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  3.   05-Jul-2007 – 27-Dec-2007

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[edit] Template

Thanks. I was thinking that if any other countries use a non-ICAO code then they can be added and linked to their regulatory agency. I was just trying to figure if I can use AutoWikiBrowser to update the infobox at the same time as I do the airport codes. Ah, just clicked on save and see that you also updated the documentation. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:18, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] IATA codes

I see you have been busy removing and correcting. I suspect that someone just removed the "C" from the LID and used that as an IATA. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 01:23, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Re this. I started using the other template after I'd done about 100+. Once I get finished I'll start over and do the ones I missed. Also I got AWB set up to replace the infobox and I'll do the CY & CZ airports after I finish the non-ICAO ones. I was wondering, are you familiar with "regex"? Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 01:28, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
In response to your comment: this edit only done because in the prior edit I added the IATA code but forgot to update the template. I have noticed that you are updating all the Canadian airports via AWB, so I've only edited those articles for other reasons (at the moment that is primarily related to adding or correcting IATA codes). And in answer to your question: I'm familiar with regex but by no means an expert. I'm registered to use AWB and have experimented with it. -- Zyxw 01:46, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. Like I said I've got AWB working on replacing the infobox but it's poorly done. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 05:45, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

The Working Man's Barnstar
For taking the time to sort out all the IATA codes. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 04:51, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. -- Zyxw 10:06, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vancouver Harbour Water Aerodrome & Coal Harbour Water Aerodrome

I removed the CAQ3 LID from Vancouver Harbour as the CFS lists it as the Coal Harbour ID. I think that the great circle mapper made the error on the names as the Vancouver Harbour is also called the "Coal Harbour" and the "Coal Harbour Water Aerodrome" is on Vancouver Island. I used a different reference for the IATA. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 20:01, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I wasn't sure about the Great Circle Mapper reference... it is one of the few sites that does a decent job of cross-referencing ICAO and IATA codes, but it's not 100% accurate, so I try to find a backup reference. In this case, that was seeing CAQ3 in List of Canadian airports by location indicator: CA. What I missed was the fact that Coal Harbour Water Aerodrome is not the same location as Vancouver Coal Harbour Seaplane Base (a.k.a. Vancouver Harbour Water Aerodrome). Thanks for picking up on that and making the correction. -- Zyxw 07:22, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
The names have caused confusion before and no doubt will again. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 23:13, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:CRW_logo.png

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Done. -- Zyxw 07:59, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of Kirk Fraser

Im sending you a request. I've look over the deletion of Kirk Fraser, The original article had the incorrect spelling of his last name. Check out the (http://www.answers.com/topic/kirk-frasier) the article is still wrong. We originally created a new page on Wikipedia with the correct spelling and paste the content from Wikipedia with the incorrect spelling of Frasier. It was shortly deleted, we once again created it again, and it was also deleted. We don't know what to do. It seems like once it's up it taken down again, when it was originally put up by some one else. We just wanted to change the spelling of the Last name and fix the content that was wrong. Can you please help me in guiding me to correct this issue. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by YousoCrazy (talk • contribs) 18:09, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Not sure what to tell you on this. Some people nominate articles for deletion if they feel is it not about a notable person or topic. The first paragraph of Meta:Deletionism describes this as follows:
Deletionism is a philosophy held by some Wikipedians that favors clear and relatively rigorous standards for accepting articles, templates or other pages to the encyclopedia. Wikipedians who broadly subscribe to this philosophy are more likely to request that an article that they believe does not meet such standards be removed, or deleted. Conversely, Wikipedians who believe that there ought to be a place for an article on almost any topic in Wikipedia, and that there should be few or no standards barring an article from it, are said to subscribe to inclusionism.
I tend to be an inclusionist and in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kirk Fraser I voted to keep the article, but it seems the deletionists won that debate. I think it is ridiculous that an article can be deleted from Wikipedia based on the votes of only 3 people, but I don't make the rules here. Your next step would be to request a deletion review. -- Zyxw 04:03, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Navbox generic

Your edits Template:Blethen consisted primarily in switching it from Template:Dynamic navigation box to Template:Navbox generic. This doesn't offend me, but it makes me curious. Is there any reason I shouldn't be using Dynamic Nav Box to create templates in the future? Is Navbox Generic somehow superior? ``` W i k i W i s t a h W a s s a p ``` 20:07, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

Regarding your question about my updating Template:Blethen from {{Dynamic navigation box}} to {{Navbox generic}}, there is nothing wrong with using the former, but it doesn't do anything the latter can't. I changed it because there is a move to consolidate the large number of navigational templates, which also include {{Dynamic navigation box with image}}, {{Navigation}}, {{Navigation with image}}, {{NavigationBox}}, etc. One discussion about this can be found at Wikipedia talk: Navigational templates #Style guideline for footer templates. -- Zyxw 03:23, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Airport Infobox

I saw that you are the creator of the newer airport infobox template. I started a discussion on the WP:AIRPORT talk page about what to do about having two different infoboxes. Personally, I think we should switch all articles to your template, as it works better, looks better, and other people seem to like it as well. But there has been no official talk about switching, so I started one. If you have any comments, please reply to my post on the talk page link provided. Thanks. --Pilotboi | talk 14:46, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Too late! I just replaced the old one with yours. If you get any complaints send them to me. It had been discussed before and nobody was against it. Also I just edited User talk:Zyxw/Archive 1 to remove soume double redirects. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 17:15, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the heads up. I agree that {{Infobox Airport}} should be the recommended template for adding new infoboxes, since it does everything the old template did and incorporates a number of suggested improvements. Regarding a massive conversion of the older infoboxes, I posted a comment here. -- Zyxw 08:08, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template: Mets

I see that you know what you're doing when it comes to templates, so I was hoping you would be able to answer my question. For a template such as Template:Mets, although it is set that a player's name is bolded in the box when it appears on his article page, this does not work when the article name does not exactly match the player's name, like for Joe Smith (baseball) or David Wright (baseball). It does, however, work for Howard Johnson (baseball player) even though it should run into the same issue. Any ideas how to make it work for everyone? Thanks. -- Amazins490 (talk) 03:50, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

This problem is caused by redirected links in the {{Mets}} template. For the name to appear in bold on the player's page, the link in the template needs to match the exact page name. For example, Howard Johnson is in the template as [[Howard Johnson (baseball player)|Howard Johnson]] and Howard Johnson (baseball player) is the correct page name. However, Joe Smith is in the template as [[Joe Smith (baseball player)|Joe Smith]], but Joe Smith (baseball player) is a redirect to the actual page Joe Smith (baseball). I'll go through the template and fix these. -- Zyxw 14:56, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Excellent. Thanks! -- Amazins490 (talk) 22:43, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Infobox Airport

Just noticed that when the "metric runway" is set to "yes" the helipads are still listed feet/metres. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 12:45, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. I have fixed the helipads header so that "m" (meters) is displayed before "ft" (feet) if metric-rwy is set, just like the runways header. I also updated the template documentation to give an example which includes the helipads header in "metric first" format. -- 19:01, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 21:58, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Cleveland Indians

Problem with this template. I like that it now collapses and gives you the option to "show" or "hide" but in the "show" option it wipes out the bottom portion of the page. This happens on all the team pages. Is this a problem with the browser or the box or just me? Thanks.69.68.238.142 18:55, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

UPDATE - When in "show" mode, it seems to wipe out all other templates. On the Kinston Indians page, I moved this template to the bottom of the templates and it seemed to solve the problem. Still wouldn't mind to see if this can be fixed though for the rest of the pages affected.69.68.238.142 19:09, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for all the help.69.68.238.142 21:00, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

The problem of clicking [show] on a collapsed navigation box "wiping out" the contents below the box appears to a browser-related issue. I looked at Kinston Indians (revision as of 17:49, 27 July 2007) and found that Template:Cleveland Indians expanded properly when using Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, Opera 9 and Safari 3 on Windows XP. I was only able to replicate this problem when using Internet Explorer 6 and even then it only happened when I was not logged in. This problem also occurs on other pages with a mix of collapsible and non-collapsible navigation boxes, such as Columbus Blue Jackets. One solution I found was a combination of placing the non-collapsible boxes first and making the collapsible boxes use the full width of the page.

Before 
{{MLB Indians franchise}} <-- collapsible
{{Cleveland Indians}}     <-- collapsible, not full width
{{Carolina League}}       <-- non-collapsible
{{North Carolina Sports}} <-- collapsible
After 
{{Carolina League}}
{{MLB Indians franchise}}
{{Cleveland Indians|width=100%}}
{{North Carolina Sports}}

When I made all the baseball team navigational boxes collapsible I also made them full width, but my changes were all reverted by another editor who didn't like the templates full width (see this diff for user's name and comments). Therefore, as a compromise, I added an optional "width" parameter so the templates could be made full width on specific pages as needed. -- Zyxw 02:42, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Historical currencies of...

Again, I commend you for consolidating nav box templates. I just have one question about templates like {{Historical currencies of Hungary}}. Is there no way to use wiki mark up for table inside navbox generic? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 05:46, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Regarding {{Historical currencies of Hungary}}, normally all it would take to convert the template is changing "Dynamic navigation box" to "Navbox generic" and "body" to "list1". For some reason which I haven't had time to explore, Navbox generic would not properly display the embedded wiki table markup, so I converted it to HTML.
Before:
{{!-}}
{{!}} '''Coins'''
{{!}}style="border-left:1px #aaaaaa solid;"{{!}} [[Coins of the Austro-Hungarian gulden{{!}}coins]]
...
After:
<tr>
<td>'''Coins'''
<td style="border-left:1px #aaa solid;">[[Coins of the Austro-Hungarian gulden|coins]]
I don't think the HTML is any harder to read than the {{!-}} and {{!}} templates used previously. -- Zyxw 04:15, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Don't worry. I was just curious. =) --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 07:43, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infoboxes Person & Biography: merger proposal

I'd be grateful for your assistance in completing this proposal to merge {{Infobox Person}} and {{Infobox Biography}} et al. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 15:02, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

I added comments at Template talk:Infobox Person to help answer questions about merging the three templates. I see you already redirected {{Infobox Biography}} to {{Infobox Person}}, while {{Infobox Celebrity}} is protected and therefore awaiting the assistance of an admin. -- Zyxw 06:21, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:S-civ/sandbox

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No objections to this. -- Zyxw 05:32, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox Writer (part 2)

Hello. I'm using the Infobox Writer here and there but I've noticed certain limitations of it. In the article Bruno Maddox I have to put his sister under the parents parameter. Would you be able to fix this problem? Is Infobox Writer the way to go anyways? I've noticed you guys fixing up Infobox Person which is why I ask.-BillDeanCarter 03:41, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

The confusion is probably because the current implementation of {{Infobox Writer}} has a parameter named relations which is displayed with the label of Parents. I can fix this, but first want to finish another project related to some of my prior edits there that had caused a problem (see #Infobox Writer above). And while {{Infobox Person}} does provide more fields for relatives, you'd lose use the writer-specific fields found in {{Infobox Writer}} (such as the debut_works field that you are using in the Bruno Maddox article). -- Zyxw 06:10, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:FEUS

Template:FEUS has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. master sonT - C 23:17, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

No objections to this. -- Zyxw 05:32, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Random Smile!

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Thanks. -- Zyxw 05:32, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oakes Municipal Airport

Thank you for your contribution to Oakes Municipal Airport. I am from Oakes and started the article but didn't know what to put in it beside the sentence I wrote. Your contribution makes it a much more informative article. -AndrewBuck 19:44, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome. -- Zyxw 05:32, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Infobox Airport/doc

Can you make a change to the documentation. It turns out the infobx must have "display=inline,title" or it's not picked up by Google Earth and many airports have already vanised for it. I would have done it but I didn't want to end up with multiple title coordinate links. Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 18:01, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree it would be nice for Google Earth to pick up the airport coordinates, but if we recommend people use "display=inline,title" then we are back to the format that a lot of people disliked, with the coordinates displayed at the top right of the page and again in the infobox. I see there was already an earlier discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aviation/Infobox Airport#Google earth. Perhaps before recommending this in the documentation we should start a new discussion on that page or at Template talk:Infobox Airport? That discussion could include the possibility of removing the coordinates from the infobox and using {{coord|...|display=title}} instead. -- Zyxw 05:32, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
I will follow up on that in a while. I have left some examples of airports at Template talk:Coord#Using display=inline. If there is an agreement to have the coordinates at the top of the page all that needs to be done is change the line in the box to "display=title". It will will disappear for the box and appear at the top of the page, see User:CambridgeBayWeather/Airports with no infobox 01. That would be the best way and then all the changes could be done with AWB. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 07:28, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
I've been thinking about this and I agree the best solution is to display the coordinates in the title only. Since that appears directly above the infobox, displaying it again inside the infobox is redundant. It also makes for a cleaner look since the coordinates take up two lines in the infobox thanks to the new globe icon. I originally tried leaving the coordinates inside the infobox: 
| coordinates  = {{coord|49|27|16|N|002|06|46|E|type:airport|display=title}}

However, that caused that coordinates to appear in the small font size of the infobox text (which is made even smaller because the title area text uses font-size:85%):

Therefore, I believe the best solution is to move the {{coord}} template outside the infobox. An abbreviated version of the template code from Paris Beauvais Tillé Airport follows:

{{coord|49|27|16|N|002|06|46|E|type:airport|display=title}}
{{Infobox Airport
| name         = Paris Beauvais Tillé Airport
| IATA         = BVA
| ICAO         = LFOB
| type         = Public
| city-served  = [[Paris]]
| coordinates  = <!--listed in title-->
... etc.

Of course, the coordinates parameter could also be left blank or omitted entirely. -- Zyxw 23:58, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
I got distracted and forgot about this. It doesn't look too bad as it's not a duplicated in the box and is the same as other geographical articles. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 00:17, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Also, I forgot to mention that using a title-only {{coord}} template inside the infobox causes an empty box to be displayed next to "Coordinates" (see this edit for an example). -- Zyxw 00:27, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
I've just posted a rather long comment on this issue over at Template talk:Infobox Airport#Moving coordinates out of the infobox. -- Zyxw 08:01, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Creating a template for an HTML form using the "post" method

Unrelated question. Is it possible to make a template that will pass 4 letters to the "Aerodrome ID" box here? Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 09:28, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

The page referenced in your question contains a form using the "post" method which sends the form input (i.e. the 4-letter aerodrome ID) via HTTP. Sometimes these forms will also work via the "get" method which passes the form input via the URL. An easy way to find out is to save the HTML source to your computer and edit it. First add <base href=" "> (with the original URL inside the quotes) at the top of the page so relative links (i.e. "/cgi-bin/Fore-obs/metar.cgi") will link to the original web site. Then search for <form and change method="post" to method="get" (some pages will have more than one form, in this particular case the line we want is <form method="get" action="/cgi-bin/Fore-obs/metar.cgi"). Now open the edited page in your browser, fill in the form input and click submit. If it works, the resulting page contains the URL that will need to be used in the Wikipedia template. In this case, the resulting URL was: http://www.flightplanning.navcanada.ca/cgi-bin/Fore-obs/metar.cgi?NoSession=NS_Inconnu&format=raw&Langue=anglais&Region=can&Stations=CYUL&Location= and since "&Location=" can be dropped from the URL, the code for your template would be: http://www.flightplanning.navcanada.ca/cgi-bin/Fore-obs/metar.cgi?NoSession=NS_Inconnu&format=raw&Langue=anglais&Region=can&Stations={{{1}}} -- Zyxw 21:47, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. I'm just quitting for the day. Work at 4:00 am so I should get some sleep but I'll work with it later. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 21:59, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Many thanks. The Template:Can-arpt-wx works perfectly and enables the removal of these. I found 206 airports that were showing weather. There is another 186 to recheck that may have some weather available later in the day. I just went through the ICAO codes (CY/CZ) so I still have 1,050 non-ICAO left to check. Thanks again. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 09:20, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox church2: Help needed

Hi, I wonder if you're able to help to fix (or provide some advice on fixing) "{{Infobox church2}}". I don't really know how to use the complex markup needed to create infoboxes, and so have just been making simple edits to the template. However, I don't know how to fix the following problems:

  • It's not possible to leave out empty fields. At present, the template requires all fields to be listed, even if they are blank, otherwise the name of the field appears in the infobox in curly brackets.
  • The "(s)" in "Senior Pastor(s)" wraps around to the next line.

Thanks in advance. Cheers, Jacklee 19:19, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

I'll take a look at this and edit it to make all the fields "optional" (so they don't display if they are blank) plus fix the wrapping of "(s)" to a new line. -- Zyxw 06:21, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Much obliged! Cheers, Jacklee 07:28, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] {{Infobox Person}}

OK, I've had this template on my watchlist as I've been watching someone's uh... probably good faith but misguided edits all over. I'm guessing that something you've done, from your Edit Summary, enables you to locate all the uses of the template that include the use of the image size parameter, most likely so you can go and find the ones using it that don't need to and remove them. So... firstly is there a tutorial on making/understanding the inner workings of templates? And, do you want help finding and fixing those incorrect uses? — Timotab Timothy (not Tim dagnabbit!) 00:54, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

As you surmised, I made a temporary edit to {{Infobox Person}} to locate pages with certain parameters that have more than one name. After edit some of those pages, I removed the temporary code from the template. As for a tutorial on templates, the only one I am aware of is Help:Template (but if you have any specific questions I'll be glad to answer them). And lastly, thanks for the offer to help, but I've already finished. -- Zyxw 11:55, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] License tagging for Image:800px-Alvin Hall booksigning.jpg

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[edit] Infobox Writer (part 3)

Hello. I'm using the Infobox Writer here and there but I've noticed certain limitations of it. In the article Bruno Maddox I have to put his sister under the parents parameter. Would you be able to fix this problem? Is Infobox Writer the way to go anyways? I've noticed you guys fixing up Infobox Person which is why I ask.-BillDeanCarter 03:41, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

The confusion is probably because the current implementation of {{Infobox Writer}} has a parameter named relations which is displayed with the label of Parents. I can fix this, but first want to finish another project related to some of my prior edits there that had caused a problem (see #Infobox Writer above). And while {{Infobox Person}} does provide more fields for relatives, you'd lose use the writer-specific fields found in {{Infobox Writer}} (such as the debut_works field that you are using in the Bruno Maddox article). -- Zyxw 06:10, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Okay, no I'll wait. Infobox Writer is quite good, and it is just the confusing Parents label that is a problem. If you could fix it I would appreciate it very much. Best, BillDeanCarter 13:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Airport Plugin

Hi, Thanks for pointing out, and fixing the problem.

Just a note, that that edit was back in july, when i was still writing/testing it, and have made various changes since then. Im also being more careful when editing the pages

Thanks

Reedy Boy 10:16, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

I figured that you had resolved the issues with User:Reedy Boy/Airport Infobox Migration Plugin that caused the missing runway data at Ajaccio - Campo dell'Oro Airport, but wanted to make a note of it. Thanks for the response. -- Zyxw 08:36, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

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This image no longer orphaned. The image and description were also updated. -- Zyxw 01:43, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] For you!

The Working Man's Barnstar
For tirelessly updating airport pages and related lists and categories. Wonderfull! Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 02:29, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. It's always nice to know that others appreciate my contributions. -- Zyxw 15:32, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] {{Infobox Airport}}

I just added the references to the Mansfield Lahm Regional Airport article. The airport's infobox still needs to be updated just like you just did to the Bellefontaine Regional Airport article that I saw.---OHWiki 23:40, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Done. -- Zyxw 02:46, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] {{Template doc inline}} deprecated

{{Infobox Airline}} and {{Infobox Airline/sandbox}} updated with {{Documentation, template}} which tries /doc then ../doc in /sandbox and /testcases. – Conrad T. Pino 02:15, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] {{Template sandbox notice}} improved

Visit updated {{Infobox Airline/sandbox}} to see how it might help you. – I just love that full copy/paste from /sandbox. – Conrad T. Pino 02:18, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mobile Downtown Airport

As a consistant contributor to the Mobile Downtown Airport article, I wanted to get your input. Although this facilty seems to be called by many names, the Mobile Airport Authority operates the site as the "Brookley Complex", see Mobile Airport Authority for details. What are your thoughts on moving it to that? My initial wish was to create a Brookley Complex article, thinking that the Mobile Downtown Airport was just one facet of Brookley, but as I've done more research have realized that this is not so. I have plans for a major expansion to include the various aerospace and industrial companies, expand the history (especially its WWII history), touch on its status as a free-trade zone, and to include more on the site as a whole. I'm putting together my info and references now, waiting for some responses before doing a move. If you have time to comment, please respond on the article talkpage. Many thanks in advance. -Altairisfar (talk) 06:38, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up on that. I've posted a comment on the talk page. -- Zyxw 13:50, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
No problem. I appreciate your prompt response. So we'll keep the title as it is. My knowledge of the intricacies of airports is limited, so I'll try to leave that part of it to the more qualified. I have two university-published books that detail the history of the site, so I'll be using those to expand on the history. I want to find a reliable source for the other major companies located at the site also, but thus far no real luck on this. I notice that the Mobile Airport Authority website isn't updated in some areas as you would think it would be, so I can't completely go by them. I live in Mobile, so I hope to get over to Brookley eventually to snap a photo or two for the article too. -Altairisfar (talk) 18:54, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Am I missing something

I noticed that you were adding the word "none" to the ICAO/IATA lines in the infobox, see here. Is there a particular reason for that because your infobox already does it, see here. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 15:17, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

There isn't any particular reason I changed those infoboxes from "IATA=" to "IATA=none". The program I wrote to generate infoboxes for U.S. airports puts "none" in there. Then I just manually copy any differences from the existing infobox before replacing it with the new one. I should probably leave those fields blank or remove them, since I do prefer the look of the automatically generated none in italics. Thanks for pointing that out. -- Zyxw (talk) 15:37, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:06, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Google earth again

I just noticed that airports that only have display=inline are now being shown in Google Earth. I know this applies to Cambridge Bay Airport and Cambridge Bay Water Aerodrome but who knows if it will last. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 04:41, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. It appears the Google Earth team fixed that bug in their coding, since coordinates assigned to an infobox parameter named "coordinates" (as is the case in the articles you mentioned) were supposed to be accepted by Google Earth regardless of whether the {{coord}} template used "display=inline" or "display=title". -- Zyxw (talk) 15:24, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. I looked on their site but couldn't find anything. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 16:09, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of airports in Turkey

Hi Zyxw! I changed the capitalization of the table headers, because I believed MoS is in use also there. I wonder why it is not the case. Maybe you know better. Cheers. CeeGee (talk) 21:34, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

While making other additions to List of airports in Turkey, I changed the table heading text back to upper case because most of the other airport lists have it that way. I hadn't really thought about the Wikipedia: Manual of Style. If upper case goes against that, then I suppose most or all of the articles in the category: Lists of airports need to be changed. I'll leave that for someone else to do, since I actually prefer it in upper case. -- Zyxw (talk) 12:09, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

We have to start somewhere. Do you think it is good at the List of airports in Turkey? CeeGee (talk) 18:59, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coordinates for airports

Good day, a while back you added a template to show coordinates from the airports in a category to the Category:Airports in Oregon. Could you guide me on to how this works? I have been creating articles for the airports in OR but I do not see the recently added articles populating the .XML file. I am curious if I am goofing up on my end or what. An example of a recently added article is Propst Airport. Thank you for the assistance --Trashbag (talk) 20:44, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

The template you are asking about is {{GeoGroupTemplate}} and there was a discussion about this on that template's talk page. As per User: Para, author of the tool (http://tools.wikimedia.de/~para/cgi-bin/kmlexport) used in the template's first two links:
"With an article name the tool pulls the article from the live Wikipedia, but the more resource intensive category request uses the coordinates from Wikipedia-World, which is updated from the dumps."
Unfortunately, the Wikipedia-World project does not seem to have updated their data since 29 July 2007. That is why the Propst Airport article you mentioned (created on 22 December 2007) doesn't appear when using the GeoGroupTemplate link found at Category: Airports in Oregon. -- Zyxw (talk) 08:46, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
Cool, thanks for info. I'm still figuring my way around. --Trashbag (talk) 19:35, 29 December 2007 (UTC)