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Problem with Template:Non-free use rationale album cover

Text entered in the "Replaceability" field is displayed twice. It may be due to edits you made to the template code on 6 October 2011, although there is a more recent benign-looking edit by Redrose64 on 5 July 2012, where two periods were added. Today is only the second time in the past 12 months that I've worked with this template, so I'm not sure when the problem first appeared. I noticed it shortly after adding the template to File:Thepresentbythemoodywhatever.gif. After carefully reviewing my edit to verify that I hadn't double-pasted the text block, I have come to the conclusion that the problem is caused by the template. — Quicksilver^{T @} 16:56, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) It's only displayed twice because there is a second copy. The |Replaceability= parameter is supplementary to the default text, so there is no need to re-enter it when it's exactly the same as the default text. See File:Revolver.jpg for an example which displays the default text alone. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:17, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

I removed the text from the field and now it shows only one copy. Perhaps a better explanation in the template documentation would be in order. I re-read the documentation and it's still not clear to me that the Replaceability field always injects its own boilerplate, whether or not one enters something there. The way the documentation is currently written, it implies that text put into the field replaces the boilerplate instead of supplementing it. What if the boilerplate is completely wrong? Putting one's own entry into the field doesn't make the boilerplate go away. — Quicksilver^{T @} 20:07, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Question about your talk page

Hello, is it okay if I copy the script at the top of your talk page for my own? I think it looks awesome. Lenny Kaufman ^talk 15:06, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

No problem, I copied it from User:SoWhy! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:06, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Template:Census metropolitan areas in Canada by size

Hello old timer - was wondering if you could look at Template:Census metropolitan areas in Canada by size as I believe there is a coding error that is causing it to be displayed outside the {{Navboxes|list = parameter ... as seen below.Moxy (talk) 06:54, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

It wasn't {{Census metropolitan areas in Canada by size}} but the navbox above that, this I checked by changing the order - and I found that it was always the ones after {{Canada capitals}} which were misdisplayed. I found nothing wrong with that template, but there's some horrendous HTML in one of its subtemplates, to which I've applied a quick fix. This has sorted the issue you describe above. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:09, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

User:Taparchives

I know you had reviewed this user's activities, after s/he was unblocked. Are his/her recent activities regarding EL's acceptable? S/he is adding links to the Archiveshub descriptions of materials that are actually held at the V&A museum. These are just indices of what is at the museum, not a link to any useful online materials. Here are his recent edits. So it does seem pretty spammy. Please ping me on my talk page if you can comment about this. I left the same question for Daniel Case. Thanks! -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:24, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

B-class hook

Hi,

Please can you look at and fix Template:WPBannerMeta/hooks/bchecklist, asap.

When B6 is set to "b6=yes" in an article talk page, it displays as Accessibility: invalid parameter in the banner rated results.

I'm wondering if it's because the line:

}}+{{#if:{{{b1|¬}}}{{{b2|¬}}}{{{b3|¬}}}{{{b4|¬}}}{{{b5|¬}}}|1|0}} > 0

is missing:

{{{b6|¬}}}

but because the damn thing is locked, I can't do jack.. needs sorting though.

Cheers, Ma®©usBritish^{chat} 04:04, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

You had made a mistake on the code for Template:WikiProject Westerns, which I have now fixed. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:34, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Well the doc wasn't very clear on removing the ***PARAMETER*** text in the case of standard (non-custom) ratings, so I just left it all as it was.. I see you've amended the code to prevent re-occurrences, which makes sense, as WikiProject setup is tricky enough. Cheers, Ma®©usBritish^{chat} 10:04, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Just to note, I've made it to:

 | b1              = {{{B1|{{{b1|}}}}}}
 | b2              = {{{B2|{{{b2|}}}}}}
 | b3              = {{{B3|{{{b3|}}}}}}
 | b4              = {{{B4|{{{b4|}}}}}}
 | b5              = {{{B5|{{{b5|}}}}}}
 | b6              = {{{B6|{{{b6|}}}}}}

as I noticed the use of b1= etc is case-sensitive, and using B1= etc results in the yes/no rating being ignored. Might be worth making the template do this by default, as I have seen few cases of some editors using upper-case in assessments. Probably easier to catch-all than from the hook try to find and correct them all individually. The {{WPMILHIST}} banner goes so far as to catch many variations, i.e.

{{{B-Class-1|}}}{{{B-1|}}}{{{B1|}}}{{{b-1|}}}{{{b1|}}}}}

to avoid issues. Perhaps leaving the "custom" feature of this hook for very wild custom varieties, but making it do the same for "common" forms might be worthwhile? Will leave it to you to consider whether it would be in the best interests of the template or not. Cheers, Ma®©usBritish^{chat} 10:42, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Today's article for improvement and the main page

The development for TAFI has progressed significantly over the last few weeks, and we are prepared to launch the new feature on the main page for Feb 9th at 0:00 UTC. Concensus was established that the TAFI content should be placed below the DYK content. An example page has been created to show what it would look like. I would like to invite you and several other admins who have recently edited the Main Page to swing by this discussion to help us hammer out the final logistics of integrating the content onto the main page. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 18:01, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

Your counsel sought

Hi Martin! Long time, no see! You've helped me in the past with some protected redirects and stuff. I wonder if you could briefly help again? I'm considering taking on the task of admin, and I'd like to know how you compare being an admin-editor to being an editor only? Do you find yourself getting bogged down and unable to do the types of editing you like to do on Wikipedia? Any pointers you can give me would be a great help. Thank you in advance! – Paine (Climax!)  19:15, 28 January 2013 (UTC)