Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Userboxes/Archive 4

message: Wikipedia:May Userbox policy poll has been created, and may well be the end of the Userbox War - • The Giant Puffin • 12:45, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The May Userbox policy poll has been ratified as an official policy on the English Wikipedia. Rfrisbietalk 20:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently, I didn't count to ten, check the history for details. Rfrisbietalk 20:32, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  An end to the War? 

message: I have been bold and archived the page - • The Giant Puffin • 08:01, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Archived

message: are all new userboxes I created to display wikistress in a manner paralleling the Homeland Security Advisory System.However, I'm not sure where to list them, so I'll leave that to the experts.
KV 21:38, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not sure where to list these 

message: Jimbo has (see WP:JOU) endorsed the German solution.That apparently amounts to moving most userboxes to userspace as examples rather than templates.If this is to be done, I'd like to think this group is the most capable of doing it effectively.What do you all think?GRBerry 22:39, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For more detail, see Wikipedia:The German solution GRBerry 14:33, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A capitulation to end the war? 

message: Does anybody know why :Template:User Pascal's Wager was deleted?I don't see why it couldn't have stayed as one of the religious humour user-templates.Thanks. --Aquarius Rising 20:30, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Submit it to WP:DRV if you think the inappropriate, but the deletion log shows T1 as the reason. — Arthur Rubin |(talk) 15:16, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Given the variety of humourous user-templates in existence, it looks like it was a case of an admin going overboard. An admin shouldn't be able to delete tastefully humourous user templates of the nature of this one "on sight". --Aquarius Rising 22:02, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Userbox deletions

message: I dont know if its just me, but when I went on there to see if I could help, it looked like a complete mess and I didnt know which suggestions were completed or which ones were still pending. Cant we reorganise the page back to the To Do and Done sections like before; instead of people creating sections for each suggestion they make? I was considering doing it but I didnt want to step on everyone's toes if it was just me that found it unorganised and impossible to navigate through. Plus it seems like quite a task to reorganise it and I havent been on there for ages so I dont know which suggestions belong in To Do and which ones belong in Done - • The Giant Puffin • 15:52, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ideas page 

message: I'm not sure where to put this so I'm putting it here in hopes that if nothing else, someone can get the wheels moving on resolving this. The user above has created quite a few boxes including his own categories that are completely unique to him; often they are duplicates of existing boxes. His userspace needs a major cleanup. I've listed his sports-related ones for redirection/deletion at WP:TFD and WP:CFD, but I think that some admin with time on his hands really needs to do a major cleanup. BoojiBoy 15:32, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[User:Whatsupkid]] 

message: While not a member of your project, I took it upon myself to subcategorize some userboxes in :Category:User templates. Well, I am not getting thoroughly tired of it after only 1 day, since I am doing it all by hand without the use of a bot. The last subcategory I was populating was :Category:Location user templates, and I stopped in the Ts of the parent category. I may come back to it, but if some would jump in and help, I may come back to it sooner. Other subcategories created by me are :Category:Pet user templates and :Category:Language user templates. Just FYI.—Lady Aleena talk/contribs 02:16, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subcategorization 

message: I was thinking it might be able to create a new category for comedy. There is already a large section in the Media sections, and there are other comedy related userboxes in books, comic strips and anime. Other comedy userboxes could also be made, such as userboxes on certain stand-up comedians, or one of those sets of userboxes where people can type in the name of a comedian into a box with a certain rating (Similar to the Actors section in Media). ISD 11:36, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As long as admins dont go crazy and do a mass deletion, the category should be ok. However, no matter how much better the userbox purge situation is now than it was a couple of months ago, there is still a risk that giving comedy userboxes their own category could ultimately lead to their deletion - • The Giant Puffin • 13:49, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Yep. Be bold! Ian¹³/t 16:48, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal for new category 

message: Does anyone know where the sexuality userboxes have gone to? Have they been deleted, and if so why? ISD 15:18, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They have been deleted, though I am not sure exactly why, though I am not opposed to them being deleted.It was probably because Wikipedia is not a dating website. —Akrabbimtalk 19:05, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The page Wikpedia:Userboxes/Sexuality has been deleted, but the userboxes themselves live on in user space. They can be found at User:MiraLuka/Userboxes/Sexuality. —Shayltalk 21:19, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sexuality Userboxes 

message: The curently available userboxes to indicate one's location, nationality and ancestry are inconsistent. I am of Dutch nationality (and ancestry) and live in Bulgaria, and would like to indicate this on my userpage. I now have a choice of
*, which says I'm from Bulgaria (suggesting nationality or at least place of birth), which isn't true,
*, which makes me a member of Category:Wikipedians_in_the_Netherlands, which isn't true, and
*, which doesn't stress the fact that not only are my ancestors Dutch, but I am.
I think it would be useful to have a kind of Babelbox in which one can indicate one's location, nationality and several ancestries (all optional, of course). Preslav 11:56, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Or, probably a better solution that involves slightly more work, create a new template to select from and put it in the appropriate list. —AySz88\^-^ 07:45, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedians by location/nationality/ancestry 

message: Someone needs to get working on these.--Cyde↔Weys 02:04, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Pick a generic account like User:box or whatever, and I'll be happy to move them there. Rfrisbietalk 02:20, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I don't care where they go, they're either going to be deleted or moved out of the real namespaces.--Cyde↔Weys 18:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userfying userboxes 

message: I am a Wikipedian who always edit my own user page so I use the userbox "toomanyedits user page" but I found there's something wrong in the sentence.
This user spends too much time on editing THEIR user pages.
????
Perhaps I misunderstand something, would anyone solve the problem for me please?
--Nxn 0405 chl 21:17, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You don't like the Singular they, I guess? Then change it to his/her or his. --tjstrf 21:53, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Or, change it to say The users with this userbox spend too much time editing their user pages. - LA @ 22:24, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something to correct in the User box "toomanyedits user page" 

message: Please userfy the following userboxes per WP:GUS.Due to a Tfd that they were involved in back on July 18 they have a deadline to be userfied of 2006-08-08, at which point it will be assumed nobody wants them enough to adopt them into userspace (thus saving them), because when the outcome of a Tfd is "Userfy", they can't just stay in template space indefinitely.
*
**This template is not to be moved to user space. It is the master Monty Python user template and all masters should stay in Template space where they belong. It should have replaced the 9 below, but the TfD was inconclusive. If you look at the template, you will see that it was written to be kept in Template space so it will be usable in multiple applications. - LA @ 21:26, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userfying Monty Python userboxes 

message: Seems to me there is a tremendous amount of duplication among userboxes. There are two navigational templates floating out there that point to two different directories, generally. One goes to Wikipedia:Userboxes/* while the other goes to User:Rfrisbie/Userboxes, who has basically copied out the whole darn thing with, presumably, the intention everything be userfied, German style. Makes it a little difficult for us non-AWB equipped types to keep track of. Is there perhaps some sort of dialog we can start between the two halves to get this all put into one place? --BlueSquadronRaven 17:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Forcing userboxes out of template space made duplication inevitable. If the dust ever settles on which types of boxes should go where, I'll be more than happy to remove directory pages that only include links to template and/or wikipedia space. Rfrisbietalk 17:48, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the clarifications, both here and on my talk page. Guess you have yourself quite the task of being the current new directory for the whole shebang. --BlueSquadronRaven 20:30, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really, lots of people work on the various catalogs, archives, directories, nav boxes, etc. I just copied some pages to help track whatever migrations took place.Welcome to the show! >;-o) Rfrisbietalk 22:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication 

message: Or perhaps this solution will be better. 
This is a form letter, please don't reply directly. Do, however, feel free to discuss this solution I've come up with.
I've made an unofficial place for all User Boxes (hopefully) safe from overzealous Admins. Feel free to add any you like, edit any there, or just list your already made userboxes there. Also feel free to edit the main page (the user page) in any way that you think might help. Please note, however, that this is a user page and not an official Wikipedia page, so almost any User Box will be tolerated as long as it's within reason. UserBox 03:04, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Userbox Solution 

message: I'm new here but, out of curiosity, is there a reason that this project's userbox (as per bottom of project page) isn't in Template:User form?
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--Renice 19:58, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Because at one point in the discussion of WP:GUS, it was thought that all WikiProject templates should be moved to subpages of the projects themselves. (This message is an example of this. The current viewpoint seems to be that this is unnecessary, but I don't really see the point in reverting what's been done. —Mira 00:58, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userbox for WikiProject Userboxes? 

message: This is just the second userbox I've made; the previous one was for another WikiProject, so I knew pretty much what to do with it. I just made . I think it's in an appropriate category, but I'm unaware what (if anything) I should do to follow up on that. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. :) Luna Santin 06:38, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would suggest adding it to the appropriate subpage of WP:UBX. It looks like Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia would be the best choice. —Mira 06:40, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done. Easier than it looks, editing that page, thanks to that nice template. Thanks. Luna Santin 07:17, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem. 
 —Mira 07:24, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  user helper 

message: If you are interested Law & Order userboxes, please comment here. - LA @ 03:42, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Law & Order: New template, same name 

message: I've created one on my userpage if you'd like to see it. I'm currently unaware if any others are in existance, or if they aren't in existance for a reason. I realize that perhaps it's too controversial for it to be included in the archive of userboxes. If this is the case, then I will simply keep the one I have on my userpage and others may do the same of their own volition.
Also, the reason I came in the first place was a small question relating to linking in a userbox. If I would like to make a word a link to an article, how do I do so without changing the font color of said link? Any solution or reply on this is appreciated! -Shazbot85 04:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can add (name of userbox), or one of its subcategories to a page to add it to the proper category. For adding color to links, use what you want to see instead of a normal link (see here for an example). Lastly, for other userboxes, including ones displaying religious affiliations, see User:GRBerry/German userbox solution and User:UBX/Userboxes/General Nav. —Mira 05:50, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks much! -Shazbot85 19:59, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religious affiliation or knowledge userboxes? 

message: I have managed to obtain an update to this page. It is 68 days out of date (last time toolserver was updated), but now also lists creation time. Ian¹³/t 15:36, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:List of userboxes|List of userboxes]] 

message: Splitting templates with multiple options into separate templates doesn't match up with Lady Aleena's userbox consolidation activities.Which way is it? Rfrisbietalk 04:18, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting templates with multiple options into separate templates 

message: Apparently 99% of the ouserboxes out there is not using the template, either because they didn't check it out or because the templte is not flexible enough: so I'm coming up with a new template, sadly I didn't see the old one until I got too far in the developement of my new version, so the parameters are not compatible (I'd appreciate some help in fixing that matter, I also have to add the color css setting but I won't blame anyone who does it before me :P). --2dMadness 05:59, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userbox template 

message: I want to add a new userbox to the main comics section, but recently whenever I add a new userbox to a page, it gets deleted. It is currently on my comics userbox page, User:ISD/Userboxes/Comics. The userbox is  (see below). I was wanting to add it to the webcomics section, as Kevin and Kell was the first comic strip syndicated exclusively via the internet.
User:ISD 08:09, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wanting to add new userbox