User talk:Kephir/archive/2012/08

Please comment on Talk:Abortion

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Well, that escalated quickly. Keφr (talk) 19:31, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

IntelCPU Template

I don't mind you improving the code of the template but keep the blue title or it will be reverted, this is following the theme of inte, amd and NVidia has it aswel thanks. Matthew Smith (talk) 15:39, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Why is the colour so important? Keφr (talk) 15:42, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

because blue is intels company trademark green is nvidias and red is AMD's soon amd cpu pages will have red templates, im only human im finishing intel first but AMD gpus and NVidia gpus all have it in all series the colored templates also make the template with 2 columns — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthew Anthony Smith (talk • contribs)

Well, the Zilog Z80, PowerPC and Motorola 68000 articles use plain {{Infobox CPU}} and {{Infobox CPU architecture}} templates, without any recolouring. Intel, AMD and Nvidia might be the most popular chip manufacturers, but it does not mean they deserve special treatment; this goes against WP:DUE. These companies are good enough at marking their branding, they do not need our help. See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Icons/Nobel icon for a similar discussion. Keφr (talk) 16:01, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

ive already made a IBM box, they will all be like this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matthew Anthony Smith (talk • contribs)

Why? These templates are unnecessarily duplicative; in case something needs to be changed, they will all need to be edited. I think they should be merged back. Keφr (talk) 16:14, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Matthew Anthony Smith

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Computing#User:Matthew Anthony Smith. —Ruud 21:10, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:Information technology

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Rater

Is there a way to modify your article assessment tool so that it can create a talk page for an article? It currently fails if the talk page doesn't exist. Ryan Vesey 14:47, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

I noticed that too, but was too lazy to fix it. Fixed, tested, should be working now. Keφr (talk) 14:54, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Wow that was fast! I attempted again before I noticed this and I thought I must've been mistaken. Thanks for that fix! Just curious, is there something built into the tool for tagging with WikiProject Biography? There should always be a |living= and |listas= parameter added. Ryan Vesey 15:19, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

The checkbox for living always shows up, and I just added a rule for listas. I have not implemented adding subproject and other non-mandatory parameters yet. Keφr (talk) 15:25, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Cool, I didn't realize that the words WikiProject were automatically inserted. You might want to make a note for that. This might be too complicated, but is there a possibility for autofill or any way that it could remember a project? Ryan Vesey 15:33, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Remembering previous inputs is doable, but not trivial; autocompletion is a bit easier, and I might do it, but probably not right now. However, there is already code that recognises shortcuts, so you may just type "bio" or "math" instead of "Biography" or "Mathematics". It's just a question of adding data for more templates. Which is the boring part… Keφr (talk) 15:41, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Added autocompletion. Keφr (talk) 08:46, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, you're awesome! 04:46, 30 August 2012 (UTC) —User:Ryan Vesey was so excited that he forgot to sign his comment.

Hà Huy Khoái

Hi. I added 2x 3rd-party refs, on a theorem he had part proved, and his current job, most senior mathematician in Vietnam. Evidently the vast bulk of sources are in Vietnamese and Russian, not sure that adding them will aid readers much. Would you care to take another look at the tag? In ictu oculi (talk) 02:01, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Well, of course the best sources would be in English, and about the man himself (since that is what the article should ultimately be about, and it needs to cite what it claims). Though non-English sources are definitely better than no sources at all. So, if it has any chance of establishing facts, you can add them. In my eyes, there is some claim here to meeting WP:ACADEMIC, so I will not scream "non-notable" right now. Keep working on it. As it looks now, nothing is certain. Cheers, Keφr (talk) 06:28, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Well I managed to find 3 more English ones, all confirming his senior status, so I think I will remove the template now. In ictu oculi (talk) 10:53, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Fine by me. You might want to refer to the relevant WikiProjects. Keφr (talk) 11:18, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Llywelyn/Llewellyn

How long have I been editing Wikipedia? And still I forget how to do basic things like move an article... (For some reason I thought the rule about not copying and pasting was just about making sure the talk page stayed with the article. I'd forgotten the obvious point that we don't want to fragment edit histories.) So sorry about that. Re WP:COMMONNAME: That's a fair point, but I'm not convinced it applies here. The first sentence says that the article is about the name Llywelyn which, as a family name, is more commonly spelt Llewellyn. That seems poor justification for calling the article Llewellyn, since it seems to me the article is primarily about the given name Llywelyn, typically so spelt. But I guess it should really be discussed on the talk page. garik (talk) 19:55, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Shit happens. After a while, I think I agree, the article probably should be moved. A talk page discussion will not hurt, of course. Keφr (talk) 20:01, 30 August 2012 (UTC)