User talk:PatrickFisher
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[edit] "Moving" pages
Please do not move a page by copying and pasting its contents in the new location. The correct procedure (which you've used in the past) is to click on the "move" tab and transfer the original page (with its revision history intact). For more information, see Help:Moving a page. Thank you! —David Levy 18:46, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
- Will do. Thanks for the reminder. PatrickFisher 18:54, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup templates
Hi, be careful with these. Some use "date=" and some use {{{1}}} and some are undated. While it would proabably be good to make them all "date=" it would need to be planned carefully. Your recent changes to Template:Unreferencedsect threw hundreds of articles out of their dated categories. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 14:58 7 December 2006 (GMT).
- Ok. Thanks for catching that. Are named parameters generally favored over ordinal ones? While it is a bit more work for the user, named parameters will allow for easier modification to the template (an important thing in a wiki), and don't cause problems with meta-templates which take multiple parameters, like {{tlx}} and {{tlrow}}. Hmm. -- PatrickFisher 15:06, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- The answer is, as usual, "it depends". But with these cleanup templates a number of bots add the date parameter, so the extra work is negligable. And having the bots do it means you don't get things like "Devember" as I typed earlier today, or more subtley "december"- lower case "d". Also if you add a named parameter to a template and it is unused, it doesn't matter, as you hint above. Rich Farmbrough, 15:17 7 December 2006 (GMT).
[edit] Expand Section/Expand Section Small
Hey, I've just reverted your edit to "expand section small" from the redirect. That template is designed to fit into a small space (hence the name) and redirecting the template to "expand section" completely removes its purpose. If you want to use a wider version, use "Expand Section". If you need to fit it into a small specified area, then use this template, but don't merge the two.
--lincalinca 21:29, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Templates
Hi, I see you're a name in the game. I've made a three templates, please check them out and let me know. They're {{tooshort}} {{LEAD}} and {{vagueintro}}. Cheers FrummerThanThou 04:31, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Unencyclopedic section template
As you requested at Wikipedia:Requested templates#Unencyclopedic Section Template, regarding the text that should be put into the template, its the same as the {{unencyclopedic}} template, the words "article" can be replaced for section, but the text should not suggest that the article should be deleted, rather the section should be deleted. I could also suggest another template purely for TV/radio schedules in a simliar tone, but with the text "blatant copyright violations should be removed and a note made on the article's talk page, along with the original source".
Thanks in advance. --tgheretford (talk) 17:39, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
