Talk:Gilbert Potter
Latest comment: 15 years ago by RashersTierney in topic Formatting broken
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Formatting broken
editThe formatting of this article is all over the place (at least it is on my screen), making many parts illegible. Can someone fix it? If not I'll try to get around to it later.Hohenloh 12:29, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
- There have been difficulties with formatting when an older infobox caused problems. At the moment its fine on my screen, but perhaps using infoboxes to present the letters is not unproblematic. Are these the sections you are referring to? I'd be very happy to help improve article, and thanks for flagging it in advance of major changes. RashersTierney (talk) 13:01, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
- The problem (on my screen) starts with the Sources section. The References are then squeezed out of position by those coloured boxes, which also causes overlapping. I have no doubt that it looks OK on other screen resolutions - I'll try to check later on another computer. Thanks.Hohenloh 15:30, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
- I opened the article in Internet Explorer and it looks fine. However, I use Firefox, and it's still all over the place in that browser in my screen resolution. I'd guess that making the quote boxes narrower might help, or having them in one column rather than two, or possibly using a different screen resolution (I could fix it using HTML but we're not supposed to use that, I think). However, I'm loath to change my screen resolution for one article (this is only the second time I've come across a problem like this, and I've viewed tens of thousands of articles - I think the previous time a graphic was overlaying an info box, or vice versa).Hohenloh 15:04, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
- I had initially considered placing the letters at Wikisource and just linking them, but haven't done this before. What do you think? RashersTierney (talk) 15:26, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
- I tried narrowing the quote boxes but it didn't help. Then I aligned all the boxes to the left, and that at least prevented overlapping, but still looks very unsatisfactory. There are other ways of doing quotes, one of them is wikiquote (used in the Daniel O'Connell article and there's also the cquote tag, used in the Great Famine (Ireland) article. The letters are interesting, but IMO it's not usual to quote entire letters in an encyclopedia article (and anyone could remove them at any time), at most a few excerpts should suffice, and then have a pointer to Wikimedia or wherever you want to store the complete letters. If I'm having problems viewing the article, I'm sure others are too.Hohenloh 16:32, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
- I'd be quite happy to have the letters placed 'off site', but haven't done this before and am tight for time. If you have any experience placing material on Wikisource, that might be a better home for them. RashersTierney (talk) 17:01, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
- I'll take a look at this tomorrow, all going well.Hohenloh 16:13, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
- I'd be quite happy to have the letters placed 'off site', but haven't done this before and am tight for time. If you have any experience placing material on Wikisource, that might be a better home for them. RashersTierney (talk) 17:01, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
- I tried narrowing the quote boxes but it didn't help. Then I aligned all the boxes to the left, and that at least prevented overlapping, but still looks very unsatisfactory. There are other ways of doing quotes, one of them is wikiquote (used in the Daniel O'Connell article and there's also the cquote tag, used in the Great Famine (Ireland) article. The letters are interesting, but IMO it's not usual to quote entire letters in an encyclopedia article (and anyone could remove them at any time), at most a few excerpts should suffice, and then have a pointer to Wikimedia or wherever you want to store the complete letters. If I'm having problems viewing the article, I'm sure others are too.Hohenloh 16:32, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
- I had initially considered placing the letters at Wikisource and just linking them, but haven't done this before. What do you think? RashersTierney (talk) 15:26, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
- I opened the article in Internet Explorer and it looks fine. However, I use Firefox, and it's still all over the place in that browser in my screen resolution. I'd guess that making the quote boxes narrower might help, or having them in one column rather than two, or possibly using a different screen resolution (I could fix it using HTML but we're not supposed to use that, I think). However, I'm loath to change my screen resolution for one article (this is only the second time I've come across a problem like this, and I've viewed tens of thousands of articles - I think the previous time a graphic was overlaying an info box, or vice versa).Hohenloh 15:04, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
- The problem (on my screen) starts with the Sources section. The References are then squeezed out of position by those coloured boxes, which also causes overlapping. I have no doubt that it looks OK on other screen resolutions - I'll try to check later on another computer. Thanks.Hohenloh 15:30, 13 January 2009 (UTC)