User talk:Matjlav

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Hey there, if you want to criticize me or (gasp!) compliment me in some way, here's the place to do it. I only keep conversations of the current month here; if you want to see more, check out my archives (which are for my personal use as well).

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[edit] Talk:Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan

hi there Matjlav, yes if you want to rename the article, you have to post a renaming proposoal. i suggest if you want to pursue this issue to make yourself familiar with how to propose a renaming of articles, if you don´t know yet so. normally it´s done by putting a "{ { move | New name } }" in the talk page. if you need further assistance, glad to help you out... cheers. Antares911 21:13, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

If I'm not mistaken, the whole "renaming proposal" thing is only used for controversial items. I have received no opposition in the renaming of Aiko's page. I think I should go ahead and move it, since no one has voiced a disapproval to the idea.
  • Oops, forgot to sign. --Matjlav 23:31, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
i would really wait with this renaming procedure if i were you, considering it has only been a week. a renaming in this case is controversial, since we are not talking about a typo-error here. Gryffindor 17:53, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Juliana of the Netherlands

I've referenced your change to the opening phrase on the talk page. I think your change is probably correct, but I thought it worth checking. Hv 18:20, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Princess Alexandra of Greece

Could I please ask you to review the move you made in respect of this article, and see what has happened as a result? I think it should be returned to its previous place unless there is consensus for moving it. Deb 16:26, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

What happened? I don't see any problems except for a double-redirect from Princess Alexandra of Greece -> Alexandra Georgievna -> Alexandra Yurievna (to which another user moved it). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Matjlav (talk • contribs) 17:05, 12 August 2005.

As a result of changes made by you and User:Arrigo (who also changed Template:House of Oldenburg (Glucksburg-Greece)), the two different Princesses Alexandra of the Glucksberg-Greece branch (one the daughter of George I of Greece, the other the daughter of Alexander I of Greece) are once again totally screwed up - after I already straightened them out once. Not only that, but thanks to an anon, Alexandra Georgievna redirects to Princess Alexandra of Greece - which redirects back! I am extremely unpleased that you all are breaking things that used to work fine. Please stop it. Noel (talk) 23:47, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

PS: I don't usually check other User_talk: pages (so that I don't have to monitor a whole long list of User_Talk: pages - one for each person with whom I am having a "conversation"), so please leave any messages for me on my talk page (above); if you leave a message for me here I probably will not see it. I know not everyone uses this style (they would rather keep all the text of a thread in one place), but I simply can't monitor all the User_talk: pages I leave messages on. Thanks!

[edit] Image:Hansadam.PNG

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--Tgr 22:07, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] yup

Yup. There was a consensus on Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (biographies)/Style War proposed solution, which was widely advertised on Wikipedia, to remove all royal styles from the start of articles and replace them with style infoboxes. That is now being implemented. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 20:37, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] consort box

Thanks for creating another box. There are two problems with it however.

I suggested that all follow an identical placement, right rather than left, because, knowing the sensitivity of the whole styles issue, the greater the degree of similarity in placement the better. That way no-one can claim that one monarch or style is getting different treatment.

Secondly I don't think a full box works at all. Boxes originated in the cut and paste days of hardcopy. Unless used carefully they can appear overly heavy in design. I deliberately used what is generally seen as the best infobox on Wikipedia, the infobox on the popes, which is right idented and left lined. They look cleaner, and a right side to the box is not necessary but can unless perfectly aligned run outside the text border. The absence of a right line avoids that. It minimises the stamp impact of a box and makes it softer on the page, with the only line being the one needed to border where it links to text. I think the Queen Elizabeth one, by being fully bordered, doesn't fit cleanly on the page. Minimising borders avoids that layout problem.

BTW the British king box is not generic but exclusive to the UK monarchy. Other monarchs have their own boxes. That was to allow one generic image to be included in each box rather than have to manually place each image in place every time the image is added into the page. It also avoids squabbles over individual boxes by treating each royal box as a unified set with a unified automatic image. A generic imageless one also exists to cover individual monarchs that are not part of a set and need to have their own image, eg, Napoleon III of France. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 23:09, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Hey, Just been tweaking with consort styles template. As I feared (and experienced when designing other templates over the last year) full boxes are a problem. When looked at using different browsers all sorts of problems arose; the box overran, and looked heavy on the page. That is why I deliberately modelled the templates on the pope infobox, which minimises lines and so minimises overruns, or where they occur ensures that you can't see them. I made three changes

  • I remodelled it to match the others in the set;
  • I moved it to the right (to maintain visual consistency in all articles; and
  • I removed the QE crown from the template. The problem was that it was not the queen consort's crown, just a crown of a queen consort. Instead I've created a blank image command, so that when used an individual crown or image unique to that consort can be added in to each article where it is used. So the Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon article has her crown, while the Empress Eugénie article (where I have put the box) uses her crown. If and when we get other images of other consort crowns we can use them on individual pages. Where we have no crown we can use their royal standard of coat of arms.

I think it is important to keep all the templates the same in look and location. From direct experience (hours and hours trying to line up templates in articles, only to find on other browsers that they were out of line) I strongly believe that full boxes should be avoided like the plague if at all possible.

Slán

FearÉIREANN\(caint) 19:46, 25 August 2005 (UTC)


No problem. Thanks for creating it. I think the series of infoboxes works superbly in articles. I am rather chuffed at how well they work and how easily they solved an apparently insoluble problem. I'm not an expert on the commands used to create stuff like that here, though I have done layout design elsewhere off wikipedia, but they seem to have turned out OK with my amateur 'trial and error' method. Keep giving feedback. It is appreciated. This is very much a team effort. Slán FearÉIREANN\(caint) 18:06, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

BTW alternative spoken version is sire, pronounced syre, not sir pronounced which is pronounced surr. For some reason royalty still uses the older version of sire rather than the modern sir. But then sir also refer to baronets and knights, and I guess they don't want to be treated as mere knights and baronets!!! FearÉIREANN\(caint) 18:52, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Princephil2.jpg

Hi Matjlav. I was just wondering why you'd uploaded a new, slightly blurry version of Image:Princephil2.jpg when the previous version was much clearer and it's copyright seemed to be fine? Craigy (talk) 05:46, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Scottish Coat of Arms

What do you think should be the Coat of Arms displayed on the Scotland page? An edit war has been started by User:Mais oui! who wants to use the old arms of the King of Scotland, rather than the Royal Coat of Arms of Scotland. See Talk:Scotland. Astrotrain 21:59, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

NB — I am going through and disambiguating. The arms Astrotrain linked to above are no longer located at that page; they are now at Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (for use in Scotland). Doops | talk 03:29, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Survivor

It looks like you created the voting chart for Survivor: Palau. I tried to replicate it on Survivor: Guatemala, without luck (I don't have much experience with charts). Could assist, when you have time, by working on a voting chart for Survivor: Guatemala? Thanks. Wikipedianinthehouse 19:10, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] King Juan Carlos

Just wondering, why did you place in the name of a pretender in the succession box as preceding JC as King of Spain? WP policy is to list last king, not interim pretender. Pretenders only go in a succession box for heads of the royal house of something. They don't go in succession boxes listing monarchs. Only actually reigning monarchs go there. The last monarch before JC was Alfonso XIII so it is he and not his son who goes in the box. User talk:Jtdirl 05:59, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Beatrix image

Sorry, but your Image:Queen Beatrix.PNG was under a non-free license. "Non-commercial use" images are not allowed on Wikipedia. Please try to find a free alternative. — BRIAN0918 • 2005-12-2 17:01

Hi mate,

You may remember the war on styles that was waged some time ago and the eventual compromise reached which meant that styles (Holiness, Majesty, Royal Highness, etc) are no longer used at the start in royalty articles. A series of templates were created to enable users to warn other users who attempt to reinsert styles into articles that that is no longer WP policy. However a user who is trying to get a whole series of templates deleted has nominated them on the WP:TFD for deletion. I am thoroughly fed up having to defend necessary templates from the minority of deletion police on WP who seem to act as a group: one nominates, then the rest all vote to agree with them. All help to defend the necessary templates in the styles series gratefully received. Thanks. FearÉIREANN\(caint) 19:24, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Succession to the Kingdom of Jerusalem

(in which we crossover from Usenet) Is there any way you can send me a static copy of your trace from Janus of Cyprus to the Duc de Bauffremont Courtenay? The current article relies on older posts to a.t.r: [1]. However, the lines of descent seem sound, and I couldn't figure out how Bauffremont-Courtenay fits into the picture. Choess 17:41, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Infobox Biography

Template:Infobox Biography has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Infobox Biography. Thank you. DreamGuy 07:19, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pretenders Ernst August

Please see Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles)#Ernest Aug. and constibute to the discussion there. I look forward to people assessing UE:should English be used in all these cases and how; would any sort of numeral be acceptable; what are the correct ordinals anyway; and Is there any other sustainable way to disambiguate these systematically. Shilkanni 11:12, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Errors

Hey - in August 2005, you greatly expanded the artciel on Mack Mattingly, which is good, but you said that his second wife's name is Shirley. He has written in to say that his second wife's name is Leslie.

He doesn't seem to be upset, but I'd like to know where you got your information? DS 19:01, 21 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Image:Hendrik, Prince Consort of Denmark.PNG

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[edit] Image:Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark.PNG

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[edit] Saxophone Template Request

You know the template thing thats on the right side of a page that tends to be with most instruments. It tells the range and classification and all that sexy stuff. You did it with the mellophone, can you do it with the saxophone? Keysignal 12:31, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

I Thank thee for editing the saxophone pages. Peace be with thou.-- Keysignal 11:50, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:MargretheII.PNG)

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