Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 12:42, 7 August 2012

Welcome

Help needed

This help request has been answered. If you need more help, you can ask another question on your talk page, contact the responding user(s) directly on their user talk page, or consider visiting the Teahouse.

The following is a table:

and its wikitext:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Name !! A !! B !! C !! D
|-
| AAA || 17 || 12 || 3 || 45
|-
| ABC || 54 || 2 || 67 || 19
|-
| GHI || 22 || 33 || 67 || 23
|-
| XYZ || 34 || 97 || 8 || 28
|}

How can I make the names automatically sorted by the values in column C, and two or more names having equal values as in the case of ABC and GHI sorted according to values in column D (with sortable table class, the user has to click on the arrows near the table headers to sort the values, thisis not done automatically, and if two or more values in column C are equal you cannot choose another column to sort the equal values)

You can't make a table automatically sort. The initial display will always be in the order as in the wikitext. You can change the order in the wikitext so the initial order is what you want it to be, like this:

I was assuming you want to sort columns C and D in descending order. If you meant ascending order, simply reverse the rows.

There is a way for a user to sort by two columns. Click the arrow in the column you want sorted first, then hold Shift and click the arrow in the column you want sorted second.

For more information, please see Help:Sorting. --Mysdaao 14:51, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Re:Regarding the removal of a {{inuse-section}} tag

Hey Apologies. I din't know that you were gona do that kinda changes. I waited for you to edit for few mins, but I removed as the changes made is live and many editors to edit match related articles. Good work buddie. -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 16:19, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Help needed (2)

This help request has been answered. If you need more help, you can ask another question on your talk page, contact the responding user(s) directly on their user talk page, or consider visiting the Teahouse.

How do I vertically-align tables in a nested table? For example:

Note that specifying valign="bottom" or style="vertical-align:bottom" as a parameter in the outer table does not vertically align the inner tables to the bottom of the outer table.

Also how do I set the height of a table row to be equal to that of two rows of undefined height, without having to define the height of that row in pixels, and without having to use rowspan? (something like style="height:2" or style="height:200%" does not work)

You need to individually style each containing row for the valign like so:

No way to do the other thing that I'm aware of, unfortunately; only way to set rows equal is to specify specifics. — Isarra ༆ 04:45, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Divento

Hi

Please take a look at WP:CSD. The above article meets critera G11 as advertising to be speedily deleted. There probably wont be a need for discussion. I have reverted your edit, however, please know that you did the right thing, I just thought I would let you know. MrLittleIrish © 15:54, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

I nominated the article for AFD because when I was looking at it, I didn't see a speedy or prod tag anywhere. Maybe, while I was doing the nomination, an edit conflict occured and the software removed the tag while trying to merge changes. jfd34 (talk) 16:05, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

I understand fully what you mean, if you take a look at the link I sent to you earlier, you would have noticed that it qualified for a speedy. It did seem that I had made an edit while you were reading it, and you didn't notice the tag. Not to worry, these things happen. Keep up the good work. :) MrLittleIrish © 16:09, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

April 2012

Hello. I noticed that you attempted to file a deletion discussion (on the article Children’s Using Smartphones: Good or Bad) but did not complete the process. Please note that, when listing an article for deletion, a discussion page needs to be made for other users to discuss whether to keep or delete the article. This is typically done by following the steps listed here. Note that if you are editing as an unregistered user, you cannot create a discussion page. Please consider registering an account or asking another user to help you complete the process at Misplaced Pages talk:Articles for deletion. Thank you. Best regards, Cindy(talk to me) 09:53, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

I have created the discussion page. jfd34 (talk) 09:56, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for April 26

Hi. When you recently edited Jim Walker (darts player), you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Dart (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.

It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot (talk) 10:28, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Help needed (3)

This help request has been answered. If you need more help or have additional questions, please replace the code {{Help me-helped}} on this page with {{Help me}}, or contact the responding user(s) directly on their own user talk page.

Why is this template broken?

{{Test match

 | date = 15–19 April 2012
 | team1 = Australia 
 | team2 =  West Indies

 | score-team1-inns1 = 311 (135 overs)
 | runs-team1-inns1 = Michael Hussey 73 (207)
 | wickets-team1-inns1 = Kemar Roach 5/105 (27 overs)

 | score-team2-inns1 = 257 (104.4 overs)
 | runs-team2-inns1 = Shivnarine Chanderpaul 94 (217)
 | wickets-team2-inns1 = Nathan Lyon 5/68 (29 overs)

 | score-team1-inns2 = 160/8 (61.5 overs, decl.)
 | runs-team1-inns2 = Ricky Ponting 41 (85)
 | wickets-team1-inns2 = Kemar Roach 5/41 (18 overs)

 | score-team2-inns2 = 53/2 (11 overs)
 | runs-team2-inns2 = Darren Sammy 30* (42)
 | wickets-team2-inns2 = [[Ben Hilfenhaus 2/22 (4 overs)

 | result = Draw
 | venue = Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad
 | umpires = Marais Erasmus (SA), Ian Gould (ENG)
 | motm = Kemar Roach (West Indies)
 | report = Scorecard
 | toss = Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
 | rain =
 | notes = 

}}

Because it's misformatted; if you show me where what you want it to look like already exists, I'll try to fix it, but I can't see what I need just from what you have. Dru of Id (talk) 02:44, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

I found the problem… On the line:

| wickets-team2-inns2 = [[Ben Hilfenhaus 2/22 (4 overs)

you're missing the closing braces on Ben Hilfenhaus.

Here's what I believe it should look like:

Australia	v	West Indies
311 (135 overs) Michael Hussey 73 (207) Kemar Roach 5/105 (27 overs)		257 (104.4 overs) Shivnarine Chanderpaul 94 (217) Nathan Lyon 5/68 (29 overs)
160/8 (61.5 overs, decl.) Ricky Ponting 41 (85) Kemar Roach 5/41 (18 overs)		53/2 (11 overs) Darren Sammy 30* (42) Ben Hilfenhaus 2/22 (4 overs)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

Hope this helps! Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 02:57, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Help needed (4)

This help request has been answered. If you need more help, you can ask another question on your talk page, contact the responding user(s) directly on their user talk page, or consider visiting the Teahouse.

You can use the {{number table sorting}} (or {{nts}} for short) template for that. Like so:

--Mysdaao 12:41, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Re: Your edit request at Template talk:ESp

I've moved your request to Template talk:EP; when a talk page is redirected, it's usually best to make the request at the target talk page instead of posting under the redirect where it is unlikely to be seen. In this particular case, it's even more appropriate to do this because the actual requested edit would be made to Template:EP and would affect both templates. Anomie⚔ 03:15, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Cut and paste move

Hey, thanks for the note. So you know in the future, I was just archiving the case. It's a little weird around SPI, so no worries. :) Happy editing! Keilana| 04:50, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Spike nicholson

Just a heads-up — a page like Spike nicholson doesn't need to go to AFD. That can just be speedy deleted as vandalism. Ten Pound Hammer • 06:11, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Going to add to this. In cases where it's an attack page, you can use the {{db-attack}} template. But tread carefully when you do this. For the purpose, review WP:CSD before you pull the speedy trigger. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 06:41, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

When I saw the article it didn't look like an attack page, it was not entirely negative in tone. Also when I was trying to Google search it showed that there is a real person named "Spike Nicholson" so it is not a hoax either. Maybe it got deleted just because another article with a similar name, Spike Nicholson was tagged as an attack page.jfd34 (talk) 07:29, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

In these cases, it's best to refer to WP:ATTACK for guidelines on what constitutes an attack page around here. The general rule is this, that I've noticed: while there is a line, if the point of the article is only to disparage somebody, then nuke it from orbit. This was pretty much the case with this article. To note, I don't think you've done anything wrong - this just sounds a little like you weren't sure what our own baselines were, so you applied your own. No biggie. =) --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 03:57, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Foreign articles

At WP:PNT/T there is a useful set of templates to give new users who input articles in foreign languages. Many of them are bilingual, like {{contrib-pl1}}, which is useful where the newbie may not understand English at all. That wasn't actually an A2, because it wasn't a copy of pl:Historia Ziemi, but A10 was good enough. One other point - where you are giving a message to a newbie who has not had any messages before, it is always worth starting with {{welcome}} or one of the other welcome templates, which give some useful links to help them learn about WP. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 09:41, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Help needed (5)

{{help me}} This is an excerpt from User:Jfd34/common.css, used for the styling of diffs:

table.diff {border-collapse:separate; border-spacing:4px}
td.diff-marker {font-weight:400 !important; color:#009900; width:3% !important; text-align:center}
td.diff-deletedline {width:52% !important; background-color:#FFE9E9; padding:4px; border-style:solid; border-width:2px 2px 2px 5px; border-color:#E20000; 
                     border-radius:0px}
td.diff-addedline {width:52% !important; background-color:#E9FFE9; padding:4px; border-style:solid; border-width:2px 5px 2px 2px; border-color:#00E200; 
                   border-radius:0px}
td.diff-context {width:52% !important; background-color:#F0F0FF; padding:4px; border-style:solid; border-width:2px 3px 2px 3px; border-color:#9696A4; 
                 border-radius:0px}
td.diff-empty {width:52% !important}
td.diff-addedline .diffchange {background-color:#FFC900; border-radius:0px !important}
td.diff-deletedline .diffchange {background-color:#FFFF25; border-radius:0px !important}

Then I blanked User:Jfd34/sandbox and viewed a diff of it, the result was something like this, despite the width setting (I am just giving you a rough representation of how I saw the diff):

How can the problem be fixed (i.e. the column widths made equal)? jfd34 (talk) 14:57, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi Jfd34. I do not have an answer for you but I am closing this request for help, as it is obviously not eliciting an answer, although open for two days. This is not surprising as getting help on a request like this one is limited to a relatively small number of users who monitor the category and so a request requiring highly specialized knowledge, such as yours, is better posted to a targeted forum, or for crowd sourcing, somewhere general but looked at by a much higher number of people. For the first, you might try the village pump technical and for the latter, I'd try the help desk. I'd do the help desk first because it's for questions just like yours, even if it doesn't draw the same concentration of coding gurus as the pump.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:53, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Template:Limited overs matches

Hey man, your changes to Template:Limited overs matches has resulted in the formatting of the template fucking up when the "result" parameter is left blank. Here is an example I've copied over from West Indian cricket team in England in 2012:

Middlesex Panthers	v	West Indians

Is there any way you can fix this? – PeeJay 12:59, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

To explain, the venue information should not be bold or italicised and there should not be an apostrophe above it. – PeeJay 13:00, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Fixed. Used the #if: function for result rather than a normal optional parameter, and used HTML markup for the bolding of the result.

Copyvio

Don't use that template. The page is under copyright, CSD it under G12. WP:BOLD. --Tomtomn00 (talk • contributions) 08:36, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For your work in Cricket related articles, especially for your hard work in the 2012 Indian Premier League article. Way to go.... Happy editing! -- ♪Karthik♫ ♪Nadar♫ 10:52, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Misplaced Pages. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you are more than welcome to continue submitting work to Articles for Creation.

• If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk.
• If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thank you for helping improve Misplaced Pages!

Ganbariya Rajput

You tagged Ganbariya Rajput as csd-g1, "nonsense". It isn't nonsense, although it uses some Hindi terms likely to be unfamiliar to most non-Hindus. I will leave a note asking participants at Misplaced Pages:WikiProject India to have a look at the article. Perhaps it will be merged to Rajput. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 10:56, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Cricket graphs

Hi, I saw your interest in WP:CRIC/GR. I created this page and it did well, since the sudden departure of EdChem, it is currently defunct. Can you help revive the project, with a new shine, we could achieve an important goal for our cricketer articles. Please, extra999 (talk) 16:49, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

I am working on the ODI graphs of AB de Villiers. Because I do them with Inkscape (not with MS Excel) it would take a long time as I have to manually caluclate the coordinates based on the data, with Windows Calculator. It would be usually about 2-3 days per graph, but it could be more for cricketers who have played a lot of innings. jfd34 (talk) 17:26, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

But why is it that you have to do it with Inkscape, it a rather timetaking, tiresome job. We can use Excel. extra999 (talk) 02:54, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Because Excel does not support SVG, which is the recommended file format for non-photographic images such as graphs and diagrams. See the image on the right to see how SVG is better than JPEG or PNG and you can see the article on SVG for some more advantages.

However, we do need resolutions in cricket graphs, given that it has enough resolution ans since png supports transparency, we can do it with Excel, like EdChem did. extra999 (talk) 04:11, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Can you so the test graph for AB? I have tweaked his stats section and it needs a test graph. Thanks, extra999 (talk) 05:01, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Prof.p.n.okeke contibution to space science and Technology in Nigeria

If this is the first article that you have created, you may want to read the guide to writing your first article.

You may want to consider using the Article Wizard to help you create articles.

A tag has been placed on Prof.p.n.okeke contibution to space science and Technology in Nigeria requesting that it be speedily deleted from Misplaced Pages. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a clear copyright infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Misplaced Pages takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Misplaced Pages to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must verify that externally by one of the processes explained at Misplaced Pages:Donating copyrighted materials. If you are not the owner of the external website but have permission from that owner, see Misplaced Pages:Requesting copyright permission. You might want to look at Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question here.

If you think that the page was nominated in error, contest the nomination by clicking on the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion" in the speedy deletion tag. Doing so will take you to the talk page where you can explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also visit the page's talk page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but do not hesitate to add information that is consistent with Misplaced Pages's policies and guidelines. Ankit Maity_Contribs 16:05, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

I have not created the article, but it may be a problem with Twinkle because I had moved it to Prof. P. N. Okeke contibution to space science and Technology in Nigeria. See the history of that page to find out who the author is. Also it is the redirect that was tagged, not the actual page.

Correct point and done. You may remove this if you like.--Ankit Maity_Contribs 16:21, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Copyvios

Where an article is complete copyvio from beginning to end, like Lt gen bikram singh, you don't need to report it to Misplaced Pages:Copyright problems - just tag it {{db-copyvio}} for speedy deletion. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 11:51, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

You deserve some cookies for your graphs of AB, and WP:CRIC/GR, keep it on. extra999 (talk) 13:12, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Loori language

Hi Jfd32, I've declined your G1 tag on the Loori language article. It is definitely not 'incoherent text or gibberish with no meaningful content or history'. I suggest that you remove the template from the user talk page. -Cntras (talk) 10:51, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Knox-Metropolitan United Church (Regina, Saskatchewan)

Odd that you would halt my producing material for such article before I could save it and entirely address your complaint. All such content has been lost and I must begin anew. Was it not apparent that such process was midstream and that your objection cancelled it? Masalai (talk) 08:19, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

If you want to add content you can go to WP:RFUD and request that the article be undeleted. Also the next time you create a short article which you want to expand later, consider adding the {{underconstruction}} tag to it. jfd34 (talk) 10:04, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: Sena Inami

Hello Jfd34. I am just letting you know that I contested the speedy deletion of Sena Inami, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: A football player in a country's top league J. League Division 1 is considered notable. Thank you. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 12:45, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Congratulations, Jfd34, you've recently made your 1,000th edit to articles on English Misplaced Pages! Thank you for ensuring that new articles meet Misplaced Pages's standards, and for all your contributions to the encyclopedia. Keep up the good work! Maryana (WMF) (talk) 18:59, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Chris wong

Blatant copying like that doesn't need a big copyright investigation notice. It needs a db-g12 speedy deletion tag. LadyofShalott 04:12, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

It is not blatant copying. I had seen that the first paragraph of the article had been slightly modified and the last paragraph of the source page had not been included in the article.

Minor changes like that do not keep it from being blantant copying. Whole swaths of text were copied intact. That is blatant copying. LadyofShalott 04:17, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

speedy delete

i have con tested the speedy deleat on wwii equipment — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agunter999 (talk • contribs) 14:33, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Changed speedy to AfD. If you disagree with deletion, coment at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Wwii equipment. jfd34 (talk) 15:52, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation

You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Misplaced Pages. Note that because you are a logged-in user, you can create articles yourself, and don't have to post a request. However, you are more than welcome to continue submitting work to Articles for Creation.

• If you have any questions, you are welcome to ask at the help desk.
• If you would like to help us improve this process, please consider leaving us some feedback.

Thank you for helping improve Misplaced Pages!

Removing AfD template

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. Please do not remove Articles for deletion notices from articles, or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion debates, as you did with Miller rubik's cube club. Otherwise, it may be difficult to create consensus. If you oppose the deletion of an article, please comment at the respective page instead. This is an automated message from a bot about this edit, where you removed the deletion template from an article before the deletion discussion was complete. If this message is in error, please report it. Snotbot  t • c »  10:09, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

When I was nominating the article for deletion, an administrator speedily deleted the article and when the page was saved the article got accidentially recreated without an edit conflict message. So I blanked the page and tagged it for G6 speedy deletion (this is where the AfD template was removed). I have also tagged the discussion page for speedy deletion as G7 (author request) as no one else has commented. jfd34 (talk) 10:14, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

WikiProject Indian Premier League

Hello, Jfd34! We are looking for editors to join WikiProject Indian Premier League, an collaborative group which aims to support development of Indian Premier League related articles in Misplaced Pages. We thought you might be interested, and hope that you will join us. Thanks, and happy editing!!!

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	Great work at List of Indian Premier League centuries! :) ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ 12:42, 7 August 2012 (UTC)