User talk:Zyxw/Archive 1

Archive of User talk:Zyxw for 2005

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Style guidelines

You've had a busy couple of days! Please read the style guides cited above – some of your edits have been contrary to established practice. Also, please put something in the "Edit summary" box when saving a change. Thanks for your contributions, and welcome to Wikipedia. -- Kbh3rd 01:38, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

I gather you are referring to the Erik Lindbergh article. My main purpose in editing that was to add links for the two airports used in his transatlantic flight. While I was in there I mistakenly thought the References entry was actually under External Links and formatted it as such. Thanks for correcting it for me. Zyxw 10:18, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

US-airport templates

Good work on the new Template:US-airport variations. However, I've been wondering if it was possible to use wiki templates to make the second parameter be optional. If the second parameter is blank, then the ICAO code would be autogenerated by pre-pending "K", otherwise if it is specified then it'll just be used? This page indicates that "default" values for empty parameters can be specified when substituting: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Template#Parameters (maybe something like {{2|K{{1}}} )? If that syntax is good then that would eliminate the need to have a US-airport2 template at all! -- Bovineone 22:51, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I created Template:US-airport2 mainly for the Alaska and Hawaii airports where the ICAO codes don't start with K. I did look into methods of using optional parameters, but just haven't had enough time experiment with it. It's on my to-do list, unless someone else does it first. Zyxw 11:27, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

US Airports

I see you've been as busy with the US ones as I have with the Canadian ones. Couple of things, you might want to make redirects based on the IATA/ICAO codes. I've been doing them but I'm not really sure if it's necessary. Also for the runways, standard practice is to include the leading zero (as in 03/21) and it's always spoken that way on the radio. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 11:12, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Adding redirects for the IATA/ICAO codes (or updating existing disambig pages) is on my to-do list, sometime after I finish creating a set of airport lists by U.S. state (one page for each). Thanks for the info on runways, I'll keep it in mind for my future updates. Zyxw 11:33, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Hey, I don't think that we need to redirect or have a link by the code to the airport, since in the lists you can simply link directly to the airport - and the only disambiguation, at least with the US Airports, would be with western radio stations or random acronyms. I'm working on the USA Airport List-ICAO right now as well, so if you want to split up the work as far as getting all the airports into the ICAO-list as well, that's fine with me, as I noticed you overwrote a couple of airports I put up. It also seems we do use different formatting styles - I'm going to continue to use mine on the USA page though as I think the bold helps make the codes more readable, though I can take the parentheses out if you want to put up the IATA codes in as well. Also, in the Caribbean, some of the airports (Bridgetown City, Roseau) are actually heliports with ICAO codes. SportingFlyer 03:01, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Palm Beach International Airport

I'm watching this for User:PRueda29. He's on a Wikibreak right now so are you a good or a bad guy (good I hope)? I'm just watching his watchlist 'till he gets back. If you're good (which I surmise from your contribs) then check his user or my talk page to add some pages to your watchlist to help out in his absence. Thanks,  ;-) --hydnjo talk 03:45, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

Your popups modifications

Hi, I thought I'd let you know that I've merged most (all?) of your changes to my popups script into the main branch, with options to control them. Thanks for making those changes! Lupin|talk|popups 22:37, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. This was a surprise because I made the changes for my own use, but I'm glad you found them and felt some were worth adding to the main branch. I also appreciate the acknowledgment here and on your popups page. As I recall, I made three basic changes:

• Display embedded templates in the previews. My reason for this was to see the Airport codes template found in the first paragraph of many airport articles (i.e. Martha's Vineyard Airport). My preference would have been to expand the templates within the preview, but this was a usable and faster workaround for my purposes.
• Added additional infobox templates to killBoxTemplates so they are not displayed in the preview. Although I wanted to see the shorter templates, I didn't need the multi-line infobox templates which often appear before the actual text of an article. Note: I added a regex for frames (*frame ... *end frame), but haven't had time get it working properly (for an example, preview American Airlines or Linden Airport with popupKillTemplates turned off).
• Altered the preview to show all text instead of just one paragraph. However, it should still end at the user values set for popupMaxPreviewSentences or popupMaxPreviewCharacters. This is handy for articles starting with short paragraphs, but is even more helpful when the article has multi-line templates that are displayed in the preview.

Zyxw 07:36, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for that explanation. I think I've fixed the box templates function in User:Lupin/popupsdev.js. Lupin|talk|popups 15:12, 10 December 2005 (UTC)