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		The Template Barnstar
		I've looked at your tireless contribution to templates. So i believe this barnstar should suit you. Ibrahim ebi (talk) 15:59, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

		The Template Barnstar
		Thanks for your help to improve the Adopt-a-typo template. Much appreciated! Jason Quinn (talk) 16:50, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

		The Template Barnstar
		For getting better performance and adding options to the chess diagram template. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:36, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Let me just second this (since you've got three on this page already). Thank you for all those well-framed edit requests you made to the convert sub-templates. ~Adjwilley (talk) 20:05, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for editing Sandhani page. Dr. Kabir Hossain (talk) 18:41, 26 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

	The Technical Barnstar
	Module:testcase table is great! Thanks for making it! —hike395 (talk) 03:58, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

		The SpongeBob SquarePants Bubble Award
		Hey Frietjes! Thanks for your wonderful and helpful contributions in SpongeBob related areas. I really appreciate it. Keep it up! Thanks and happy editing! :) Mediran (t • c) 03:12, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Thank you for being observant to other's (i.e. me) ham-fisted hacking and repairing damaged templates without fuss. You rock! FruitMonkey (talk) 21:11, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

	The Original Barnstar
	For your work correcting the "year" field in 1000s of uses of ((Infobox Australian place)). Much appreciated. Mattinbgn (talk) 19:53, 1 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wow. That was a quick work here! Happy editing! --    L o g  X   17:34, 11 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thanks for you work on tables and templates! -- Wywin (talk | contribs) 18:35, 24 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

		The Template Barnstar
		Thanks for all your work replacing instances of ((convert/spell)) with the new Lua compliant ((convert|...|spell=in)) AdmrBoltz 20:54, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Frietjes, I would like to thank you for taking care and fixing the oil field infobox even without asking. It was really kind of you. Beagel (talk) 17:59, 4 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you! Thanks for all the updating of the population data you are doing on Queensland places! Great work! Kerry (talk) 00:32, 18 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

		The Golden Doubloon of Anatomy
		You have been awarded the prestigious Golden Doubloon for your services to the WP:ANATOMY WikiProject. Thanks!

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thank you for adding team colors for college basketball players. Temple of the Mousy (talk) 19:53, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

tireless template help Thank you for quality help in all kinds of template questions, even creating a template that should not be needed rather than "some hack of div tags and html tables", finding solutions with sense and offering them with kindness, - you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:01, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

		The Template Barnstar
		Thank you so much for your fix at Template:Infobox winery. You've just fixed something that had been a small annoyance to me and probably others for a long time. SchreiberBike talk 00:46, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

On a number of occasions now I've noticed you've made a whole series of benificial but tedious improvements to various currency articles. These are mostly the type of improvements that are behind the scene's (formatting, wikifying, etc.) and thus might go unrecognized, so I wanted to take a moment to thank you and let you know it's appreciated. Gecko G (talk) 20:49, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

	Nice work!
	Thanks so much for the work on the Nanjing districts template! Your input on the template itself and placement within articles is extremely helpful! I had posted two questions about how to format it and you resolved both issues! It's very much appreciated and looks really nice now. CaroleHenson (talk) 15:16, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Nice work on ((Taxation))! You do a lot of work in neglected areas, and it's always a big improvement. bobrayner (talk) 12:46, 26 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for patrolling unused templates and nominating them for deletion. The cleanup is very useful. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:17, 7 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for the article changes :) Viktor O. Ledenyov (talk) 14:07, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

		The College football Barnstar
		Frietjes, thank you for your excellent work streamlining the color coding used in navboxes for college football and other college sports subjects. Jweiss11 (talk) 06:26, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

	The Working Woman's Barnstar
	For your unceasing work on the many WP Templates, I hereby award you this Barnstar YSSYguy (talk) 23:25, 3 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		A big thanks for your help with putting in grid-numbers in info-boxes: it works like dream! With best wishes, Huldra (talk) 22:02, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For your endeavor in template cleanup, where I sometimes feel overwhelmed, and wish I were more like you. -- [[User:Edokter]] ((talk)) 19:55, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"My own work" (the pic not the star!) --Unbuttered parsnip (talk) mytime= Sun 07:11, wikitime= 23:11, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

tireless template help
Thank you for quality help in all kinds of template questions, even creating a template that should not be needed rather than "some hack of div tags and html tables", finding solutions with sense and offering them with kindness, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:01, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for correcting my sourcing mistake on Defense of the Reich. Much appreciated. GeneralizationsAreBad (talk) 19:58, 17 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	for the amazing work you do everyday and the help you provide to the CHECKWIKI project. Magioladitis (talk) 11:41, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for fixing this! —  dainomite   15:11, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And thats a high five to you😃
Thanks for all you good contribution. It was greatly appreciated👋 Brilloman12 (talk) 05:51, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

From my talk page back in september.

Bugger bugger bugger, I saw a map in the transport museum in budapest we went the other week and it had the lat and long but in pretty much a mercator projection. My missus was more interested with the toy trains so I didn't get a chance to take the measures off it. If it's wrong (as it is) it should be deleted but I am still trying to get the measures right. The thing is it's specifically Kingdom of Hungary, but the more atlases (atli? :) I look at the more different lats and longs I get. And anything one does on Hungarian articles is rather contentious, so it is probably really better deleted. Because people whose great grandfathers were part of the Kingdom of Hungary will say no that's Croatia or Slovakia or Slovenia or Yugoslavia or Jugoslavia or The People's Republic of East Kebab. Since Hungarian politics is very contentious and goes on racist grounds in far more than would be allowed in where I come from, this is better off deleted. (Hint: say Treaty of Trianon to a Hungarian and await results.) Si Trew (talk) 09:36, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I never did get round to this. I took the coords off of file at right, which is very high quality but seems to have an odd idea of where 0 longitude is (it suggests it is east of Paris, but that didn't seem to work). As you suggested, I tried to take well-known points at the edges of the map: Fiume, for example, at south-west. I took very good readings after printing out this map at A0 size and using ruler and compass, my trig is quite good, but I could never get it to fit. Si Trew (talk) 06:02, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

.Oh, Template:Location_map_Kingdom_of_Hungary/test might help you. You see, Fiume's in the right place but Budapest is a bit too far left and the rest are well out. Si Trew (talk) 06:09, 19 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

These two pages appear in Template programming element.

1. List of Minolta A-mount lenses
2. List of Sony E-mount cameras

Is anything we can do about it? -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:07, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

you asked about this in Two pages really messed up. without creating a template for controlling the selective page transclusions/display, the answer is no. Frietjes (talk) 18:45, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I tend to forget lately. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:50, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

And there is also this list Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/Error 034 whitelist. Use triple brackets. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:13, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

some triple braces can be fixed by using nested ((mset)), if the are purely presentational and not part of a parserfunction code. Frietjes (talk) 18:45, 11 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

is|talk]]) 22:50, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

Template:Infobox noble needs to be added and I think I did it. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:03, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Done everything. Wiki search gives 0 results. -- Magioladitis (talk) 23:55, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I did "imagealttext" too. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:35, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

|with= seems very interesting. I suspect typo error. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:10, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Magioladitis, that parameter is used in succession boxes. see, for example, Template:S-ttl. Frietjes (talk) 17:23, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think |accessdate= is straightforward. We just keep the latest one. Right? -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:52, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ladsgroup could help us with this one. -- Magioladitis (talk) 19:02, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

yes, I will generate that list this evening. Frietjes (talk) 19:52, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We have a recent new member User:Mqst north who appears to be a rule onto himself having added frequent unreferenced information but demanding references for the slightest changes from others. He has now gone to an extreme by deleting platform boxes form stations because the platform numbers are not shown in the referenced timetables. Examples are Shellharbour Junction railway station, Oak Flats railway station and Albion Park railway station. He has also been deleting Transport link information on the basis that it contravenes WP:NOTGUIDE which may or may not be correct but he is not consistent in that he has done it in two of the stations above but not the other. If we proceed to delete all transport link information which I have documented in the Template which you created for me will go to waste. I am open as to whether we should use "bus" or File:Sydney Buses Post.jpg in the "other" field in the infobox but we need to be consistent. Another editor recently changed all stations to the latter but if I recall correctly you have suggested on another occasion that for performance reasons we should avoid using the picture. Another case where this member has been making one off changes from the picture to "bus" because he does not think the picture is suitable. I have had a number of runs ins with this member some of which are documented in Talk:Cherrybrook railway station He has also deleted platform boxes from this station and others on the Sydney Metro Northwest on the basis that the platform numbers have not yet been specified.Fleet Lists (talk) 03:58, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fleet Lists, sorry for the problems. you should raise this issue at WP:Trains or WP:Austria or some other relevant project. I don't have time to help. Frietjes (talk) 13:24, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Working with duplicated parameters, revealed another big problem, that of invalid parameters caused by typos/vandalism. Today, I fixed |bith_date=, |birth_pace=, |death_pace=, |bith_name=, |birth_death= etc. -- Magioladitis (talk) 07:38, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

We are basically done with birth/death date/place. The Bgwhite & Magioladitis corporation completed the task. Please update User:Frietjes/findargdups/status. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:02, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I can check for |birth_name= and |website= if you generate them. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:17, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have also fixed about half of the 323 duplicated |isbn= parameters (I fixed the easy ones with a script), so a refresh of the page would be helpful. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:59, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

sure, will re-run it later today. Frietjes (talk) 15:01, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I did the |birth_name=. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:53, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I did most of |image_caption=. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:04, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Most of "alt" is about multiple images and needs more effort. I prefer to do something else. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:34, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Frietjes, can you please add dedicated sections to User:Frietjes/findargdups/status for |goals*= (e.g. |goals2= – I don't think each numbered parameter needs its own section, but you can do that if it is easier/better) and also |spouse= and |author2=? I'd like to have a set of similar articles to focus on, since the ISBNs are all done. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:49, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jonesey95, updated. each section is for parameters which start with a particular regular expression. so, the prior 'author' section had everything that starts with 'author'. I split it into 'author[0-9]' and 'author[^0-9]' (author followed by a digit and author followed by a non-digit or nothing). Frietjes (talk) 13:26, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:00, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure the tracking category works as expected. I tried to fins what's wrong in the remaining 40 pages of Category:Film articles using deprecated parameters and I can't. There are supposed to be |1=. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:00, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

if you change 'Infobox film' to 'subst:Infobox film', and show diff (don't save) it can help find the problem. for example, that method identified this problem. Frietjes (talk) 16:04, 17 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think the list of Template:Infobox Hindu temple needs update. For instance |coordinates_region= is valid according to the code. -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:55, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please update the description of Category:Pages using infobox school with deprecated parameters a it so I get an idea of what I have to fix? -- Magioladitis (talk) 21:58, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Magioladitis, there should be a reasonable description in Template:Infobox_school#Deprecated_parameters, assuming nothing drastic has changed. Frietjes (talk) 22:06, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

note that parameters listed in (e) are the most straightforward, simple renaming. the other ones require some checking, or modification of multiple parameters at the same time. Frietjes (talk) 22:09, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it's time

• Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica that includes an obsolete parameter‎
• Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1922 Encyclopaedia Britannica that includes an obsolete parameter‎
• Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica with an article parameter‎

are merged? -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:31, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

With a closer look these 3 categories are not populated anymore and can be deleted. Right? @PBS: who might be interested on this since they participated in a recent related CfD. -- Magioladitis (talk) 16:19, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

leave them alone. They are populated by different templates (as their name and their parent categories make clear), and as maintenance categories they may or may not be populated. As they take up next to no space why would one want to delete them? -- PBS (talk) 19:54, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If it is just a matter of not wanting categories in category:Deprecated parameters then remove that category from the three categories, but please do not delete them. -- PBS (talk) 19:59, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

PBS I just asked for opinion. I has no intention to take action without advice. -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:59, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think the tracking of Category:Latter Day Saint biography Infobox with deprecated parameters is broken. Example: Horace S. Eldredge. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:18, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Magioladitis, should be fixed. I made blank/missing portal parameter the same as |portal=none. Frietjes (talk) 13:56, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe it's time that we merge all 16 "Deprecated infobox param..." categories? -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:38, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Magioladitis, having them all as subcategories of a single category would be useful, but some still have thousands of entries, like Category:Settlement articles requiring maintenance, so would be useful to keep those with separate. Frietjes (talk) 14:50, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I refer only to the 16 subcategories of Category:Deprecated parameters under the letter D. I am trying to clean up this main category. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:52, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I can see this is not populated by nowhere and I can safely deleted? Category:Infobox mountain using deprecated parameters. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:55, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

yes, can be deleted. Frietjes (talk) 15:13, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

At some point we have to uniformise the naming of the categories inside Category:Deprecated parameters. PS Sorry for the multiple messages. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:09, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

yes, I prefer "Pages using infobox ...", unless it's restricted to articles only. Frietjes (talk) 15:13, 19 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Magioladitis said I should ask you these you of questions on deprecated parameters. I quote, "Frietjes knows. Ask her about everything. Even about the meaning of life"
Category:Building using deprecated parameters Looking at the infobox code, it is showing up in the category if height is used with some other parameters. Is this correct? I don't understand the μ issues
Category:Italian commune articles using deprecated parameters I don't understand this one.
I already know the meaning of life. It is 42. Bgwhite (talk) 23:13, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Bgwhite, I updated the documentation for the template and the category. Does the explanation I added make sense? – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:55, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Jonesey95. The building one makes sense now. The Italian one is still a mystery to me. Bgwhite (talk) 08:00, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry I missed the note about the Italian infobox. And wow! Thanks for that opportunity to nerd out. The template tests for the existence of parameters that exist in the Italian-language version of the infobox and acts all disappointed and frowny when any of them have values. It also checks to ensure that the required "name" parameter is filled in. There are a couple of other checks that I don't understand fully, including one that possibly checks for unreasonable values of km2. I updated the category description. If you find any articles that don't match the new description, post here and Frietjes or I will respond. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:23, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Frietjes. Could you create the following tracking categories for Template:Infobox swimmer?

• using parameter "nationality";
• using parameter "nationality" = ((USA)), United States, USA;
• using parameter "national_team"; and
• using "show-medals" = yes.

Thanks, as always, for your help. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:51, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dirtlawyer1, see

• Category:Pages using infobox swimmer with nationality parameter
• Category:Pages using infobox swimmer with USA nationality
• Category:Pages using infobox swimmer with national team parameter
• Category:Pages using infobox swimmer with show-medals

will take time to fill up. Frietjes (talk) 17:52, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, F. Trying to find out how many of the old version templates still need to be replaced, and where they are concentrated. Going to recruit some help to complete the update and replacement process. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:55, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've done some work with templates but I'm not up to speed on Lua yet. I see that ((CBB roster)) has been converted over.

I have two requests, both hopefully small, and very possibly related.

In the pre-Lua days, I occasionally updated the list of primary and secondary colors when some team wasn't in the list. I don't know where that list is maintained; my first request is, can you point me to it so I can see it in figure out whether it's something I can update if the need should occur?

Second, there's something not quite right. I did check a North Carolina example and it looked fine, but the colors for the roster in 2014–15 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team are not correct. I notice they are also wrong for the comparable men's article 2014–15 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team so it is in the case of being sex dependent.

(I realize I'm making a presumption that you are the main editor working on this. My apologies if my assumption is incorrect and I trust you'll point me elsewhere if I'm not asking the right person)--S Philbrick(Talk) 00:29, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Sphilbrick: colors now are stored here. If you need to update something, you can do it here. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 11:25, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Sphilbrick: the two UConn examples look the same, so I am assuming you were able to figure it out? the key is that they should be using the same |team= but different |sex= parameters. the exact string used for |team= must be in Module:College color/data. Frietjes (talk) 12:20, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, they are the same :) Quoting: "the colors for the roster in 2014–15 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team are not correct [..] they are also wrong for the comparable men's article" --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 13:39, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I had in my records that UConn used 002868, but their official page says 000E2F. It doesn't look blue to me.--S Philbrick(Talk) 13:49, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In sport overview we do this using break tag lines and merge parameters in ((Infobox football biography)) we do the over direction using |caps1=, |caps2= etc. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:31, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Magioladitis, this is the proper fix for that template. the reason for |years1=, |clubs1=, |caps1=, |goals1= is so that template has the information properly aligned in the sub-table. in the case of sports overview, the information is not in a sub-table, so there is no data alignment issue. we only need the fine-grained numbering when we have problems like |years=1990<br>2000 and |clubs=Club A<br>Club B, which is not going to be parsed by a screen-reader, and will suffer from line-wrap-alignment problems. Frietjes (talk) 14:52, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Frietjes. Was this sandbox ready for review, or were you still chewing on it? Please let me know. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:42, 22 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dirtlawyer1, I believe that was a proof-of-concept to show that one format could be converted to another format. I'm not sure which format is preferred at the moment. Frietjes (talk) 14:52, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

parameters marked as "missing" in the sandbox are parameters which are in the coach infobox, but do not exist in the player/biography infobox. the extra stats links are probably not needed, but additional fields to differentiate between a playing career and a coaching career seem useful. Frietjes (talk) 15:01, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Frietjes, nice to have you back, and I hope you enjoyed your time away. Thanks for your previous work on the concept. As far as the NFL and college football players are concerned, the existing plainlist coding for team tenures and honors is strongly preferred, not least because it is already in use on 15,000+ NFL and CFB player articles. There is also the matter of consistent formatting with the teams and honors being followed by the tenures/years in parentheticals -- the format was a conscious choice of the template designers and makes a great deal more semantic sense than the revers employed elsewhere. So, yes, I think we want to preserve that choice as we replace the last 300 coach infoboxes. Please let me know what you can do. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:19, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I just saw your added comment above after being edit-conflicted. I will take a look at the "missing" parameters noted above, and get back to you. I agree we do not need to add any more stats fields to the merged box; stats are one of the most problematic and misused parameters out there. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:19, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

5th (Huntingdonshire) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. -- Magioladitis (talk) 06:23, 24 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

appears to be fixed? Frietjes (talk) 14:52, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Err, why are you editing a page in my userspace? Thanks. jhawkinson (talk) 17:49, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

the structure of the officeholder template changed, and I was removing transclusions of the now defunct code. Frietjes (talk) 14:31, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, sorry to bother you but this is way over my limited technical skills. I would like to link Template:Infobox basketball biography infoboxes to the colours of the club the players belong to, for example to have Luca Lechthaler's infobox title with white text on a black background like Aquila Basket Trento. If it's less complicated than I imagine, I could do it myself (teach someone to fish etc..), if you feel it's not worth the time to explain I would be grateful if you could link Aquila Basket Trento's colours at least. Thanks for you work in all cases. --ArmstrongJulian (talk) 20:18, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArmstrongJulian, the colours come from Module:Basketball color/data. if you search that page for "Acea Virtus Roma" you will find another Italian League team, so you just need to add another line for "Aquila Basket Trento". if you don't feel comfortable doing it, let me know and I can do it for you. Frietjes (talk) 22:34, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think I managed to do it (nothing exploded), wouldn't have found the page on my own that's for sure. With the code already written I should be able to cope, might get harder when it's more complicated than black and white but I'm sure you're busy enough so will avoid pestering you. Again thanks for your help, appreciated. --ArmstrongJulian (talk) 23:03, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In ((Infobox film))'s TemplateData section, it lists "native title" as a parameter. There is no "native title" in the infobox, but there is "film title". I wish it was "native_name" to be more consistent with other infoboxes, but that is another story. Bgwhite (talk) 21:25, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bgwhite, maybe I have it backwards, but isn't |film name= the parameter and 'native title' the description? Frietjes (talk) 23:33, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As usual, my brain isn't working. Thank for checking. Bgwhite (talk) 05:21, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I was working in the sandbox for ((Infobox See)), and after testing my fixes, I pasted them into the live template, accidentally undoing some of your changes. Sorry about that. I will try to reimplement your changes. Would you mind checking to see if I missed anything? – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:44, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you got there first. Thanks for understanding.

|map_type=, which I had removed and you restored, does not appear to be a valid parameter in ((Infobox lake)), which is why I had removed it. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:49, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jonesey95, |map_type= should be |pushpin_map=, assuming the ISO translation is working. go ahead and try it if you want. Frietjes (talk) 14:51, 4 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:TransAdelaide Stations has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Alakzi (talk) 12:29, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm getting checkwiki errors on articles that use ((Infobox ski jumping hill)). I see the template was changed today. The errors are at "Longest/fall*". Problem is, I can't see any errors. Is there something strange with the template? Bgwhite (talk) 01:42, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe ask Sportomanokin, who made the change? I can't imagine what "Longest/fall*" would mean. Maybe it's a typo. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:36, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bgwhite, you can change them to |longest/fall=, pending an explanation of the parameter. Frietjes (talk) 14:08, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, you once proposed merging of templates which was a very helpful. There is the same situation with Template:Bulgarian cuisine, Template:Serbian cuisine, Template:Macedonian cuisine. They include individual dishes and foods, and clutter many pages, e.g. Pindjur, Ljutenica. Should one transform them into navigation bars, too? Are there automatized procedures for such changes? --Off-shell (talk) 07:06, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Off-shell, yes, I agree. see these discussions. Frietjes (talk) 13:49, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks a lot. Looks like the navigation bars for Serbia and Macedonia should be prepared first, right? --Off-shell (talk) 22:01, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Off-shell, those have already been converted. Frietjes (talk) 22:03, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, great! --Off-shell (talk) 22:05, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Off-shell, please comment in Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2015 September 17 if you want to see the sidebar version deleted (or have any opinion on the matter). Frietjes (talk) 22:07, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Goodday User:Frietjes, this is just curiosity, as my wiki markup coding may not be equal to yours. In the latest article on the Church of São João Evangelista (Aveiro), I used ";" to bold the "Notes" and "References" section alone. You altered that to three-apostrophe bolding for the "Notes" and "References" sections, in addition to adding "refbegin" and "refend" statements. Is there are coding reason for this, since it does seem to add marginally more characters to the article. Its not really a critique: I would just like to be aware more as to the reasons for this, to improve my wikicoding. Appreciate whatever input you can provide.^{ruben jc} ZEORYMER (talk) 15:56, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:Zeorymer, the semicolon should not be used for bolding a line. if you check the source, you will see that the semicolon generates <dl>...</dl> and <dt>...</dt> markup which are for description lists. the semicolon line should only be used if followed by a colon line. for example,

;Term
:Definition

the ((refbegin))/((refend)) is used to make the presentation of non-inline references the same as inline references. hence, the font size used by the two sets of references in the same section are the same. Frietjes (talk) 16:01, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Okay! Then I will start adopting consistent formatting. Thanks for the heads-up.^{ruben jc} ZEORYMER (talk) 16:16, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Zeorymer: Neither semicolons nor emboldening should be used for headings; used equals signs, per WP:GOODHEAD. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:12, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Since (Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2015_September_14#Template:Imagequote) it looks like {imagequote} and {Quote/to right of image} will soon be redirected to the new, improved {quote} anyway, why bother juggling them around now, at the last moment? EEng (talk) 16:13, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

fix the bad name to something more descriptive. Frietjes (talk) 16:14, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Since the plan is for {quote} to replace them all anyway, and {quote} is the best name of all, why not just wait and change them all to {quote} when the time comes? In the meantime, redirect {imagequote} to {quote/to right of image}. EEng (talk) 16:24, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

okay, sounds like a good plan. Frietjes (talk) 16:25, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm confused on why you changed <span> to <source> when it came to fonts? I arrived because there is a broken <nowiki> tag at <nowiki><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" towards the end of the table. Bgwhite (talk) 07:25, 23 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bgwhite, change it however you want. I was planning to introduce source highlighting, but it didn't entirely workout. I found it because it was on your list of pages with empty span tags. Frietjes (talk) 13:33, 23 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You are a thousand times more knowledgeable than me in this area. I was wondering why you were doing it because I was probably missing something.

Another question. Magioladitis and I have been working on Category:Deprecated parameters. I'm close to finishing those dam parameters :) Are there any tangible benefits to removing the deprecate code from the templates once all the deprecated parameters are removed? Some of the categories are still being filed with new articles, but others aren't.

Bgwhite, removing the deprecated code does have the advantage of making the template code easier to read, should reduce the processing time, and should make it easier to maintain. however, it's usually good to wait a bit before removing the legacy code, or at least keep the deprecated parameter tracking around. frequently, edits get reverted, and the parameters appear again even after all the articles have been changed. Frietjes (talk) 18:32, 23 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I work with citation templates a lot, and people are continually inserting deprecated and unsupported parameters. If you remove the code that categorizes the deprecated parameters, make sure that you also remove (a) the code from the template that displays/renders those parameters and (b) any documentation that shows the deprecated parameters. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:57, 23 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As you have edited a number of pages regarding wildfires, I would love you to comment on this discussion about what qualifies as a current wildfire if you have a moment. --Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 00:17, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Seasons greetings, I do request your kind help in adding article name Poles in mythology to Template:Anthropology of religion in apropriate section.

Thanks in advance, and best wishes.

Mahitgar (talk) 03:58, 3 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Frietjes. I noticed you changed the ((#property)) tags to ((PH wikidata)) templates? What is the advantage of using ((PH wikidata)) over ((#property))? -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 03:04, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:P199 two reasons, (1) remembering that P242 is the map and P17 is the country is going to be challenging, but remembering that 'image_map' is the map and 'country' is the country is easier, (2) eventually this will be moved into template:infobox settlement, so having it in a template will make it easier to track and migrate later. Frietjes (talk) 14:27, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. One more thing: the ((PH wikidata)) template seem specific to the Philippines (by virtue of its name) but this could easily be made generic for use for every country. Is that what you intend to do by making it part of the settlement infobox? -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 14:32, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:P199, the name stems from the fact that the Philippines appears to be the only region heavily migrating settlement data to wikidata, and it started to as a way to simplify that process. however, we can certainly rename it to something more generic, like ((settlement wikidata)) or whatever. eventually, I would like to be able to say |use_wikidata=yes in ((infobox settlement)) and have everything automatically populated. at that point, we wouldn't need either the template or property tags in the articles. one advantage that we have already seen is that when (a) property numbers are changed or (b) data is migrated between different property numbers on wikidata or (c) changes are made to the wikidata data parser, we don't need to change the articles, just change the template. Frietjes (talk) 14:38, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I would even propose that the Wikidata would become the default for populating the templates, so |use_wikidata=yes would not even be necessary. You would only need to enter overrides or info not yet in Wikidata. My next project is to migrate settlement data for Canada. It would be nice if ((infobox settlement)) could be reworked before I get that underway, i.e. it takes Wikidata as default and takes the fields in the article as an override. That way transition would be seamless. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 03:09, 6 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:P199, good idea. will start a thread at Template talk:Infobox settlement to discuss this further. Frietjes (talk) 13:00, 6 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I became ill six months ago. I've a lot better, but I can't write very well. So I will continue away from Wikipedia. But I saw a complete of mistakes
- first of all population_as_of used to be a simple number, who has been changes to number + name. This causes some mistakes for instance when population_as_of was used inside ((#expr:)). I added population_point_in_time
iso_region is appeared only in province level.
seal flag are eternal problems.
Unbuttered parsnip (talk) mytime= Wed 22:44, wikitime= 14:44, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Frietjes:, good work creating this Cat, I have cleared out around 80% of the easy fixes and a few others, of the balance of the articles remaining around 80% do not show this error and most seem to be volleyball articles, so, can you tell me how this Cat is populated, as in is there a hidden script that runs that may need a minor adjustment, I would like to know to increase my depth of knowledge of how wiki works rather than find a quick fix for this one and move on, so if you have time to take me under your wing intermittently over the next few days and tutor/guide me that would be great. kind regards The Original Filfi (talk) 15:32, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Original Filfi, the volleyball articles are probably still in there due to caching issues. I fixed a navbox template used by many volleyball articles, but articles transcluding the template may still show up since they are cached. you can try (1) opening those articles, (2) making no edits, and (3) saving the article. if this doesn't remove the article from the category, let me know and I can track down the issue. Frietjes (talk) 15:34, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:57, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Frietjes. Small problem here. The Tennessee Volunteers team colors are orange and white. Bold white text reversed out of Tennessee orange looks fine to my naked 20/40 eyes and my 20/20 corrected vision, but only renders a color-contrast ratio of something like 2.5 to 1 (not even AA-compliant). Most, if not all, of the team navbox templates are defaulted to white text on orange background, and no one complains, but there have been several edit wars regarding the contrast per WP:COLOR over rivalry series tables, with Tennessee alumni and fans inevitably preferring white text over black. Is there any way we could add a black or gray outline to the white text to achieve the AAA color contrast, while preserving the white text? No rush. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 03:07, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dirtlawyer1 Tennessee? Who cares :) I thought you were one of those evil Floriduh nuts. Go Dawgs! Bgwhite (talk) 05:04, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Bgwhite: After the Gators have won three national championships, 8 SEC titles, and 20 of the last 26 games over Tennessee in the past 25 years, I think we can afford to show a little noblesse oblige, my canine friend. Besides, getting their school colors right is a very small thing at the end of the day. Go Dawgs, indeed. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 07:14, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Small historical note, Tennessee wore black every year before 1922, e. g. 1913 team (first season with jersey numbers too). I've been having trouble making the Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels' colors both legible and show up in the navbox and infoboxes. I had a similar problem with Centre College's black and yellow scheme and somebody other than me fixed it somehow. Cake (talk) 12:19, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Petrels navboxes and tables should be easy, Cake: black background, white text, gold highlights. No better contrast than white text on a black background. If this is still a problem, please ping me on my user page. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 17:22, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dirtlawyer1, above is an example using my limited CSS skills. note that all this extra stuff would be merged into the main module, so don't use this directly. someone like User:Redrose64 or User:Edokter could certainly come up with a better way to add a text outline. Frietjes (talk) 17:30, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not really... Text-shadow is pretty much the staple for outlining. There is -webkit-text-stroke, but has no wide support. -- [[User:Edokter]] ((talk)) 18:29, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Made a little CSS3 template, ((text-outline)), simulating the never-implemented text-outline property. -- [[User:Edokter]] ((talk)) 18:52, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Frietjes and Edoktor. That's a pretty darn good start. As a general rule, we normally use white text reversed out of the darker of the two team colors for the college sports navboxes, and use the lighter team color for the highlight 2-point tool-line that surrounds the navbox exterior (Frietjes is familiar, since she has done most of the coding for the college color module, as well as the varsity stripe graphic that was developed for Infobox college football player.) We also have a related, but different problem regarding the lighter color in the varsity stripe graphic and also in the navbox highlight tool-line when the lighter color is either a pale yellow or gold, or an off-white color like cream or ivory. Would it be possible to add a black or gray "shadow" to these highlight colors, so that we can use them as part of the varsity stripe graphic and navbox borders? The example that comes readily to mind are the team colors for the Oklahoma Sooners, which are crimson and cream. A 2 or 3-point cream highlight disappears in the surrounding white background without some kind of dividing line. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:18, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, the series record table of the Florida–Tennessee football rivalry article provides an example of the color contrast problem in the original context mentioned above. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:47, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please add |pushpin_map_caption= and |ref= and |familia= to the list of parameters that show article names at User:Frietjes/findargdups/status? Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:08, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jonesey95, yes, will do. Frietjes (talk) 14:32, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Some of those |ref= articles are pretty messy, with tricky referencing errors and multiple Harv referencing problems. Not straightforward. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:13, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Frietjes. Can you create a tracking category for all newly added instances of the Persondata template from and including June 1, 2015? Or, alternatively, for all articles created from and including June 1, 2015 which include a Persondata template? Should render nearly identical results. Don't need both, just whichever is easier to code. Thanks. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:10, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Don't think it's possible to add tracking category based on criteria, you need (page created after X/template added after X). Will try to get you such list. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 08:29, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Due to technical restrictions (time), it wasn't possible to get even a list of such articles, also with catscan - it just uses the largest database tables in Wikipedia - for templatelinks and revisions. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 09:57, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Edgars2007: I'm running the "catscan" tool now for the search -- recognizing that it's searching the entire EN database, how long should I expect that to take? It's already been spinning for 5+ minutes. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 13:52, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As I already said - catscan won't work in this case. It stopped for me after some 20 minutes (but maybe it tool longer time). Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 14:16, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

User:Dirtlawyer1, User:Edgars2007, try asking User:Bgwhite. basically, you should be able to generate a list of all articles using the template approximately before June 1, and after June 1 by looking at the May/June/July database dumps. then, sort the lists and perform a "diff". or there may be other more direct methods. Frietjes (talk) 14:26, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank, Frietjes. I'm not sure if BG is in a cooperative mood regarding anything to do with Persondata, but I will ask. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:28, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OK, found another way. Here is the list. At the top are recently created articles. There are 11024 articles. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 17:32, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Edgars2007: F---! That's a surprisingly large number of users who have not gotten the message that Persondata has been deprecated. Do you have a bot, Edgars? Can we send these article creators a user talk page message that (a) notifies them that Persondata has been deprecated and will be deleted in the near term, (b) ask them to transfer the verified name, brief description, DOB, POB, DOD, and POD to death the article's Wikidata profile, and (c) provide them with contact information for Wikidata questions? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 19:16, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

People are just copying things, not worrying about what that Persondata thing really is :) I don't have a bot, but I have a list of users :) There you can see also who are the problematic users. If you create some message, should be included some note about false positives - there may be some of them in list. --Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 20:40, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Frietjes: There has been some discussion of whether Module:College color/data should be template protected due to it potentially being high risk. I know little about Lua, so am seeking your technical input. Given the way this data module currently works, what is the worst damage a rogue editor could cause? Is it limited to having the wrong colors being displayed, or could something worse happen to pages that use it? You can respond here, unless you prefer to get involved in the wider discussion. Thanks in advance for your help.—Bagumba (talk) 22:49, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Bagumba, if you want to know the worst thing that can happen, you can try mangling the sandbox data version. a severe mangling would probably cause a lua error, which would cause the coloring to disappear everywhere it is used. a less severe mangling would cause the wrong colors to appear in some articles. a targeted vandal could make the text unreadable. Frietjes (talk) 14:30, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!—Bagumba (talk) 18:33, 18 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Frietjies, I see that you had a hand in the Transvaal Scottish page and I need your help. My grandfather served in one of the regiments but I only have the tartan to search on. I've been on numerous registers to no avail. Do you have any advice on how to locate the regiment? $123Nessa (talk) 18:55, 19 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For you hard work at cleaning up templates. Just checked my watch list and it BLEW UP with all the changes you made. Keep up the awesome work! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:05, 20 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Template:San Jose State Spartans women's basketball coach navbox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. This is a relist as a result of the discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2015 October 20 Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:13, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please modify Template:Infobox NFL coach so that the parameter names match Template:Infobox NFL player? Or vice-versa. -- Magioladitis (talk) 10:42, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) § HOVER LINK: HIDDEN ERROR: Usage of "_VALUE_" is not recognized; I think it may be relevant to this edit you made, or at least you know enough to be helpful to the issue. ((Nihiltres |talk |edits)) 04:14, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

probably not a problem with the module, but a problem with the hidden span format passed to the module. seems like you came up with a solution. Frietjes (talk) 14:53, 1 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]