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Wikipedia:WikiProject Userboxes is part of WikiProject Userboxes. This means that the WikiProject has identified it as part of the userboxes system. WikiProject Userboxes itself is an attempt to improve, grow and standardize Wikipedia's articles and templates related to the userbox system, used on many users' pages. We need all your help, so join in today!
Notice This talk page is for discussion on userbox issues, including questions regarding design and implementation, as well as its wikiproject and any Wikipidia policies and procedures related to userboxes. If you've made a new userbox and would like to obtain comments and/or share it with the community, please do so at the Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/New Userboxes page. Ideas or requests for new userboxes should be made at Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Ideas. Existing user boxes are listed at Wikipedia:Userboxes#Gallery. Thank you.
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[edit] I need Help

I am new to wikipedia & dont no much about it! But I wanna ask you a question that how to make a new user template since it is a community of making user boxes & templates.Plesae tell me how to makw it? Reply soon

Welcome to Wikipædia. To make a user template you simply copy the codes from this page, and fill in the variable slots with your own information. You then plce the customized codework into a blank page in the right namespace and save it. THen do with it as you would any other template. Leave a message on my talk page if you need any elaboration or assitance.--Whytecypress 02:12, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox content

A request for comment has been opened to discuss what could be deemed inappropriate content in userboxes. All users are invited to comment at: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Policies/Userbox content. Thanks. - Mtmelendez (Talk) 05:54, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] An alternative model to Userboxes

I was dissatisfied with the Userbox format - it seems to waste space and usually doesn't really link anywhere useful to bring people together. So I've tried formatting my page in a different way, using Icons that can link to arbitrary places (using the 'imagemap' tag). The concept is explained as an "Icon Corner", and the target page as a "Club". Of course, Clubs would be pretty much useless unless links to them are widely adopted either from new Icons or existing Userboxes. As you may see from the design of my own page, once the icons and clubs are designed, placing them on a user page is quite straightforward. Does anyone think it's a good idea either to adopt the Icon Corner format or to link existing Userboxes to Clubs? Mike Serfas (talk) 06:41, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Please?

I made a userbox called Template:USERBOXE CITIZENDIUM, to tell people that the user also contributes to Citizendium. However, im not finished with the userbox and i want someone to finish the userbox. Please?.

Here is what the userbox looks like for why.

Template:USERBOXE CITIZENDIUM

Mythdon (talk) 04:32, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help!!!!!!

I've made a userbox for Wikipedia:WikiProject The Twilight Zone and I don't know how to create a template. The prototype box is on my page. Any help would be appreciated. Shinerunner (talk) 01:35, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. Actually I don't think you need much help! Your user box looks just fine. The way to make it so that anyone can use it on their own pages, is to put it on its own page. All you need to do is create a new user subpage for it, perhaps User:Shinerunner/Twilight and then copy your complete box coding onto that page. To then put it on any page (including on your own user page) just use the code: {{User:Shinerunner/Twilight}} and the box will appear. To have a look at an example, see this page I created: User:Ahunt/XCski Let me know if any of that doesn't make sense! - Ahunt (talk) 02:15, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the help, I've got the template made. Shinerunner (talk) 22:50, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Super, glad that I could help! Now you will just want to add it to the Twilight Zone project talk page so that other members of the project can find it and use it on their own user pages! An example of one way to do this from another project can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Aircraft/Participants. - Ahunt (talk) 00:37, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] College Football

Hey, why aren't there more boxes like this:

UT This user is a Texas Longhorns fan

RC-0722 communicator/kills 16:58, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Help!!!!

OK, I know how to make a userbox, but how do I post it without all the {{Userbox |border-c=#000 |border-s=1 |id-c=#fff |id-s=12 |id-fc=#000 |info-c=#039 |info-s=8 |info-fc=#fff |id=ID |info=Content}} ? RC-0722 communicator/kills 15:09, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Could you clarify your question? If you're trying to make your userbox permanent, you need to create subpages and paste the code into those subpages. so, from your userpage, just add a /(name of userbox here), and this will tell you the page doesn't exist. So you "Start the page" by pasting your userbox code. voila, you now have a transcludable userbox. (see User:RC-0722/Sampleuserbox for an example of as an example of one that hasn't been made yet) then you can add it as a userbox by using the code {{User:RC-0722/Sampleuserbox}}. is that helpful? xenocidic (talk) 17:15, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. RC-0722 communicator/kills 16:11, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Standarize wiki text in categories.

I noticed that some categories use the {{usbk}} to display the userboxen and some categories still use tables and so forth (compare WP:Userboxes/WikiProjects (good) to WP:Userboxes/Interests (bad). I think we should standardize these pages to use the usbk format, but doing it manually would be a lot of work. Can we add this to the tasks and/or work on it, or suggest to me a way that it could be automated? xenocidic (talk) 17:42, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

I'd have to agree that the pages need to be standardised, but I'm not sure of adding it to the tasks, etc....
On a related note, {{usbk}} has a rather interesting bug whereby the 'transclusions' column gets pushed over the UBX preview on small (less than 1024x768) resolutions. I've had a look at the template's source, but no immediate programming problem, or solution to the bug, has jumped out at me yet... I'll have to give it another look. —Dinoguy1000 19:32, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Looking closer, the bug was in {{usbktop}}, not {{usbk}}. I've fixed it now, though I have yet to check the appearance on 1024x768 or above. —Dinoguy1000 19:42, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
To fix things for all resolutions I'll edit {{usbktop}} to have fixed widths. That way everything falls neatly in line. Check for yourself. ~RayLast «Talk!» 20:56, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Actually, all the columns had fixed widths when the problem was occurring, that's what seemed to be causing it in the first place. However, percentile widths *shouldn't* cause the same problem. —Dinoguy1000 21:06, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
That was apparently precisely the problem. Only the columns had fixed width. I fixed the width for the table as well, which will have the effect of activating side scrolling for those users with too small a resolution. Percentile widths would wrap everything down and make another kind of mess. Now I'll try and fix all the userbox pages to use the {{usbktop}} template. It will take me a while. ~RayLast «Talk!» 22:08, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Percentile widths would cause only the Code column to wrap, since the word "Transclusions" won't (shouldn't) wrap, and userboxes can't wrap (or rather, can't be resized horizontally) because of their fixed width. And no matter how wide you make the table, there's always going to be at least one example where the "Code" column *does* wrap, so it's better to keep with the rest of Wikipedia and allow it to wrap at any resolution if it needs to rather than alienating users with low resolutions by forcing it to scroll the page horizontally. Along those lines, it would be acceptable to give the Result and Users columns fixed widths (since those columns should never need to scale), omit a width on the Code column altogether, and set a percentile width (along the lines of 99%) for the whole table. —Dinoguy1000 00:21, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
No width for the Code field would then have all pages all wiggly with the Code column dependent on the longest code string. A standard size would suit best up until someone with 640x480 complains significantly. The userbox pages using the template are now looking nice. Change resolutions and verify. ~RayLast «Talk!» 00:48, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
No, if you specify a percentile width for the whole table, and fixed widths for the "Result" and "User" columns, and no width for the "Code" column, then, in the same resolution, all the tables will line up perfectly. This is the method used e.g. for most episode lists, and it works quite well. And it's not just 640x480 resolutions that it looks bad on, it's also 800x600 resolutions (which I happen to be using right now). —Dinoguy1000 00:57, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
OK, let me try and do that. I do it first on a test page to see how it looks. I'll let you know when I'm done so you can check how it results for you. ~RayLast «Talk!» 01:10, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm sorry. I tried implementing your suggestion but it results in the Transclusion word horribly overlapping the userbox. If you are able to do this so that it looks better go right ahead. ~RayLast «Talk!» 01:27, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

(unindent) Could you give me a link to the page you tested it on? I'd like to have a look at your test myself and see if I couldn't improve it. —Dinoguy1000 19:15, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

I have been testing it in my userbox testing page. Right now the first group is using percentile, the second group is using fixed widths, etc. The table formats are the same used in the current {{usbktop}}, {{usbk}}, and {{usbkbottom}}. Give it a try and let me know. ~RayLast «Talk!» 20:11, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
I've managed to edit your page so that the overlap problem does not occur on my 800x600 resolution. It's wierd, though, the problem is caused by the first column refusing to wrap (I had to insert a space in the parameter of one of the examples to eliminate overlap), but I have no idea if the same problem exists in any browser except IE, or if there's any way to force wraps except by inserting whitespace. On a related note, I also have no idea exactly how the column widths will behave on any other browsers - I'm particularly leery of the 1px width for the Users column. —Dinoguy1000 18:11, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
For all those reasons, and the uncertainty of what other users will see with their browsers and/or resolutions, I wanted to set all widths to be fixed, so that a side scroll bar appears instead of all that unpredictable wrapping. What do you think? ~RayLast «Talk!» 20:39, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Now that I've seen these problems firsthand, side scrolling doesn't seem to be such a bad solution, though I think we should continue to test and refine my proposed solution and see how it behaves on multiple browsers and in multiple resolutions. And of course, if someone comes along and points out some really obvious CSS property that makes this whole discussion moot, that'd be awesome (not that I'm holding my breath or anything). —Dinoguy1000 16:56, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
I certainly agree that side scrolling is not a desirable thing. I just believe it's the least worst for now. I would love for someone to come up with a neat solution. In any case, what I did to all userbox pages was standardize them so that they all use the same {{usbktop}}, {{usbk}}, and {{usbkbottom}} templates. That way, whatever tweaking that needs to be done to improve the userbox table's appearances can be done in only one central place. ~RayLast «Talk!» 17:17, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Fabulous work, Ray! - Ahunt (talk) 18:11, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Um...

I've joined but, nothing has happened. What do I do?!--Editor510 (talk) 17:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

What were you expecting to happen? =) This userproject seems a little dormant, I bet it had a lot of activity during the UBX migration, but presently not much seems to be going on. check out the list of tasks, or my 'suggested' task right above this section (standardizing categories). xenocidic (talk) 17:09, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Category

I have created some userboxes (User:ftbhrygvn/UBX) but no one uses them so I want to post it on WP:UBX categories but I can find a sutiable category. Please give some advice to me. Visit me at Ftbhrygvn (Talk|Contribs|Log|Userboxes) 05:14, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

For the video gaming ones I would suggest Wikipedia:Userboxes/Games/Computer_and_video_games - Ahunt (talk) 12:26, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Questions

Hi everyone, I just created three user boxes here , here , and here and because no one would use them if I just left them on my user page I wanted to post them on WP:UBX categories and I was wondering what user box topic that they should be listed under, any help that anyone could provide would be much appreciated. Thanks,--Mifter (talk) 02:24, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

The first two would probably go under Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia#Wikipedic_views.2C_attitude_and_preferences. I would put the third one in Wikipedia:Userboxes/Interests, since I couldn't ind anywhere better for it. --Crazed by Penguins (talk) 02:53, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Ok thanks a bunch for the info :). --Mifter (talk) 22:41, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for a userbox?

Can anyone make a Userbox for a cadet in the Combined Cadet Force? And if possible, distinguish between the Army, Navy, and RAF sections? Fieldmarhshal Miyagi (talk) 15:59, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

I assume you mean the UK Combined Cadet Force? I would think three different boxes would be best, how does that sound? - Ahunt (talk) 16:23, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Anybody else? Sorry, haven't been in touch. Yes it is the UK Combined Cadrt force.Fieldmarhshal Miyagi (talk) 16:54, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
I assume Ahunt is prepared to make these userboxes and was just waiting for a response =) If not, I can help you, if you can point me to the necessary creative-commons-licensed images you would like used. xenocidic (talk) 16:58, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Yes indeed I was waiting for a response. As far as I can tell the logos are all copyrighted, so it will have to be a bit creative, but "can do". I'll drop them back here when done and then people can modify them if they like! - Ahunt (talk) 17:16, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Okay, here is what I have come up with. I couldn't find a non-copyrighted logo so I went with lettering instead. Each box has colours and wording in common and also distinctive to the element represented. They may need some serious adjustments, but at least we have a place to start from! Criticism and your editing of the boxes is very welcome. - Ahunt (talk) 21:27, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Code Result
{{User:Ahunt/CCFNavy}}
CCF This user is a member of the Royal Navy Section of the Combined Cadet Force
Transclusions
{{User:Ahunt/CCFArmy}}
CCF This user is a member of the Army Section of the Combined Cadet Force
Transclusions
{{User:Ahunt/CCFMarine}}
CCF This user is a member of the Royal Marines section of the Combined Cadet Force
Transclusions
{{User:Ahunt/CCFAir}}
CCF This user is a member of the RAF Section of the Combined Cadet Force
Transclusions

I should add once the requester and everyone else is happy with them I can place them on the appropriate user boxes page, such as Wikipedia:Userboxes/Military - Ahunt (talk) 21:30, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

I think the Marine section should be a similar colour to the navy, while the army section gets the gree colour.Fieldmarhshal Miyagi (talk) 20:28, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
How is that? - Ahunt (talk) 22:20, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
Lacking any other feedback on the above userboxes I will post them on the Wikipedia:Userboxes/Military page. Hopefully users will edit and improve them further once they are seen there. - Ahunt (talk) 16:56, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Video Game Userboxes?

I don't know if it's appropriate to have userboxes that go as far to say "This user has this game and loves it" but at least some that relate to videogames would be helpful... or if they are appropriate... I'm going to learn how to make userboxes this weekend, so I can make a few then, but otherwise, some such as "this user enjoys videogames" or "This user has a wii" or somethingRustyfence (talk) 02:14, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I agree that many people have gone too far in making a whole new userbox for every little change. Note that you can make a generic userbox that accepts parameters which then allows the user to be as generic or as specific as he/she decides. See User:Mistman123/Userboxes/PSP, for example. ~RayLast «Talk!» 02:23, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I might be reading you wrong, but you seem to be under the impression that there are no video game userboxes ("at least some that relate to videogames would be helpful"). anyhow, they are all here

if I misunderstood, disregard =) best of luck. xenocidic (talk) 04:41, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, yes I was [under the impression there are no videogame userboxes.] I didn't see those, thanks Rustyfence (talk) 18:33, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Approval?

Do all new Userboxes have to be approved by an administrator before they can be used? Thanks. AlmightyClam 17:35, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

No, although certain userboxes may get deleted from time to time because of their content. —Dinoguy1000 17:38, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Cheers. AlmightyClam 12:25, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] request

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but could someone make a userbox that says "This user is angry when they're beat to nominating a new article for speedy deletion"? Thanks. If, and when, it's done, please tell me. Thanks. Me what do u want? Your Hancock Please —Preceding comment was added at 19:49, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

This seems to have already been done, either by yourself, or someone else. However, it is just the code of a userbox, if you want to create it into a permanent userbox, you could copy and paste the code into, say User:Mm40/angrycsd or something of the sort and then transcluding the box as usual. xenocidic (talk) 17:30, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New Userbox

CR-99

This user is insane!

Made with the Userbox maker.--Editor510 (talk) 15:54, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request for assistance

Y Done
I wanted to position a userbox in the upper right hand corner of a page, and then have a few blank lines, and then start the text of the page. I guess I want line feeds after the bottom of the userbox. I am trying this at User:Filll/AGF Challenge with minimal success. I have tried all kinds of things; blank lines <p> and </p> tags, <br> and <br/> tags and <div> and </div> tags. I am clearly doing something wrong since I am sure this is easy. Can someone help me? Thanks.--Filll (talk) 14:16, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Is that better? {{-}} will create a break to clear text beyond any floating elements, and I added a few blank lines. xenocidic (talk) 14:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hey guys, check this out!

This userbox is flavoured like Jalapeño peppers! Make up some cool new flavours of your own!

A little something I thought of. I took the idea from this:

Mmm, userboxes This user thinks that more Wikipedians would like userboxes if they were edible.


Here is the raw code so you can make your own! Just change the image, colour and text, and if you like them then my talk page is available for comments!

Here's the code:

{{userbox|green|white|[[Image:Immature jalapeno capsicum annuum var annuum.jpeg|40px]]|This userbox is flavoured like Jalapeño peppers! Make up some cool new flavours of your own!}}