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[edit] Tallest structures - "Paris area"

A few of us have managed to come into agreement over an "in the Paris area" title - as a former participant in the discussion, your views and vote on the matter would much be welcome at Talk:List of tallest buildings and structures in Paris. Thank you. THEPROMENADER 17:43, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your vote, but one thing to note: "Paris" does not signify any "greater Paris area" - to both locals and reference. Textbook definition of a place is important here, as the article is an explicit "list of X in X". Also, you'll find that, contrary to what you said in your vote, no other "list of x in x" article has an incorrect title - objects are either within the space indicated, or have a secondary and quite separate list for notable structures in the vicinity. Were this applied to the "in Paris" article, you would have a "secondary list" that is 70% of the article.
You can refer to Tallest buildings in New York City, List of tallest buildings and structures in London (remember the all-too real administrative "Greater London" is known even officially as "London"), List of tallest buildings in Chicago. If you would like to see "bigger than textbook definition" solutions, I can cite Category:Chicago area expressways and Boston-area streetcar lines. Please reconsider your vote - thanks. THEPROMENADER 07:01, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image tagging for Image:Gediminas Kirkilas.jpg

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[edit] Lithuania reward

Yes, it is still open. I am even considering increasing the reward. So if you are really interested in, say, Politics of Lithuania (fun topic, btw) go ahead. If you need help or some tips, just ask me. I would prefer to communicate via email (attach @gmail.com to my username) because I left Wikipedia, and after my withdrawal period ends I don't expect to log on WP. Creidieki decided to add additional $ to the reward. Ask him if he's still offering that. Renata 00:32, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Olympic Games logos

Hi there...

I came across this list of images that are marked as fair use but are not currently used in any articles (execpt boxing and wrestling). Instead of just marking all for deletion under orphaned fair use, I thought I would give you a chance to make use of them. I am sure they will have a use later, but as of now, they are orphans. If there are any questions, please let me know on my talk page.--Gay Cdn (talk) (Contr.) 22:22, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

I brought this to you because they are ophaned and copyrighted, as such, they are elegible to be deleted. You could create stubs for them, another option is to create a page in your sandbox and load them there. A final optionis to load them into WPCommons.--Gay Cdn (talk) (Contr.) 02:06, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Australian Olympic medalists in Swimming 2

Hello Jared. I hope you are well. Back in May, I put this up for FLC, and you asked for further improvements. I haven't gotten around to it until now, do you may want to have another look. Thanks, Blnguyen (bananabucket) 00:00, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] {{Olympic Games}}

Tom, I was just going to fix up that Olympics template myself. I went to press preview, and you had already made the changes. That's funny. → JARED (t)  12:47, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Great minds think alike :-) Glad you like it. Tompw 12:55, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
I just fixed that template up using Template:navigation, which I think looks better. I used your edits as a jumping off point. I like how I did the "rings" with the five links. It looks good, right? Anyway, edit it at your will, I just thought the nav. temp would make it more uniform. Thanks for getting me started! → JARED (t)  13:08, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
There a few problems with {{Navigation}}... firstly, it insists on making the body conmtents "small", which causes accessability problems. (I strongly belive that WP is for evryone, including those with inperfect eyesight. If the small font size was so wonderful, we'd have everything in WP in it... but I digress). Secondly, it has to be full width, which is not needed (the Olympic Games template requires five lines either way, and looks all strung out in tehfull width versio). Thirdly, you can't set the header bar colour... I'm assumeing someone set that for a reason, so I like to be able to keep it.
That said, I really like that five rings/colours bit at the top :-) . I've kept that, but gone back to Tnavbar-header (which is so widely used it canalso be considered standard). Tompw 13:21, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I think I was the one who came up with those colors. I had originally planned to have colors for each set of games (see User:JP06035/sandbox3) but that was too obnoxious. That said, the colors can stay or they can go. It doesn't matter to me. And I do see your point. It looks almost exactly the same anyway. → JARED (t)  13:35, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Olympic results section test

Hi Jared, the test looks good! I think we need to get section editing sorted out before this goes "live". Expecially on large pages like that, editors will typically work on a sport at a time, and it's almost impossible to scroll through the full page results to find the right spot. But it's getting closer!! Andrwsc 17:18, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I think so, too. But I still have no idea about how to go about doing it. → JARED (t)  18:35, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
I've got something that might be workable. (User:Andrwsc/Test) I had to split the template into two parts, one for the pictogram rendering and another for the section wrapper. (We'd probably want to wrap the div/div stuff into a "section end" template too.) That puts the edit button and the hide/show button on different lines. At first glance, not using a single template might look inelegant, but there are some benefits. First, on pages where a nation only has a handful of athletes, we can still use the pictogram header but it would be overkill to use the hide/show sections. Second, it provides an opportunity for some narrative text to appear outside of the hidden results section. This might be good for a casual reader scanning the article without having to hit show/hide on each section. What do you think? Andrwsc 20:22, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Brilliant! Haha. It's great. Because we really wouldn't want the whole sections hidden, we'd want the introductory text. I've actually gotta go now, so if you do anything extra, just infer what I'd say or do. Have a good day! → JARED (t)  20:41, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Connecticutforlieberman.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:Connecticutforlieberman.jpg. I notice the 'image' page currently specifies that the image is unlicensed for use on Wikipedia and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see our fair use policy).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Fritz S. (Talk) 14:38, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Olympic sports

Just to say how nice all those tables now look with those images, hehe. Nice work, Jared! Parutakupiu talk || contribs 21:04, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Olympic Medals.xls listed for deletion

An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Olympic Medals.xls, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in its not being deleted. Thank you. —Gay Cdn (talk) (Contr.) 02:33, 2 December 2006 (UTC)