Wikipedia:Requested templates/Other/2006/November

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Contents 1 Project Needs Update 2 Additional (cricket) all-rounder table 3 New Article 4 Two templates request 5 db-school 6 db-again? 7 100+ Premier League Goals Club

[edit] Project Needs Update

My suggestion is a template to be placed on Wikipedia-namespace pages that need updating (e.g. collaboration pages that are inactive, or RfAs open longer than they should be). What I specifically have in mind for the template's first usage is on Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations, which has multiple mottos that are over 7 days old, needing attention from an overseer. The template could look something like:

This project page needs to be updated. Parts of this page have existed longer than {{{1}}}, and are in need of closure/archival. Overseers or experienced contributors to this page: Please fix the page as necessary, and remove this template when done.

--Gray Porpoise 22:39, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Additional (cricket) all-rounder table

Is there any chance of creating an all-rounders table for players who have scored 3000 runs and taken 300 wickets in Test matches. There is already a table for players who have scored 2000 runs and taken 200 wickets in Test matches. Big Al 1984 11:44, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

See Template talk:All-rounders for discussion and help I need in creating it. --MECU≈talk 17:13, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Article

If the worst company in the world (Micro$oft) can give me a choice of templates when I ask for a new document, why doesn't Wikipedia?

Having started a few articles (and having had more deleted), I can never remember what kinds of things ought to go in. Eventually I started a template article of my own: User:Haseler/template with the common headings. It ought to have e.g. some category information a "{ { stub } }" & "{ { underconstruction} }" notice at the top (but that wrecks Wikipedia if I leave it there!) If for new users it ought also to have a link to "how to edit a page" and "shortcuts" or whatever it is.

What I personally would like to do be able to do is to open a new page for editing and put:

{ { NewArticle} }, save it and magically a template article appears.

Better still, I would be given a choice of articles: biography, history, ideas, etc. and suitable headings etc. would appear for the respective category. (I also think when a new page is created there should be the option to place it on a user's testpages)

Ideally all new articles would open with this template as a default - which experience users could remove/Opt out of in preferences! --Mike 09:26, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

This is not an issue of creating templates, this is a request for a new feature of MediaWiki. Nobody can help you here. Try making a new feature request at the MediaWiki bug-tracker site. --Dgies 06:28, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

This is, in fact, bugzilla:3201. -- Rick Block (talk) 14:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

This can be done with the "preload" functionality of the Inputbox extension. I believe it is currently installed on WP in some form, but it was a little inconsistent last time I looked at using it. Have a look at m:Help:Inputbox#Preload.

I just played with it a little and it seems to be working: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_a_big_dodo_if_I_save_this?action=edit&preload=User:Haseler/template Mike Dillon 15:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Just to note, I don't think this is appropriate to introduce across the board, but I see no problem with you using it for yourself. Just for fun, I did some hacking of my monobook.js to add a form to the "newarticletext" box that shows on the top of a new article. It's in a function called addPreloadArticleTemplate and requires my Easy DOM script. Mike Dillon 16:25, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Does Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Wizard-Introduction address any of the needed functionality? John Broughton | Talk 02:53, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Two templates request

Greetings

I apologise in advance if these already exist, but I would like to see two templates:

1. Template on Slovak motorways/motorroads - nearly all articles about these already exist.

2. Template on Bratislava bridges.

Thank you. MarkBA 17:11, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

More info is needed. What subjects will be included in each template? —Dgies^t c 09:17, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] db-school

There's more to this one than requesting the template I know, but can we have a custom db-school template stating that the article in question has been requested to be speedily deleted because it doesn't assert why the school, university, college or other educational institution is important or notable? •Elomis• 06:09, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

I've created {{db-school}}, but don't use it for secondary education or higher. There's discussion about whether or not such institutions are inherently notable, so marking them for speedy would be inappropriate. -Amarkov ^blah_edits 05:21, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Note - this template was deletedDaniel()Folsom ^T|_C|^U 17:10, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] db-again?

I've just found out we're not to use db-repost if something didn't *actually* go through an AfD discussion- so, could we get a speedy deletion template, reason being something like "this is a repost of an article previously nominated, and speedy-deleted," to db-tag articles when they were speedy-deleted? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cantras (talk • contribs).

No, we can't. The speedy criterion explicitly does not apply to previous speedies, so you couldn't use such a template. -Amarkov ^blah_edits 05:14, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

with what you said, I'm not sure if you're confirming that db-repost isn't kosher for past speedy deletes, or if you're saying "previous speedy deletion can't be used as a cause for new speedy deletion." Which, i don't know, it seems like it would be, or would be relevant somehow- sortof a "an admin thought this should be deleted once already." Cantras 04:27, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm not saying it shouldn't be, but it isn't, so you're going to have to get discussion about it over at WT:CSD, and get consensus that G4 should include speedies, before anyone's going to create the template. -Amarkov ^blah_edits 04:29, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Speedies may be performed for reasons that are too varied fro such a template to be useful. If a Verbascum blattaria article is created and deleted as {{db-nonsense}}, it would theoretically be eligible automatically under such a criterion... Circeus 05:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 100+ Premier League Goals Club

Could someone create a template for all the footballers who have scored at least 100 English Premier League goals. There are currently 13 players to have achieved this feat - Alan Shearer, Ian Wright, Andy Cole, Dwight Yorke, Michael Owen, Teddy Sheringham, Matt Le Tissier, Robbie Fowler, Les Ferdinand, Dion Dublin, Thierry Henry and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink. Big Al 1984 12:53, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Done. See {{FA Premier 100 Goal Scorers}}. I guessed it was FA Premier so if that's wrong we can change that. If you don't like something about it you can edit it yourself or let me know. I'll leave it up to you to include this on each of the pages of the players listed. --MECU≈talk 17:09, 30 November 2006 (UTC)