Template talk:Article for deletion/Archive 5

message: See Wikipedia:Deletion policy for an example of why the "big red message" is a sloppy solution. Rhobite 03:06, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Could we come to some sort of compromise instead of fighting back and forth over this?  What if it were only displayed if the template was unsubsted in the main namespace?  (As an aside, I really badly dislike that the current version does not subst PAGENAME.  I would be happy to have my bot spit out a list of afds with redlinked discussions to some lucky volunteer's user talk page instead of a file on my hard drive as at present; fixing these is getting real old, and the recursively-substed PAGENAME would fix a significant chunk of them.) —Cryptic (talk) 01:25, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big red message 

message: Somebody should make some disambiguation pages for VfD nominations that are entitled on the same article name (e.g. "WP:AFD/x" and "WP:AFD/x (2nd nominaion)") so that people can know that there are multiple iterations of deletion ballots. --Nintendude 04:41, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As I recall, you already did.  It mangled them horribly.  Please don't do it again. —Cryptic (talk) 05:57, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  disambiguations 

message: Page protection is considered harmful —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.61.186 (talk • contribs) 23:10, February 8, 2006
:On articles, yes, it is harmful.  Alas, this is not an article, it is a high-risk template, which means that page UNprotection is harmful, and protection is good.  (:Category:Pages for deletion, the related category, has many articles in it, and editing high-risk templates can make Wikipedia vulnerable to a brief database lock.)  More info is in the aforementioned link.  So, that is why the template is protected.  I should note that I am not a developer, I am just saying what is already known.  --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 18:17, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is this page protected? 

message: I'd like to change the first link under "How to list a page for deletion" from the current Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ to   Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/. (code directly below)
: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/
This uses a inputbox link to automatically put the text of afd2 into the editbox and put information about the next step before the edit box (someone apparently suggested something similar in #why not use preload and was ignored.  This hack won't break any of the auto-afd scripts or bother editors who don't use the "how to list links".  The link relies on User:Superm401/Template:Afd2 starter and User:Superm401/Template:Afd3 starter.  These would be moved and probably renamed, but are there for testing purposes (if people ignore this too, I'll go ahead and implement, as warned in my recently successful adminship nom :) ).  Superm401 - Talk 03:34, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Auto-including text for the second template in "How to list a page" link 

message: Please, add :bg:Шаблон:Изтриване
: Done. —[admin] Pathoschild 05:16, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. --ZsinjTalk 15:10, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Interwiki

message: It displays  (plus bolding, but I don't feel like taking the effort to do that). TimBentley (talk) 05:26, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed, as described in the following section. —[admin] Pathoschild 04:56, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-substed message doesn't work

message: {{#ifeq:|{{subst:NAMESPACE}}| |}}
I've implemented a new method to check if the template is substituted based on a logical check between the namespace magic word and the same includeonly-substituted. See User:Pathoschild/Help/Template special effects, where I describe the method in more depth. Note that I've added a CSS style which will hide the box if it is not substituted, since many users may not notice the little error message above it (or not care). That aspect can easily be removed if desired. —[admin] Pathoschild 04:52, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New check-if-subst'd method 

message: The how-to box is not functioning properly. In order to have it shown it's necessary to click on the "hide/show" button twice (after first click, it changes from "hide" to "show"), after second, the box is shown). The same goes for cfd templates. Could anybody fix it, please? Conscious 10:04, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As I see, the problem involves Template:Hidden. Conscious 06:06, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think only developers can fix it...  Grue  08:05, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've asked Pathoschild who edited  on 11 May to look into it. Conscious 08:13, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How-to box 

message: Per Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_May_7#Category:Pages_for_deletion_to_Category:Articles_for_deletion, Pages for deletion was kept and the other XfD categories were made subcategories of that.  To properly set the categorization, the afd template will need to be changed to dump tagged articles into Articles for deletion instead of Pages.  I just thought I would bring this up here in case someone has objections. --Syrthiss 01:58, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change in the category?