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[edit] Red links...

It is a questionable practice to implement the "Requests" as red links. The problem has to do with has dependencies are propigated via templates. The problem is that people who put the "Opentask" template on a page that does not change often, like their user page or their talk page (and then abandon their account), they freeze the dependencies at that point. That effects things like "What links here" and some of the ofhter reports in Specialpages, (like, "wantedpages"). Dead accounts from over a year ago who have not updated their user or talk page still remember the dependencies from the states of the "OpenTask" template at the time that they were last updated.

For instance, look at "Louisiana Public Service Commission". "What links here" reports almost 1000 dependencies and those are going to persist for a long time because a bunch of otherwise inactive user talk pages that use the "Opentask" template were recently updated. Maybe there is some other technique (and if not, perhaps a new feature request is in order) to cause a page to refresh its dependencies. -- 69.181.75.76 19:57, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

It looks like the software bug that was causing this problem may have been fixed. There are only three links report to "Louisiana Public Service Commission" now. -- Beland 00:01, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Famous French people

The pending requests for these biographies have been moved to Wikipedia:Requested articles/Other categorization schemes, due to the new auto-update scheme. -- Beland 00:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Font size

I returned the font size to 85%, where it has been for a while. 100% makes this template wrap to 3 lines per category on the Community Portal, which makes the column it is in too long. Also, the Mediation Cabal line is at 85%, and they should match. If a font size increase is desired (I'm not sure why), then we should consider reducing the number of characters per line. I can adjust the parameter Pearle uses to determine this, if necessary. -- Beland 19:14, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs

I noticed people removing a lot of non-stubs from the stubs line. Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs had accumulated a lot of non-stubs because it now needs to be purged manually. I went through that entire page and removed all the non-stubs I could find. But if you see a non-stub listed as a stub in the future, the best thing to do is to remove it from the MWS list, so it won't appear here again later.-- Beland 19:07, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Purge

Just a button to keep handy. Ignore its presence if you'd like. :)

Thanks. :) ~Kylu (u|t) 19:28, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adding this template to other pages

How can I add this template, for example to my user page? Is there any sort of {{[[Template:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]}} ? Turbinator 19:51, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Type {{Wikipedia:Community_Portal/Opentask}} into your userpage. It might not be the best method, but it works. --Sigma 7 23:02, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Question

This may not be the right place to post this but I can't sort out where else to ask. I noticed the External Link section has only one link. I'm rather an art fan, so I planned on entering links to the article to various resources that I find interesting. However, they seem to be continually removed. I'm not complaining, I'm asking, are external links to resources something not to put here? I realize this article is kinda special. I just don't want to be making work for people, or stepping out of bounds here. If it's not something that is wanted thats fine with me. Please advise.

[edit] Dual Core-Dual Processor

I would like to see a discussion about these two, for example Intels line of dual cores vs there pentium D (dual processors), the discussion can include advantages + disadvantages, this discussion would help new computer buyers like myself who still have questions on getting a cheap PD or an expensive Dual-core, i mean which is cost effective and ext...

tnx

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