]|pos=GK}}

So that it displays something similar to the current squad when transcribed like {{Arsenal de Sarandí squad|teamarticle=yes}} (changed slightly to give the [v] [d] [e] functions to allow the transcluded squad to be easily modified from the team article and a "last updated" header). There are several reasons this would be beneficial I will outline some of them:

1. Keeping similar information in the same place and avoiding repetition makes sense for obvious reasons.
2. Casual editors often edit one or the other, rarely both, meaning that the 2 ways of displaying the squads often contain contradictory information, combining the functions would make this kind of contradiction impossible.
3. Editors like myself who spend/waste our time updating player and team articles during the transfer window currently have to make at least 5 edits per player transfer (1. Update player article 2. Remove player from former team article 3. Remove player from former team navbox 4. Place player into new team article 5. Place player into new team navbox) combining the current squad and the navbox would reduce this to three edits, reducing transfer window workload by 40%, (which is a lot of edits considering in just one league (Primera División Argentina) the clubs amassed nearly 300 transfers in the most recent bi-annual transfer frenzy).
4. Introducing a "last updated" parameter would make it easier to search out and update outdated squad information.

I would be immensely grateful if someone could help me with this as it would save myself and other football editors hundreds of hours by cutting the number of repetitive edits and checks that two squad displays are not contradictory for hundreds of teams. Feel free to contact me on my talkpage. Regards EP 23:29, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

I think this is what you wanted. It would allow the current football squad templates, which are navigation boxes designed for transclusion in player articles, to be modified show they could also output a list format for transclusion in team articles. Here's an example of how it will work: {{Arsenal de Sarandí squad}} v • d • e Arsenal de Sarandí – current squad (as of 15 September 2008) 1 Cuenca  •  2 Brau  •  3 Báez  •  4 Espínola  •  5 Pellerano  •  6 Matellán  •  7 San Martín  •  8 Sena  •  9 Leguizamón  •  10 Gómez  •  11 Sava  •  12 Campestrini  •  13 Castiglione  •  14 Gandolfi  •  15 Pérez  •  16 Matos  •  17 Coria  •  18 Díaz  •  19 Alasia  •  20 Aguirre  •  21 Mosquera  •  22 Jara  •  23 Carrera  •  24 Yacuzzi  •  25 Sachetto  •  28 Silva  •  29 Contreras  •  Orcellet  •  Carou  •  Carabajal  •  Bottaro  •  Biagini  •  Manager: Garnero {{Arsenal de Sarandí squad|format=table}} Current squad for Arsenal de Sarandí as of 15 September 2008 () No. Position Player 1 GK Mario Cuenca 2 DF Mariano Brau 3 DF Carlos Báez 4 DF Darío Espínola 5 MF Cristian Pellerano 6 DF Aníbal Matellán 7 MF Andrés San Martín 8 MF Sergio Sena 9 FW Luciano Leguizamón 10 MF Alejandro Gómez 11 FW Facundo Sava 12 GK Cristian Campestrini 13 DF Carlos Castiglione 14 DF Javier Gandolfi 15 MF Damián Pérez 16 FW Mauro Matos No. Position Player 17 FW Facundo Coria 18 DF Christian Díaz 19 GK Matías Alasia 20 MF Nicolás Aguirre 21 DF Josimar Mosquera 22 DF Franco Jara 23 MF Sebastián Carrera 24 MF Javier Yacuzzi 25 MF Nahuel Sachetto 28 MF Facundo Silva 29 MF José Manuel Contreras GK Catriel Orcellet MF Daniel Carou MF Matías Carabajal FW Juan Bottaro FW Leonardo Biagini Manager: Daniel Garnero I designed it using a multiple template format similar to the existing table templates ({{fb start}}, {{football squad player}}, etc.) and navbox templates {{{football squad}}, {{football squad2 player}}, etc.). I'm still tinkering with it, but I will let you know when it is live and ready to use. -- Zyxw (talk) 07:53, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

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