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Archive of User talk:Zyxw from 2-Jan-2007 through 27-Jun-2007:

Contents 1 Template:Airlines of the United States 2 List of people from Delaware 3 Template:Airport frame 4 Infobox 5 Images listed for deletion 6 Vancouver Harbour Water Aerodrome 7 Navbox generic/doc 8 An Invite to join Aviation WikiProject 9 Welcome! 10 Infobox Airport 11 Just to say... 12 Templates 13 Barnstar 14 McNary Field on Oregon List 15 Zalpa Bersanova 16 Template:PiHKAL 17 Image:Dfw brand.gif 18 Template:Kentucky Parks 19 Two template related proposals 20 Protected areas of Washington 21 Better source request for Image:HNH-a.jpg 22 Non-free use disputed for Image:Logo-armee-de-lair.jpg 23 Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Assessment/Biman Bangladesh Airlines 24 Gardner Municipal Airport (Kansas) 25 Biography templates 26 Template help 27 Infobox Writer 28 Template:South Florida metropolitan area 29 Coordinates

[edit] Template:Airlines of the United States

Hi. I just created Template:Airlines of the United States and wanted to know if you thought it was a good idea and also whether you had any edits you think should be made to it. Lots of other countries have such a template, so I think it's in good form, but I still think it could use some work. I'm also wondering also whether it should be split to continental US and Alaska only airline templates, as Alaska in particular has a lot of little airlines, many of which have no articles to their name. Anyway, let me know what you think, or just edit away. Or if this isn't up your alley, then nevermind. :) Thanks. --Allstar86 07:26, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Looks good to me. I'm just hoping someone will create the missing articles for those small airlines in Alaska which provide scheduled passenger service. If anyone is interested, here's a partial list taken from the Essential Air Service article (also, a few of these are missing from your template):

40-Mile Air - http://www.40-mileair.com

Alsek Air Service - http://www.alsekair.com

Copper River Air Taxi - http://www.copperriverair.com

Ellis Air Taxi - http://www.ellisair.com

Harris Aircraft Services - http://www.harrisaircraft.com

Island Air Service - http://www.kodiakislandair.com

Servant Air - http://www.servantair.com

Taquan Air - http://www.taquanair.com

Warbelow's Air Ventures - http://www.warbelows.com

Ward Air - http://www.wardair.com

If not, I will get around to it... eventually. -- Zyxw 12:02, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of people from Delaware

That page was intentionally deleted because it was turned into the category. It wasn't an AfD and there's no reason you can't recreate it... but, I just wanted to let you know. gren グレン 03:15, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I am adding a navigation box to all the articles titled List in people in <state> and noticed that only Delware and South Dakota did not have such a list. -- 03:19, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Airport frame

I was trying to get the templates out of Category:Airports since they are not really part of the encyclopedia. Vegaswikian 09:29, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

I have removed Category:Airports from {{Airport frame}} and all the other templates associated with airport infoboxes: {{Airport title}}, {{Airport image}}, etc. This category being added is my fault: I originally did it in response to {{Airport infobox}} being tagged as {{uncategorized}}, then left it there when I later added the more appropriate Category:Transportation infobox templates. -- Zyxw 10:23, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox

Thought you might be interested in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Airports/Infobox#Infobox overhaul as I brought up your new Template:Infobox Airport. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 02:18, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for mentioning my proposed new airport infobox template at Wikipedia talk: WikiProject Airports/Infobox #Infobox overhaul. I planned on starting a new topic there to gauge the interest in using it, but got sidetracked with other projects. It was only after your message on my talk page that I realized it has been 11 days since I moved it from my User space to Template: Infobox Airport. Guess it's time I headed over to that WikiProject page and posted a message. Thanks also for the suggested improvements which I'll attempt to add to the template. -- Zyxw 13:48, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

I had seen it some time ago but figured you wanted to work on it some more, so didn't mention it. It was only when it came up in the discussion I that I thought it better discuss it than start a third one. The Template:Infobox Weather is the one that allows for the metric/imperial switch. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 22:19, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images listed for deletion

Some of your images or media files have been listed for deletion. Please see Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion if you are interested in preserving them.

• Image:00010AD.gif
• Image:00020AD.gif

Thank you. —Remember the dot (t) 06:18, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I see that your PNG crusade bot uploaded PNG conversions of these GIF images and updated the associated articles to use the new image:

• Image:FAA diagram of Greater Binghamton Airport.png
• Image:FAA diagram of Albany International Airport.png

I have no problem with the old images being deleted since they are now orphaned. - Zyxw 12:04, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vancouver Harbour Water Aerodrome

I needed to get the image, with caption, in at a reasonable size so I used your new template. I like the way that it does not automatically link the location/serves as it leaves more scope for multiple links. One odd thing I noticed is I can't get the statistics to show up. If you look at Toronto Pearson International Airport you can see what I mean. It would be good to have that available as an optional part of the box as several airports have it tacked on to the bottom. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 09:05, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. That looks great now. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 12:23, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

I see that you noticed my updates to Vancouver Harbour Water Aerodrome and Toronto Pearson International Airport to use the new statistics parameters of the {{Infobox Airport}} template. If you have any other suggestions, I've posted an update and request for comments at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aviation/Airport Infobox. Thanks for all the input you've provided so far. -- Zyxw 07:55, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Navbox generic/doc

Hi Zyxw, I've been trying out your template examples at Template:Navbox_generic/doc and would like some advice/help. My templates are at User:Ctbolt/RAAF4. What I want to do is to have my list within the Navbox left aligned so it is easier to view. In "{{Navbox generic" I couldn't work out how to left align the list however in your examples "{| border=0 class="navbox collapsible"" I could. However, I'm having trouble setting the state to collapsed and the colour to 'lightsteelblue'. Can you help? thanks - Ctbolt 03:42, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

In reply to your question about {{Navbox generic}} and making the list items left-aligned in User:Ctbolt/RAAF4, I looked at your template right after you asked and noticed you figured it out a few minutes later in this edit. There is still one small bit of code remaining from converting the table to a template: on the line that starts with |text-align = left|list1 =, you can remove |text-align = left. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. – Zyxw 17:39, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] An Invite to join Aviation WikiProject

The March 2007 issue of the Aviation WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 18:34, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome!

[edit] Infobox Airport

I just thought of another possible addition to the template. Right now you have seperate lines for owner and operator. I wonder if a third line as "Owner/Operator" might be useful. This came about because I just redid the London Gatwick Airport and Edmonton City Centre (Blatchford Field) Airport. The disadvantge is that it might make the line too long. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 03:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

As per your request, I've updated {{Infobox Airport}} to support a new line labeled Owner/Operator. Take a look at London Gatwick Airport to see it in use. If you specify a value for the new owner-oper parameter, the infobox displays that and ignores the current owner and operator parameters. -- Zyxw 02:47, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. It looks fine. Will make life easier for the newer editors who aren't sure what to use. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 17:00, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Just to say...

...I think your addition of the even/odd styling to some Navbox instances works well, at least in those I've seen so far – thanks for your work!  Best wishes, David Kernow (talk) 19:17, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Templates

Please be careful while fixing the templates, in this one, Template:Presidents of the Constitutional Court of Turkey, somehow the diacritics disappeared making half the template full of redlinks. I fixed them, but please make sure to pay attention to it in the future. Cheers! Baristarim 14:48, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. I have fixed those errors on some other templates I edited. -- Zyxw 15:12, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

What you did is inline with Wikipedia talk:Navigational templates#Style guideline for footer templates. I see that you have not participated the discussion. So I thought you might be interested. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 00:00, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the barnstar. I have followed the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Navigational templates#Style guideline for footer templates and agree that some consolidation of those templates is in order. I will keep an eye on that page and join in if I have something to add. -- Zyxw 06:13, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] McNary Field on Oregon List

Greetings, you moved Salem Municipal Airport, McNary Field, from commercial air service to general aviation on the List of airports in Oregon. This was done stating that airport does not have 2500 passenger boardings per year. Can you explain why an airport that will be having Part 121 Commercial Air Service in four weeks and carries a Part 139 certificate does not qualify as commercial service other then the number of enplanements? thanks, -Trashbag 19:34, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I changed McNary Field back to "GA" (general aviation) on the List of airports in Oregon because the Role column is based on the airport categories defined in the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) Report for 2007-2011 [1]. According to the FAA, "commercial service airports are defined as public airports receiving scheduled passenger service and having 2,500 or more enplaned passengers per year". [2] This is then further broken down into "Primary" (10,000+ enplanements per year) and "Non-Primary" (2,500 to 10,000 enplanements per year). There are a number of airports in the U.S. which have scheduled commercial airline service but do not meet this requirement. One example is Ogdensburg International Airport in New York which has scheduled service via Delta Connection, but is classified as "GA" because it only had 2,078 enplanements in 2005. Hope that answers your question. -- Zyxw 20:11, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zalpa Bersanova

Hey, thanks for the correction on that article. )) --Samian 02:28, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. I always try to add Persondata when I come across biographical articles without it. -- Zyxw 07:37, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:PiHKAL

You (somewhat) recently changed the commas in this template to dots. How does one create these dots (you missed one)? -Use the force ^{(Talk * Contribs)} 01:28, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the bullets used as separators between the list items in Template:PiHKAL, I took a look and added the only one I found missing, between Ortho-DOT and Proscaline. To answer your question, the simplest way to add a bullet would be to copy one that's already there and then paste it where you want it. You could also add one by placing • where you want the bullet to appear. -- Zyxw 21:48, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Use the force ^{(Talk * Contribs)} 21:50, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Dfw brand.gif

Hello, Zyxw. An automated process has found and removed an image or media file tagged as nonfree media, and thus is being used under fair use that was in your userspace. The image (Image:Dfw brand.gif) was found at the following location: User:Zyxw/Infobox Airport. This image or media was attempted to be removed per criterion number 9 of our non-free content policy. The image or media was replaced with Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg , so your formatting of your userpage should be fine. Please find a free image or media to replace it with, and or remove the image from your userspace. User:Gnome (Bot)-talk 02:42, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

This image was used in the infobox of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport article until a recent edit removed it. The image has been restored to that article and the image summary updated to show it is "fair use" to illustrate the airport article. The page in my user space that contained it has been removed. The only other page using this image is Template:Infobox Airport/doc since the DFW airport infobox is used as one of the examples. The image on that page can be replaced if needed. -- Zyxw 17:22, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Kentucky Parks

Wow, thanks a lot for improving that template. I created it because it was needed, but templates are really not something I'm good at. It looks so much better now. --W.marsh 14:46, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. -- Zyxw 16:43, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Two template related proposals

Hi, I thought you might be interested in

• Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Promote the use of multilevel templates
• Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Template test subpage(s)

--ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 11:57, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing those out. Nothing to add at this time, but it was of interest. -- Zyxw 06:06, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Protected areas of Washington

Hey, I found all those templates, and decided to work up the Washington one. Would you wanna check it out before I officially make it? It's in my sandbox here. Cheers! Murderbike 03:02, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

{{Protected Areas of Washington}} looks goods and I like that you defaulted it to collapsed due to the large size. I made the following corrections: (1) fixed the red link on State Forests by linking to List of Washington state forests, and (2) the link to Illinois Department of Natural Resources was changed to Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission. -- Zyxw 06:27, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Awesome! Thanks a lot. Murderbike 17:45, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Better source request for Image:HNH-a.jpg

Thanks for uploading Image:HNH-a.jpg. You provided a source, but it is difficult for other users to examine the copyright status of the image because the source is incomplete. Please consider clarifying the exact source so that the copyright status may be checked more easily. It is best to specify the exact web page where you found the image, rather than only giving the source domain or the URL of the image file itself. Please update the image description with a URL that will be more helpful to other users in determining the copyright status.

If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their source in a complete manner. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page or me at my talkpage. Thank you. MECU≈talk 17:29, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. -- Zyxw 05:51, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Non-free use disputed for Image:Logo-armee-de-lair.jpg

This file may be deleted.

Thanks for uploading Image:Logo-armee-de-lair.jpg. However, there is a concern that the rationale you have provided for using this image under "fair use" may be invalid. Please read carefully the instructions at Wikipedia:Non-free content and then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it will be deleted within a couple of days according to our Criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 06:25, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. -- Zyxw 07:50, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Assessment/Biman Bangladesh Airlines

No comments yet on Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Assessment/Biman Bangladesh Airlines. Care to take a look? Cheers. Aditya Kabir 14:25, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. Biman Bangladesh Airlines looks like a good article and it is certainly well-referenced, but I don't have any comments to add at this time. -- Zyxw 23:33, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gardner Municipal Airport (Kansas)

Thanks for fixing that. I can't believe I missed an entire runway. I was taking shortcuts and forgot to check out the sat images. Can you look at this version of Gardner Airport and see if you know which one the editor was talking about. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:12, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Another question. What's the purpose of "display=inline" in the coordinates? Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:16, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

• Regarding this version of Gardner Airport, the only clues are "1 runway" and "Gardner Air Show". A Google search on "Gardner Air Show" came up with this page which refers to Gardner Municipal Airport (Kansas), but it has three runways (unless you're only counting the one which is paved). Further Google searching turned up a New England Jet Rally held at Gardner Municipal Airport (Massachusetts), which has a single runway. The edit was made by User:Greenrd who has a userbox indicating he's from Kent, England, so perhaps it's not a U.S. airport at all.
• As for "display=inline", it's documented at Template:Coord#Usage. I came across this new template in this edit to Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Airport Infobox which said to use "display=inline,title". I removed ",title" because it was causing the coordinates to appear above the infobox, when the consensus for airport articles was not to do that. Since "display=inline" is the default, it looks like it can just be omitted entirely... I'll run a test on that and change the documentation if it works.

-- Zyxw 19:32, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I linked to the wrong edit. He added a prod tag. The originator was User:Islandman104. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 19:44, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

In that case, his only other edit was Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, so I'd guess he was referring to Gardner Municipal Airport (Massachusetts). -- Zyxw 23:26, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 06:54, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Biography templates

Good work on the biography templates! If {{Infobox Person}} now has all the fields in {{Infobox Celebrity}}, can't the latter be deprecated? Did you notice that these templates now use the hCard microformat? See Wikipedia:WikiProject Microformats for more, and please feel free to join! Andy Mabbett 11:41, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I have noticed the hCard format and have experimented with those using the Operator (extension) for Firefox. As for your first question, yes, {{Infobox Celebrity}} could be deprecated and redirected to {{Infobox Person}}. There are only three slight differences in the display: Celebrity places the name above the box, defaults image_size to 220px and uses right aligned field headings, while Person places the name inside the box, defaults image_size to 225px and uses left-aligned field names. -- Zyxw 06:59, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Cheers, I proposed a merge; see Template talk:Infobox Person#Merge. I also suggested we consider a merge into {{Infobox Biography}}. Andy Mabbett 07:20, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your recent, very helpful, edits towards the latter goal. I'm not sure whether the final template should be called ...person or ...biography. I'm going to raise that, and the general idea of a merge on the "project biography" talk page. Andy Mabbett 09:44, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template help

You seem to know templates, well. Can you help with this request, please? Andy Mabbett 09:59, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Was unable to locate this request as it was gone by the time I checked the link above. -- Zyxw 05:32, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox Writer

Hi. I cannot really tell why, but photos have disappeared from the infobox in a number of article (see Tudor Arghezi). If this is related to recent changes, could you please correct it? Thank you. Dahn 15:21, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi again. Would you please answer my query above? I find the changes in the template very hard to trace, and I cannot understand where the error occurred. If this is indeed because of the recent changes, could I trouble you to see why and where, and could I ask of you that you make sure such changes do not harm the infoboxes in the future (or, at least, tell me what changes I should make in to those infoboxes)? Thank you, and looking forward to a reply. Dahn 16:26, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I reverted Zyxw's edits to the template rather than leave all those broken pages out there. If Zyxw comes back they can fix it themselves. --Jaibe 21:17, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Mea culpa. I had removed a trailing vertical bar from [[Image:{{{image}}}|{{{imagesize|200px}}}| ]], which prevented the image from displaying if the imagesize parameter appeared without a value ( imagesize= ). I did review my changes by checking some articles using the infobox, but never saw any that had this problem.

• After becoming aware of the problem, I started checking ALL the 2000+ articles using this template. In the first 1000 or so checked, only about 40 articles had been affected (and those were fixed when my edits were reverted).
• There is another problem which existed before my edits: using imagesize without a value displays the image at its native resolution, expanding the infobox if width is larger than 250px. For an example, see Jonathan Coe.
• Back in June I started fixing the affected articles to include the actual image width if smaller than the default of 200px (the original intent of the imagesize parameter). I will get back to this project shortly and once I've gone through the remaining articles I will update the template to use the default width when the imagesize parameter is omitted or blank.

Zyxw 05:32, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:South Florida metropolitan area

I noticed that your last edit to this template (in May) breaks the template when it is collapsed, displaying a big chunk of raw code instead of virtually disappearing. It's find in its expanded state. Could you take a look at it and see what is wrong? Thanks. Horologium t-c 15:27, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi. In response to your recent message, I looked at this template using three different Windows browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera) but could not replicate the problem you had with it not displaying properly when collapsed. If that problem continues to appear, please feel free to revert my edits. -- Zyxw 09:43, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm, truly bizarre. I just checked, and the problem seems to have disappeared. My apologies. I don't know what the problem was yesterday, as I checked on several pages, and the template had the same issue on all of them. Horologium t-c 14:46, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coordinates

I thought that you might be interested in Template talk:Coord#Sentence meaning. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 18:39, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up about Template talk:Coord#Sentence meaning. I guess that means the airport article infoboxes should use {{coord}} with "display=inline" or else just stick with stick with {{coor dms}} for now. -- Zyxw 19:37, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

From the looks of this it would seem that "display=inline" is the way to go. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 11:28, 27 June 2007 (UTC)