Wikipedia:Requested templates/Other/2006/April
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[edit] Legal citation templates
I noticed you have a Supreme Court case template, but not one for other court cases. It would be nice to have an easy way to format and link to a decision for federal district and appellate court decisions. —This unsigned comment was added by 65.102.51.155 (talk • contribs) .
- It would be nice, but I'm not aware of any web resource which allows open access to the decisions in all Federal cases. If you know of one then a template could certainly be set up to link to it. Decisions for individual cases which can be found somewhere on the net can be linked with Template:Cite web. --CBDunkerson 20:59, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] explicit language template
I believe it would be a good idea to have a small template on pages with profanity. i have seen and dealt with small children who have inadvertantly come upon pages with multiple profanities.
it might say something like: "WARNING: This page includes adult language, and is intended to be read by adults" or something.Vulcanstar6 00:38, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, this is a perennial complaint against established standards. See Wikipedia:No disclaimer templates, Wikipedia talk:Content labeling proposal, and m:End-user image suppression. I think that some means of allowing users to 'opt out' of certain types of content would be beneficial to Wikipedia, but to date no such effort has been accepted and every template created for this purpose has been summarily deleted (most recently last week). --CBDunkerson 11:51, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] speedy deletion for the reason of advertising or spam
a template that works like the db... templates, but shows the reason as being spam or advertising —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bill Sayre (talk • contribs) .
- Because the determination that something is 'advertising' or 'spam' can be subjective there isn't a speedy deletion criterion which covers those and thus no template for them. However, you can use {{prod|advertisement}} and if no-one removes the tag within five days it may be deleted by an admin (per Wikipedia:Proposed deletion). The base 'db' template can also be used with any reason under the form {{db|spam}}, but as noted this should only be used for established speedy delete criteria. --CBDunkerson 16:54, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] fictional
I was thinking that it might be a good idea to have a template indicating that a given page is about fictional material, seeing how some pages about characters do not mention that they are from a fictional universe until the middle of the article. Arctic Gnome 20:52, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
- This can be done by adding [[Category:Fictional characters]] or some other sub-set of Category:Fictional to the bottom of the article. It should also usually be possible to just add the word 'fictional' somewhere in the first sentence. --CBDunkerson 00:30, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Chinese Characters Templates
I would like a template that would alert readers to deal with articles with Chinese in the following ways:
- Translate pinyin to the corresponding chinese symbol(s)
- Translate chinese romanization to the corresponding pinyin or chinese
- Put simplified symbols next to traditional symbols and vice versa
- Translate english translations of chinese back to chinese and vice versa
Bibliomaniac15 00:35, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
- This seems too involved to handle with templates. It would be a tall order even for user scripts and Wiki templates aren't the same as a full programming language. You might try the existing Pinyin/Chinese auto conversion tools here. --CBDunkerson 20:56, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Let me clarify that the templates are to alert users of these problems, not to actually do these things. Bibliomaniac15 23:30, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
