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Contents 1 Requests 1.1 List of Municipalities in the Golden Horseshoe 1.2 Highway 53 shield 1.3 WikiProject Films coordinator elections 1.4 Hi 1.5 HI 1.6 TTC Infoboxes

[edit] Requests

I hate to bother you but i need some help with my talk page. I am untilizing the stoplight image to be red if i am offline and green if i am online. I am somewhat new to Wikipedia and i want a message box that i can utilize to say I am unavaliable if i am offline and I am Avaliable if i am online. Can you help me? Thank You !!!

Dustihowe 16:52, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Municipalities in the Golden Horseshoe

I'm working on re-writing the article (Here and Here) and saw your note on the page. If you have any suggestion on how the article can be improved or if there is anything I have gotten wrong, please let me know. vıdıoman (talk • contribs) 12:39, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Sandbox2 was actually a guide I made to help with figuring out the population and area of both rings, and will be incorporated eventually. It isn't separate editions, it's two parts of the same article, separated for easy management for the time being. ;) The template idea doesn't sound bad though, so the data is there for whatever you want to do with it.

I also want to change the chart format. Personally, I don't think having things like what roads are located in the community is necessary, it's a big excessive for a list, and the combination of charts and images really screws up the articles appearance (at least with a 1024x768 resolution). We have to take that into mind when editing. Not everyone has a wide screen monitor. vıdıoman (talk • contribs) 13:58, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

I did something thinking about the List of Municipalities in the Golden Horseshoe and have a few more ideas. 1: The infobox should be moved to Golden Horseshoe. This is List of Communities in the Golden Horseshoe (I almost wrote Horsehose) so it doesn't really need an infobox (See List of cities on the Great Lakes, which I also re-wrote.) That brings me to my second point: This is a list, not a gallery of mottos and transportation infrastructure and some delightful random trivia. Lists should be, imo, to the point. The sorting system can be maintained (It's rather nifty if it isn't stretched as tall as it is). Density and population is really more suited for a Demographics of the Golden Horseshoe, but that article does not yet exist. Images and maps can stay, we can also add infoboxes for the Upper Tier municipalities under their subsection, removing the need for that small section above the charts and streamlining the article. Flags can be put beside names using the flagicon template if applicable, like so:

Toronto ... (information to follow)

vıdıoman (talk • contribs) 18:35, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

See: List of municipalities in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; I found it when requesting a peer review, and think it's a pretty good model. I might try this, instead. vıdıoman (talk • contribs) 16:37, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Highway 53 shield

I'm updating highway shields for provincially-controlled highways, and i saw that you uploaded a shield of Highway 53... I have one that is nearly identical in font and appearance to the provincial shields, particularly in size of letterings...would you mind if i replaced it with one that i've made? RingtailedFox • Talk • Stalk 23:30, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

The fonts i used are:

Two Digits: Roadgeek 2005 Series C: Centered, 176pt, and for the "ONTARIO" text, i used Roadgeek 2005 Series C: Centered, 19pt. I have used several other font combos for the other shields, such as ones with suffixes, or three-digit numbers... RingtailedFox • Talk • Stalk 22:14, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Films coordinator elections

The WikiProject Films coordinator selection process is starting. We are aiming to elect five coordinators to serve for the next six months; if you are interested in running, please sign up here by March 28! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 09:21, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hi

In your guestbook, you said if anyone gets Jimbo Wales to sign your guestbook, you will give them a special prize. If you check, he has signed. If you also check on his talk page, I asked him. SimsFan^{Talk to Me • Sign Here and Get a Thank You Award} 09:52, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] HI

I'm assuming your young(ish). I'm in seventh grade. I was wondering if there was, at one point, a wikipedia youth thingy. I think there was at one point but it was inactive. I was asking if you wanted to help get it together again. If yes, then tell me and direct your younger wiki friends to my talk page. Thanks.

P. S. Sorry if I wrote this in the wrong place. Me what do u want? _{Your Hancock Please} 21:52, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

If you have IRC, look up wikiyouth. Me what do u want? _{Your Hancock Please} 15:34, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] TTC Infoboxes

Hey,

The reason I changed the infoboxes (as I mentioned in my discussion post on the OTHER infobox) were basically twofold:

I saw no general difference in the information the two boxes were displaying (as evidenced when I changed the boxes and basically did not need to leave out any of the information except perhaps the number of platforms, which I think is a relatively unimportant and arbirary item for TTC stations which, unlike train stations, generally have one platform for each line - I noted that Sheppard said "6" which I'm not sure how the number was arrived at)

The reason I edited those three articles was because 3 out of the dozens of stations used it and I was going for uniformity. The fact that yours was titled "infobox TTC" and the other "infobox TTC station" led me to the incorrect assumption that the other infobox was perhaps newer, so I was going for uniformity. I noticed that the three articles with your template lacked wikilinks for things like the subway line, so I also assumed those pages were older and hadn't been updated.

The other issue was that when I went to the Sheppard article, I felt like the infobox was extremely large. It was only after going to another article that I noticed it was not as large. The font used in your infobox is much larger than the other, which results in a far longer box.(though I do appreciate the narrower design, it just causes more word wrapping - especially with the large font) I already think the old box is too big, so making it even bigger is not a great thing. The second reason, was therefore aesthetic.

I noted that there was no information in the new infobox's documentation or discussion page that suggested the goal of a new improve infobox. To be honest, I would have thought you'd at least first bring up the issue on the old infobox's discussion page before going through the effort of creating a whole new infobox system. It would avoid issues like this.

In the meantime, if you'd like to revert my change, I'm fine with that - as I said on the old infobox's talk page; I couldn't see a reason those three were singled out as different.

I personally can't see why updates to improve the old template would be frowned upon. I'd be interested to hear what improvements the new template has over the old one, and be willing to assist developing them.

I noted that you added additional fields like "line 2" instead of just having an HTML break between two different lines. Things like that can be implimented in the old design without any disruption to existing articles using the template; but I don't think it's necessary though. using an HTML break is quite simple and prevents us from having to keep adding fields if there is ever a station with three or four lines. Same with next/previous station. "next" and "previous" are pretty arbitrary in a system with no beginning and end. And when there are multiple lines, it just gets confusing to me.

I think the best route is to start a discussion on the old infobox's talk page and bring up point by point all the things you think are missing or bad about the old design and how to improve them. Then people can get discussion going on the issue and work to improve the current design for all articles, instead of working one by one; and there won't be revert wars.

Write me back if you have any questions. TheHYPO (talk) 22:45, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Hold On! I can help. What you have created for Viva and TTC are really floating tables that behave erratically and which do not nest and dock with other boxes and images like the existing properly defined versions. You have changed just one or two random articles - you MUST change them all. You must be willing to add this extra information, that you think is so essential, to all articles.
Not much new information is created by what you have done. What you should do is create a version in its own sandbox (call it Viva or something) using the same infobox definition and named parameters as the existing infobox, plus your new fields. Experiment there with your additions until things are exactly the way you want them and only then you can replace the existing infobox. Every station would be converted at once - but still retain the existing information. There is no need to make a separate version for Vintage Vivastations as the standard infobox can be amended by the use of a parameter, which would also allow you to show terminals differently (type=vintage or type=terminal, with the default being a regular display). You can't do everything at once, so leave the TTC alone and we can concentrate on Viva. -Secondarywaltz (talk) 13:33, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

You have now asked me why I reverted one of your new TTC infoboxes. Please read the comments above. Can you not see the problems you are causing in some of the Vivastation articles? -Secondarywaltz (talk) 22:49, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

My bad. My request at this point would to goto template:infobox TTC and make a bulleted list of either things you think need changing, and changes you think would improve the infobox. From there, we can get feedback (if anyone cares) re: changing the infobox, and at least you and I can discuss the pros and cons of each and the best way to fix it, and then go ahead and do it. Unlike, say "infobox album" for music albums, this infobox is in very limited use... something like a few dozen pages mostly in the same format (TTC subway stations). I think it should be very simple to update without breaking any pages. And if there's anything in your list that would be hard to impliment, we can look at working on a seperate and new infobox as you did. I personally thing improving the current is far easier (changes will occur instantly without having to change any code). Drop me a line when you post there, so I don't miss the post and I'll respond to it :) TheHYPO (talk) 04:20, 29 May 2008 (UTC)