Template talk:WPUKgeo

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[edit] To do categories, please

Could a template expert upgrade this template so that if the todo parameter is populated, the categories Category: To do and Category:To do, priority undefined or Category:To do, priority X are added to the page. That is, it would be helpful to see the same category functionality as {{to do}}. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:45, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template improvements

  • The template is rather big and ugly.
  • There's too much whitespace in the Todo section. I was gonna fix it myself but don't want to break your conditional code.
  • Using quality= rather than the standard issue class= isn't a great idea, as you lose the ability to have your template parsed by bots and tools without modifying them (e.g. my plugin).
  • The Todo comments are a nice idea, but why on earth didn't you go with the Wikipedia 1.0 /Comments scheme? Then you'd get the comments appearing in your Wikipedia 1.0 worklists (if you had one, it looks like you haven't even got that set up properly! - These links shouldn't be red: Index · Statistics · Log) Really if you don't know what you're doing you should have asked an expert to set it up for you. I'll try and get it patched up best I can now so the bot picks you up.
  • Please make sure you understand the importance ratings. Somebody rated Cheltenham as Low importance. Low is for cruft and peripheral stuff. Cheltenham is a historic spa town and a major centre for business in the South West. It would get into any reasonable print enyclopedia, so should be High or Mid (probably High). "Low" would be something like Piffs Elm. --kingboyk 10:13, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I've fixed up your categories so that Mathbot should pick them up now and your articles will be known to the Wikipedia 1.0 team. These links should turn blue overnight: Index · Statistics · Log
  • I've disabled "by priority" for now until you fix your ratings. Clue: England should be Top. What is more important in British geography than England?! Manchester should be higher than Mid (High or Top). Cheltenham should be higher than Low. It's such a mess it's best to turn it off for now (many WikiProjects don't even bother assessing by importance). Oh, by the way, perhaps you're confused about what "priority" means: it's just a politically correct way of saying "enyclopedic importance". If these ratings are meant to be the priority your project wants to assign to them for your workload, you'll need some new categories like "Todo priority". The scheme you're using is reserved specifically for Wikipedia 1.0 assessments of enyclopedic importance.
  • Please reduce the size of the template and fix the whitespace issue. --kingboyk 10:40, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Again, please? - Dudesleeper / Talk 12:11, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] To do list broken

{{editprotected}} Somehow the to do list functionality has been broken. For example, there is a 'todo' parameter in the template at Talk:Corsham. Yet it doesn't display (on Firefox - perhaps other browsers too.) Could someone knowledgeable in template syntax please investigate to see if the template needs to be fixed, or if the transcluding pages need to be changed in some way? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 13:45, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

It looks like |todo= is not supported by the template any more, and hasn't been since November 2007. It's probable that the WikiProject simply no longer wants to use this feature - try asking on WT:UKGEO if they still plan to use it. Happy‑melon 15:06, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Anyone object to reverting the template back to November 2007 when the todo parameter was deleted? Please speak up now, as who knows how many uses of the template were broken back then. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 21:55, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

I'd have to object to a revert, but only in the sense that the template since this time has an article assessment system built into it. However, I wouldn't mind a "To do list" being reinstated at all, if that is the issue. --Jza84 |  Talk  22:14, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
The new method for displaying the todo list appears to be putting the remarks into the comment subdirectory. See Talk:Hastings for an example. However, the WPUKgeo template does not show the comments, but the Sussex one does. I do not know if they are both supposed to show the comments, or just one? MortimerCat (talk) 00:22, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Add Category

{{editprotected}} Could the following be added to the template:

<noinclude>
[[Category:WikiProject banners|{{PAGENAME}}]]
</noinclude>

Thanks -- WOSlinker (talk) 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Y Done Happy‑melon 19:40, 25 April 2008 (UTC)