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[edit] Question about the Bears seasons list

What if I were to remove all of the inactive links for the time being so all the red links are gone and then start adding them again when each of the individual season page is created? If I do that can I squeak by that set of requirements? I'm trying to set up a team on Wikipedia that can help me on the Bears team articles, and it will take some time for the articles to be written since their history is over 80 years long, and its just 2 users so far. --Happyman22 04:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey can you take a look at the list now...you think I met the majority yet or should I continue making article stub for each individual season? --Happyman22 03:05, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I article stubbed the whole season..taking your advice so if you would like to re-evaulate the list I have met your requirement. --Happyman22 04:03, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 1996 Yukon general election

I did not create the article, it was User:MS123 who created it under an IP address. It is true that most of the information came from me. I was a candidate and I had kept some of the riding election results on a spreadsheet which I sent to him via email. I am not sure where I got it from, that was more than 10 years ago: either from reports from NDP scrutineers or from some local newspaper or CBC; but I do believe they are fairly accurate. Luigizanasi 15:47, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Society Barnstar
For making fourteen featured lists within little over a month and thereby comprehensively covering the complete history of Canadian elections, I hereby award you this barnstar in social sciences.
--Arctic Gnome 18:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
I've promoted Canadian election timelines to featured status; again, well done. I guess all that's left is to wait until Nunavut has another election in 2009 so that every list can get featured. Until then I'll be trying to make featured topics out of the lists of Canadian premiers and lists of Canadian parliaments. --Arctic Gnome 17:52, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
This user helped promote the topic Canadian election timelines to featured status.

[edit] Consensus government

You might have noted that I changed a bunch of the Yukon general election articles you created to remove the mention of consensus government. There was no such thihng as consensus government prior to its creation in the Northwest Territories in the late 1970s. Elections without political parities do not necessarily mean that there is a consensus government. Prior to the advent of responsible government in the late 1970s/early 1980s, the territories were essentially colonies of the federal government, with the commissioner having all executive and most legislative powers. Luigizanasi 07:33, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Saffron image

What wrong with having the saffron image in the topic description on WP:FT? --Arctic Gnome 17:35, 13 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Your GA nomination of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

The article Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold. It hasn't failed because it's basically a good article, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within seven days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom for things needed to be addressed. Wikiwoohoo 19:00, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Provinces and territories of Canada

Hi Tompw,

(formatting, layout.... no need for {{navbox generic with image}})

Sorry you weren't keen on my input. I hoped it would:

  1. simplify the code;
  2. align the flag image;
  3. make the separators between links (the bullets) less conspicuous;
  4. adopt a standard look widely used and accepted elsewhere in the encyclopedia.

I guess none of these are needed – but, then again, neither is the status quo. Did any of the above contribute to your decision to revert...?  Regards, David Kernow (talk) 12:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

In order

  1. The code was already pretty simple and straighforward. Even it wasn't, it is not like this nav-box covers a rapidly changing subject which requires ease of editing.
  2. As far as I can tell, using {{navbox generic with image}} does not change the placement of the image - it's still floating on the right.
  3. Fair point - I've replaced • with ·
  4. Yes, the {{navbox generic}} look is widely used... but so is the look of the exsisting one. More generally, {{navbox generic}} *has* to be full width, which is not needed in this case. (The current format is three lines, and takes up around half the space). Further, the words "provinces" and "territories" would have to appear in a sepearte column, which isn't needed for the nav-box to be easy to use.

In short, I feel that in this case, using {{navbox generic with image}} does nothing to improve the nav-box, and arguably makes it worse. I'd like to poitn out that I have no objection to the generic nav-box in general - it's just in this case I feel it is not the right thing to use. Tompw (talk) 10:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I suppose it's all a matter of opinion, as I agree there's nothing dysfunctional or "wrong" about the template. The observation re the flag image was about its vertical alignment; sorry not to've made that clear. Thanks, though, for changing the separators; I've found bullets appear overly conspicuous on screen (especially laptop screens) and when printed. Best wishes, David (talk) 12:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Your GA nomination of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

The article Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom you nominated as a good article has failed , see Talk:Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of said article. If you oppose this decision, you may ask for a review. Wikiwoohoo 18:46, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Network Rail v Railtrack

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The name was quoted from the relevant, and still current, GMRT regs, admittedly issued in 2002, the date of the change to Network Rail Suckindiesel 17:01, 2 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Your GA nomination of Pygmy Right Whale

The article Pygmy Right Whale you nominated as a good article has failed , see Talk:Pygmy Right Whale for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of said article. If you oppose this decision, you may ask for a review. Peripitus (Talk) 08:57, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Math rating template

I tested a few changes to the math rating template in my sandbox. This page shows the new version, and the code is here. If you don't object, I'll update the template itself soon. CMummert · talk 18:22, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

The changes you made were reasonable. I changed the padding some, which may resolve your problem of having the image too close to the borders. I don't like it when there is a line break between WikiProject and Mathematics in the large version, so I added a nbsp there in the large version that seems to accomodate it. To see how a line break can happen, set your minimum font size relatively large and make the text column about 6in wide. CMummert · talk 23:01, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
I can't see what the sequences of four nbsp characters in a row are doing - they make the small template look very strange in my browser. CMummert · talk 04:28, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Featured topics boxes

Hi, I just edited Template:Featured topic box to the new layout as discussed at Wikipedia talk:Featured topics. In the process I broke your page User:Tompw/featured topics. You can get the new wiki code for the boxes from pages like Wikipedia:Featured topics/boxes/Star Wars episodes if you wish. — Timwi 18:13, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Final Fantasy GAs

I applaud your bold move. Even if they don't get the GA status, we'll get valuable constructive criticism. — Deckiller 00:25, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] United States Navy enlisted rates

Good afternoon, I noticed that you promoted the enlisted rate list and I have a question. I renamed the list during the nomination process from United States Navy enlisted rate insignia -> United States Navy enlisted rates but the featured list page has it listed as the former with a redirect. I was curious if this could be changed? I would do it but since I was the primary editor of the list I don't want any misconceptions of impropriety. Also since I'm already leaving you a note and you may have just not gotten around to it yet but, you didn't add the featured list indicators to the articles.Cheers — WilsBadKarma (Talk) 15:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Done Tompw (talk) 17:38, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dates in image names.

Hi Tom, thanks for bringing this up, and for fixing the article. Problem will be avoided in future. Rich Farmbrough, 10:05 19 February 2007 (GMT).

[edit] commons:User:Tompw

I am the same person as commons:User:Tompw. Tompw (talk) 17:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:FLC archives

Sorry for messing with the archives for January and February, but I only just noticed that recent ones had been added at the bottom, and 18 months of archives to December 2006 go the other way! I used to add a comment at the top of the monthly archive pages, but stopped when it seemed to be sufficiently ingrained in the culture. You were not to know. -- ALoan (Talk) 18:43, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Communities in regions

Thanks for finishing that off. I got tired and went to sleep. I have a question though. Should it be "Communities in name" or "Communities in name region"? CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

OK. Now I'm not sure if I should go back and change the others. On the other hand should they be "Something in/of the name" That would fit in more with the MOS under common names as we live in "the Kitikmeot" and "Iqaluit is in the Qikiqtaaluk". CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:53, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Ah, never mind. I just looked at Category:Ukraine and they are all without using "the". CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 17:19, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Finally found Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places)#Maintain consistency within each country and then Category:York Region, Ontario, Category:Fraser Valley Regional District, British Columbia and Category:Comox-Strathcona Regional District. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 17:56, 23 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Your GA nomination of Final_Fantasy_XII

The article Final_Fantasy_XII you nominated as a good article has failed , see Talk:Final_Fantasy_XII for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of said article. If you oppose this decision, you may ask for a review. Funpika 23:39, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Navigation template formatting

The formatting that you have changed on {{GWR Locomotives}} and {{LMS Locomotives}} templates is not quite right - the "Locomotives of" wraps to two lines, whereas on the LNER and SR templates it is on just one. Could you revisit the GWR and LMS templates to correct this, I can't see what is wrong with the format commands myself. Geof Sheppard 13:46, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Message left on talk page Tompw (talk)

[edit] List of premature obituaries

Hi Tom - thanks for your comments on this featured list candidate (FLC page). I've now made all the suggested changes that have come in, including yours re adding a dynamic list tag. If you're happy with the list now, I'd be grateful if you could provide a 'support' vote. Thanks! Ben Finn 13:39, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] math rating issues

I am concerned about the table Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Mathematics articles by quality statistics:

Mathematics
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 5 3 3 3 14
A 9 6 1 16
Good article GA 2 7 6 15
B 52 58 36 13 3 162
Start 22 29 40 31 2 124
Stub 6 20 32 472 530
Assessed 90 109 106 79 477 861
Unassessed 0 0 0 0 12 12
Total 90 109 106 79 489 873

There is no row for B+ class articles, but there are 38 articles in Category:Bplus-Class_mathematics_articles. The count of 141 in Category:B-Class_mathematics_articles is correct, not counting the B+ articles. So it appears that B+ articles are not counted at all in the table. I am asking you because you seem to be the expert on these things. I also asked Oleg, who runs the WP 1.0 bot that updates the table.

By the way, I implemented the new math rating template this morning, and I took care of all the articles in the "unassessed" categories except for the images. CMummert · talk 15:21, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

I have been in touch with Oleg, and he points out that since the B+ is a project-specific rating, not on the WP 1.0 assessment scale, he doesn't want to modify the WP 1.0 bot to count B+ articles. I appreciate that argument.
I am going to put a comment on the math project talk page about this, so I will keep this comment short. CMummert · talk 16:17, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
I was wrong that the B+ articles aren't counted - Salix Alba already has the B+ articles appearing in the B-class category, since last September. But this fact seems to be not well documented. CMummert · talk 16:43, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Premature FLC

I gather you are an expert on WP:FLs given your user boxes. I believe I am bringing a pretty popular list toward WP:FL status. I am still responding to very recent criticism. Why did you tag it as a failed list with such recent progress toward such recent criticism. TonyTheTiger 21:13, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Also, you oddly tagged it as failed without closing the discussion page. TonyTheTiger 21:20, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Canada topic

I saw your edit summary. Just wondering is there a place on WP that says lists of Canadian territories and provinces must be in geographical order? The reason is I would like to challenge that convention. While it makes sense if you live in Canada it must be very odd for a non-Canadian to try and figure out. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 14:29, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Ah well, I was hoping for something like WP:geographical ordering of Canada's territories and the other bits. I agree that once you see a map of Canada it does make sense to order them that way and fortunately there aren't a lot so it can be done without causing the reader any trouble. By the way though, Template:Canada provinces map, talk about ironic. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 22:01, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
Look at the order of the first two parameters. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 22:19, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Math rating table

I noticed that you edited the math rating table. The script does not just update the individual entries; it replaces the entire table, so your edits were lost this morning when the script ran. So I changed my script to incorporate your changes. If you have any other suggestions for the table, please let me know and I will implement them as I am able. CMummert · talk 14:58, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NS elections table

At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:NS_elections2.gif the 1988 bar reverses the Liberal and NDP seat totals. Otherwise very neat. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.156.15.173 (talk) 01:57, 6 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Texas, GA condidate

I just wanted to let you know that I've put Texas on hold as a GA candidate until some issues are resolved. You can see the article's talk page for details. -- Ash Lux (talk | contribs) 18:42, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A note

September 11, 2001 attacks:

[edit] Template:Conference National teamlist

Hi, I saw your edit to this, changing it to the old layout. I was wandering that maybe it should be like how it was, as the Premier League teamlist uses it for example, and it also lets it be merged with teams boxes e.g. like on Arsenal F.C. Just thought i'd say. Thanks. -- Mattythewhite 17:20, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please stop your AWB edits to discuss this:

Could you tell me why it is a good idea to plaster talk pages with the banner of Wikipedia:WikiProject Non-league football when those talk pages already have the banner of the football WikiProject? A banner which has the same logo even...

It ought to be blatantly obvious - but seemingly isn't - that you should organise as a workgroup of the main project and share a banner by way of a parameter. --kingboyk 19:48, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Territorial evolution of Canada FLC

I've responded to your concerns, please let me know what you think. Thanks. --Golbez 18:55, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of counties in Kentucky

Thanks for adding the extremely impressive image map to List of counties in Kentucky. In the interests or readability, I moved it from the very start of the page to lower down. I restored the individual county maps, as they enable anybody reading the article to instantly see where the county there are interested in is. I also dropped the size of the image slightly to prevent horizontal scrollbars (you don't have to chnage the image maps co-ords for that). Tompw (talk) 11:35, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, as you know, there's another 49 states to work through, should you have any free time :-) Tompw (talk) 11:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Well, actually there are only a total of 46 states in the United States, and there are still 46 left. (Kentucky is the one most people forget isn't a state; even I didn't have it the first time I was asked. I note people can usually get the other three.) Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 19:21, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:High-speed rail

I don't agree that it should be High Speed lines. There are a lot more high speed lines than the ones named and also of the many named, most are international. Maybe it could be "Examples of high-speed lines"? Simply south 12:41, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

How about all the UK "classic" main lines? Simply south 13:48, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
WCML. Simply south 23:13, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PlanetMath Exchange edits

Hi Tompw, thanks for your recent contributions to the PlanetMath Exchange Project, its been a bit moribund there. In case you didn't know, it isn't necessary to update Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/PlanetMath Exchange/Table of topics, since Oleg's Mathbot updates it nightly. Regards Paul August ☎ 15:59, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] About the width of the templates

Hi Tompw!
I've seen you've created some templates and I just wanna tell you i have a problem to see them because of the width. ¿couldn't you put "596px" or less, and not "56em"? It's to big for my screen resolution.

Thanks. Javitomad Madrid (...tell me...) 11:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] California high-speed rail

Hi, I really like the route diagram you added to the article, it is much better than the station listings. I have a suggestion and request to make. Is it possible to distinguish the first phase between San Francisco and Los Angeles from the rest? Thanks for your hard work on the article. --Will74205 23:36, 24 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] UK railway route maps

Whilst you are converting the main articles, can I ask you a big favour and consider converting the Worksheets within my Sandbox area - a list with links is at User:Pencefn/Historical Scottish Railways. Many thanks in advance, Stewart 11:37, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

The articles I'm working through hare all those that contain the icon, so they should all get done. If there any I've missed once Whifflet Line has been done, let me know. Tompw (talk) 11:41, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Not many of the Scottish Historical ones contain , however all contain , or . Stewart 11:48, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Typo... I meant the icon. Tompw (talk) 11:50, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
Great - I leave you to the good work. Stewart 11:52, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!


Thanks again for your support and comments - List of Pennsylvania state parks made featured list!
Take care, Ruhrfisch 17:17, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] B&NSR route map...

... looks really good. But you've missed out Clutton! (I'd edit it if I knew how!). Johnlp 23:31, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Channel Tunnel Rail Link

You had similar ideas to me about the CTRL route map and I ended up with an edit-conflict. I think I've got all the changes from you incorporated when I pasted it over. Could you check things if you get a chance. Sladen 00:51, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Channel Tunnel Rail Link

Your change "route map - remove bits of SE main line" appears to have removed the north-board connection between Eurotunnel and the CTRL, was this intentional? The CTRL splits and "surrounds" Dollands Moor. It now appears to show logistical possibilities that I don't believe exist! You can see the track layout on high resolution satellite photos: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=51.0918,1.1&z=15&t=k Sladen 19:00, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

I've reverted this and tried to add extra notes about what is happening, though it could definately do with being even clearer. Sladen 19:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Notability (people)#Regarding notability of Football (soccer) players

Hi, seeing you are interested in football this is an invitation to contribute to this discussion to clarify certain issues about football player notability. I think clearer guidelines are needed to avoid repeated inappropriate nominations for deletion and time consuming discussions. Cheers! StephP 20:27, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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