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Native Latin speakers?
editGreetings, fellow Latinist. If you have second, please cast your two cents in on the discussion of a category for native Latin speakers who are also Wikipedians. --Flex 13:11, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
Dirk Nowitzki
editHi, please remove the image from your user page as only free images (copyright expired, GFDL, CC) are allowed in user space and not fair use images. Please read WP:IUP for further information. --Gurubrahma 08:43, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
First of all, nice work, it looks better than the one I had been proliferating. Secondly, you might work some unit calculation templates into the infobox, see Template talk:Height, Template talk:Weight. — May. 30, '06 [10:52] <freak|talk>
- Cool. Will check those out. gurulegend 20:12, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
I see you've added the unit calculators to the template. I've given it a bit of an overhaul, including converting to m:ParserFunctions, which have obsoleted both {{qif}} and HiddenStructure. Unfortunately, attempting to mix wikitable code and parser functions gets rather confusing due to unintended interpretation of the pipe character "|" so I converted it to straight html, and it should work exactly the same as before, with one non-trivial change to the image syntax. This is partly to prevent certain different articles from having drastically different image sizes. The image on the LeBron article was previously 364 pixels tall, but I changed it so that the sizing of all the images is controlled within the template itself. If necessary though, it would still be possible to create a parameter for overriding the default size specification, by changing:
- ...|200x250px|...]] to
- ...|{{{image_size|200x250px}}}|...]]
But I don't see any immediate need to add that feature. Let me know if you disagree. By the way, in case you didn't know, specifying two dimensions (instead of just the width) for an image's size will force it to scale down to fit within an imaginary box. This is helpful to prevent disproportionately tall infobox images from dominating the entire right side of the screen. — Jun. 5, '06 [09:56] <freak|talk>
- Nice. I think as long as all images seem to appear with decent dimensions and proportions, the template will be great. --gurulegend 20:14, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Another question regarding the infobox, since the nationality/flag template has been added, is how best to handle cases like Shawn Bradley, who has dual citizenship in both Germany and the United States, perhaps an optional nationality_2 parameter and show two flags on separate rows? Which do you think looks better:
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| Nationality | / Germany/United States
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— Jun. 5, '06 [22:14] <freak|talk>
- I think two rows looks better. Don't want those boxes getting too wide. --gurulegend 01:44, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I'll go ahead and do it that way for now, it will be easier, and it doesn't matter that much to me. If somebody wants it the other way, I can change it just as easily, using the same parameters even. It might take a bit of time and coding, but it's better to have as much of it as possible within the template, to make the articles easier to read/edit. — Jun. 6, '06 [02:16] <freak|talk>
Okay, added it for the sake of Shawn Bradley, and probably others. Will post on template talk page also, see [1]. — Jun. 6, '06 [02:31] <freak|talk>
St. Mark's Relation?
editI noticed that you have made some edits to the St. Mark's School of Texas Wiki entry. Out of curiosity, are you affiliated in any way to the school? --Schadenfreude52 02:11, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
Heh, that's neat. I am a senior (come fall) at St. Mark's. --Schadenfreude52 17:09, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Dallas, cool. I'm in Texarkana, by the way. — Jun. 6, '06 [02:18] <freak|talk>
- Nice, GO MAVS! gurulegend 02:19, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject American football?
editI noticed that you are involved in the NFL wikiproject. I started a new project at: Wikipedia:WikiProject American football to help clean up the non-NFL football articles (mostly football strategy type articles). Please consider joining this project and helping out where possible. --Jayron32 02:25, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
laksjf
Hey, I've renominated the template for deletion. Let's push this template thru to deletion, and get as many of your like minded friends to vote.[2]199.126.28.20 03:28, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Speedy deletion of Image:StMarksTexasCrestColorImg.png
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A tag has been placed on Image:StMarksTexasCrestColorImg.png requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section I6 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a non-free image with no fair use rationale uploaded after May 4, 2006 which has been tagged as not having a rationale for more than 7 days.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on [[Talk:Image:StMarksTexasCrestColorImg.png|the article's talk page]] explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Zedla (talk) 18:02, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free media (Image:StMarksTexasCrestColorImg.png)
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Last month's Collaboration of the Month, Magic Johnson was a great success. A total of 560 edits were made to the article during the month of May, and the article was eventually nominated as a Featured Article Candidate. Although the article was not promoted, it was significantly improved through the work of many editors. This month's Collaboration of the Month is Steve Nash. Although this is article is already a Good Article, it still can be improved. In particular, all prose should conform to Featured Article standards, all statements should be verified, and the text should be in a neutral point of view. If there is anything you can do to improve the article, then please help out.
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basketball player and basketball biography
edityou might find Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_February_29#Template:Infobox_basketball_player interesting, and wish to comment. Frietjes (talk) 21:25, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Women's History Month Edit-a-Thon
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