Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Userboxes/Archive 1

message: There has been some discussion about how userboxes ought to sort people into categories at Template talk:User religion.  That template was originally designed to place people into categories along the lines of User religion/whatever, but since those were nonexistent duplicates of the already-established subcategories of :Category:Wikipedians by religion, they were all recently switched over from this format.  I noticed when checking out the other templates listed on this page that some of them have the same problem - for example,  places users who choose the Esperanza case in the nonexistent category :Category:User Wikipedia/Esperanza.  Also, this case of the template is duplicated by template , which is the one listed on Esperanza's own page.  Should we go through and change all of these?  Finally, not all of the cases of, say, the User wikipedia template are displayed on Wikipedia:Userboxes and there are probably some other loose userboxes floating around as well.  Should we make an effort to collect these? - AdelaMae (talk - contribs) 17:20, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Personally, I'm not sure about some of the details of what you've said, but in terms of categorising, all the userboxes i've created automatically sort users into a suitable category.  For example, if you use , you are automatically put into :Category:NRI or PIO Wikipedians (this being a subcategory of :Category:Indian Wikipedians.  I personally think that where possible, userboxes should add users to categories, not to subpages of Wikipedia.   Deano 17:25, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, well I would say that, yes, they should be changed to fall into their subjects catagory wherever possible, however I am not sure if this would be wise for catagorising purposes, unfortunatly, catagories are probably one of my weakest points. I do however support collecting up all the loose templates and fining a place for them in the Wikipedia:Userboxes system, and will add that to the projects bit of this page. Thanks Ian13ID:540053 17:52, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userboxes and categories 

message: Some userboxes, such as , are politically incorrect.  I made that one myself but I didn't think it was appropriate to go on WP:UBX.  But neither should it be deleted.  The same goes for ... and I'm sure there are many others out there...  Deano 17:57, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I have to presume the bad EU template would go into Wikipedia:Userboxes/Politics, sicne its refered to as for political parties and belief, and I would say it is a belief about a political party. User-AmE-0 is a harder one, maybe Politics subpage could be renamed to Beliefs, then it could house them as well? Ian13ID:540053 19:27, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Wikipedia:Userboxes/Non-ISO_Languages seems to be the place for rather odd languages. Ian13ID:540053 19:51, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Aye, Ian's got it. Non-ISO languages (though improperly named, as Klingon is apparantly an ISO language with its own code and everything), is the place to store things like American English, Lazy English, British English, Irish English, New Zealand English...good lord, we may need an English Language Variants page...bullshit, dumbass, gibberish/simmish, Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang, Blazon (which isn't exactly weird but it is obscure), Quenya, etc. etc. etc. etc... Cernen 12:35, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stray userboxes 

message: By convention Template: userbox os should be renamed Template: user os, but this is already taken by Template:user os, a babel box for the Ossetic language. What should I do?
Lee S. Svoboda 23:03, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, me and User:FireFox were thinking the same thing. I think we decided on Template:User opsys probably being the best alternative. Fell free to add the what links here page of the old one to thecurrent talks on the project page if you choose to move it for us. :) Bed now... Ian13ID:540053 23:09, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

text: What's wrong with Template:User operating system? --Jamdav86 09:52, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operating system user boxes 

message: I would like to see this projec focuses standarisation of user categories related to userboxes. Actually, they differ from "X Wikipedians" (eg: Male Wikipedian), "Wikipedia X" (eg:Wikipedian programmers), "User X" (eg: User ada) and subcategories (eg:User OS/Microsoft Windows). Anyway, great move in creating this project. CG 14:38, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added it as a goal, however catagories are not one of my stronger points, so when that is the focus, I will probably need some more detail to get it going... Ian13ID:540053 15:44, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories standarisation 

message: Hi. I just joined the project yesterday. Here are two userboxes I created. They're a work in progress, but I just wanted to see how people felt about them and if they could be changed before they're added to the directory. Template:User non-pc and Template:User polcorrect. --D-Day 16:06, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm glad you are helping to expand, and you may have had a hard job joining before yesterday, since this project was not then in existance :) I would say they are good, however, I feel the text should be shorter if possible, to keep the box as average size as possible for peoples userpages, I also say that in Template:User polcorrect, it may be considered hard to read the text on such a dark background. Hope that in some slight way helps you. Ian13ID:540053 17:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

text: I shortened the text up some, don't know if it's enough but it's getting there. Thanks for your helpful suggestions. --D-Day 18:31, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New userboxes 

message: It seems that userbox creation templates are considered that they should remain at userbox prefixes.
Teplates like User Wikipedia however will continue to be ported since they will soon be splint into seperate templates for users to use in babel boxes and the like. Ian13ID:540053 22:08, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert User to Userbox for userbox creating templates 

message: this entire section should be moved and its contents brought into line... does everyone agree it should be at Wikipedia:Userboxes/US Sports?   Deano (Talk) 13:08, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree --Grand Edgemaster Talk 13:36, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

text: No, it shouldn't be moved--at least, not to something called "US Sports".  It's not JUST for US sports--it may be that all the boxes created to date are for US teams in US leagues, but that's not the same thing.  Kurt Weber 16:23, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Those sub-pages were created approximately a month after Sports Fans was.  Why make people go through all that hierarchy when it can just as easily be put on one page?  Kurt Weber 16:56, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Userboxes/Sports/US and Canadian|Wikipedia:Sports Fans]] 

message: I have made a logo, it is a little rubbishy and I will try to improve it. Could I have suggestions for improvement. Other possible logos that have been specially created for this should probably be uploaded to this location and use the revision history to choose the best? --Grand Edgemaster Talk 13:33, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I think old images are lost when new ones are uploaded.... It looks okay, but, I'm not sure, I just haven't quite taken to it :/ Ian13ID:540053 15:03, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I dont think so, the revision history for the last image did take me back several versions. --Grand Edgemaster Talk 17:00, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logos