Wikipedia:Requested templates/Existing/2007/June

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[edit] Request:Simple English Wikipedia

I would like to request a user-box that states the following: "This user contributes to the Simple English Wikipedia with the same user name." I would like the "Simple English Wikipedia" part to be linked to the site itself ([1]). I would like there to be a picture on the left of a cartoonish dictionary (more specifically, it should be borderline type between cartoon and real). The background of the picture should be a light blue. The background of the text should be a light green. The text itself should be bright bold red. The border between the picture and the text should be a 2 px dark orange. The ratio between the text area and the picture area should be approximately 4.2/1 (or something like that). The border of the user-box should be a 5-10 px (whatever suits better) dark brown. The name can be whatever may seem appropriate for this user-box. SEVERAL thanks to whoever can make this for me. Thanks. Universe=atomTalk•Contributions 12:15, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Why not just use {{User wikisimple}}, an existing userbox? Nihiltres(t.c.s) 13:08, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, I did not know that that existed. Universe=atomTalk•Contributions 17:12, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Legendary creatures infobox template

It would be nice with an infobox for legendary creatures (such as dragons, centaurs, so on), in a style similar to the animal and paranormal creatures infoboxes, which can be seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Paranormalcreatures

So I could imagine it ending up looking something like this:

{{Infobox Legendarycreatures
|Creature_Name  = (Creature_Name)
|Image_Name     = (Image_Name)
|Image_Caption  = (Image_Caption)
|Grouping       = (Grouping)
|AKA            = (AKA)
|Mythology       = (Mythology)
|Region         = (Region)
|Habitat        = (Habitat)
|Related creatures = (Related creatures)
}}


And perhaps with a green or otherwise "mythological" colour, whatever that is. Anyone able to help? Funkynusayri 13:19, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

I made a crap template, if anyone wants to change something, it's here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Legendarycreatures Funkynusayri 15:02, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Multiple page citations

I think it would be useful to make a template that allows for different pages from the same book (or website) to be cited without having to reference the whole book again in the same article.

For example, the article Magic circle references two books for several different passages, but uses different pages. It would be much tidier if it appeared something like this:

  • Buckland, Raymond (2002). Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft, Second edition, Revised & Expanded, Llewellyn Publications. ISBN 0-87542-050-8.
  1. Page 64
  2. Page 65
  3. Page 224

  4. Occult 100. Retrieved on 9 June 2007.
  5. Starhawk, The Spiral Dance 83

Jcvamp 01:04, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Use <ref> tags as usual, but only include the page number, author and year. Then, use the {{cite}} templates in a separate section for references near the bottom of the page, usually after the notes section. See Mormon handcart pioneers for example. –Pomte 05:05, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I've done that, but I also added note templates on the longer information so that, if the article gets longer, the relevant book information can be accessed from the page reference. It still would be handy to make a template that does this automatically; the Mormon handcart pioneers is complicated.--Jcvamp 06:43, 13 June 2007 (UTC)