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:- [[/Previous discussions]]
 
[{{fullurl:Special:Movepage|wpOldTitle=Test_articleA&wpReason=Testing}} movelink]
 
[http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?action=edit&preload=Template%3APreload_Article&title={{urlencode:{{{1}}}}} <font color=#CA3D10>{{{1}}}</font>]
*How should the r template deal with  links to catalogs?  Could use a separate 4th level definition but which related articles page should it link too?
*Apostrophe bug means that the tabs are not the correct color.  Fix the code to account so the if statement compares the url code.
* Manual placement of <nowiki>{{dabdef|Fossilization}}</nowiki> needs the basepagename added manually too.  If follow Noel's description will need a field in the metadata for any article that is the target of the basename redirect. No other way to figure out the basename for the {{tl|dambigbox}} template otherwise.  Alternative is do have a much more manually (for example, <nowiki>{{dambigbox|the process in [[palaeontology]]|Fossilization}}</nowiki> ) template but probably better to have it placed automatically. Drawa figure to make this more comprehensible.
* Need to write a summary document describing the uses of {{tl|RD}}, {{tl|R}}, {{tl|Rpl}} and {{tl|pl}}.
* For {{tl|R}} should probably remove the {{tl|Dabdef}} template and just write what is required.  Could then have a specific template for the disambiguation request for a definition page if it is needed (I suspect no one would use it and instead just make the disambiguation page).  One exception might be Daniel in combination with the RD template at [[CZ:List of words with multiple uses]]
* Subpages template misinterprets location on the talk approval talk page (not sure I can replicate this).
* Think over subpages format. Possibly need subpages style as third layer template with intermediary ones to define the magicword variables? Initiated this, see {{tl|Parameters1}} and  {{tl|Parameters2}} in conjunction with {{tl|Subpages test}} and  {{tl|Subpage style test}}.
*If no footer or header add specific category to note this fact, preferably no other categories too. See [[homeopathy/Trials]] example.
*[http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Air_pollution_dispersion_modeling/Catalogs/Models/Definition must think about the status of these sub and subsub defintion pages].  Note also that they exist as definition onlys rather than recognising the existance of the basepagename.
*Lemma articles mess up the related only category such that related articles can only exist if there is some metadata.  Try and write around (is this true?  not sure I can replicate this either).
*Finish userplan simplification and more focus on workgroup participation.
*Fix move cluster - partially done, still need to fix approval page bug (when article has no approval page or when there is already an approval page present)
*{{tl|Lemma}} idea,  see {{tl|Test lemma}} too. Need to utlilise the pagesize magic word so we get a lemma when there is no, or very little text in an article.
*optional photo credit
*Article task and notification list
*Metadata edits always current so should tie speedydelete etc to that one page. This will get around the maintenance categories often being out of date.
*<s>Think more about /Catalog/Masterlists</s> See [[User_talk:Aleta_Curry#Masterlist]] for examples. Fix the same page blank code, At present there is a capital letter requirement bug as well as need to get second string if used. Also catalog masterlists and transclusion in general. No need to maintain information at multiple sites.  Is substitution bot an option?
*Figure out utlity of transcluding refs with the r template redirects.
*Make error boxes more concise and smaller.
*Finish up the periodic table navigation, specifically whether element data shoul be in a switch page on on individual subpages
 
<nowiki>{{r|Nova (astronomy)#Supernova|Supernova}}</nowiki> gives: {{r|Nova (astronomy)#Supernova|Supernova}}
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::Iteresting that the top version does not work as expected.  Might need to fic the r template to asccomodate tis , if possible. 06:54, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 
 
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== Too many pop-up  alert messages when starting a new article ==
 
Chris, two things that have niggled me for quite some while:
 
*'''Whenever I create a new article in my Sandbox and then use the "Start Article" link in the left-hand navigation panel:'''
 
As soon as I cut and paste the article from my sandbox into the new article (including the subpages template) and save it, three or so large popup alerts are displayed on the main article page (ahead of the article text) telling me why they have appeared and alerting me to do certain things (like filling out the Metadata template). They must be overwhelmingly confusing to a new user writing his first article. The various pop-ups are separated by a heck of a lot of white space ... so that one must scroll down quite far to even see the main article text that I just cut and pasted from my sandbox.
 
Can those pop-ups be made smaller, with less excessive white space between them? Or can they be combined into one pop-up and made less wordy?
 
*'''After I've created the Definition subpage and the Talk subpage:'''
 
The Talk page has more pop-ups telling me to create the Related Articles, Bibliography  and External Links subpages. Again, one must scroll down to below those pop-ups before adding a post or reading any existing posts.
 
Once the Main Article, Metadata template and Talk page have been created, why not autiomatically create the Definition, the Related Articles, the Bibliography and the External Links pages complete with the subpages template included in each of them? Then, instead of all those pop-ups on the Talk page, all that would be required is one sentence stating that the Definition, the Related Articles, the Bibliography and External Links subpage need to be populated as soon as possible.
 
I think the above suggestions would greatly simplify the task of starting a new article. What do you think? [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 07:00, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 
: The messages (including the whitespace) for starting an article could easily be changed in [[Template:Orphan subpage]].
: Concerning the talk page messages I have already filed a wish in [[CZ:Wishlist]] "Obtrusive requests to edit subpages". Again, they could easily be made smaller without having to create them at once. (I do not think that it is useful to create empty pages.)
: However, both messages are as they are on purpose. Thus the pro-and-contra should be discussed, at least briefly.
: (I agree with you, Milton) --[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 11:13, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
:::Glad someone else said it.  I thought it was just my ignorance, you know, like it wouldn't bother people born into the Internet era. 
:::Not to insult the original crafters, because we've all been working in the dark on this and I still think that clusters are a brilliant idea, we just need to tweak every once in a while.
:::While we're at it, could we PLEASE remove Albert from the metadata fill in form?  I keep re-creating page [[Albert Einstein]] and getting a 'you're messing this up' error message, which confuses me no end.
:::And let's remove CanE and AusE as options in the language variants.  No one ''writes'' in Canadian English or Australian English, we might as well have Indian English or Trinidadian English.  We only need American English and British (or Commonwealth, if you'd rather) English.
:::[[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]] 22:11, 25 January 2010 (UTC)


==Notes to self==
:::: I have removed "Albert Einstein" from the field in the blank template. (I hope that nobody minds.) On this occasion I found a Metadata template wrongly attributed to Einstein. (There may be more. And there are quite a lot of Metadata requiring "abc=Einstein, Albert" that will need to be fixed.) --[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 01:31, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates
 
:::::In retrospect, it should have been Werner Heisenberg. --[[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 03:23, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
::::::You're just so certain of that, aren't you.  [[User:Russell D. Jones|Russell D. Jones]] 14:14, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 
:::::::I do not think these alerts should go completely but we could hide most of them behind ONE generic message per page saying "Hey, something is missing or wrong. For details, click [show].". An example for such hidden stuff is at [[:Category:Bot-created Related Articles subpages#Index]]. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 15:09, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 
::::::::I happen to like the alerts.  As rarely as I create and/or move pages, I don't remember the procedures and all that has to happen; and I'm not willing to go look up those procedures every time.  But having the alerts reminds me of what I need to do to get the article "off the ground."  It's a checklist, but not in a checklist format.  I was unaware of the Einstein Bug.  I don't know that I'd like the "something's missing" format either.  It smacks of "we know something you don't, he, he."  If the templating can tell me what needs to be done to get the cluster to an operating standard, then it should. [[User:Russell D. Jones|Russell D. Jones]] 16:16, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 
:::::::::I think you have to place yourself in the shoes of a newbie, Russell -- all of these alerts, and *long* blank spaces down through which one has to scroll, are *baffling*.  "Hey, they asked me to create an article, I did, and NOW what?!  WTF is goin' on here?  Where's my article?!  What am I supposed to do with THIS?!"  Etc. etc.  Even to me, after starting maybe 150 articles, I find it annoying.  And THEN there's the stoopid Talk page, with the big blank space in the middle with the mysterious boxes on the right telling us to start a Related Articles page and a Bibliography, and god knows what else!  It looks terrible!  Fortunately I've found an answer to this:  I click on each one of these demands, go to the newly opened page, type in an "x", save it, and do the same for the next one.  Which at least cleans up the Talk page.  Let's ask ourselves: for *whom* are we creating these minotaurian complexes?  Howard and his Lemma articles? Heisenberg and Einstein and Schrodinger and his Kat to do Thought Experiments with? or for Billy Bob Thudpucker in Las Cruces, New Mexico, who just wants to write a brief article about the third-string banjo picker of the Rolling Stones?  And while we're asking questions, I wonder how many of the dozens of new Authors who arrive here and then *never* contribute anything have actually *started* to write something, and then got scared away by all the inscrutable baloney they're then *apparently* required to do?  So they curse, or shrug, and go away, never to return.... [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 16:30, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 
::::::::::I would consider pages started empty or with an "x" as their single content as close to vandalism. The blank spaces can be removed easily, and it should also be possible to place the talk page messages more effectively. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 16:35, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 
:::::::::::If the blank spaces and messages can be removed or made less intrusive, then why aren't they?  Who put this stuff in there in the first place? And putting an X in there isn't remotely *close* to being vandalism -- it's exactly the same thing as going into an edited page and putting in a Null so that the damn server or whatever decides to notice that a change has been made to the Metadata page, such as when we change the ABC and then it doesn't show up on the Workgroup page until the Null has been put in. [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 16:50, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 
(undent)Can a variable be set in a user profile, which is then available to templates? The default might be "newbie". Russell would want a "verbose" mode. I would want to suppress the "suggestions"--in user design speak, "terse" or "expert" mode.
 
In some respects, the idea of the lemma came about as a means of entering minimum useful content without going through full cluster setup, some of which will never be relevant. 
 
Daniel, separating the issue of removing spaces, there is no real reason to demand External Links or Bibliography. Many articles will never have them, so they can go to the list of optional pages such as Catalogs and Debate Guide. Related Articles as a suggestion, yes. The suggestion of having other articles link to this article is useful only to people that understand the overall structure, who then should not need the reminder.  Now, a link to a tutorial on knowledge navigation is another matter.
 
Hayford, your point is well taken about scaring away newbies. The newbie mode might even suppress anything beyond the minimum and post the article to a page for more experienced people to clean up. Remember the art historian? How much work would we have saved if she had just written the article and let us do the other pages?  This is one of the reasons I hesitate to make instant Editors.
 
Eduzendium also shows that it's rather overwhelming; Daniel's macros/templates helped a lot. If I may try an analogy, we are "cataloging". When I went to work for the Library of Congress, I was amazed to discover how much skill and knowledge is needed to create a correct catalog card. There is an enormous difference between even the scholarly ''users'' of the Library, and the professional catalogers. We are simpler at present, but does the newbie even notice the "workgroup" tab on the left? At LC, the catalogers needed to go far beyond that, but both are still controlled vocabularies. I still am confused when something is "Media" vs. "Journalism". --[[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 16:46, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
:I happen to think the templating here is exceptionally sophisticated and I appreciate that it can sculpt the CZ experience.  I agree with the above that some of the mechanics are skewed (e.g., having to create a null edit in order for the server to update its status), but the "white space" experience, I think, is not intended for you to scroll through to get to the article; it is intended for you to fix the problem that is identified.  But for people who create a lot of pages, I can see that it might be tedious to go through these hoops again and again when all you do is a null edit.  Also, I see the problem of EZ.  I take about 200 students a semester through the learning process of editing on the MediaWiki software and I can tell you that for a lot of them, even learning where to click to actually open the edit window can be a challenging undertaking.  Complicating the scene with sophisticated templating raises the intimidation (or fear factor) of the site. 
:So I see three levels of users here.
:# An author new to wikis who doesn't want to or will be overwhelmed with cluster set up.  (maybe in the article creation process the article could automatically be tagged (category) with a request to set up cluster; experienced hands could take care of the list.)
:# An experienced author who likes the process checklist to set up a cluster.
:# An experienced cluster setter-upper who knows what to do and can't be bothered with the alerts. 
:Also I see issues of what exactly is needed for a bare-bones cluster set up: Metadata, certainly; definitions? maybe.  Bibliography? probably not.  talk page? shouldn't need a null edit.  [[User:Russell D. Jones|Russell D. Jones]] 17:27, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 
::I [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Template%3AMetadata_to_finish&diff=100630370&oldid=100580612 took out] some of the talk page alerts &mdash; feedback welcome. Will take a look at the page creation stuff later. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 17:56, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 
::: Since this has evolved to a discussion of the merits and dismerits:
::: I think that the information seen from the subpages template is enough: It shows what subpages exist. Those who know about them and are willing to work on them can easily start there -- if they do not want then they will ignore the templates as well. (I do ...: many pages do not need external links, and many will not get a bibliography, and why create either when one has no good idea what to enter? The same is true for definitions - better no definition than a bad or incorrect one.)
::: Moreover, CZ explicitly encourages to start articles the "easy way" (see [[CZ:Start Article]]) -- without subpages.
::: -[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 23:00, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 
::::I now also hid the alert messages for missing metadata. The following pages are some of those that do not yet have the {{tl|subpages}} template, so you can use them to fiddle around with the new mechanism and to provide further feedback:
{{r|Nucleoside||:::::}}
{{r|Nucleotide||:::::}}
{{r|Lipoprotein||:::::}}
{{r|Critical pathway||:::::}}
{{r|Third molar||:::::}}
{{r|Transcendentalism||:::::}}
{{r|Hardy–Weinberg principle||:::::}}
{{r|Sleep initiation and maintenance disorders||:::::}}
{{r|Hypertensive urgency||:::::}}
{{r|Aldosterone antagonist||:::::}}
{{r|Team-based learning||:::::}}
{{r|Agile software development||:::::}}
{{r|Alpha adrenergic blocker||:::::}}
{{r|British Doctors Aspirin Trial||:::::}}
{{r|Health Professionals Follow-up Study||:::::}}
{{r|Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation||:::::}}
{{r|Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy||:::::}}
{{r|Bacteriuria||:::::}}
{{r|Janus kinase||:::::}}
{{r|Serum osmolality||:::::}}
{{r|Vena cava filter||:::::}}
{{r|Rifampin||:::::}}
{{r|Patient discharge||:::::}}
{{r|Nephrotic syndrome||:::::}}
{{r|Hyponatremia||:::::}}
{{r|American Heart Association||:::::}}
{{r|Craniocerebral trauma||:::::}}
{{r|Palpitation||:::::}}
{{r|Apolipoprotein||:::::}}
 
{{r|Respiratory failure||:::::}}
{{r|Antiphospholipid syndrome||:::::}}
{{r|Intravenous infusion||:::::}}
{{r|Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C19||:::::}}
{{r|Chronic fatigue syndrome||:::::}}
{{r|Human Immunodeficiency Virus||:::::}}
{{r|Sick sinus syndrome||:::::}}
{{r|Microscopic polyangiitis||:::::}}
{{r|Queckenstedt's maneuver||:::::}}
{{r|Mechanical ventilator||:::::}}
{{r|Dysphagia||:::::}}
{{r|Natriuretic peptide||:::::}}
{{r|Ideal body weight||:::::}}
{{r|Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging||:::::}}
{{r|Reserpine||:::::}}
{{r|Thrombophilia||:::::}}
{{r|Spontaneous abortion||:::::}}
{{r|Protein S||:::::}}
{{r|Thrombophilia||:::::}}
{{r|Zygapophyseal joint||:::::}}
{{r|Opiate dependence||:::::}}
{{r|Vertebra||:::::}}
{{r|Tramadol||:::::}}
{{r|Pre-eclampsia||:::::}}
{{r|Urinary retention||:::::}}
{{r|Pheochromocytoma||:::::}}
{{r|Glycoprotein IIb-IIIa inhibitors||:::::}}
{{r|Veterinary medicine||:::::}}
{{r|Polymyalgia rheumatica||:::::}}
{{r|Principal components analysis||:::::}}
{{r|GTP-binding protein||:::::}}
{{r|Intracranial hemorrhage||:::::}}
{{r|Adderall||:::::}}
{{r|Habitual abortion||:::::}}
{{r|Diagnostic error||:::::}}
 
::::--[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 13:55, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Daniel i think your solution of hiding things looks great.  Milt does this satisfy you? I admit the templates are a pain it is important to have some kind of visual reminder that there is an incompatibility between the metadata and the article.  Hopefully they are more subtle now. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 23:09, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 
:That's great, Daniel!  Many thanks for getting rid of all of the baloney!  I just created [[John Dickson Carr]] to test your changes and everything is terrific except ONE thing: I foresee BIG problems ahead if you leave things exactly as they now are.  Once one has created the article and saved it, on top of the article one sees something like '''needs metadate''' and '''show'''.  If one clicks on the '''metadata''' link, one is directed to the page '''explaining''' metadata.  I will bet you that *some* people will try to put their metadata into the template shown on that page!  My suggestion: change the wording to '''what metadata means''' and '''go here to add metadata for this particular article'''.  Thanks! [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 23:47, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 
::Chris, I'll comment after I next create a new article ... which I hope will be a few days from now. Thanks, [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 08:49, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 
:::Ad Hayford, I changed the phrasing to avoid that kind of confusion.
 
:::Ad Milt, proper functioning of the templates can also be validated by putting the subpages template on any of the articles in the long list I prepared above.
 
:::--[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 15:43, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 
::::Thanks, Daniel, that's a lot better!  Now one last thing.  When you click on the '''show''' button and are taken to the next page, you are shown some info at the top of the page BUT there is then a LARGE blank space beneath that info, so that unless you KNOW that you should scroll down to the bottom of the page, you won't know that you SHOULD scroll down in order to click on the "fill out the metadata" link etc.  I'm sure that many people would go to this page, simply look at the top of it, wonder what the hell they were doing there, and then leave, *without* filling out any of the metadata.  Can't you get rid of this useless blank space? [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 16:32, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 
:::::Done. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 22:17, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 
::::::Great!  I'll have to create another new article (sigh) to check things out one last time.... [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 22:40, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
 
:::::::Daniel and Chris: I just created a new article, [[Crude oil desalter]], and I must agree that the changes made in all those pop-up alerts is a great improvement over what they were before I started this discussion. Thanks to all. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 05:24, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 
::::::::That seems just about perfect, Daniel, at least given all the previous template stuff that you have to work with.  I just created [[Philip Atlee]] and have a one *minor* suggestion. When the main article has been created, we now have a header in black that says something like "The metadata is missing; if you feeling like doing it, please create it; details" then there's a blue link that says SHOW.  I suggest that you rewrite the longer stuff to say something like, "The metadata is missing; if you feel up to creating it, please click on the SHOW link to the right" and REMOVE the word "details" -- it's *slightly* confusing.... [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 23:31, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 
::::::::: Good suggestion. I made the change. --[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 23:57, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 
::::::::::Peter, that's perfect!  Kudos to you and Daniel.  I really think that there is now going to be a '''lot''' less confusion! In fact, I'll drink to that! (Goes off to make a Scotch and soda....) [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 01:50, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 
== Moving ==
 
Hi Chris. From what I can tell, you've been trying to clean up a few articles and put pages in their proper places recently. I noticed that this has resulted in a [[Loyalists (United Kingdom)/Bibliography|bibliography]] and [[Loyalists (United Kingdom)/External Links|external links]] page attached to an article about a different subject.
 
As I'm merely a lowly 'author', I don't think I am allowed to move pages. I thought about cutting and pasting, but then I thought it might be better if the pages were moved properly.. so I thought I'd drop you a wee note.
 
The article the subpages belong to is, I believe, [[United Empire Loyalists]].
 
Cheers (and sorry for adding to your workload!). --[[User:Mal McKee|Mal McKee]] 03:05, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 
: I moved the two files. By the way: There are no "lowly" authors. You could have made the move yourself. (You are only asked to be carful, of course.) --[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 10:06, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 
== Chris, or someone else who knows what s/he's doing... ==
 
...could I prevail upon you to do the archiving thing with the [[CZ:Monthly Write-a-Thon|January Write-a-Thon]] and leave me a blank page for February?  Thanks! [[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]] 03:49, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 
== More on metadata ==
 
I'm sorry to throw the proverbial spanner, boys, but this didn't occur to me before.
 
I have only just created a new article since the (excellent, I may add) changes to the setup.
 
Could I just ask, if it's possible, for the 'create a metadata page if you feel up to it' notice box thingy to appear *after* a body has 'saved' the new article, not before?  At present it appears if you "preview".  Now, if you click through to metadata creation on a "preview" page, you have to remember to '''go back and 'save' the original, ''or all your hard work is lost!''
 
I haven't (yet) tried it the other way, so I don't know what appears if you ignore the 'create metadata' bit and just click 'save' first.
 
[[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]] 01:18, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 
:You write: "Could I just ask, if it's possible, for the 'create a metadata page if you feel up to it' notice box thingy to appear *after* a body has 'saved' the new article, not before?". I'm not sure I understand this exactly. How do you normally start a new article? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 04:25, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
::This problem/request was not related to the "Who's on First?" metadata problem, right? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 04:55, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 
:::Chris, I think I recognize Aleta's concern. Once the subpages template goes into a new article, "preview article" brings up the metadata prompts. From bitter experience, if I write a new article of any appreciable length, I make sure to save before inserting the template. It's not hard to get lost in the prompts, decide not to fill them in, but neglect to save and thus lose the work. --[[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 05:11, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 
::::Now I understand, I never use preview so I have not been down that route. All I can suggest is bold letters saying '''first save your work'''. Would that be sufficient? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 05:13, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 
::::: I just added a warning message to save. Hope it helps. However, one will never be able to prevent all mistakes. If there are too much warnings they will not be read anymore ... Probably one has to make one's mistakes, and learn from them. <br> Preview can be usefull. I sometimes use preview, and sometimes not. Sometimes I wished I would have used it instead of showing my stupidity in the history ;-) --[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 10:25, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 
::::::Yes, Howard got it in one.  I'm not as brave as you are, Chris, I almost always use 'preview', I look entirely too foolish otherwise.  Trust me, no one should see my 'scrap paper'! The down side, of course, is how many times I forget to actually 'save'--sigh [[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]] 10:41, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
::::::p.s. Chris, was the Who's on First metadata problem caused by my mistake in the ''status'' field?  Let's face it:  I'm a genius! [[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]] 10:47, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 
::::::: Just a hint: If one has forgotten to save it is often still possible to go back to that edit page using the the browser's back button. --[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 12:44, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 
::::::::Er...yes, but when I say 'forgotten', I really mean it.  Like, I've shut down the computer, turned off the generator, taken the dogs for a walk, had my hair done (okay, that's a lie), made dinner...and then I come back next day wondering where that incredibly excellent 240 page cluster that I started is! [[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]] 22:15, 3 February 2010 (UTC)


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== The "Fair Use" upload summary ==
For catalogs.
*Specific subpage categories are now placed on talk page so do not trail the extended subpage name for every entry when seen in the subpages categories.  See {{tl|Talk Always}}.
*Extra/Optional subpages categories are on all subpages except for the default ones. These give lists of all optional subpages in a particular workgroup and thus require the subpagename so they can be distinguished for each article. See {{tl|All Subpage Content}}.
*{{tl|Catalogs header}} is now only used for the header.  The footer is not used for anything at present.


*To-Do: Need to consider where the sub-subpages fit into this scheme, should probably do something similar.  
Chris: In the last few days, I uploaded two logos by claiming Fair Use. They were the logos for [[ASTM International]] (ASTM) and for [[International Organization for Standardization]] (ISO). When I went to ''CZ:UPLOAD / I am not the copyright holder / This use of the work is Fair Use'', I arrived at the upload file form to be filled out. It has a '''one-line window''' in which to write the rationale for claiming Fair Use (i.e., the window labeled "Notes").
*All approved talk pages will need to have the following format for this scheme to work:


<nowiki>#REDIRECT [[Talk:Dog/Draft]]
Here is what I wrote as my rationale: "<font color=purple>The logo image is used to identify the International Organization for Standards. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the organization, assure the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the organization, and illustrate the organization's intended branding message in a way that words alone could not convey. The entire logo is used to convey the meaning intended and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the intended image. The logo is of a size and resolution sufficient to maintain the quality intended by the organization, without being unnecessarily high resolution. Because it is a logo there is almost certainly no free equivalent. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary.</font>"


<noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude></nowiki>
It was very difficult to write all of that into a one-line window and to check it for spelling, grammar and omissions. Is there any way to revise that upload file form so that the "Notes" window is at least 6-8 lines wide?
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{{Move|movefrom=Mars|moveto=Mars (planet)}}


By the way, most of my above rationale was borrowed from WP ... because I could find no similar rationale help in CZ. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 04:27, 7 February 2010 (UTC)


:[[:Category:Move def]]
:I made a reply ing the forum.  But in case you missed that.  For me, I use the upload primarily as a decision tree to get the correct templates. I often make changes and additions to them after the upload is complete.  In this case that might be the best way to go.
:[[:Category:Need def]]
:[[:Category:Delete def]]
:[[:Category:Definition Only]]
:[[:Category:Related Articles Only]]
:[[:Category:Dabdef Subpages]]


http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:Movepage?wpReason=Testing&wpOldTitle=Article_name&wpNewTitle=Article_name/Sandbox
:As to the technical suggestion of adding a larger edit window. I would, if I could, but I'm not sure where to make such changes. Or what to change.  Possibly Peter might have a better idea? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 04:30, 8 February 2010 (UTC) test


http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=CZ:Proposals/New&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Proposal_blank
== Thanks for getting the water freezing point straightened out (if it just stays that way). ==


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Thanks, Chris. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 06:28, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
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[[Talk:Test article]]
==New template==
Hi, Chris. Thanks for your offer of further help (not that I can find it...)


{| align=center border=0 cellpadding=3 cellspacing=3 style="border: 1px solid #E0E0E0; background-color: #F8F8F8"
Can you make the '''unknown letter''' at [[Template:Common misspellings prolog]] show itself, please?
|-
| style="font-size: 90%" | This page uses content from [http://www.wikipedia.org '''Wikipedia''']. The original article was at {{#if:{{{1|[http://en.wikipedia.org{{localurl:{{{1}}}}} '''{{{1}}}''']}}}|[http://en.wikipedia.org{{localurl:{{PAGENAME}}}} '''{{PAGENAME}}''']}}. The text of Wikipedia is available under the [[GNU Free Documentation License]].
|}


Ta! [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Thorpe]] 17:42, 11 February 2010 (UTC)


*Need to <sup>figure</sup> out why basepagename does not work with some characters.  Is this a problem for the normal function of the template? Need a way to figure out when basepagename and pagename in metadata template are different. Most likely after a move. Since the old name will still exist as a redirect this error catch will not detect such examples. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] [[User talk:Chris Day|(talk)]] 19:05, 19 March 2008 (CDT)
: Where are you not seeing it?  [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 17:44, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
*What to do with subpages with out a main article.  i.e. [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].  And why is this one getting the pagename warning instead of the no metadata/no article warning?  Need to readjust these warning plate parameters and add a new template saying no associated article. Possibly have some of the parameters shown on the tempalte so a judgement call can be made as to whether to delete, move or create a new cluster. Possibly make less conspicuous on floating subpages in case that is desirable. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] [[User talk:Chris Day|(talk)]] 19:47, 19 March 2008 (CDT)
::I think I understand your point now.  It will not show on the template itself.  But look at the page where the template is used and you will see the correct letter there. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 17:50, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
*Turns out that the capitalalization does matter if using subsubpages. The [[tennis]] subsubpages is an example.  Any time a string such as Template:Article name or Talk:Article name is used it will crash the template.  Can catch this by checking for if the subpage is one of the three that can support subsubpages yet gives a misparsed subsubpage. Will be in the unexpected category.
That's what I thought I was doing - but anyway, it all seems to be fine now - thanks. [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Thorpe]] 18:03, 11 February 2010 (UTC)


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Keep these template for [[Template:Subpages2]] the vertical version of subpages. I will probably develop this into a workgroup core articles template.
Thanks for following up on it! --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 17:26, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
*[[Template:Approved2]]
*[[Template:Button off]]
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*[[Template:Checklist2]]
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*[[Template:Default]]
*[[Template:Default button 2]]
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Note to self: need a subgroup version of [[Template:Wk gp tbl]]
== Categories, bots and templates ==


{|
Categories can be removed fairly easily by a bot. Let me know if that would be worth it (haven't found the page you use to track these). Also, could you please take a look at {{tl|Basic elemental def}}, perhaps in conjunction with [[User:Daniel Mietchen/Sandbox/Elements]]? I am thinking of prepopulating the empty pages via preload templates, but would appreciate some more input. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 19:23, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
|rowspan=2 align=center style="background:lightgrey"|[[{{{subgroup}}}|{{{subgroup}}} article]]


|align=center|[[:Category:{{{subgroup}}} Subgroup|All articles]]
:If the bot can do that, great, although It might be tricky to program since it might not be able to predict every type of category or combination to remove? I just made an addition to your template.  Check it out on an element page and see what you think. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 19:48, 18 February 2010 (UTC)


|align=center|[[:Category:{{{subgroup}}} Subgroup_Draft|Draft]]
::The bot can in principle be given a list of applicable categories, or wildcards could be used in defining their names. No need to program for combinations &mdash; it will simply edit the same page again when working on the next category.
::Thanks &mdash; the addition is valuable, but the current setting (not mine, by the way) is not compatible with {{tl|r}}:
{{r|Neptunium||:::}}
::--[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 20:44, 18 February 2010 (UTC)


|align=center|[[:Category:{{{subgroup}}} Editors|Editors]]
:::Now I understand.  i thought you wanted to populate the element article pages but you're actually after a template to add the definition. I'll modify it as best i can, will probably have to have the definition pages <nowiki>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</nowiki> added as a parameter, ''i.e.'' <nowiki>{{Basic elemental def|Parameter}}</nowiki>, since it will not transclude properly otherwise. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 20:55, 18 February 2010 (UTC)


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::::I tweaked it enough now that i think it will work with the r template and also with a [[Ruthenium|lemma article]]. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 21:29, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
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Daniel, are you trying to modify the template so it will work for the "Hydrogen (element)" format?  I noticed that you had all those links on your page too. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 22:21, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
|align=center style="background:lightgrey"|<span class="plainlinks"><small>[http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:{{{link}}}_Subgroup_Draft Recent changes]</small></span>
|align=center|[[:Category:{{{subgroup}}} Authors|Authors]]
|rowspan=2 align="center" style="background:lightgrey"|Mailing list:<br><span class="plainlinks">[http://mail.citizendium.org/mailman/listinfo/{{{mlist}}} {{{mlist}}}]</span>
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==Cool template==
: Daniel and Chris, I hope you do not mind, but I wonder if it would not be better -- and require the same (or even less) effort -- to create the definitions with a bot (using the same logic as in the template)? Or even manually copy the definitions from Daniel's page to the definitions? --[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 23:58, 18 February 2010 (UTC)


Check out [[Sophophora]] and {{tl|Clade}}. [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] 11:36, 3 June 2008 (CDT)
::I don't know for sure but I was thinking that Daniel might be planning to use a substitute script along those lines? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 00:56, 19 February 2010 (UTC)


== what is our comparison way of doing this type of workgroup statistics? ==
:::I am not too eager on using a bot for just those 100 elemental definitions (too time-consuming, relatively speaking, to get it approved), so I thought I would create those pages by means of preload templates, similar to the [[CZ:Eduzendium]] course setup wizard. Ideally, there would be no piping (e.g. by integrating {{tl|Basic elemental def}} with {{tl|r}}.
:::I do plan, however, to set up a bot that creates lemma articles in place of empty pages for which a definition already exists.
:::On a related note, I am inclined to think that <nowiki>{{r|foo}}</nowiki> should also display [[Foobar/Definition]] if [[Foo]] redirects to [[Foobar]] and [[Foo/Definition]] does not exist. No idea how to make the template recognize a redirect page, though. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 18:40, 19 February 2010 (UTC)


I saw this the the wp:med site
::::As for [[Hydrogen]] vs. [[Hydrogen (element)]], I would prefer the latter to be applied throughout, but think that would be up to the chemists to decide. My idea was just to prepare the templates such that a coherent system can be easily achieved. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 18:46, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Medicine_articles_by_quality_statistics
:and then inserted in to their "project" here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine


What is the CZ equivalent to that type of stastics table?  It seems pretty useful. I especially like how it is easy to get to the "unnaccessed" articles. [[User:Tom Kelly|Tom Kelly]] 16:21, 3 June 2008 (CDT)
I think using (element) is not a bad idea, but I'm not a chemist.  


We have the Checklist-generated categories for Health Sciences (see the bottom of the [[CZ:Health_Sciences_Workgroup|workgroup header]]). Wikipedia seems to have a bot that counts the number of articles in each category and then updates the table. We'd have to do it manually here is the current state:
As for <nowiki>{{r|foo}}</nowiki> using foobar definition if there is a redirect from foo->foobar, I agree that might be good but I'm not sure if it is possible to read the target if the redirect? You do know you can pipelink with the {{tl|R}} template?
:805 Articles
:4  Approved [0]
With regard to populating the pages.  If you want to use all the subpages with the properties for each element they will have to be moved to the new name, ''i.e.'' [[Boron/Atomic number]] to [[Boron (element)/Atomic number]] if you do not want to have a parameter in the template. This could be done easily by moving every element along with all its subpages. I'll modify the {{tl|Basic elemental def}} template so it does not need a piped parameter. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 19:22, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
:46 Developed [1]
:289 Developing [2]  
:395 Stub [3]  
:63 External [4]
:46  Advanced [0-1]
:339 Nonstub [0-2]
:734 Internal [0-3]


Note that the number of articles is 805 but those with status of 0,1,2,3, and 4 is 797.  From this you can infer there are eight Health Sciences articles that do not have a designated status in the metadata template. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 16:35, 3 June 2008 (CDT)
: May I remind you that using single properties subpages is a disputed matter? --[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 00:33, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
:Just noticed that approved articles are not added into the advanced [0-1] category.  I've fixed that now. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 16:56, 3 June 2008 (CDT)


== Definitions meet hover ==
::I'm aware of that.  So far, I am just asking questions of Daniel and tinkering with the template since I'm not 100% sure of what he is proposing. One thing I do think is important is to have a basic page for each element. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 02:04, 20 February 2010 (UTC)


Check out [[User talk:J. Noel Chiappa#More on definitions|this]], and my reply [[User talk:Robert W King#Hover template|here]]. [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] 11:55, 4 June 2008 (CDT)
:::I am aware of that too, and it actually inspired me to have another look at the matter, thus prompting my tinkering with these templates. The point here, however, is to have a consistent format, which can be achieved by means of a template transclude predefined content onto the definition page, and it can easily be adapted to either the current system with multiple properties subpages or the discussed alternative with one centralized metadata-like page. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 23:20, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
<br>PS: Time to archive your talk page! (I just got done doing mine...) [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] 11:55, 4 June 2008 (CDT)


== IsoData and Properties differences ==
::::On pipelinking, I am well aware of that too, but many non-bot starts of Related Articles pages are made by simply dumping in a list of related topics, formatted using {{tl|r}}, without much regard for which articles actually exist. So we often have the case described above that <nowiki>{{r|foo}}</nowiki> does not bring about a definition, even though one exists at <nowiki>[[foobar/Definition]]</nowiki>, when [[Foo]] is a redirect to [[Foobar]]. I am wondering whether this is the way it should be. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 00:37, 22 February 2010 (UTC)


Hi Chris, I looked at your work on the {{tl|Props}} and {{tl|Properties}} templates.
(unindent) Not related to the chemistry stuff but well within the scope of this section: Can you please take another look at [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Template%3ABot-created_related_article_subpage&diff=100643820&oldid=100616784 Template:Bot-created related article subpage], which I attempted to modify such that it accommodates Lemma articles? Example to play around with: [[Biomedical engineering]]. Thanks! --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 16:53, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
:Daniel, looks good to me. What is your rationale that these need to be distinguished?  So we can fortify our navigation network with lemma related articles pages? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 17:47, 1 March 2010 (UTC)


FYI:I changed the {{tl|Properties}} call in {{tl|Props}} back to make it a table entry.  Now the problem with the curly braces is back.  (the closing braces get included in with the last data "segment".)  Curiouser and curiouser.  Not sure if this is an indication of what is going on with the data parsing, or if this is an all new wierdness. I also changed some of the {{tl|!}}'s back to pipes, and put a carriage return after each data member in the :List (oh, and I pointed Props back to "Material/Properties/List"...just trying to keep this as simple as possible...
::Does not look good to me &mdash; [[:Category:Lemma Bot-created Related Articles subpages]] is full of articles which do have metadata. I suspect there is a problem with a wrongly placed pipe in the template or with the way I check for the presence of the Metadata page, but I couldn't figure out the details.
::The rationale for this distinction is that if there is no metadata, then the names of the categories at the page will be broken, since they are by default composed from the metadata. And yes, extension of the related articles grid is the purpose of the bot, which can be configured to work with lemmas too. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 20:12, 1 March 2010 (UTC)


PS: Thanks for taking time to look at these templates...your help is appreciated.--[[User:David Yamakuchi|David Yamakuchi]] 13:15, 5 June 2008 (CDT)
:::Strange. I'll double check. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 20:14, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
::::[http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Template%3ABot-created_related_article_subpage&diff=100643918&oldid=100643820 That] was it. Thanks! --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 20:36, 1 March 2010 (UTC)


== Proteins ==
== Automated handling of content - doubts ==
Chris, I am not sure quite how to define protein, but they are basic building blocks of muscle, for example, and also cells walls, etc., and of course that still leaves all of the enzymes.  [[User:David E. Volk|David E. Volk]] 15:56, 5 June 2008 (CDT)


== Props ==
Sorry that I am negative. But I have serious reservations against any automatic handling of content.
Providing a standardized definition for the elements is rather easy
(and in principle I like thinking of the logic behind such programs)
but I don't think that they are really useful.
Giving the atomic number in the definiton is trivial, but not very informative.
Some element specific information (about its importance, or some peculiar property, etc.) is much better.
Now, of course, the generated definition can alway be replaced.
-- but it is much more likely that a non-existing definition is provided
than that an existing one (correct though simplistic) is rewritten.


"Credit" where it's due  :-) ...You solved it. Kudos to you Chris. The conditional stuff looks like it works ok now too. --[[User:David Yamakuchi|David Yamakuchi]] 16:12, 5 June 2008 (CDT)
Concerning the idea to automatically convert all definitions without main page to lemma articles:
I think there is a legitimate use for lemma articles (ask Howard), for definitions to redirects,
but also for definitions without a page (only intended to be used in Related Articles).
The difference is that -- if the page does exist -- a link to that page will look correct
though it may be better to link to another page. This decision cannot be made by a bot.
(For the same reason I think that one also should be careful with redirects and only use them for "correct" titles.
but not to lead from incorrect titles to a correct one.)


: So, I'm curious - what was the problem? I see you put the table inside the conditional - was that it? [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] 16:26, 5 June 2008 (CDT)
--[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 00:49, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
: Never mind - I saw your message to David. So it was the table, huh? No idea why that fixed it - unless there's something to my theory about the parser/preprocessor getting confused between the "|" in the table, and the "|" used in template calls to separate arguments. [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] 16:34, 5 June 2008 (CDT)


== Properties Template ==
:I think I disagree with the first paragraph, while I am not sure I understand the second. But once we have a coherent template system, I wanted to bring the matter to the forums anyway. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 23:23, 21 February 2010 (UTC)


I think I may have stepped on your edit...sorry. I think I have the calls to the data pages worked out, but I'm about to walk out the door for the weekend, so I just wanted to put the thing somewhere so someone doesn't duplicate effort.--[[User:David Yamakuchi|David Yamakuchi]] 16:18, 5 June 2008 (CDT)
::The purpose of lemma articles is discussed in [http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,3065.0.html this dedicated thread] at the Forums. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 09:53, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


:I'm out for the weekend now if you'd like to keep going.  Sorry about the confusion, but I'm late....:-(--[[User:David Yamakuchi|David Yamakuchi]] 16:23, 5 June 2008 (CDT)
== About [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]] and metadata templates without provisions for subgroups ==


Hi Chris,
Chris, the [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]] was written before there were any subgroups and the Metadata template specified only the Physics and the Chemistry workgroups. I added the Engineering workgroup.


You asked a couple of good questions...let's take them one at a time...
The was no place to add a subgroup, so I added sub1, sub2 and sub3 to the template. Then I specified Chemical Engineering as sub1.


*'''would it not be more appropriate at Unobtanium/Properties/Atomic Mass'''
The bottom of the Main Article then listed the categories as Physics, Chemistry, Engineering and Chemical Engineering as it should. The [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]] shows up in the Physics and Chemistry <s>and Engineering</s> workgroups as it should do ... but I cannot get it to show up in the Engineering and Chemical Engineering subgroups despite twice making a null edit to the article's Talk page. Can you please get it to show up in the Engineering workgroup and the Chemical Engineering subgroup?


I thought about this one to the point that I had decided that it was exactly the thing to do...and then I didn't implement it that way. In fact, it was so bad I caught myself a number of times almost errantly introducing exactly that syntax...probably just up too late to be quite frank...sort of like right now...
There are a good many of the older articles that have metadata templates which don't have sub1, sub2 and sub3 in them ... so perhaps they should be added somehow. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 17:41, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
:Milt the null edit needs to be made to the article. i just did that and it is now listed as you'd expect. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 18:50, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


Anyway, the bottom line that I came to in my reasoning is that when we store these types of data in subpages of a material article, that simple fact in some sense already ''says'' that it is a property of the material. Or we can just look at: P.R.O.P.E.R.T.I.E.S. ten letters that are just not really necessary, and then ten more each time you retrieve the data...well you get the idea, why make the name longer than it needs to be?
:As to the sub1-3 field holders, yes they were a fairly recent addition so many metadata pages will not have them. Possibly Daniel could add them with a bot? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 18:54, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


*'''why not have all the properties on one page, similar to the switch you have for the isotopes, would that not be simpler?'''
== That's one false move for man ... ==


I think you actually discovered the exact path leading to the move to seperate the properties onto their own pages...Let's see if I can recap...
Chris, I think I understand that a page is placed in [[:Category:False Start Move]] when the metadata template is not completed, but can you explain how [[United States War Department]] shows up in that category when that page is only a redirect?  [[User:Russell D. Jones|Russell D. Jones]] 18:40, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
:This is normally because it was in the false move category and then the metadata gets cleaned up, thus it is out of the category. Now the flaw in our system (auto placement of categories), the article is listed in the categories that exist when it was last edited. It should be removed from the category after a minor edit to the article. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 18:44, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


The physical properties template got big fast...real big.  And all indications were that if the scheme were to continue, it was going to get nothing but worse. The real problem with having all the data on a single template with a switch to give only the data called, is that the wiki "compiler" has to load the entire template every time you want even a small bit of info.
:I just looked into this a little more closely and it is actually due to it being on the talk page (See [[Talk:United_States_War_Department]]). Citizendium differs from other wiki's in that a talk page will show up on a category without the name space being listed.  BUT, sometimes you can distinguish this since it will be listed in the category under T. The reason we do this is that many of the housekeeping categories are placed on the talk page, so such categories do not have every entry starting with "Talk:". [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 19:00, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


This is especially a problem if you are trying to list the whole set of data...the size of the pre-expand data grows at a rate of n squared (each time you add a bit of data, it gets called into memory...with every bit of data) this is perhaps not a good scheme for a large database...''maybe'' it's ok for a small one. It is even more obvious what the answer is when we compare it to the pre-expand size growing at a rate of plain old n if we just store the data in regular pages.
::Ah-ha, I've got it. Thanks for the clarification. Any reason why I can't do a clean-up?  [[User:Russell D. Jones|Russell D. Jones]] 19:06, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


The thing is, as you point out...it seems like there should be one page a reader can go to to see all of the data at once. Of course, by this we don't mean the main article mind you...that one then would be too cluttered. Thus the Isotopes subpage, or the properties subpage, or the MSDS, or whatever you want to call it...I'm not real sure we won't want ''both'' an MSDS ''and'' a Properties page for most "materials" with some duplicated info in many if not all cases.
:::No reason, that is what you should do. The subpages template should be removed from that page as it does not work on talk pages of redirects. The talk page could be speedydeleted if it is empty too. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 20:51, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


Now, if you look closely back at the old versions of the IsoData template, you might find where I first tried this scheme by breaking out the data for <sup>6</sup>Li in it's own template.  I was having trouble with Lead's Isotopes page (Lead, I seem to remember reading somewhere, has the most stable isotopes of any element, and also has a great many long-lived radioactive ones...it was a good test...but one which the scheme failed...miserably...the old n<sup>2</sup> problem strikes again!)
::::I've discovered that some Lemma articles are showing on this list.  Any advice there?  [[User:Russell D. Jones|Russell D. Jones]] 21:33, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


In any event, it blew up the IsoData template because the pre-expand size was so big.  The server would take a half hour to return the page and it was on the edge of crashing things I think. And Isotopes should be easier than physical properties...there are only so many of them.  Apparently however, lead has enough of them to cause a problem...or perhaps I should say illustrate the problem.
:::::I just jogged [[Evolution of language]] and it got removed from the category.  I'm not sure why it was in there, looking at the history there is no clear reason. All I can imagine is that Daniel added the subpages template to start the lemma article before the he created the definition page. In that order there would be a false start category that would disappear with the creation of the definition subpage.  In such instances the article will always need to be jogged with a null edit or it will remain in the false start category, even though the category no longer appears on the page. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 21:42, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


Now, I'd already had the list idea worked out for the Isotopes, so I just decided to heck with it.  If you want to know the Melting point for Foo, it can be found at Foo/Melting point.  End of story.  Things don't blow up and there is consistency and now that you have helped get the properties template working, we can show them all on a single page...Properties...or whatever people would like to call it. The downside for me is what it means is tossing out a bunch of templates (read as alot of work)...so I've been procrastinating :-)
::::::Correct guess on [[Evolution of language]], Chris. I did that on purpose to test how the {{tl|subpages}} machinery would react to this unusual order of page creation, and think we should somehow include this scenario into the phrasing of the warning messages, depending on whether a definition already exists or not. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 22:01, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


There was one more thing with these properties tho...It's been buging me for a while and I think this fixes it too.
Here's another quirk of the functionality: If a user creates a page all in one edit with a subpages template, the page will get categorized as "False Start Move" but it will not show up on [[:Category:False Start Move]]. It requires '''''two''''' edits to the article page before it will show on the category page.  See [[Declaration of the United Nations]].  [[User:Russell D. Jones|Russell D. Jones]] 22:33, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


Let's say for the sake of argument that we want to compare the melting point of Hydrogen to the melting point of Iron. Obviously the actual measurements will be done at least somewhat differently, and probably quite differently indeed.  With their own pages each property can easily have a significant amount of "metadata" attached.  A :Foo/Melting point/Measurement_method page could give us valuable insight as to how we arrived at some particular measured or calculated number.
:So presumably an edit only uses categories that are already on the page. I wonder if that is the case with manually added categories? By the way, these are general issues with the wiki software. I think you'll find they exist on your in-house wiki, as well as wikipedia.  Obviously this is less of a problem when there are a lot of edits.  One of the advantages of having a ton of vandalism?? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 22:40, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


Sorry this post is so long but...well you asked. I think I'll copy and paste it into the Talk at {{tl|Props}} for other folks as well.
:I just tried creating a page and adding the category manually. In that case the edit does register correctly. So it is the auto-generated categories, only, that need the double kick. What a pain. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 22:44, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


Adios
==Wow==
Noticing changes that you and Howard made to the "Criticism of US foreign policy" article -- excellent idea to make military spending as a % of GDP; you guys are pros. Impressed.--[[User:Thomas Wright Sulcer|Thomas Wright Sulcer]] 01:35, 28 February 2010 (UTC)


--[[User:David Yamakuchi|David Yamakuchi]] 02:25, 8 June 2008 (CDT)
==Error correction/s==
There needs to be a better way of handling external complaints than going public with the emails on the Talk page. My suggestion is to leave the 'complaint' on the appropriate workgroup forum or forward the post to the appropriate mailing list. The workgroup mailing lists and workgroup forums are currently under-utilised. 01:10, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
:Sounds like a good idea. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 01:24, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
::There are no errors in the article btw. Listen is a totally different group/line-up to Obs-Tweedle. Noddy Holder as 'roadie' is referenced. [[User:Meg Ireland|Meg Ireland]] 01:27, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
:::Having no access to the images I can't comment further, however since my information was gleaned off Bill Bonham who played in the band Obs-Tweedle, I'm fairly confident his information is correct. [[User:Meg Ireland|Meg Ireland]] 04:20, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
::::Chris, I just spoke again to Bill Bonham who confirms the article I wrote as being correct. Bill Bonham knows Noddy Holder very well. You can visit Bill Bonham's MySpace site at http://www.myspace.com/quiffo . [[User:Meg Ireland|Meg Ireland]] 08:10, 1 March 2010 (UTC)


== Dismabiguation subpage ==
For what it's worth I uploaded the pictures [http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,3072.msg27620.html#msg27620 on the messageboard]. For the record I don't doubt your sources. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 17:17, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
:::::Thanks Chris. Some of those newspaper clippings appear to have been taken from scans on the LedZeppelin.com forum thread called 'HOBBSTWEEDLE' (yes I know, an incorrect name by another poster) originally scanned by a guy in Birmingham called Chris. I was a part of that thread discussion on Obs-Tweedle. I might reuse some of those clippings for the Listen article, rather than the Obs-Tweedle article since they are two different bands. While it may have been possible Noddy Holder was roadie for Listen, my insertion of Robert Plant's quote was based on Plant's recollections which are referenced from ''Q'' magazine and repeated in subsequent newspapers, and from what I could gather from my interview with Bill Bonham in 2009, before I composed the article. On the quote about Bill Bonham playing keyboards with Hari Kari while Robert Plant was singing for Obs-Tweedle, here is an email response I received from Bill this morning: 'Yes I was in Hari Kari but when I was in Hari Kari was way after Terry Reid and Led Zep came out with there first album..  Obs-Tweedle split when I joined Terry Reid or some time after I left' He is clear he didn't join Hari Kari until after Obs-Tweedle folded. [[User:Meg Ireland|Meg Ireland]] 22:16, 1 March 2010 (UTC)


Umm, because I'm a <s>moron</s> unimaginative tree-shrew? :-) (The ref is to ''King Solomon's Ring'' - not sure if you've read it, wonderful book.) Mostly because that's the syntax WP used, and I didn't think to change it, but you're right, a subpage would be more in keeping with CZ style. Is there any technical advantage, past the ability to use {BASENAME} to get the term being disambiguated, to a "{Basename}/Disambiguation" subpage, over "{Basename} (disambiguation)"? [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] 16:34, 5 June 2008 (CDT)
(Unindent) I don't know anything about the pros and cons of the info in this article or of the worth of the newspaper clippings -- I merely brought them to your attention.  But please review the CZ guidelines on what Wikipedia loves to kick around as Original Research.  Our own strictures are less rigid, but they *do* exist.  Larry, for instance, made it clear, when I first joined, that the fact that [[Robert A. Heinlein]] told me that one book or another was his best book could NOT be incorporated within the Heinlein article.  He encouraged me to write a Topic Informant article, however, ([[TI:Hayford Peirce/Heinlein]],) with this information in it, and a link to that article now appears at the top of the Heinlein Talk page ([[Talk:Robert A. Heinlein]]). It may be that some of the information in this article should be handled in the same manner.[[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 22:36, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
:This is not original research. The quote, which seems to have sparked that email, is referenced from a reliable published source (according to WP standards). External references are used throughout the article. There are no errors in the article. This appears to be a case of someone who confused Listen with Obs-Tweedle and/or dislikes the fact that Robert Plant referred to their idol Noddy Holder as a roadie. Nothing is 'made up' or unverifiable for this article. [[User:Meg Ireland|Meg Ireland]] 23:45, 1 March 2010 (UTC)


PS: I don't see any good reason to have a {{tl|subpages}} header on a disambiguation page. For one thing, there's no main article page at {BASENAME}. For another, there are unlikely to be any other subpages that we need to get to through the subpage navigation bar. And special-casing {subpages} for disambiguation pages will just make it more complex, and for no good reason - it's kind of like making a combination hammer-screwdriver, just so you don't have to put one tool down to pick up another. I think people can deal with the concept that they have to use a different name on disambiguation pages.
:: I do not see any reason to exclude "personal communications" (they are used in scientific literature, too). Why should a personal communication to an author be excluded (if labelled as such) when a source that cites a personal communication would be accepted? --[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 16:20, 3 March 2010 (UTC)


I agree that it's a pain to have to put the pagename into {{tl|dabhdr}}, but it we could get the strings: package installed, we could fix that. Still, I'm not ''against'' using a subpage - I'd be perfectly fine with either. But if there's a good reason to use a subpage, we should decide quickly, before too many "{Foo} (disambiguation)" pages get created. I'll see if Larry has an opinion. [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] 06:07, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
::: Because the source citing it is deemed to have checked and certified it. ''Authors'' on CZ have no recognized authority to do that. I don't know whether ''editors'' do. [[User:Peter Jackson|Peter Jackson]] 17:32, 4 March 2010 (UTC)


:Perhaps I got Chris wrong, but I had seen this in the context of the discussion on sub-subpages. So what I understood is that he proposed to have a "Foo" page and to include "Foo (tree)", "Foo (shrew)" etc. as subpages thereof. "Foo (disambiguation)" and what is now sometimes "Foo (general)" could then be put into "Foo" directly, and we would avoid all the redirects. Of course, then, we would require that if the "Foo (shrew)" subpage is open, a click on the "Related Articles" subpage link would automatically lead to "Foo (shrew)/Related Articles", and I have no idea as to whether this is any close to feasible at the moment. -- [[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 06:42, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
== Talk:Quintile ==


::I think you misunderstood my idea. I was thinking of having the disambiguation page on a subpage of the disambiguated term not on the term itself. The term would still be a redirect, but in this case to its own subpage. I had not thought much of this new scenario you suggest and that might work too. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 10:16, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
Chris, this is a minor issue, but it could lead to establishing some general policy.
By accident, I noticed that you deleted [[Talk:Quintile]] (after copying part of it to [[Talk:Percentile]]).
I left it with the redirect because it is part of the history of this page, and it does not hurt if it remains there.
(My tendency is to preserve as much history as possible, e.g., by blanking rather than deleting.)
--[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 16:31, 3 March 2010 (UTC)


::: I'm not sure that's such a hot idea, myself. Those are freestanding article in their own right, not in some sense 'part of' (in information terms) a related group of information; they are related by their names only (usually). Also, they will have their own subpages, etc, etc, so now we'll have some articles with the Biblio subpage at {Foo}/Biblio, and others at {Foo}/{Bar}/Biblio, which I think will also be confusing. [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] 10:43, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
==Thank you!==


::::This was not what i was thinking. My rationale was to have everything the same as now except that ''Foo (disambiguation)'' would live at ''Foo/Disambiguation''.  The only advantage is that the subpages template can be placed there instead of the disambiguation templates (The disambiguation templates would be placed by the subpages template automatically). So, Foo would be a redirect and nothing else would exist at the Foo cluster (except Foo/Disambiguation), all the original subpages and metadata associated with the old article at Foo would have been moved to the disambiguated article at ''Foo, bar''  or ''Foo (bar)''. Does this make sense? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 11:56, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
Thank you for helping me to edit that list.
[[User:Nick Bagnall|Nick Bagnall]] 16:18, 4 March 2010 (UTC)


::::: No, I understood all that - my reply immediately above (at 10:43, 6 June 2008) was to ''Daniel's'' idea. I'm still thinking about your idea. My appeal to Larry for comments got no useful response; maybe one of us should have posted it on the Forum instead? [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] 12:07, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
== Copyedit to protected page ==


::::::Ah, crossed wires. I think dialog here to think it through is a good start.  If it is desirable then this can be a relatively minor amendment to your original proposal.
Hi Chris,  


::::::You're right that strings would solve some of these issues, at least i think so. Does strings allow us to do an argument along the lines of ''{<nowiki>{BASEPAGENAME}}</nowiki> - (disambiguation)'', with the output of Foo from an article named Foo (disambiguation)? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 12:11, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
in {{tl|Community}}, can you please change the "Main Page" in
<pre>
|width=10% align=center style="background:#F5F5F5"|<small>[[Main Page]]</small>
</pre>
to "Welcome Page"?
Thanks!
--[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 18:43, 4 March 2010 (UTC)


: Actually, I had to change my proposal a tiny bit in response to unhappiness from some editors, who didn't like having to have to look up and type [[tree (plant)]], etc, etc. I had originally proposed what you thought - i.e. pretty much all basenames, with a few exceptions, redirect to the disambiguation page.
:Daniel, that was a cascading protect from kim's talk page. I edited her page and it seems to have removed the protection on that template. I'll change it though too. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 18:59, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
: However, to keep them happy, I changed it to be 'if there is a most common meaning, the redirect can be set to that meaning'. It basically transfers work from people who write articles, but don't feel like checking their links, to the people who are checking disambiguated names, and fixing articles which refer to them.
: Since it kept the heart of my proposal (making it easy to find links to ambiguous terms) intact, I felt it was better to give ground on that, than to have some people unhappy. And once the new system is adopted, perhaps after a while we can revisit the 'set the basename redirect to the most common meaning' issue.
: So that's why we have {{tl|dabbox}} in use; on articles where the basename redirect points at that article, rather than the disambiguation page, that header is needed to send people who get there, by going to the basename, to the disambiguation page. [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] 10:43, 6 June 2008 (CDT)


::This makes sense now. It would be better if the template could be added automatically but, unfortunately, I don't see a way to actually detect where a disambiguation redirect points too.  [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 12:04, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
== CZ:Request Approved Article Copyedit ==


As a general rule, I at least would like to be specifically informed whenever any new subpage type is created, and given a pointer to an explanation of why it's needed.  As I imply below in response to Richard, we generally require editorial approval for new subpage types.  Please see [[CZ:How to add a new subpage type]] which is still in effect. I believe this should also be added to [[CZ:Bold Moves]], if not put into [[CZ:Proposals]]. So--''is'' there in fact now a "Disambiguation" subpage, and if so, where is it explained? TIA!  :-)  And, sorry for not keeping up. --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 09:16, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
Chris, with Matt being AWOL for the past 10 days or so, the list of approved articles needing copy edits is growing. I have about 10 approved articles listed there myself. Can you fix those?


==new subpage==
If you need a volunteer to do some of that work, either temporarily or permanently, I am available ... but I will need some tutoring on how to do it. Regards, [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 19:49, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
Can we get a new subpage category called "Primary sources" --the history articles will be using it to include texts of famous documents. Thanks. [[User:Richard Jensen|Richard Jensen]] 17:23, 5 June 2008 (CDT)


: Richard or Chris--please make sure that you run this by the Editorial Council. It does not have to be a big deal (it could be passed by acclamation perhaps), but I do not want new subpage types made simply because one editor asks one technical guy.  The general idea looks good to me, as long as we distinguish this type clearly from both Bibliographies and from Works subpages. --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 08:38, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
:Thanks very much for your prompt response. There is still [[Chemical engineering]] where Meg Ireland corrected spelling of succesfully to successfully. Could you do that one as well? Thanks, [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 21:06, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
::I think that was specific to the draft as it is not in the main article. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 21:22, 4 March 2010 (UTC)


==Wierd bug==
== [[Intron]] ==


Check out {{tl|Dambigbox}} and see if you have any idea why that fix I just made (to allow a blank first argument, and use the {PAGENAME} if so) doesn't work. The odd thing is it works fine when you display {{tl|Dambigbox}} (as you can see), but when you use Dambigbox on some other page, it doesn't. Wierd... [[User:J. Noel Chiappa|J. Noel Chiappa]] 11:05, 6 June 2008 (CDT)
Hi I found some new info about [[Intron]] but I wasn't sure if you wanted to include it in the article; currently it's in the sandbox [[User talk:Thomas Wright Sulcer/sandbox7]] plus some pictures and diagrams. Feel free to include it; I'm not a scientist, and I found that while I couldn't make much sense of the technical articles, when reporters explained it, I could grasp the basics.--[[User:Thomas Wright Sulcer|Thomas Wright Sulcer]] 04:56, 7 March 2010 (UTC)


== Wow!!! Do we really need all of this?? Or are you just seeking comments?? ==
:Looks good Thomas. Feel free to paste it into the article. I can work on it there. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 20:06, 7 March 2010 (UTC)


Chris, in your test layout of the Chemical Engineering subgroup, we now have:
::OK, thanks Chris, like I'm not a scientist and so it's cool that you can catch glitches which reporters make.--[[User:Thomas Wright Sulcer|Thomas Wright Sulcer]] 00:42, 8 March 2010 (UTC)


# An alphabetic list in two colums of all articles, with the status of each article
== The [[:Image:Gasoline Fuel.jpg]] ==
# An alphabetic list in a single column, with the status and the definition of each article
# A list of all the articles in four columns, one column for each status category (0, 1, 2, 3,or 4) and without the definition of each article
# A listing of any subcategories in the subgroup (and the articles (pages) in those categories) without the status or definition of each article
# A listing of the page articles (pages) in the main Chemical Engineering subgroup without the status or definition of each article


For what its worth, I think that the only one we need is item (2) above with the following caveats:
Chris, I don't know how you did it, but your merge of the two photos is very much better than my original one. Thanks very much. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 18:22, 7 March 2010 (UTC)


* Put a single space into the single column list to separate articles starting with A from articles with B from articles starting with C .... etc.
:When I cut out the gas pump I made sure the selection tool cut all the white out. I merged the two images using the anti-alias option so the edges of the pump did not look too sharp. Third, I brightened up the pump to make it a little more striking. Glad you like the changes. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 20:09, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
* Include a one-line footnote (as I have done on my user page) to explain what each of the little status images indicates.


In other words, we would then not need items (1), (3), (4) or (5). The result would be quite a departure from the current style of listing articles in the various categories (which are modeled after the way it is done in Wikipedia) ... but I think it would be better than the current method. - [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 03:43, 7 June 2008 (CDT)
== Intersection of cat adoption and tall tale? ==


== Idea for another subpage ==
Tall tail?


Chris, see [[Biology's next microscope: Mathematics]] and its Talk page.
(I am not making this up: Mr. Clark rejected tuna, wet disgusting cat food, and his expensive hypoallergenic dry cat food. He insisted on going upstairs into the general cat area, and into the bin of regular dry cat food -- in which he then went to sleep.) [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 19:10, 9 March 2010 (UTC)


What would you think about a subpage: Citizendium-developed open-access articles?
== [[2012]] ==
I'm kind of looking for a green light before working on "2012" -- not that I'm that interested in it, but wondering what the policy is and whether others here will support it. It's a hot article on WP even though it's kind of a stupid subject (futurism stuff) as well as a movie. Wondering if there's some kind of "approvals in advance" place to get permission for dubious articles.--[[User:Thomas Wright Sulcer|Thomas Wright Sulcer]] 17:54, 12 March 2010 (UTC)


We could take an open-access article, give ample attrbution to article's originator, open it to group editing, monitored by the main Workgroup (or a select group of its editors).
:I really don't know much about it.  But it would be no worse than an article about [[UFO]]'s or [[astrology]]. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 18:28, 12 March 2010 (UTC)


For the article [[Biology's next microscope: Mathematics]], we could subpage it to [[Mathematical biology]], or subpage it to more than one main article (e.g., [[Biology]], [[Systems biology]], etc.).
::OK, thanks, so you're saying if I write it, that you don't think I'll have problems with it. Thanx, Chris.--[[User:Thomas Wright Sulcer|Thomas Wright Sulcer]] 18:41, 12 March 2010 (UTC)


Thoughts?  --[[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony.Sebastian]] 23:03, 7 June 2008 (CDT)
:::I can't think of a reason why there would be a problem. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 18:44, 12 March 2010 (UTC)


== Thanks awfully... ==
== Asking for your comments ==


...for filling in items at the category:dogs.
Chris, would you look at the "Nitrogen cycle" section of the [[Air]] article ... and make any revisions you think are needed? Thanks, [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 19:30, 13 March 2010 (UTC)


I very much like the sorting by status; it's a quick visual and lets editors keep track of how things are coming/what should be worked on.
== Can you improve [[:Image:Venturi Tube.png]] ? ==


Naturally, the auto sort into the category in alpha order is vital, too. So I would say, keep at least these two functions. I'll explore the chemical engineering subgroup to see which other ones I like.
Chris, the only drawing program I have is Microsoft's Paint program that is included with Windows XP. As you can see in [[:Image:Venturi Tube.png]], the lines that are not horizontal or vertical (that is, the angled lines) are quite "jagged". Does your program create angled lines that are not jagged? If so, could you replace the jagged lines in [[:Image:Venturi Tube.png]] with lines that are not jagged? It would greatly improve that image. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 05:54, 19 March 2010 (UTC)


[[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]] 16:58, 8 June 2008 (CDT)
:Milt, there are multiple free graphics packages out there that far exceed the capabilities of MS Pain(t) &mdash; to the point of being hypercomplex. Two that probably merit a look for diagrams like these are [http://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html Open Office Draw] and [http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ Gimp]. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 08:59, 19 March 2010 (UTC)


== How to add a 4th category? ==
::Thanks, Daniel. One of these days I will take the time to download one of those and learn how to use it. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 17:31, 20 March 2010 (UTC)


Chris, how does one add a fourth category to an article? The Metadata template doesn't seem to allow it. Can we simply add it on the Edit page of the Main page? Or what? Thanks in advance, Milt Beychok
::Chris, thanks for fixing the Venturi image for me. It looks much better now. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 17:31, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
:It's not possible at present.  Are you thinking about the [[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency|EPA]] article? The practice, to date, has been to pick the three most relevant..  There have been a few discussions in the forum.  I'll try and root one out. Presumably there are five possible workgroups for this article; in no particulr order, Biology, Health Sciences, Politics, Engineering and Earth Sciences. For the record, if it was me, I would have chosen Biology, Politics and Engineering. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 03:31, 9 June 2008 (CDT)


== Properties Storage ==
== Your talk at the New Communication Channels for Biology Workshop 2008 ==


Hi Chris,
Hi Chris,
can you send me your slides from [http://ccbw.calit2.net/video.html that workshop], or put them online? They may be useful for drafting the [[User:Daniel Mietchen/Sandbox/Open Knowledge Conference 2010/|OKCon 2010 paper]]. Thanks! --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 18:38, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
:Wow, i'd forgotten about that.  <s>I'll root them out.</s> Just looked on this computer and no sign, it must still be on my semi-dead (screen is broken) lap top.  I'll boot it up tomorrow and see if i can find anthing on its hard drive.  [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 03:17, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
::Thanks! I put the slides up [http://docs.google.com/present/embed?id=ddwhqd6k_296csrfjmvg here] for everyone to work on. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 09:47, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
== CC vs. PD ==
How, for Pete's sake (as some would say), can I upload (and correctly credit) an image directly [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Template:Fractal-Trace-Gimp-Panton-Principles-Settings.png/credit&curid=100151124&diff=100652678&oldid=100652669 as PD]? The only option I saw to do so always leads to it being labeled as CC0-1.0, and at least in this set of three images (which shall serve to illustrate the [[Panton Principles]]), I do not want to have any name attached to it, because that is the message of these Principles. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 14:04, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
:I just looked at the upload file link and it seems to be click on the "I am not the copyright holder" tab.  Then select the "in the public domain" option.  Then for the license select "creator has released into the public domain". Are you not seeing those options when you do the upload? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 14:15, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
::I do, though this time I went there via "I am the copyright holder" and "Release into the Public Domain", which gave the CC0 attribution. I think the problem with the upload wizard is that Caesar left when he was mostly but not entirely done with it. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 14:19, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
::[EC] OK, I just followed the "I am the copyright holder fork" and now I see how you got to "Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal License".  I guess that is equivalent to public domain? But this is beyond my ken. If Caesar was not done with it, possibly the PD license option should be at that point too? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 14:20, 23 March 2010 (UTC)


Yes, I agree, the lack of a string parser in CZ is going to cause us some asthetic difficulties...almost certainly. But, I'm not clear that it would preclude the scheme I'm proposing.
:::The two are practically equivalent in the US but CC0 is more universal, since most jurisdictions do not have PD, but all have [[copyright law]]. Anyway, CC0 means that also no BY is needed. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 14:41, 23 March 2010 (UTC)


FYI: The periodic table has become a sort of a back-burner project lately.  I seem to have gotten into a much bigger issue here as a result of exploring it, and I think I might like to wait and see if or how this properties thing develops before I decide on how I would like to proceed...
::::I've just spent 10 frustrating minutes at [[:Image:Drink to Yesterday.jpg]] trying to '''"Upload a new version of this file"'''.  Can't be done.  All you can do is '''start all over again''' and upload another file under another name AND fill out all the @#$%^&* information that you had to do with the first one!  And unless you're maybe a combination of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, you can't '''"Edit this file using an exterior application"''' either. Geez! [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 00:37, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


You are of course right that a properties template can be made for each material with a switch/case to call up the relevant data for a user or template, and if we restrict the number of allowed properties, it can work ok...No huge pre-expand problems if the number of properties is kept small.  I looked at that approach, and I have two concerns...
:::::That doesn't sound right.  Are you using the link titled "'''Upload a new version of this file'''"  just above the [[:Image:Drink_to_Yesterday.jpg#filelinks|Links]] section title. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 00:43, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


# Restricting the types of properties that work with our scheme just seems like a bad idea at a fundamental level. I'm not sure how inclined I would be to support such a scheme, at least with what I am aware of today.  After consideration, I discarded the idea as not being as flexible as what we might hope for.
::::::Yes. [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 00:55, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
# The properties scheme is not just for elements.  It seems like it should work for any type of material, and that would make choosing relevant "selected" properties even more difficult.


Also, I'm not sure I agree that the properties values, even for elements, will not change in the future.  Someone may discover a new "mass error" or different way of testing/measuring, and things _will_ change...I've become more than certain of it...I guess "resigned" would be a better word.
:::::::PS -- I use Chrome as my browser.  Could that be affecting things in some mysterious way? [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 01:03, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


Finally, I wouldn't be sure which of the properties other authors might want in their tables and charts, and I think if we can avoid restricting folks with "standard" properties vs. special properties we might be a lot better off.  I say this in part because of what I have seen going on with the new subpages types which, BTW, I am a big fan of...naturally--[[User:David Yamakuchi|David Yamakuchi]] 04:28, 9 June 2008 (CDT)
::::::::If you choose the new file to upload and then save, leave everything else blank, then it will be fine.  You'll see. It will ask you if you want to ignore all warnings.  Select yes and then you're done. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 00:59, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
:I should point out that many of my points are really a devils advocate argument.  I do see where you are coming from. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 11:08, 9 June 2008 (CDT)


::::::::It keeps telling me that I need License info, and the license info isn't what I want.  And it won't work unless I choose a license.  No way. [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 01:03, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


Check it out...
::::::::::I just tried it, and it works fine with jpg, but when I use .png, I get "The file is corrupt or has an incorrect extension. Please check the file and upload again." --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 01:08, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
{{tl|PTofE}}


--[[User:David Yamakuchi|David Yamakuchi]] 16:13, 11 June 2008 (CDT)
:::::::::::It still doesn't work.  I have, on my computer, a *smaller* version of the present image.  It has the same name and is a .jpg.  A few minutes ago I had a slightly different name on it, but it was the same .jpg file. It doesn't matter *what* it's called.  No matter *what* I do, I am told that I MUST choose a license.  If I don't choose a license, it will NOT upload the file. Period. [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 01:24, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


== Using workgroup template as news feeder? ==
::::::::::::I just tried and it worked fine. All I did was choose the new file on my desktop.  Then save. Then chose ignore all warnings.  That's it.  All the files data and licenses are intact. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 02:21, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


Hi Chris, what about using {{tl|Workgroup}} (or a derivative) &ndash; on individual pages in the user namespace &ndash; to display Workgroup news (especially to do lists) that could be edited at a central location (pereferably the individual workgroup's homepage). -- [[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 11:59, 9 June 2008 (CDT)
:::::::::::::A box doesn't pop up and tell you that you have to choose a license? Do you have a Papal dispensation, or what? [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 03:48, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


:That's a good idea and should be quite easy to set up. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 12:19, 9 June 2008 (CDT)
::::::::::::::No, I've never seen that and I've updated images at CZ quite a few times. [[User:Chris Day|Chris  
Day]] 04:15, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


== Help help help with metadata page ==
:::::::::::::::Off to bed, but tomorrow I'll do a screen capture of the box I get and I'll email it to you. Don't know what else to do. [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 04:43, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


I'm messing up with [[Federation Cynologique Internationale]].  The metadata [[Template:Fédération Cynologique Internationale > Metadata]] doesn't work--is it because of the accents?  Are we supposed to use accent marks in naming articles?
== Space Invaders ==


Also, this is a tricky naming one since the correct name is in French. It is *never* known by an English language abbreviation, it is ALWAYS the FCI, with non-French speakers struggling to get their tongues around ''Federation cynologique internationale'', so I named it that, but...?
Sorry, I thought I'd got the hang of new pages but apparently not. I've seen the changes you made and will follow the example when making futher pages. --[[User:Chris Key|Chris Key]] 00:29, 24 March 2010 (UTC)


[[User:Aleta Curry|Aleta Curry]] 17:07, 9 June 2008 (CDT)
== Lemma formatting ==


:I'm not sure of the sequence of events here. But if you name the article with accents then the pagename field must have them too. Your problem was that the metadata page and article name did have accents but the pagename field in the metadata did not. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 20:58, 9 June 2008 (CDT)
What do you think of displaying the definition above the instructions in lemma articles? I just [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Template:Lemma&curid=100091956&diff=100653055&oldid=100649850 did the switch] (also [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Template:Def_only&curid=100147979&diff=100653048&oldid=100648088 this one]). --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 11:32, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
:Somehow, the definition pages do not display properly now, and I guess {{tl|subpages}} would have to be remodeled to accomodate the change I made. Do you think that's worth it? --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 19:50, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
::I reverted both changes and moved the testing to the test wiki: [http://test.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Template:Lemma&curid=100091956&diff=100642057&oldid=100640610 Lemma], [http://test.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Template:Def_only&curid=100147979&diff=100642056&oldid=100641506 Def only]. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 01:31, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
:::Could not pinpoint exactly what the problem was, so I went back to normal for the time being. On a related note, what do you think of merging {{tl|Def only}} and {{tl|Lemma}}? --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 23:07, 21 April 2010 (UTC)


== property values ==
::::I would not be against that.  I'll have a look and see how it can be streamlined, or do you already have a plan? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 03:34, 22 April 2010 (UTC)


The table is resizable.  If there is a need, we can just specify it to be wider and fit however many digits is deemed appropriate.  I thought about another "feature" too...
:::::I do, but can't put it in words easily (other than moving the conditionals from {{tl|Def only}} to {{tl|Lemma}}). Will thus give it a go on the test wiki, and let you know how things go. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 07:32, 22 April 2010 (UTC)


Let's say someday we might want to specify the boiling point as not just a single number, but as a boiling point / pressure curve. The new "property" could be named 2dbp or some such and whatever wiki-wizardry needed to make it happen could be saved for later implementation.
::::::I merged them and added some categories, which makes {{tl|Def only}}, [[:Category:Definition Only]] and [[:Category:Related Articles Only]] redundant. Please check and adapt as you see fit. Thanks! --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 11:46, 26 April 2010 (UTC)


For now, it seems like we fit a decent number of significant digits without the noble gas column running off the right side of my screen.--[[User:David Yamakuchi|David Yamakuchi]] 17:49, 11 June 2008 (CDT)
Things work fine on the test wiki, but the display problem that started this thread
interfered when I did bring the changes over to the live wiki (where  {{tl|subpages}}
has not been updated yet.
So please transfer [http://test.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Template:Subpages&curid=100021004&diff=100642170&oldid=100642169 this edit]
to {{tl|subpages}}
(possibly with [http://test.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Template:Subpages&curid=100021004&diff=100642171&oldid=100642170 this typo correction])
and then [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Template:Def_only&curid=100147979&diff=100664676&oldid=100664645 revert this edit].
Test clusters:
[[Special:PrefixIndex/Glia/|Glia]], [[Special:PrefixIndex/Open_Knowledge_Foundation/|Open Knowledge Foundation]].
Thanks! --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 12:49, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
:Daniel, i made the change but is the definition page the way you intended? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 17:56, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
::Fixed and streamlined. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 22:22, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
:::Nice work Daniel, that's a big improvement. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 23:11, 28 April 2010 (UTC)


== density units ==
== The section on "Nitrogen cycle" in the [[Air]] article ==
 
Chris, about two weeks ago I asked you to look at the section on "Nitrogen cycle" in the [[Air]] article and revise it in any way you felt was needed. I know you've been busy, but I would still appreciate your review as a biology editor of that that section. Thanks in advance. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 16:56, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:Hi Milton I looked at the [[Nitrogen cycle]] article and proposed a revamping here in a sandbox: [[User talk:Thomas Wright Sulcer/sandbox2]] I expanded it but I'm not a scientist or technically-minded like you or Chris so I'm deferring to your judgment. I'm finding my paint program doesn't work well, so I hand-drew a diagram, but still am unhappy with it. I'm wondering if there's a good paint program that is simple, powerful, works with Ubuntu Linux so I can do better quality stuff here.--[[User:Thomas Wright Sulcer|Thomas Wright Sulcer]] 02:25, 27 March 201UTC)
 
::Thomas, my request of Chris was simply to take a look at the small section of the [[Air]] article that briefly describes the nitrogen cycle ... briefly on purpose.
 
::What you have written in your sandbox2 is a an expansion of the stub article on the [[Nitrogen cycle]] ... which I very much agree needs to be expanded, but which is out of my field of expertise. So I don't believe that I am really qualified to comment on your expansion of that stub article. I would suggest that, in addition to Chris Day who is a biology editor, you contact [[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony Sebastian]] who is also a Biology editor and quite active. I would also point out that a very good drawing of the cycle is available in Wikimedia Commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nitrogen_Cycle.png] where it is designated as being in the public domain. Other good drawings can probably be found with a bit of Googling. Regards, 03:27, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 
:::Does Anthony Sebastian have the "Nitrogen cycle" article on his watchlist? If so he'll see a note I placed there. I did this article first so that I would be in a position to help you with the "Nitrogen cycle" section of the "Air" article. But I'm not an expert by any stretch either. Good idea to get the picture on Wikimedia Commons -- my drawing didn't come out as well as I had hoped, but I still have ''illusions'' of being an excellent CZ sketch artist!--[[User:Thomas Wright Sulcer|Thomas Wright Sulcer]] 14:27, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 
== False start move ==


Hi Chris,
Hi Chris,
I think [[:Category:False Start Move]] is overpopulated, and at least partly with what should rather be in [[:Category:Lemma Article]], e.g. pages like [[Citizen science/External Links]]. As far as I can tell, the culprit is the if nesting in {{tl|Subpages}}, so I can't fix it. Please check. Thanks! --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 23:24, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
:Daniel, is this still a problem? There did not seem that many there or is that because you have processed them?  From what i could see they were mostly left over subpages or lemma like pages without a definition. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 18:06, 14 April 2010 (UTC)


The density units (gpcm3nrt and gpcm3mp) I _believe_ specify density at the melting point and at normal room temp. Most (I think all, actually) materials will shrink and expand when heated and cooled.  Water is an interesting example, it reaches maximum density at about 39 degrees F.  Water will actually begin expanding again as it gets colder and forms ice.  The ice formed is _less_ dense than the water (which is of course why ice cubes will float in your glass).
::I think I see what you mean, now that i have looked more closely at the example of [[Citizen science/External Links]]. At present the only lemma subpages supported are /Related Articles and /Definition. Are you suggesting that we should allow /External Links and /Bibliographies too? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 18:11, 14 April 2010 (UTC)


The conditions at which the properties are specified can be absolutely essential information if the data are to make sense. I'm just not sure what the right format for that is yet...--[[User:David Yamakuchi|David Yamakuchi]] 08:50, 13 June 2008 (CDT)
:::Yes, and Video. In principle, I would like to have all subpages enabled for Lemmas. This allows to collect materials in the right place even though the article has not been written yet. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 18:34, 14 April 2010 (UTC)


:Sorry my question was not clear. First, shouldn't the conditions be in brackets since they are not part of the unit? And why not use the backslash rather than p such that the units would be g/cm<sup>3</sup> (nrt) or just use standard conditions then simplify to g/cm<sup>3</sup>? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 09:49, 13 June 2008 (CDT)
::::I'll look at the coding and see if it is an easy fix or not. If so I'll do it as soon as possible. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 18:39, 14 April 2010 (UTC)


::Done.  Also, I changed nrt to STP to be consistent with my Chemistry book.  I still feel like the format/method of storing the units could be improved tho...I just don't feel like I have it figured out all the way yet...--[[User:David Yamakuchi|David Yamakuchi]] 10:09, 13 June 2008 (CDT)
:::::If you would unlock it over on the test wiki, I could join the coding. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 19:49, 14 April 2010 (UTC)


== reminder to comment ==
::::::I have [http://test.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Template:Subpages&curid=100021004&diff=100642130&oldid=100642129 changed] and tested it on the test wiki. Please transfer it here. Thanks! --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 20:20, 21 April 2010 (UTC)


Hi Chris, two weeks are a long time here, and so I wanted to remind you to comment on [[User talk:Chris Day/Archive 6#Core Article structure|Core Article structure]] and [[User talk:Chris Day/Archive 6# Disambigs and writing levels|Disambigs and writing levels]]. -- [[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 10:02, 13 June 2008 (CDT)
:::::::Thanks! My edit also contained a typo correction. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 08:29, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
:You're right, I had forgotten. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 10:06, 13 June 2008 (CDT)


== Need_Def and Mathematics_Workgroups ==
== Nomenclature for botany articles ==


Hi. Do you know if there is a possibility to get something like a list of articles in the categories "Mathematics_Workgroup" '''AND''' "Need_def""? I tried the follwing modification of the URL: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category:Mathematics_Workgroup&target=Category:Need_def However, it did not give me what I wanted. [[User:Alexander Wiebel|Alexander Wiebel]] 12:17, 13 June 2008 (CDT)
Plant hormone or plant hormones or plant growth hormones?
:OK will work now (see [[:Category:Mathematics need def)]], but it will take a while to be populated. The categories get assigned very slowly when they are placed by a template. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 12:40, 13 June 2008 (CDT)
::Wow, that was fast. It just asked if there is a possibility and didn't want you to make it happen ... :-) . However, it will be very useful and I like it very much. [[User:Alexander Wiebel|Alexander Wiebel]] 12:49, 13 June 2008 (CDT)


== Subworkgroups ==
*Auxin or auxins?
*Cytokinin or cytokinins?  The animal article is [[cytokines]].
* Gibberellin or giberellins?


I'm sure we must have talked about this before, but we never very much, and certainly not sufficiently.
*Tissue culture
**Plant tissue culture


Basically, since we haven't made it clear what "subworkgroups" are, what they are used for, and how they fit in with overall plan for CZ, I want to nix any actual use of them at this point. Could you please make a [[CZ:Proposals|proposal]] in which these mysteries are explained and we can discuss this?  Or, motivate somebody else to make a proposal perhaps? --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 22:21, 15 June 2008 (CDT)
I'm beginning to think I need to become your student... --[[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 22:54, 19 April 2010 (UTC)


:Yes. I've been procrastinating on it. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 09:50, 16 June 2008 (CDT)
::I've been his student for years...[[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony.Sebastian]] 03:09, 20 April 2010 (UTC)


::Procrastinate now! Don't put it off!
== Checklist22 ==
::Sub-workgroups might encourage more collaboration on articles. How? Haven't figured that out yet.
::Biology: Botany Sub-Workgroup. Biology: Cell Biology Sub-Workgroup. Biology: Biography Sub-Workgroup.  Seems like the list could continue indefinitely.  Re Larry's caution.
::Have E-mail list for each sub-workgroup, with automatic cc to Parent Workgroup list.
::Perhaps just more Workgroups, and allowing many more categories on metadata template. Biology. Botany. Cell Biology. Endocrinology. All biology-related Workgroup editors in Biology. ?? --[[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony.Sebastian]] 18:26, 5 September 2008 (CDT)


== template lens ==
Hi Chris, please comment on [http://reid.citizendium.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47#c25 this], either there or here. Thanks! --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 19:13, 29 April 2010 (UTC)


I don't think it's using strings...in fact I'm not sure it's even working...I just copied it over from WP 'cause it looked kinda neat.--[[User:David Yamakuchi|David Yamakuchi]] 11:38, 17 June 2008 (CDT)
:You just want to know about the test link?  That was a hyperlink to walk authors through a move cluster sequence. I did that by opular demand to try and make the process of moving a cluster more efficient and transparent. It never really did serve the purpose as things got complicated if the article was moved before the metadata template. Since then, it got broken with a mediawiki update and i could not figure out a good work around. I had forgotten it was still available as an option. We should probably just remove and delete all the templates associated with it. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 19:25, 29 April 2010 (UTC)


After further investigation, I'm finding this thing can't even cope with a single alpha character.  Only numeric values are handled....--[[User:David Yamakuchi|David Yamakuchi]] 12:37, 17 June 2008 (CDT)
::Thanks, fixed. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 20:15, 29 April 2010 (UTC)


== Genetic code ==
Chris, while that format consolidates the data into a smaller table, I think it will not be obvious to younger or inexperienced persons.  I was thinking more of spacing between sets of columns, with bigger boxes and perhaps lose the borders if it looks ok once the table is wider. Perhaps we could have both forms?  A condensed table like you made would be a handy thing to print out on my bulletin board as a quick reference guide! [[User:David E. Volk|David E. Volk]] 14:35, 19 June 2008 (CDT)


== Content-only workgroup tags? ==
==Please join with me in urging Hayford not to resign==


Hi Chris--I notice that [[:Category:Politics_tag]], for example, includes ''all'' pages that are assigned to the Politics Workgroup.  Perhaps there is a need for such a category (I'm not sure), but I do know that for most people such a tag would be more useful if it included only content, not the metadata, approval, etc., pages.
Chris, see my plea to Hayford not to resign as Constable (on his Talk page). Please join me! [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 20:04, 12 May 2010 (UTC)


Also, why not just label them [[:Category:Politics]] or, if there's something wrong with that, [[:Category:Politics Content]]?
== Listing-defined references test ==


Finally, how about a global tag: [[:Category:Content Pages]]?  Then we can count that up and have an impressive-looking number. ;-) --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 14:29, 21 June 2008 (CDT)
As of September 2009, the Cite.php extension was modified to support list-defined references. These can be implemented with the parameter to the {{tl|reflist}} template, or by using a pair of HTML tags (<code><nowiki><references></nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki></references></nowiki></code>) in place of the <code><nowiki><references/></nowiki></code> tag. These reduce clutter within articles, by putting all the citation details in the section at the end where the footnotes are displayed. As with other citation formats, these should not be added to articles that already have a stable referencing system, unless there is consensus to do so. When in doubt, use the referencing system added by the first major contributor to use a consistent style.


== Need your help or guidance ==
The example below shows what list-defined references look like in the edit box:<!--i.e. construed to look similar when viewed on the saved page. If you're actually IN edit mode it'll look different with the tags such as <tt> and <nowiki> used to make the construction work-->
<blockquote style="color:#999; background:white; padding:1em; border:1px solid DarkSeaGreen;">
<tt>
The Sun is pretty big,<span style="color:black;">'''&lt;ref name=Miller2005p23/>'''</span><br />
but the Moon is not so big.<span style="color:black;">'''&lt;ref name=Brown2006/>'''</span><br />
The Sun is also quite hot.<span style="color:black;">'''&lt;ref name=Miller2005p34/>'''</span><br />
<span style="color:#666;">&#61;=Notes==</span><br />
<span style="color:black;">'''<nowiki>{{reflist|refs=</nowiki>'''<br />
'''<nowiki><ref name=Miller2005p23></nowiki>'''Miller, E: <nowiki>''The Sun''</nowiki>, page 23. Academic Press, 2005.'''<nowiki></ref></nowiki>'''<br />
'''<nowiki><ref name=Miller2005p34></nowiki>'''Miller, E: <nowiki>''The Sun''</nowiki>, page 34. Academic Press, 2005.'''<nowiki></ref></nowiki>'''<br />
'''<nowiki><ref name=Brown2006></nowiki>'''Brown, R: "Size of the Moon", <nowiki>''Scientific American''</nowiki>, 51(78):46'''<nowiki></ref></nowiki>'''<br />
'''<nowiki>}}</nowiki>'''</span>
</tt>
</blockquote>


Chris, I recently created the [[Density]] article and its associated cluster of subpages. Now I am concerned that there are many different usages of that word. For example, the article I created is about the chemistry meaning of density ... but then there is ''population density'', ''residential density'', ''electron density'', ''optical density'', ''electric charge density'', etc.
Below is how this would look in the article, once you had previewed or saved your edited section:
<blockquote style="background:white; padding:1em; border:1px solid #999;"><!--Edit mode note: the example display code uses some raw html to avoid clashing with other/real references and notes on this page.-->
The Sun is pretty big,<sup id="nbLDR01" class="reference">[[#noteLDR01|[1]]]</sup> but the Moon is not so big.<sup id="nbLDR02" class="reference">[[#noteLDR02|[2]]]</sup> The Sun is also quite hot.<sup id="nbLDR03" class="reference">[[#noteLDR03|[3]]]</sup>
<br /><br />
<font size=3><b>Notes</b></font>
----
<ol class="references">
<li id="noteLDR01"
><b>[[#nbLDR01|^]]</b> Miller, E: ''The Sun'', page 23. Academic Press, 2005.</li>
<li id="noteLDR02"
><b>[[#nbLDR02|^]]</b> Brown, R: "Size of the Moon", ''Scientific American'', 51(78):46.</li>
<li id="noteLDR03"
><b>[[#nbLDR03|^]]</b> Miller, E: ''The Sun'', page 34. Academic Press, 2005.</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>


Therefore, I would like to move the [[Density]] article I created to [[Density (chemistry)]] (including the Metadata page and all the subpages). Could you please do that for me? Or tell me how it is done and I won't have to bother you about moves in the future. Thanks, [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 18:16, 25 June 2008 (CDT)
Defined references must be used within the body; unused references will show an error message. However, non-list-defined references (i.e. ordinary footnote references fully enclosed with <nowiki><ref> and </ref></nowiki> tags) will display as normal along with any list-defined ones.


:Thanks for the move. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 14:33, 26 June 2008 (CDT)
----


== See Talk page of "Density (disambiguation)" ==
The Sun is pretty big,<ref name=Miller2005p23/> but the Moon is not so big.<ref name=Brown2006/> The Sun is also quite hot.<ref name=Miller2005p34/>


Chris, please see my posting explaining why I had "Density (mass)" redirecting to "Density (chemistry)" rather than to "Density (disambiguation)". [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 11:51, 27 June 2008 (CDT)
{{reflist test|refs=
<ref name=Miller2005p23>Miller, E: ''The Sun'', page 23. Academic Press, 2005.</ref>
<ref name=Miller2005p34>Miller, E: ''The Sun'', page 34. Academic Press, 2005.</ref>
<ref name=Brown2006>'''Brown, R: "Size of the Moon", ''Scientific American'', 51(78):46</ref>}}


== Status images ==
:Chris, I tried this because it is such a great improvement ... but I cannot get it to work. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 22:35, 23 May 2010 (UTC)


Hi Chris ... I saw in the history that you did much work on the pl template. What do you think about this: [[User:Alexander_Wiebel/Sandbox#Test for mouse over with status images (pl template)|Idea]].   -- [[User:Alexander Wiebel|Alexander Wiebel]] 08:41, 3 July 2008 (CDT)
::I tried it in my WP sandbox and it works perfectly. But the identical edit box coding does not work in my CZ sandbox. Has that Cite.php extension revision been implemented for CZ? It would greatly improvement the readability of edit boxes and make editing revisions, rewrites, etc. very much easier. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 23:36, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
:::I agree with you with regard to why we want this here. I'm assuming this does not work here at CZ,  I was testing it here. The text above might be confusing, it is a direct cut and paste from wikipedia. I'll ask Dan if he knows what to changes need to be made to the Cite.php exension here to make this workable.[[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 21:04, 24 May 2010 (UTC)


== Antibiotics alignment help ==
== Categories for images ==
Chris, could you look at the [[Antibiotic]]s page, "Tetracycline" section? I would like the two column list to appear beside the image, at least until I can type in some more text.  Is there a way to box the column so that it only wants part of the page to make this work?  Do I need to actually make a table to do that, or will the column function work somehow?  Thanks, [[User:David E. Volk|David E. Volk]] 14:10, 11 July 2008 (CDT)


: Many thanks once again kind Sir. [[User:David E. Volk|David E. Volk]] 15:49, 11 July 2008 (CDT)
What do you think of letting images inherit the categories of the articles they are used in? I think this should not be too complicated &mdash; the code for this is all in the {{tl|subpages}} system, and images are placed via {{tl|image}}. The only problem I see is that imagemaps are currently not compatible with the latter. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 20:38, 23 May 2010 (UTC)


== Template explanation: almost perfect except that I am not ==
:How would the categories be placed on the image page?  What is the mechanism for "inheriting" the categories from the articles they are placed in?


Today, I really tried to put to use your explanation of templates at [[Talk:Border Gateway Protocol]], on the new article [[Convergence of communications]]. The explanation is magnificent.
:As to the plan, it sounds like a good way to know what images are being used in each workgroup or subgroup. A problem I forsee in the future is that such categories are too broad.  A better way would be able to break them down further into groups of categories, i.e. pictures used in articles on "Biology AND Chemistry" or "Biology AND Chemistry AND Health Sciences" Would that be possible? [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 21:15, 24 May 2010 (UTC)


I have one question. Using asterisks for bullets doesn't seem to work with r-templates. Are they incompatible, is something else preferred, or am I making some subtle syntax error?
::The more I think about it, the less sure I am about the mechanism, at least with the currently installed extensions. My initial thought was that we would need an {{tl|images}} template on each image, which could then place categories much like the subpages system does. The problem is that there is just one place where the relevant information is stored in the subpages system, and unless we introduce some metadata system for images (which would probably not be a good idea), there will always be several such places for images used on more than one page. SemanticMediaWiki, however, may come to the rescue, so by the time we really need the feature, we may actually have it. --[[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 16:24, 25 May 2010 (UTC)


Howard
== Re-approval of [[Gasoline]] ==
[[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 09:55, 14 July 2008 (CDT)


== Suggest trial change default font-color for blank wiki-links ==
Hi, Chris, I think that I have responded to the points raised by you and by Howard on [[Talk:Gasoline]]. Howard has asked for your help in how to do the re-approval nomination (see [[Talk:Gasoline]]). Would you please help him? Thanks, [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 20:45, 26 May 2010 (UTC)


Chris:
== " Nitrogen cycle" section of [[Air]] ==


Suggest we try font-color #810541 as default for a while, as no one likes the pale slate-gray, and #810541 is a shade of red that seems easier on the eyes and less distracting than the old red.
Chris, I noted your very recent edits of [[Nitrogen cycle]]. I would much appreciate your looking at the "Nitrogen cycle" section of the [[Air]] article and correcting/revising/whatever you believe is needed. Thanks, [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 00:08, 29 May 2010 (UTC)


It complements nicely the shade of blue used for wiki links that link to existing articles.
== Better use of subgroups? ==


Until a consensus is reached.
As you may have noticed, I've been creating quite a few subgroups (e.g., the specialties of internal medicine, veterinary medicine), assorted computing topics, etc. In general, I conceived each subgroup as highly correlated with a mailing list, professional organization, or some other recruitment target.


--[[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony.Sebastian]] 23:06, 17 July 2008 (CDT)
If they are to be a recruiting and work planning tool, would it be possible to display the article status in the list of articles for the group, rather like rpl? [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 06:42, 11 June 2010 (UTC)


:Hi,Chris:
:It also might be useful to display the list of subgroups from a link on the left, just as we do for workgroups. Someone else probably has to do that.


:I agree with Anthony Sebastian that we should try font color #810541. From what I see in the forums we seem to have reached a concensus, but it just doesn't seem to get implemented. How about being Bold and implementing Anthony's suggestion ... please?? [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 01:30, 22 July 2008 (CDT)
:The Subgroups article seems to suggest there can be subgroups of subgroups, but doesn't explain the syntax. Here would be an example:
:*CZ Internet applications subgroup
:**CZ World Wide Web subgroup
:**CZ Electronic mail subgroup
:**CZ Distributed computing subgroup


::Chris, let us know if you implement the change, as I will remove it from my Pinkwich5.css file/
--[[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 15:12, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
::Thanks, Milton. --[[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony.Sebastian]] 13:59, 22 July 2008 (CDT)
   
: As I have already said elsewhere: The idea of workgroups, subgroups, and potential subsubgroups should not be used as a substitute for a good subject classification (we will need one!). Unless there are at least three (better more) authors interested a "group" makes no sense. --[[User:Peter Schmitt|Peter Schmitt]] 15:53, 14 June 2010 (UTC)


:::I believe that you are asking the wrong person. It's Larry or one of the technical support team you need to talk to to get the font changed. Chris only deals with subpages. [[User:Derek Harkness|Derek Harkness]] 19:45, 22 July 2008 (CDT)
::I'm not suggesting these as a substitute for classification. I'm suggesting these as preparing for an agreed-to recruiting campaign just to get such members, for which we clearly don't have enough current Citizens. For example, [[CZ: Internet operations]] is the specific goal of the North American Network Operators Group, which has a mailing list to which I subscribe and at which I've been active.  If I send a mail to the list soliciting membership, including a pointer to the subgroup gives potential Citizens an idea what exists as resources, what can be improved, or, perhaps under the homepage for the group, what is needed.  In like manner, I'm on a Trauma and Critical Care mailing list, which covers two subgroups. Web people tend not to be interested in email and vice versa. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 16:00, 14 June 2010 (UTC)


== r-template experiment response ==
:::I have to agree with Peter.  Don't we have to have three interested editors before we create a subgroup? [[User:D. Matt Innis|D. Matt Innis]] 16:12, 14 June 2010 (UTC)


::::Actually, no -- anyone can create, although endorsement requires editors. I haven't always had an endorsing editor, although I myself have the Editor status for most except medical. Nevertheless, under "be bold", what is being broken? This is additional information and doesn't delete anything in place. 


Nothing too specific, just the ability to show one line as subordinate to another. I don't have any real preference as far as appearance as long as the concept of categories, subcategories, and sub-subcategories. (if you really want to see something confusing, see my most recent post to the military forum). Incidentally, where do you want me to respond? [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 20:11, 18 July 2008 (CDT)
::::Yes, if it might be ''also'' of value as an interim categorization system, how is it bad to help readers find things for which the current workgroups are at too coarse a level of granularity? Simply as an author, I find them useful to see what exists and what is needed. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 16:15, 14 June 2010 (UTC)


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Hi Chris,
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==Re your Pinkwich5.js page==
Chris, on your Pinkwich5.js page [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Chris_Day/pinkwich5.js], you show:
 
// install [[User:Pilaf/Live_Preview]] page preview tool
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Pilaf/livepreview.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');


I was having another "it should work like this...but it doesn't" type problem...you seem good at helping to understand these :-) I wonder if you might help once again...
May I ask what functionality that code provides you, and how does one implement that functionality?


I was hoping to get the {{Tl|Unit}} template to display the units for materials' properties data (densities, boiling points, etc.) when appropriate, and truncate them on pages where we might want to do math with the numeric value.  It seems to work ok...but...in those cases where we want to display the units, sometimes other information is appropriate to display as well.
Thanks.   


[[Carbon/Boiling point]] is the representative example I was hoping you might take a look at.  In this case there is a temperature, currently specified in Celcius, which is the information a reader would likely be looking for if they visit the page.  The units symbol "'''°C'''" appears on the pages where it should (most pages), and does not where the template says it should be truncated (currently /Data and /Sandbox subpages).
BTW: I use WikEd, it works well in latest versions Firefox and Chrome, but not IE9 (beta) or Opera.  [[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony.Sebastian]] 20:06, 11 October 2010 (UTC)


The problem appears when I try and add additional information to the page.  Since I think the stated number is correct only for one allotrope of Carbon, and is the temperature of '''''sublimation''''', it is important to have some notes added to the data to clarify what it is saying.  I've tried to do it with a <nowiki><ref></ref></nowiki> tag added to the "unit", but it is not behaving as expected.


The reference seems to work ok on the [[Carbon/Boiling point]] page directly, but when the page is "included" in other pages (which is the point) it seems to get lost somewhere.  See [[Carbon/Properties]] for an example.  I've looked at the "source" that CZ generates, and it appears that ''something'' is getting generated, but it can't be right because the reference doesn't appear. Any ideas why it might behave like that, or how to get it to do what I was trying to?--[[User:David Yamakuchi|David Yamakuchi]] 13:39, 20 July 2008 (CDT)
:Tony, I stole it all from someone's page, I forget who.  It was so I could get preview functionality.  But I don't know anything about how the code works. Sorry i can't be more helpful. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 23:41, 20 October 2010 (UTC)


Never mind.  I think I've got something that works for now...--[[User:David Yamakuchi|David Yamakuchi]] 20:56, 22 July 2008 (CDT)
== Vote! ==


== DNA/Draft approval ==
Hi Chris!  Did YOU Vote???  See the orange Sitenotice header! [[User:D. Matt Innis|D. Matt Innis]] 23:59, 20 October 2010 (UTC)


Hi Chris, Haven't been able to do much more because of other obligations, but it seems to me that the changes to DNA found in the draft article may be ready for approval. Can you innitiate that process? [[User:Thomas Mandel|Thomas Mandel]] 07:48, 22 July 2008 (CDT)
:The page I went to was a lot of nominations but I didn't notice a place to vote. I'll look again. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 02:09, 21 October 2010 (UTC)


== Changing default font-color for wiki-links with no article started ==
::That's scary!  If you couldn't find it :(  You have to follow the links to the voting pages for each one.  [[User:D. Matt Innis|D. Matt Innis]] 02:11, 21 October 2010 (UTC)


Chris, I saw your note on the stating that font-color <font color=#810541>#810541</font> looks fine to you as a default. The responses above yours in accord.  So how do we go about changing the default, at least for a trial period?  Can you do it?  If not, who do we ask? Thanks. [[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony.Sebastian]] 15:11, 1 August 2008 (CDT)
:::I got it now. I just didn't read it properly.  I was expecting to vote on the charter but that was all long gone. I'll vote now. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 02:13, 21 October 2010 (UTC)


== Eduzendium Workgroup tag ==
::::Oh, didn't think of that!  I changed the banner - see how bad we need YOU! [[User:D. Matt Innis|D. Matt Innis]] 02:17, 21 October 2010 (UTC)


Is there an EZ tag somewhere? What I'm looking for is something like [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Category%3AEduzendium this] - currently, it only lists the course pages, not the individual articles created in the framework of the course. Thanks, -- [[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 18:04, 13 August 2008 (CDT)
:::::Well it would help if I had read the prolog instead of jumping right to the tables. Anyway I voted. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 02:30, 21 October 2010 (UTC)


== Core Article structure ==
::::::There you go!  Democracy in action! [[User:D. Matt Innis|D. Matt Innis]] 02:34, 21 October 2010 (UTC)


Hi Chris, glad to see you back here. May I use the occasion to remind you of our interrupted discussion about [[CZ:Core Articles|Core Article]] structure? Meanwhile, I have put it [[CZ_Talk:Core Articles#Suggestions for more coherent Core Article structure|here]] so that others can more easily join.
:::::::Perfect proof, I would say, that Democracy Is For The Birds! (hehe) [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 03:08, 21 October 2010 (UTC)


I would also appreciate some more thoughts on [[Talk:Biology/Draft# Possible replacement of introductory image|this discussion about potential reuses of the Biology Week logo]], as well as on its fine-tuning prior to the week (e.g. linking the newly inserted images to some suitable and possible yet-to-be-written articles).
== Approval for [[Thylakoid]] ==


Thanks, [[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] 15:55, 28 August 2008 (CDT)
Chris, I prepared what Gareth calls a "short and sweet" article, [[Thylakoid]].  Will you look it over to see if you could add your name to the Approval banner? Otherwise let me know what you think it might need.  Thanks.  [[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony.Sebastian]] 15:22, 17 November 2010 (UTC)


== Subworkgroups ==
== New Biology editor ==


Chris, welcome back! I know you have a full plate of things to do ... and I don't want to be a nag. However, I would really appreciate finding out the current status of implementing subworkgroups which is a subject near and dear to my heart. Please give me at least an estimate of when you expect to finish geting it done. Thanks, [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 12:36, 29 August 2008 (CDT)
We have a new Biology editor named [[User:Dorian Q. Fuller|Dorian Q. Fuller]]. Perhaps you may wish to put a welcome message on his Talk page. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 16:47, 17 November 2010 (UTC)


== Finding pages? ==
== Re [[Thylakoid]] Approval ==


Hi! I think you know a lot about the technical stuff around here, so maybe you could help me out.  I'd like to be able to go to the [[CZ:Monthly Write-a-Thon]] page conveniently.  There is a redirect, [[CZ:Write-a-thon]], which exists, but when I type the name of the redirect into the search box and click "go", it says the page doesn't exist.
Chris, I responded to your comments on the Thylakoid Talk page, making a number of edits and adding images.  If it looks okay to you, will you consider adding your name ToApprove. Thanks.  &mdash;[[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony.Sebastian]] 04:52, 28 November 2010 (UTC)


Similarly, if I want to go to a user talk page, I think I can't get there by typing "User talk:..." into the search box, but have to type "User:..." into the search box and then click the "discussion" tab.
== New Biology author ==


Could you help me understand what's going on and how to navigate around here?  Thanks. [[User:Catherine Woodgold|Catherine Woodgold]] 07:58, 2 September 2008 (CDT)
[[User:James Parker]] is a new Biology author, a student at Edinburgh interested in molecular genetics. [[User:Bruce M. Tindall|Bruce M. Tindall]] 17:32, 21 March 2011 (UTC)


== ASEAN reformatting ==
== ! ==


I didn't know you could do what you did with align right. Is it possible to narrow the TOC box slightly so there is more whitespace between the table of contents and table of members, and also to align the tops?  That would make it perfect. Your change is, however, an improvement--I just wasn't aware it could be done.
Hi, Chris, thanks for dropping in again, I knew you would. I have a question for you... [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Thorpe]] 19:25, 17 May 2013 (UTC)


(Yes, I am going to be digging further into the R-template, but I need to spend a time with support first -- my print spooler is definitely ill).  [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 05:13, 7 September 2008 (CDT)
== Nomination for the Management Council ==


:Howard, I don't know of any way to manipulate the TOC's dimensions. I could put in a buffer to the left of the table.  That might have the effect of forcing the TOC away. I'll try that. As for knowing these about these tricks, you will pick them up by trial and error.  That is how I have figured most things out. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 08:04, 7 September 2008 (CDT)
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Thank you. [[User:Minhaj Ahmed Khan Lodi|Minhaj Ahmed Khan Lodi]] 12:20, 7 September 2008 (CDT)
== Removing Talk:ArticleName/Draft ==


== Misplaced subpages ==
Thanks for your note. The one thing I haven't been able to do is completely remove the /Draft Talk pages for articles with status '0' while retaining the information in the Talk page banner. The <nowiki>{{subpages}}</nowiki> template has been altered so that clicking 'Talk' in the banner goes to the main article's Talk: page, but for articles with citable versions (former approved articles), this still redirects to Talk:ArticleName/Draft and not just to Talk:ArticleName, because only the former displays the definition, unused subpages, etc. I tried to fix this by altering the '[[:Template:To Approve Inner|To Approve Inner]]' template by removing the references to 'Draft', but this results in all the information in the banner of the Talk page disappearing if the status is '0'. I tried various other edits and templates, but no joy. Can you suggest anything? Thanks. [[User:John Stephenson|John Stephenson]] 15:35, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
:No suggestion off the top of my head.  I'll have to re-familiarize myself with the code, but I'll take a look. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 18:58, 4 October 2013 (UTC)


Gremlins?  I have no idea why it's there.
== You've been nominated as a candidate in the June 2014 election ==


It fits with everything else today -- I put SP3 on my HP/Compaq machine, which turned out to be an utter disaster -- HP says they don't support SP3, and printing was crashing everything. You'd think they would talk to Microsoft, and when Microsoft did auto downloads, it wouldn't recommend SP3 for a HP machine. Much patching to get SP2 semi-working again, although I may have lost printing. Then, my Kaspersky antivirus is getting an apparent false positive and deleting a piece of HP-specific monitor code, which reboots the machine. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 22:21, 7 September 2008 (CDT)
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:So far, the deletes have been fine. I've been on something of a rampage myself, variously cleaning up some intelligence-related material, of which I was the initial author, from the Other Place. I may decide to cut back radically on some of the regional activity, where other material doesn't pass my smell test and does pretty well on tinfoil hat.
== You've been nominated as a candidate in the June 2016 election ==


:Also, I'm trying to clean up some varied military history things, as well as addng a good deal of computer content (a very good thing when I have to study a subject for a potential contract), some new military (and tightening some of my old), cross-linking, some medical, etc. [[User:Howard C. Berkowitz|Howard C. Berkowitz]] 22:44, 7 September 2008 (CDT)
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I am an editor in the biology workgroup | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Current talk page (94,080)

Notes to self

The European Physical Society

{{Quote|A|B|C|D|E}} gives:

‘ A ’

—B, C

{{PAGESIZE:User talk:{{BASEPAGENAME}}}} gives 94,080
{{PAGESIZE:User talk:{{BASEPAGENAME}}|R}} gives 94080
{{#ifexpr: {{PAGESIZE:User talk:{{BASEPAGENAME}}|R}} > 3000 | large|lemma }} gives large
{{#ifexpr: {{PAGESIZE:User talk:{{BASEPAGENAME}}|R}} < 3000 | large|lemma }} gives lemma

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- /Notes to self
- /Previous discussions

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  • How should the r template deal with links to catalogs? Could use a separate 4th level definition but which related articles page should it link too?
  • Apostrophe bug means that the tabs are not the correct color. Fix the code to account so the if statement compares the url code.
  • Manual placement of {{dabdef|Fossilization}} needs the basepagename added manually too. If follow Noel's description will need a field in the metadata for any article that is the target of the basename redirect. No other way to figure out the basename for the {{dambigbox}} template otherwise. Alternative is do have a much more manually (for example, {{dambigbox|the process in [[palaeontology]]|Fossilization}} ) template but probably better to have it placed automatically. Drawa figure to make this more comprehensible.
  • Need to write a summary document describing the uses of {{RD}}, {{R}}, {{Rpl}} and {{pl}}.
  • For {{R}} should probably remove the {{Dabdef}} template and just write what is required. Could then have a specific template for the disambiguation request for a definition page if it is needed (I suspect no one would use it and instead just make the disambiguation page). One exception might be Daniel in combination with the RD template at CZ:List of words with multiple uses
  • Subpages template misinterprets location on the talk approval talk page (not sure I can replicate this).
  • Think over subpages format. Possibly need subpages style as third layer template with intermediary ones to define the magicword variables? Initiated this, see {{Parameters1}} and {{Parameters2}} in conjunction with {{Subpages test}} and {{Subpage style test}}.
  • If no footer or header add specific category to note this fact, preferably no other categories too. See homeopathy/Trials example.
  • must think about the status of these sub and subsub defintion pages. Note also that they exist as definition onlys rather than recognising the existance of the basepagename.
  • Lemma articles mess up the related only category such that related articles can only exist if there is some metadata. Try and write around (is this true? not sure I can replicate this either).
  • Finish userplan simplification and more focus on workgroup participation.
  • Fix move cluster - partially done, still need to fix approval page bug (when article has no approval page or when there is already an approval page present)
  • {{Lemma}} idea, see {{Test lemma}} too. Need to utlilise the pagesize magic word so we get a lemma when there is no, or very little text in an article.
  • optional photo credit
  • Article task and notification list
  • Metadata edits always current so should tie speedydelete etc to that one page. This will get around the maintenance categories often being out of date.
  • Think more about /Catalog/Masterlists See User_talk:Aleta_Curry#Masterlist for examples. Fix the same page blank code, At present there is a capital letter requirement bug as well as need to get second string if used. Also catalog masterlists and transclusion in general. No need to maintain information at multiple sites. Is substitution bot an option?
  • Figure out utlity of transcluding refs with the r template redirects.
  • Make error boxes more concise and smaller.
  • Finish up the periodic table navigation, specifically whether element data shoul be in a switch page on on individual subpages

{{r|Nova (astronomy)#Supernova|Supernova}} gives:

  • Supernova [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Nova (astronomy)#Supernova (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.

{{r|Supernova}} gives:

  • Supernova [r]: An astronomical object exploding to a brightness similar to that of an entire galaxy. Caused by a catastrophic explosion of either a white dwarf system or an aged star about five times the size of the sun, which occurs when the star collapses; a neutron star or a black hole may be formed as a result, or the explosion results in no remaining compact object. [e]
Iteresting that the top version does not work as expected. Might need to fic the r template to asccomodate tis , if possible. 06:54, 11 February 2009 (UTC)


/Wanted

Need to figure out the disconnects between the rare earths periodic table of elementses and the template:periodic. Did uranium, but others need fixing too. See Uranium/Periodic table of elements

Category:False Start Move
Category:Incomplete Move
Category:DeleteMove

Too many pop-up alert messages when starting a new article

Chris, two things that have niggled me for quite some while:

  • Whenever I create a new article in my Sandbox and then use the "Start Article" link in the left-hand navigation panel:

As soon as I cut and paste the article from my sandbox into the new article (including the subpages template) and save it, three or so large popup alerts are displayed on the main article page (ahead of the article text) telling me why they have appeared and alerting me to do certain things (like filling out the Metadata template). They must be overwhelmingly confusing to a new user writing his first article. The various pop-ups are separated by a heck of a lot of white space ... so that one must scroll down quite far to even see the main article text that I just cut and pasted from my sandbox.

Can those pop-ups be made smaller, with less excessive white space between them? Or can they be combined into one pop-up and made less wordy?

  • After I've created the Definition subpage and the Talk subpage:

The Talk page has more pop-ups telling me to create the Related Articles, Bibliography and External Links subpages. Again, one must scroll down to below those pop-ups before adding a post or reading any existing posts.

Once the Main Article, Metadata template and Talk page have been created, why not autiomatically create the Definition, the Related Articles, the Bibliography and the External Links pages complete with the subpages template included in each of them? Then, instead of all those pop-ups on the Talk page, all that would be required is one sentence stating that the Definition, the Related Articles, the Bibliography and External Links subpage need to be populated as soon as possible.

I think the above suggestions would greatly simplify the task of starting a new article. What do you think? Milton Beychok 07:00, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

The messages (including the whitespace) for starting an article could easily be changed in Template:Orphan subpage.
Concerning the talk page messages I have already filed a wish in CZ:Wishlist "Obtrusive requests to edit subpages". Again, they could easily be made smaller without having to create them at once. (I do not think that it is useful to create empty pages.)
However, both messages are as they are on purpose. Thus the pro-and-contra should be discussed, at least briefly.
(I agree with you, Milton) --Peter Schmitt 11:13, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
Glad someone else said it. I thought it was just my ignorance, you know, like it wouldn't bother people born into the Internet era.
Not to insult the original crafters, because we've all been working in the dark on this and I still think that clusters are a brilliant idea, we just need to tweak every once in a while.
While we're at it, could we PLEASE remove Albert from the metadata fill in form? I keep re-creating page Albert Einstein and getting a 'you're messing this up' error message, which confuses me no end.
And let's remove CanE and AusE as options in the language variants. No one writes in Canadian English or Australian English, we might as well have Indian English or Trinidadian English. We only need American English and British (or Commonwealth, if you'd rather) English.
Aleta Curry 22:11, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
I have removed "Albert Einstein" from the field in the blank template. (I hope that nobody minds.) On this occasion I found a Metadata template wrongly attributed to Einstein. (There may be more. And there are quite a lot of Metadata requiring "abc=Einstein, Albert" that will need to be fixed.) --Peter Schmitt 01:31, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
In retrospect, it should have been Werner Heisenberg. --Howard C. Berkowitz 03:23, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
You're just so certain of that, aren't you. Russell D. Jones 14:14, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
I do not think these alerts should go completely but we could hide most of them behind ONE generic message per page saying "Hey, something is missing or wrong. For details, click [show].". An example for such hidden stuff is at Category:Bot-created Related Articles subpages#Index. --Daniel Mietchen 15:09, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
I happen to like the alerts. As rarely as I create and/or move pages, I don't remember the procedures and all that has to happen; and I'm not willing to go look up those procedures every time. But having the alerts reminds me of what I need to do to get the article "off the ground." It's a checklist, but not in a checklist format. I was unaware of the Einstein Bug. I don't know that I'd like the "something's missing" format either. It smacks of "we know something you don't, he, he." If the templating can tell me what needs to be done to get the cluster to an operating standard, then it should. Russell D. Jones 16:16, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
I think you have to place yourself in the shoes of a newbie, Russell -- all of these alerts, and *long* blank spaces down through which one has to scroll, are *baffling*. "Hey, they asked me to create an article, I did, and NOW what?! WTF is goin' on here? Where's my article?! What am I supposed to do with THIS?!" Etc. etc. Even to me, after starting maybe 150 articles, I find it annoying. And THEN there's the stoopid Talk page, with the big blank space in the middle with the mysterious boxes on the right telling us to start a Related Articles page and a Bibliography, and god knows what else! It looks terrible! Fortunately I've found an answer to this: I click on each one of these demands, go to the newly opened page, type in an "x", save it, and do the same for the next one. Which at least cleans up the Talk page. Let's ask ourselves: for *whom* are we creating these minotaurian complexes? Howard and his Lemma articles? Heisenberg and Einstein and Schrodinger and his Kat to do Thought Experiments with? or for Billy Bob Thudpucker in Las Cruces, New Mexico, who just wants to write a brief article about the third-string banjo picker of the Rolling Stones? And while we're asking questions, I wonder how many of the dozens of new Authors who arrive here and then *never* contribute anything have actually *started* to write something, and then got scared away by all the inscrutable baloney they're then *apparently* required to do? So they curse, or shrug, and go away, never to return.... Hayford Peirce 16:30, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
I would consider pages started empty or with an "x" as their single content as close to vandalism. The blank spaces can be removed easily, and it should also be possible to place the talk page messages more effectively. --Daniel Mietchen 16:35, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
If the blank spaces and messages can be removed or made less intrusive, then why aren't they? Who put this stuff in there in the first place? And putting an X in there isn't remotely *close* to being vandalism -- it's exactly the same thing as going into an edited page and putting in a Null so that the damn server or whatever decides to notice that a change has been made to the Metadata page, such as when we change the ABC and then it doesn't show up on the Workgroup page until the Null has been put in. Hayford Peirce 16:50, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

(undent)Can a variable be set in a user profile, which is then available to templates? The default might be "newbie". Russell would want a "verbose" mode. I would want to suppress the "suggestions"--in user design speak, "terse" or "expert" mode.

In some respects, the idea of the lemma came about as a means of entering minimum useful content without going through full cluster setup, some of which will never be relevant.

Daniel, separating the issue of removing spaces, there is no real reason to demand External Links or Bibliography. Many articles will never have them, so they can go to the list of optional pages such as Catalogs and Debate Guide. Related Articles as a suggestion, yes. The suggestion of having other articles link to this article is useful only to people that understand the overall structure, who then should not need the reminder. Now, a link to a tutorial on knowledge navigation is another matter.

Hayford, your point is well taken about scaring away newbies. The newbie mode might even suppress anything beyond the minimum and post the article to a page for more experienced people to clean up. Remember the art historian? How much work would we have saved if she had just written the article and let us do the other pages? This is one of the reasons I hesitate to make instant Editors.

Eduzendium also shows that it's rather overwhelming; Daniel's macros/templates helped a lot. If I may try an analogy, we are "cataloging". When I went to work for the Library of Congress, I was amazed to discover how much skill and knowledge is needed to create a correct catalog card. There is an enormous difference between even the scholarly users of the Library, and the professional catalogers. We are simpler at present, but does the newbie even notice the "workgroup" tab on the left? At LC, the catalogers needed to go far beyond that, but both are still controlled vocabularies. I still am confused when something is "Media" vs. "Journalism". --Howard C. Berkowitz 16:46, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

I happen to think the templating here is exceptionally sophisticated and I appreciate that it can sculpt the CZ experience. I agree with the above that some of the mechanics are skewed (e.g., having to create a null edit in order for the server to update its status), but the "white space" experience, I think, is not intended for you to scroll through to get to the article; it is intended for you to fix the problem that is identified. But for people who create a lot of pages, I can see that it might be tedious to go through these hoops again and again when all you do is a null edit. Also, I see the problem of EZ. I take about 200 students a semester through the learning process of editing on the MediaWiki software and I can tell you that for a lot of them, even learning where to click to actually open the edit window can be a challenging undertaking. Complicating the scene with sophisticated templating raises the intimidation (or fear factor) of the site.
So I see three levels of users here.
  1. An author new to wikis who doesn't want to or will be overwhelmed with cluster set up. (maybe in the article creation process the article could automatically be tagged (category) with a request to set up cluster; experienced hands could take care of the list.)
  2. An experienced author who likes the process checklist to set up a cluster.
  3. An experienced cluster setter-upper who knows what to do and can't be bothered with the alerts.
Also I see issues of what exactly is needed for a bare-bones cluster set up: Metadata, certainly; definitions? maybe. Bibliography? probably not. talk page? shouldn't need a null edit. Russell D. Jones 17:27, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
I took out some of the talk page alerts — feedback welcome. Will take a look at the page creation stuff later. --Daniel Mietchen 17:56, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
Since this has evolved to a discussion of the merits and dismerits:
I think that the information seen from the subpages template is enough: It shows what subpages exist. Those who know about them and are willing to work on them can easily start there -- if they do not want then they will ignore the templates as well. (I do ...: many pages do not need external links, and many will not get a bibliography, and why create either when one has no good idea what to enter? The same is true for definitions - better no definition than a bad or incorrect one.)
Moreover, CZ explicitly encourages to start articles the "easy way" (see CZ:Start Article) -- without subpages.
-Peter Schmitt 23:00, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
I now also hid the alert messages for missing metadata. The following pages are some of those that do not yet have the {{subpages}} template, so you can use them to fiddle around with the new mechanism and to provide further feedback:
Nucleoside [r]: A purine or pyrimidine base attached to a ribose (used in RNA) or deoxyribose (used in DNA). [e]
Nucleotide [r]: A repeating unit in nucleic acid polymers consisting of a purine or pyrimidine base, a pentose sugar, and a phosphate group. [e]
Lipoprotein [r]: A molecular mixture of long chains of fatty and amino acids. [e]
Critical pathway [r]: schedules of medical and nursing procedures, including diagnostic tests, medications, and consultations designed to effect an efficient, coordinated program of treatment [e]
Third molar [r]: Molars located at the rear of the mandible, commonly referred to as Wisdom teeth, that usually appear between the ages of 17 and 25 in humans. [e]
Transcendentalism [r]: Philosophical, religious, literary, cultural, and social movement associated in particular with early 19th century New England intellectuals such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and others. [e]
Hardy–Weinberg principle [r]: Add brief definition or description
Sleep initiation and maintenance disorders [r]: A range of disorders that deal with the inability to fall asleep or stay, appropriately, asleep [e]
Hypertensive urgency [r]: Add brief definition or description
Aldosterone antagonist [r]: Compounds that inhibit or antagonize the biosynthesis or actions of aldosterone, which is part of the renin-angiotensin system. [e]
Team-based learning [r]: Pedagogical techniques in which the learners work in small teams rather than as individuals [e]
Agile software development [r]: Software development methodology based on "close collaboration between the programmer team and business experts; face-to-face communication" and "frequent delivery of new deployable business value". [e]
Alpha adrenergic blocker [r]: Add brief definition or description
British Doctors Aspirin Trial [r]: Randomized controlled trial started about 1980 that was designed to test chemoprevention with aspirin for the primary prevention of vascular disease. [e]
Health Professionals Follow-up Study [r]: Add brief definition or description
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation [r]: Add brief definition or description
Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy [r]: Autoimmune disease affecting multiple organs [e]
Bacteriuria [r]: The presence of bacteria in the urine which is normally bacteria-free. [e]
Janus kinase [r]: A family of intracellular tyrosine kinases that participate in the signaling cascade of cytokines by associating with specific cytokine receptors. [e]
Serum osmolality [r]: Osmolality of the serum component of blood [e]
Vena cava filter [r]: Add brief definition or description
Rifampin [r]: Add brief definition or description
Patient discharge [r]: Add brief definition or description
Nephrotic syndrome [r]: Add brief definition or description
Hyponatremia [r]: Add brief definition or description
American Heart Association [r]: Add brief definition or description
Craniocerebral trauma [r]: Add brief definition or description
Palpitation [r]: Add brief definition or description
Apolipoprotein [r]: Add brief definition or description
Respiratory failure [r]: Add brief definition or description
Antiphospholipid syndrome [r]: Add brief definition or description
Intravenous infusion [r]: Add brief definition or description
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C19 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Chronic fatigue syndrome [r]: Add brief definition or description
Human Immunodeficiency Virus [r]: Add brief definition or description
Sick sinus syndrome [r]: Add brief definition or description
Microscopic polyangiitis [r]: Add brief definition or description
Queckenstedt's maneuver [r]: Add brief definition or description
Mechanical ventilator [r]: Add brief definition or description
Dysphagia [r]: Add brief definition or description
Natriuretic peptide [r]: Add brief definition or description
Ideal body weight [r]: Add brief definition or description
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging [r]: Add brief definition or description
Reserpine [r]: Add brief definition or description
Thrombophilia [r]: Add brief definition or description
Spontaneous abortion [r]: Add brief definition or description
Protein S [r]: Add brief definition or description
Thrombophilia [r]: Add brief definition or description
Zygapophyseal joint [r]: Add brief definition or description
Opiate dependence [r]: Add brief definition or description
Vertebra [r]: Add brief definition or description
Tramadol [r]: Add brief definition or description
Pre-eclampsia [r]: Add brief definition or description
Urinary retention [r]: Add brief definition or description
Pheochromocytoma [r]: Add brief definition or description
Glycoprotein IIb-IIIa inhibitors [r]: Add brief definition or description
Veterinary medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
Polymyalgia rheumatica [r]: Add brief definition or description
Principal components analysis [r]: Add brief definition or description
GTP-binding protein [r]: Add brief definition or description
Intracranial hemorrhage [r]: Add brief definition or description
Adderall [r]: Add brief definition or description
Habitual abortion [r]: Add brief definition or description
Diagnostic error [r]: Add brief definition or description
--Daniel Mietchen 13:55, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Daniel i think your solution of hiding things looks great. Milt does this satisfy you? I admit the templates are a pain it is important to have some kind of visual reminder that there is an incompatibility between the metadata and the article. Hopefully they are more subtle now. Chris Day 23:09, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

That's great, Daniel! Many thanks for getting rid of all of the baloney! I just created John Dickson Carr to test your changes and everything is terrific except ONE thing: I foresee BIG problems ahead if you leave things exactly as they now are. Once one has created the article and saved it, on top of the article one sees something like needs metadate and show. If one clicks on the metadata link, one is directed to the page explaining metadata. I will bet you that *some* people will try to put their metadata into the template shown on that page! My suggestion: change the wording to what metadata means and go here to add metadata for this particular article. Thanks! Hayford Peirce 23:47, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
Chris, I'll comment after I next create a new article ... which I hope will be a few days from now. Thanks, Milton Beychok 08:49, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Ad Hayford, I changed the phrasing to avoid that kind of confusion.
Ad Milt, proper functioning of the templates can also be validated by putting the subpages template on any of the articles in the long list I prepared above.
--Daniel Mietchen 15:43, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, Daniel, that's a lot better! Now one last thing. When you click on the show button and are taken to the next page, you are shown some info at the top of the page BUT there is then a LARGE blank space beneath that info, so that unless you KNOW that you should scroll down to the bottom of the page, you won't know that you SHOULD scroll down in order to click on the "fill out the metadata" link etc. I'm sure that many people would go to this page, simply look at the top of it, wonder what the hell they were doing there, and then leave, *without* filling out any of the metadata. Can't you get rid of this useless blank space? Hayford Peirce 16:32, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Done. --Daniel Mietchen 22:17, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Great! I'll have to create another new article (sigh) to check things out one last time.... Hayford Peirce 22:40, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Daniel and Chris: I just created a new article, Crude oil desalter, and I must agree that the changes made in all those pop-up alerts is a great improvement over what they were before I started this discussion. Thanks to all. Milton Beychok 05:24, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
That seems just about perfect, Daniel, at least given all the previous template stuff that you have to work with. I just created Philip Atlee and have a one *minor* suggestion. When the main article has been created, we now have a header in black that says something like "The metadata is missing; if you feeling like doing it, please create it; details" then there's a blue link that says SHOW. I suggest that you rewrite the longer stuff to say something like, "The metadata is missing; if you feel up to creating it, please click on the SHOW link to the right" and REMOVE the word "details" -- it's *slightly* confusing.... Hayford Peirce 23:31, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Good suggestion. I made the change. --Peter Schmitt 23:57, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Peter, that's perfect! Kudos to you and Daniel. I really think that there is now going to be a lot less confusion! In fact, I'll drink to that! (Goes off to make a Scotch and soda....) Hayford Peirce 01:50, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Moving

Hi Chris. From what I can tell, you've been trying to clean up a few articles and put pages in their proper places recently. I noticed that this has resulted in a bibliography and external links page attached to an article about a different subject.

As I'm merely a lowly 'author', I don't think I am allowed to move pages. I thought about cutting and pasting, but then I thought it might be better if the pages were moved properly.. so I thought I'd drop you a wee note.

The article the subpages belong to is, I believe, United Empire Loyalists.

Cheers (and sorry for adding to your workload!). --Mal McKee 03:05, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

I moved the two files. By the way: There are no "lowly" authors. You could have made the move yourself. (You are only asked to be carful, of course.) --Peter Schmitt 10:06, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Chris, or someone else who knows what s/he's doing...

...could I prevail upon you to do the archiving thing with the January Write-a-Thon and leave me a blank page for February? Thanks! Aleta Curry 03:49, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

More on metadata

I'm sorry to throw the proverbial spanner, boys, but this didn't occur to me before.

I have only just created a new article since the (excellent, I may add) changes to the setup.

Could I just ask, if it's possible, for the 'create a metadata page if you feel up to it' notice box thingy to appear *after* a body has 'saved' the new article, not before? At present it appears if you "preview". Now, if you click through to metadata creation on a "preview" page, you have to remember to go back and 'save' the original, or all your hard work is lost!

I haven't (yet) tried it the other way, so I don't know what appears if you ignore the 'create metadata' bit and just click 'save' first.

Aleta Curry 01:18, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

You write: "Could I just ask, if it's possible, for the 'create a metadata page if you feel up to it' notice box thingy to appear *after* a body has 'saved' the new article, not before?". I'm not sure I understand this exactly. How do you normally start a new article? Chris Day 04:25, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
This problem/request was not related to the "Who's on First?" metadata problem, right? Chris Day 04:55, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Chris, I think I recognize Aleta's concern. Once the subpages template goes into a new article, "preview article" brings up the metadata prompts. From bitter experience, if I write a new article of any appreciable length, I make sure to save before inserting the template. It's not hard to get lost in the prompts, decide not to fill them in, but neglect to save and thus lose the work. --Howard C. Berkowitz 05:11, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Now I understand, I never use preview so I have not been down that route. All I can suggest is bold letters saying first save your work. Would that be sufficient? Chris Day 05:13, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
I just added a warning message to save. Hope it helps. However, one will never be able to prevent all mistakes. If there are too much warnings they will not be read anymore ... Probably one has to make one's mistakes, and learn from them.
Preview can be usefull. I sometimes use preview, and sometimes not. Sometimes I wished I would have used it instead of showing my stupidity in the history ;-) --Peter Schmitt 10:25, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Yes, Howard got it in one. I'm not as brave as you are, Chris, I almost always use 'preview', I look entirely too foolish otherwise. Trust me, no one should see my 'scrap paper'! The down side, of course, is how many times I forget to actually 'save'--sigh Aleta Curry 10:41, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
p.s. Chris, was the Who's on First metadata problem caused by my mistake in the status field? Let's face it: I'm a genius! Aleta Curry 10:47, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Just a hint: If one has forgotten to save it is often still possible to go back to that edit page using the the browser's back button. --Peter Schmitt 12:44, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
Er...yes, but when I say 'forgotten', I really mean it. Like, I've shut down the computer, turned off the generator, taken the dogs for a walk, had my hair done (okay, that's a lie), made dinner...and then I come back next day wondering where that incredibly excellent 240 page cluster that I started is! Aleta Curry 22:15, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

The "Fair Use" upload summary

Chris: In the last few days, I uploaded two logos by claiming Fair Use. They were the logos for ASTM International (ASTM) and for International Organization for Standardization (ISO). When I went to CZ:UPLOAD / I am not the copyright holder / This use of the work is Fair Use, I arrived at the upload file form to be filled out. It has a one-line window in which to write the rationale for claiming Fair Use (i.e., the window labeled "Notes").

Here is what I wrote as my rationale: "The logo image is used to identify the International Organization for Standards. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the organization, assure the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the organization, and illustrate the organization's intended branding message in a way that words alone could not convey. The entire logo is used to convey the meaning intended and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the intended image. The logo is of a size and resolution sufficient to maintain the quality intended by the organization, without being unnecessarily high resolution. Because it is a logo there is almost certainly no free equivalent. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary."

It was very difficult to write all of that into a one-line window and to check it for spelling, grammar and omissions. Is there any way to revise that upload file form so that the "Notes" window is at least 6-8 lines wide?

By the way, most of my above rationale was borrowed from WP ... because I could find no similar rationale help in CZ. Milton Beychok 04:27, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

I made a reply ing the forum. But in case you missed that. For me, I use the upload primarily as a decision tree to get the correct templates. I often make changes and additions to them after the upload is complete. In this case that might be the best way to go.
As to the technical suggestion of adding a larger edit window. I would, if I could, but I'm not sure where to make such changes. Or what to change. Possibly Peter might have a better idea? Chris Day 04:30, 8 February 2010 (UTC) test

Thanks for getting the water freezing point straightened out (if it just stays that way).

Thanks, Chris. Milton Beychok 06:28, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

New template

Hi, Chris. Thanks for your offer of further help (not that I can find it...)

Can you make the unknown letter at Template:Common misspellings prolog show itself, please?

Ta! Ro Thorpe 17:42, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Where are you not seeing it? Chris Day 17:44, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
I think I understand your point now. It will not show on the template itself. But look at the page where the template is used and you will see the correct letter there. Chris Day 17:50, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

That's what I thought I was doing - but anyway, it all seems to be fine now - thanks. Ro Thorpe 18:03, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Pedia tricks

Thanks for following up on it! --Daniel Mietchen 17:26, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Categories, bots and templates

Categories can be removed fairly easily by a bot. Let me know if that would be worth it (haven't found the page you use to track these). Also, could you please take a look at {{Basic elemental def}}, perhaps in conjunction with User:Daniel Mietchen/Sandbox/Elements? I am thinking of prepopulating the empty pages via preload templates, but would appreciate some more input. --Daniel Mietchen 19:23, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

If the bot can do that, great, although It might be tricky to program since it might not be able to predict every type of category or combination to remove? I just made an addition to your template. Check it out on an element page and see what you think. Chris Day 19:48, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
The bot can in principle be given a list of applicable categories, or wildcards could be used in defining their names. No need to program for combinations — it will simply edit the same page again when working on the next category.
Thanks — the addition is valuable, but the current setting (not mine, by the way) is not compatible with {{r}}:
Neptunium [r]: Add brief definition or description
--Daniel Mietchen 20:44, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
Now I understand. i thought you wanted to populate the element article pages but you're actually after a template to add the definition. I'll modify it as best i can, will probably have to have the definition pages {{BASEPAGENAME}} added as a parameter, i.e. {{Basic elemental def|Parameter}}, since it will not transclude properly otherwise. Chris Day 20:55, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
I tweaked it enough now that i think it will work with the r template and also with a lemma article. Chris Day 21:29, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Daniel, are you trying to modify the template so it will work for the "Hydrogen (element)" format? I noticed that you had all those links on your page too. Chris Day 22:21, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Daniel and Chris, I hope you do not mind, but I wonder if it would not be better -- and require the same (or even less) effort -- to create the definitions with a bot (using the same logic as in the template)? Or even manually copy the definitions from Daniel's page to the definitions? --Peter Schmitt 23:58, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
I don't know for sure but I was thinking that Daniel might be planning to use a substitute script along those lines? Chris Day 00:56, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
I am not too eager on using a bot for just those 100 elemental definitions (too time-consuming, relatively speaking, to get it approved), so I thought I would create those pages by means of preload templates, similar to the CZ:Eduzendium course setup wizard. Ideally, there would be no piping (e.g. by integrating {{Basic elemental def}} with {{r}}.
I do plan, however, to set up a bot that creates lemma articles in place of empty pages for which a definition already exists.
On a related note, I am inclined to think that {{r|foo}} should also display Foobar/Definition if Foo redirects to Foobar and Foo/Definition does not exist. No idea how to make the template recognize a redirect page, though. --Daniel Mietchen 18:40, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
As for Hydrogen vs. Hydrogen (element), I would prefer the latter to be applied throughout, but think that would be up to the chemists to decide. My idea was just to prepare the templates such that a coherent system can be easily achieved. --Daniel Mietchen 18:46, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I think using (element) is not a bad idea, but I'm not a chemist.

As for {{r|foo}} using foobar definition if there is a redirect from foo->foobar, I agree that might be good but I'm not sure if it is possible to read the target if the redirect? You do know you can pipelink with the {{R}} template?

With regard to populating the pages. If you want to use all the subpages with the properties for each element they will have to be moved to the new name, i.e. Boron/Atomic number to Boron (element)/Atomic number if you do not want to have a parameter in the template. This could be done easily by moving every element along with all its subpages. I'll modify the {{Basic elemental def}} template so it does not need a piped parameter. Chris Day 19:22, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

May I remind you that using single properties subpages is a disputed matter? --Peter Schmitt 00:33, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
I'm aware of that. So far, I am just asking questions of Daniel and tinkering with the template since I'm not 100% sure of what he is proposing. One thing I do think is important is to have a basic page for each element. Chris Day 02:04, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
I am aware of that too, and it actually inspired me to have another look at the matter, thus prompting my tinkering with these templates. The point here, however, is to have a consistent format, which can be achieved by means of a template transclude predefined content onto the definition page, and it can easily be adapted to either the current system with multiple properties subpages or the discussed alternative with one centralized metadata-like page. --Daniel Mietchen 23:20, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
On pipelinking, I am well aware of that too, but many non-bot starts of Related Articles pages are made by simply dumping in a list of related topics, formatted using {{r}}, without much regard for which articles actually exist. So we often have the case described above that {{r|foo}} does not bring about a definition, even though one exists at [[foobar/Definition]], when Foo is a redirect to Foobar. I am wondering whether this is the way it should be. --Daniel Mietchen 00:37, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

(unindent) Not related to the chemistry stuff but well within the scope of this section: Can you please take another look at Template:Bot-created related article subpage, which I attempted to modify such that it accommodates Lemma articles? Example to play around with: Biomedical engineering. Thanks! --Daniel Mietchen 16:53, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Daniel, looks good to me. What is your rationale that these need to be distinguished? So we can fortify our navigation network with lemma related articles pages? Chris Day 17:47, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Does not look good to me — Category:Lemma Bot-created Related Articles subpages is full of articles which do have metadata. I suspect there is a problem with a wrongly placed pipe in the template or with the way I check for the presence of the Metadata page, but I couldn't figure out the details.
The rationale for this distinction is that if there is no metadata, then the names of the categories at the page will be broken, since they are by default composed from the metadata. And yes, extension of the related articles grid is the purpose of the bot, which can be configured to work with lemmas too. --Daniel Mietchen 20:12, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Strange. I'll double check. Chris Day 20:14, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
That was it. Thanks! --Daniel Mietchen 20:36, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Automated handling of content - doubts

Sorry that I am negative. But I have serious reservations against any automatic handling of content. Providing a standardized definition for the elements is rather easy (and in principle I like thinking of the logic behind such programs) but I don't think that they are really useful. Giving the atomic number in the definiton is trivial, but not very informative. Some element specific information (about its importance, or some peculiar property, etc.) is much better. Now, of course, the generated definition can alway be replaced. -- but it is much more likely that a non-existing definition is provided than that an existing one (correct though simplistic) is rewritten.

Concerning the idea to automatically convert all definitions without main page to lemma articles: I think there is a legitimate use for lemma articles (ask Howard), for definitions to redirects, but also for definitions without a page (only intended to be used in Related Articles). The difference is that -- if the page does exist -- a link to that page will look correct though it may be better to link to another page. This decision cannot be made by a bot. (For the same reason I think that one also should be careful with redirects and only use them for "correct" titles. but not to lead from incorrect titles to a correct one.)

--Peter Schmitt 00:49, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

I think I disagree with the first paragraph, while I am not sure I understand the second. But once we have a coherent template system, I wanted to bring the matter to the forums anyway. --Daniel Mietchen 23:23, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
The purpose of lemma articles is discussed in this dedicated thread at the Forums. --Daniel Mietchen 09:53, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

About National Institute of Standards and Technology and metadata templates without provisions for subgroups

Chris, the National Institute of Standards and Technology was written before there were any subgroups and the Metadata template specified only the Physics and the Chemistry workgroups. I added the Engineering workgroup.

The was no place to add a subgroup, so I added sub1, sub2 and sub3 to the template. Then I specified Chemical Engineering as sub1.

The bottom of the Main Article then listed the categories as Physics, Chemistry, Engineering and Chemical Engineering as it should. The National Institute of Standards and Technology shows up in the Physics and Chemistry and Engineering workgroups as it should do ... but I cannot get it to show up in the Engineering and Chemical Engineering subgroups despite twice making a null edit to the article's Talk page. Can you please get it to show up in the Engineering workgroup and the Chemical Engineering subgroup?

There are a good many of the older articles that have metadata templates which don't have sub1, sub2 and sub3 in them ... so perhaps they should be added somehow. Milton Beychok 17:41, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Milt the null edit needs to be made to the article. i just did that and it is now listed as you'd expect. Chris Day 18:50, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
As to the sub1-3 field holders, yes they were a fairly recent addition so many metadata pages will not have them. Possibly Daniel could add them with a bot? Chris Day 18:54, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

That's one false move for man ...

Chris, I think I understand that a page is placed in Category:False Start Move when the metadata template is not completed, but can you explain how United States War Department shows up in that category when that page is only a redirect? Russell D. Jones 18:40, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

This is normally because it was in the false move category and then the metadata gets cleaned up, thus it is out of the category. Now the flaw in our system (auto placement of categories), the article is listed in the categories that exist when it was last edited. It should be removed from the category after a minor edit to the article. Chris Day 18:44, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
I just looked into this a little more closely and it is actually due to it being on the talk page (See Talk:United_States_War_Department). Citizendium differs from other wiki's in that a talk page will show up on a category without the name space being listed. BUT, sometimes you can distinguish this since it will be listed in the category under T. The reason we do this is that many of the housekeeping categories are placed on the talk page, so such categories do not have every entry starting with "Talk:". Chris Day 19:00, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Ah-ha, I've got it. Thanks for the clarification. Any reason why I can't do a clean-up? Russell D. Jones 19:06, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
No reason, that is what you should do. The subpages template should be removed from that page as it does not work on talk pages of redirects. The talk page could be speedydeleted if it is empty too. Chris Day 20:51, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
I've discovered that some Lemma articles are showing on this list. Any advice there? Russell D. Jones 21:33, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
I just jogged Evolution of language and it got removed from the category. I'm not sure why it was in there, looking at the history there is no clear reason. All I can imagine is that Daniel added the subpages template to start the lemma article before the he created the definition page. In that order there would be a false start category that would disappear with the creation of the definition subpage. In such instances the article will always need to be jogged with a null edit or it will remain in the false start category, even though the category no longer appears on the page. Chris Day 21:42, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Correct guess on Evolution of language, Chris. I did that on purpose to test how the {{subpages}} machinery would react to this unusual order of page creation, and think we should somehow include this scenario into the phrasing of the warning messages, depending on whether a definition already exists or not. --Daniel Mietchen 22:01, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Here's another quirk of the functionality: If a user creates a page all in one edit with a subpages template, the page will get categorized as "False Start Move" but it will not show up on Category:False Start Move. It requires two edits to the article page before it will show on the category page. See Declaration of the United Nations. Russell D. Jones 22:33, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

So presumably an edit only uses categories that are already on the page. I wonder if that is the case with manually added categories? By the way, these are general issues with the wiki software. I think you'll find they exist on your in-house wiki, as well as wikipedia. Obviously this is less of a problem when there are a lot of edits. One of the advantages of having a ton of vandalism?? Chris Day 22:40, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
I just tried creating a page and adding the category manually. In that case the edit does register correctly. So it is the auto-generated categories, only, that need the double kick. What a pain. Chris Day 22:44, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Wow

Noticing changes that you and Howard made to the "Criticism of US foreign policy" article -- excellent idea to make military spending as a % of GDP; you guys are pros. Impressed.--Thomas Wright Sulcer 01:35, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Error correction/s

There needs to be a better way of handling external complaints than going public with the emails on the Talk page. My suggestion is to leave the 'complaint' on the appropriate workgroup forum or forward the post to the appropriate mailing list. The workgroup mailing lists and workgroup forums are currently under-utilised. 01:10, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea. Chris Day 01:24, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
There are no errors in the article btw. Listen is a totally different group/line-up to Obs-Tweedle. Noddy Holder as 'roadie' is referenced. Meg Ireland 01:27, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Having no access to the images I can't comment further, however since my information was gleaned off Bill Bonham who played in the band Obs-Tweedle, I'm fairly confident his information is correct. Meg Ireland 04:20, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
Chris, I just spoke again to Bill Bonham who confirms the article I wrote as being correct. Bill Bonham knows Noddy Holder very well. You can visit Bill Bonham's MySpace site at http://www.myspace.com/quiffo . Meg Ireland 08:10, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

For what it's worth I uploaded the pictures on the messageboard. For the record I don't doubt your sources. Chris Day 17:17, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Chris. Some of those newspaper clippings appear to have been taken from scans on the LedZeppelin.com forum thread called 'HOBBSTWEEDLE' (yes I know, an incorrect name by another poster) originally scanned by a guy in Birmingham called Chris. I was a part of that thread discussion on Obs-Tweedle. I might reuse some of those clippings for the Listen article, rather than the Obs-Tweedle article since they are two different bands. While it may have been possible Noddy Holder was roadie for Listen, my insertion of Robert Plant's quote was based on Plant's recollections which are referenced from Q magazine and repeated in subsequent newspapers, and from what I could gather from my interview with Bill Bonham in 2009, before I composed the article. On the quote about Bill Bonham playing keyboards with Hari Kari while Robert Plant was singing for Obs-Tweedle, here is an email response I received from Bill this morning: 'Yes I was in Hari Kari but when I was in Hari Kari was way after Terry Reid and Led Zep came out with there first album.. Obs-Tweedle split when I joined Terry Reid or some time after I left' He is clear he didn't join Hari Kari until after Obs-Tweedle folded. Meg Ireland 22:16, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

(Unindent) I don't know anything about the pros and cons of the info in this article or of the worth of the newspaper clippings -- I merely brought them to your attention. But please review the CZ guidelines on what Wikipedia loves to kick around as Original Research. Our own strictures are less rigid, but they *do* exist. Larry, for instance, made it clear, when I first joined, that the fact that Robert A. Heinlein told me that one book or another was his best book could NOT be incorporated within the Heinlein article. He encouraged me to write a Topic Informant article, however, (TI:Hayford Peirce/Heinlein,) with this information in it, and a link to that article now appears at the top of the Heinlein Talk page (Talk:Robert A. Heinlein). It may be that some of the information in this article should be handled in the same manner.Hayford Peirce 22:36, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

This is not original research. The quote, which seems to have sparked that email, is referenced from a reliable published source (according to WP standards). External references are used throughout the article. There are no errors in the article. This appears to be a case of someone who confused Listen with Obs-Tweedle and/or dislikes the fact that Robert Plant referred to their idol Noddy Holder as a roadie. Nothing is 'made up' or unverifiable for this article. Meg Ireland 23:45, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
I do not see any reason to exclude "personal communications" (they are used in scientific literature, too). Why should a personal communication to an author be excluded (if labelled as such) when a source that cites a personal communication would be accepted? --Peter Schmitt 16:20, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
Because the source citing it is deemed to have checked and certified it. Authors on CZ have no recognized authority to do that. I don't know whether editors do. Peter Jackson 17:32, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Quintile

Chris, this is a minor issue, but it could lead to establishing some general policy. By accident, I noticed that you deleted Talk:Quintile (after copying part of it to Talk:Percentile). I left it with the redirect because it is part of the history of this page, and it does not hurt if it remains there. (My tendency is to preserve as much history as possible, e.g., by blanking rather than deleting.) --Peter Schmitt 16:31, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for helping me to edit that list. Nick Bagnall 16:18, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Copyedit to protected page

Hi Chris,

in {{Community}}, can you please change the "Main Page" in 

|width=10% align=center style="background:#F5F5F5"|<small>[[Main Page]]</small>

to "Welcome Page"? Thanks! --Daniel Mietchen 18:43, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Daniel, that was a cascading protect from kim's talk page. I edited her page and it seems to have removed the protection on that template. I'll change it though too. Chris Day 18:59, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

CZ:Request Approved Article Copyedit

Chris, with Matt being AWOL for the past 10 days or so, the list of approved articles needing copy edits is growing. I have about 10 approved articles listed there myself. Can you fix those?

If you need a volunteer to do some of that work, either temporarily or permanently, I am available ... but I will need some tutoring on how to do it. Regards, Milton Beychok 19:49, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your prompt response. There is still Chemical engineering where Meg Ireland corrected spelling of succesfully to successfully. Could you do that one as well? Thanks, Milton Beychok 21:06, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
I think that was specific to the draft as it is not in the main article. Chris Day 21:22, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Intron

Hi I found some new info about Intron but I wasn't sure if you wanted to include it in the article; currently it's in the sandbox User talk:Thomas Wright Sulcer/sandbox7 plus some pictures and diagrams. Feel free to include it; I'm not a scientist, and I found that while I couldn't make much sense of the technical articles, when reporters explained it, I could grasp the basics.--Thomas Wright Sulcer 04:56, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Looks good Thomas. Feel free to paste it into the article. I can work on it there. Chris Day 20:06, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
OK, thanks Chris, like I'm not a scientist and so it's cool that you can catch glitches which reporters make.--Thomas Wright Sulcer 00:42, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

The Image:Gasoline Fuel.jpg

Chris, I don't know how you did it, but your merge of the two photos is very much better than my original one. Thanks very much. Milton Beychok 18:22, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

When I cut out the gas pump I made sure the selection tool cut all the white out. I merged the two images using the anti-alias option so the edges of the pump did not look too sharp. Third, I brightened up the pump to make it a little more striking. Glad you like the changes. Chris Day 20:09, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Intersection of cat adoption and tall tale?

Tall tail?

(I am not making this up: Mr. Clark rejected tuna, wet disgusting cat food, and his expensive hypoallergenic dry cat food. He insisted on going upstairs into the general cat area, and into the bin of regular dry cat food -- in which he then went to sleep.) Howard C. Berkowitz 19:10, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

2012

I'm kind of looking for a green light before working on "2012" -- not that I'm that interested in it, but wondering what the policy is and whether others here will support it. It's a hot article on WP even though it's kind of a stupid subject (futurism stuff) as well as a movie. Wondering if there's some kind of "approvals in advance" place to get permission for dubious articles.--Thomas Wright Sulcer 17:54, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

I really don't know much about it. But it would be no worse than an article about UFO's or astrology. Chris Day 18:28, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
OK, thanks, so you're saying if I write it, that you don't think I'll have problems with it. Thanx, Chris.--Thomas Wright Sulcer 18:41, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
I can't think of a reason why there would be a problem. Chris Day 18:44, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Asking for your comments

Chris, would you look at the "Nitrogen cycle" section of the Air article ... and make any revisions you think are needed? Thanks, Milton Beychok 19:30, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Can you improve Image:Venturi Tube.png ?

Chris, the only drawing program I have is Microsoft's Paint program that is included with Windows XP. As you can see in Image:Venturi Tube.png, the lines that are not horizontal or vertical (that is, the angled lines) are quite "jagged". Does your program create angled lines that are not jagged? If so, could you replace the jagged lines in Image:Venturi Tube.png with lines that are not jagged? It would greatly improve that image. Milton Beychok 05:54, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Milt, there are multiple free graphics packages out there that far exceed the capabilities of MS Pain(t) — to the point of being hypercomplex. Two that probably merit a look for diagrams like these are Open Office Draw and Gimp. --Daniel Mietchen 08:59, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, Daniel. One of these days I will take the time to download one of those and learn how to use it. Milton Beychok 17:31, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
Chris, thanks for fixing the Venturi image for me. It looks much better now. Milton Beychok 17:31, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Your talk at the New Communication Channels for Biology Workshop 2008

Hi Chris, can you send me your slides from that workshop, or put them online? They may be useful for drafting the OKCon 2010 paper. Thanks! --Daniel Mietchen 18:38, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Wow, i'd forgotten about that. I'll root them out. Just looked on this computer and no sign, it must still be on my semi-dead (screen is broken) lap top. I'll boot it up tomorrow and see if i can find anthing on its hard drive. Chris Day 03:17, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! I put the slides up here for everyone to work on. --Daniel Mietchen 09:47, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

CC vs. PD

How, for Pete's sake (as some would say), can I upload (and correctly credit) an image directly as PD? The only option I saw to do so always leads to it being labeled as CC0-1.0, and at least in this set of three images (which shall serve to illustrate the Panton Principles), I do not want to have any name attached to it, because that is the message of these Principles. --Daniel Mietchen 14:04, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I just looked at the upload file link and it seems to be click on the "I am not the copyright holder" tab. Then select the "in the public domain" option. Then for the license select "creator has released into the public domain". Are you not seeing those options when you do the upload? Chris Day 14:15, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
I do, though this time I went there via "I am the copyright holder" and "Release into the Public Domain", which gave the CC0 attribution. I think the problem with the upload wizard is that Caesar left when he was mostly but not entirely done with it. --Daniel Mietchen 14:19, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
[EC] OK, I just followed the "I am the copyright holder fork" and now I see how you got to "Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal License". I guess that is equivalent to public domain? But this is beyond my ken. If Caesar was not done with it, possibly the PD license option should be at that point too? Chris Day 14:20, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
The two are practically equivalent in the US but CC0 is more universal, since most jurisdictions do not have PD, but all have copyright law. Anyway, CC0 means that also no BY is needed. --Daniel Mietchen 14:41, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
I've just spent 10 frustrating minutes at Image:Drink to Yesterday.jpg trying to "Upload a new version of this file". Can't be done. All you can do is start all over again and upload another file under another name AND fill out all the @#$%^&* information that you had to do with the first one! And unless you're maybe a combination of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, you can't "Edit this file using an exterior application" either. Geez! Hayford Peirce 00:37, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
That doesn't sound right. Are you using the link titled "Upload a new version of this file" just above the Links section title. Chris Day 00:43, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Yes. Hayford Peirce 00:55, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
PS -- I use Chrome as my browser. Could that be affecting things in some mysterious way? Hayford Peirce 01:03, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
If you choose the new file to upload and then save, leave everything else blank, then it will be fine. You'll see. It will ask you if you want to ignore all warnings. Select yes and then you're done. Chris Day 00:59, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
It keeps telling me that I need License info, and the license info isn't what I want. And it won't work unless I choose a license. No way. Hayford Peirce 01:03, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
I just tried it, and it works fine with jpg, but when I use .png, I get "The file is corrupt or has an incorrect extension. Please check the file and upload again." --Daniel Mietchen 01:08, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
It still doesn't work. I have, on my computer, a *smaller* version of the present image. It has the same name and is a .jpg. A few minutes ago I had a slightly different name on it, but it was the same .jpg file. It doesn't matter *what* it's called. No matter *what* I do, I am told that I MUST choose a license. If I don't choose a license, it will NOT upload the file. Period. Hayford Peirce 01:24, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
I just tried and it worked fine. All I did was choose the new file on my desktop. Then save. Then chose ignore all warnings. That's it. All the files data and licenses are intact. Chris Day 02:21, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
A box doesn't pop up and tell you that you have to choose a license? Do you have a Papal dispensation, or what? Hayford Peirce 03:48, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
No, I've never seen that and I've updated images at CZ quite a few times. Chris Day 04:15, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
Off to bed, but tomorrow I'll do a screen capture of the box I get and I'll email it to you. Don't know what else to do. Hayford Peirce 04:43, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Space Invaders

Sorry, I thought I'd got the hang of new pages but apparently not. I've seen the changes you made and will follow the example when making futher pages. --Chris Key 00:29, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Lemma formatting

What do you think of displaying the definition above the instructions in lemma articles? I just did the switch (also this one). --Daniel Mietchen 11:32, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Somehow, the definition pages do not display properly now, and I guess {{subpages}} would have to be remodeled to accomodate the change I made. Do you think that's worth it? --Daniel Mietchen 19:50, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
I reverted both changes and moved the testing to the test wiki: Lemma, Def only. --Daniel Mietchen 01:31, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Could not pinpoint exactly what the problem was, so I went back to normal for the time being. On a related note, what do you think of merging {{Def only}} and {{Lemma}}? --Daniel Mietchen 23:07, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
I would not be against that. I'll have a look and see how it can be streamlined, or do you already have a plan? Chris Day 03:34, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
I do, but can't put it in words easily (other than moving the conditionals from {{Def only}} to {{Lemma}}). Will thus give it a go on the test wiki, and let you know how things go. --Daniel Mietchen 07:32, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
I merged them and added some categories, which makes {{Def only}}, Category:Definition Only and Category:Related Articles Only redundant. Please check and adapt as you see fit. Thanks! --Daniel Mietchen 11:46, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Things work fine on the test wiki, but the display problem that started this thread interfered when I did bring the changes over to the live wiki (where {{subpages}} has not been updated yet. So please transfer this edit to {{subpages}} (possibly with this typo correction) and then revert this edit. Test clusters: Glia, Open Knowledge Foundation. Thanks! --Daniel Mietchen 12:49, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Daniel, i made the change but is the definition page the way you intended? Chris Day 17:56, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
Fixed and streamlined. --Daniel Mietchen 22:22, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
Nice work Daniel, that's a big improvement. Chris Day 23:11, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

The section on "Nitrogen cycle" in the Air article

Chris, about two weeks ago I asked you to look at the section on "Nitrogen cycle" in the Air article and revise it in any way you felt was needed. I know you've been busy, but I would still appreciate your review as a biology editor of that that section. Thanks in advance. Milton Beychok 16:56, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi Milton I looked at the Nitrogen cycle article and proposed a revamping here in a sandbox: User talk:Thomas Wright Sulcer/sandbox2 I expanded it but I'm not a scientist or technically-minded like you or Chris so I'm deferring to your judgment. I'm finding my paint program doesn't work well, so I hand-drew a diagram, but still am unhappy with it. I'm wondering if there's a good paint program that is simple, powerful, works with Ubuntu Linux so I can do better quality stuff here.--Thomas Wright Sulcer 02:25, 27 March 201UTC)
Thomas, my request of Chris was simply to take a look at the small section of the Air article that briefly describes the nitrogen cycle ... briefly on purpose.
What you have written in your sandbox2 is a an expansion of the stub article on the Nitrogen cycle ... which I very much agree needs to be expanded, but which is out of my field of expertise. So I don't believe that I am really qualified to comment on your expansion of that stub article. I would suggest that, in addition to Chris Day who is a biology editor, you contact Anthony Sebastian who is also a Biology editor and quite active. I would also point out that a very good drawing of the cycle is available in Wikimedia Commons [1] where it is designated as being in the public domain. Other good drawings can probably be found with a bit of Googling. Regards, 03:27, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
Does Anthony Sebastian have the "Nitrogen cycle" article on his watchlist? If so he'll see a note I placed there. I did this article first so that I would be in a position to help you with the "Nitrogen cycle" section of the "Air" article. But I'm not an expert by any stretch either. Good idea to get the picture on Wikimedia Commons -- my drawing didn't come out as well as I had hoped, but I still have illusions of being an excellent CZ sketch artist!--Thomas Wright Sulcer 14:27, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

False start move

Hi Chris, I think Category:False Start Move is overpopulated, and at least partly with what should rather be in Category:Lemma Article, e.g. pages like Citizen science/External Links. As far as I can tell, the culprit is the if nesting in {{Subpages}}, so I can't fix it. Please check. Thanks! --Daniel Mietchen 23:24, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Daniel, is this still a problem? There did not seem that many there or is that because you have processed them? From what i could see they were mostly left over subpages or lemma like pages without a definition. Chris Day 18:06, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
I think I see what you mean, now that i have looked more closely at the example of Citizen science/External Links. At present the only lemma subpages supported are /Related Articles and /Definition. Are you suggesting that we should allow /External Links and /Bibliographies too? Chris Day 18:11, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
Yes, and Video. In principle, I would like to have all subpages enabled for Lemmas. This allows to collect materials in the right place even though the article has not been written yet. --Daniel Mietchen 18:34, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
I'll look at the coding and see if it is an easy fix or not. If so I'll do it as soon as possible. Chris Day 18:39, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
If you would unlock it over on the test wiki, I could join the coding. --Daniel Mietchen 19:49, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
I have changed and tested it on the test wiki. Please transfer it here. Thanks! --Daniel Mietchen 20:20, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! My edit also contained a typo correction. --Daniel Mietchen 08:29, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Nomenclature for botany articles

Plant hormone or plant hormones or plant growth hormones?

  • Auxin or auxins?
  • Cytokinin or cytokinins? The animal article is cytokines.
  • Gibberellin or giberellins?
  • Tissue culture
    • Plant tissue culture

I'm beginning to think I need to become your student... --Howard C. Berkowitz 22:54, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

I've been his student for years...Anthony.Sebastian 03:09, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Checklist22

Hi Chris, please comment on this, either there or here. Thanks! --Daniel Mietchen 19:13, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

You just want to know about the test link? That was a hyperlink to walk authors through a move cluster sequence. I did that by opular demand to try and make the process of moving a cluster more efficient and transparent. It never really did serve the purpose as things got complicated if the article was moved before the metadata template. Since then, it got broken with a mediawiki update and i could not figure out a good work around. I had forgotten it was still available as an option. We should probably just remove and delete all the templates associated with it. Chris Day 19:25, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
Thanks, fixed. --Daniel Mietchen 20:15, 29 April 2010 (UTC)


Please join with me in urging Hayford not to resign

Chris, see my plea to Hayford not to resign as Constable (on his Talk page). Please join me! Milton Beychok 20:04, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Listing-defined references test

As of September 2009, the Cite.php extension was modified to support list-defined references. These can be implemented with the parameter to the {{reflist}} template, or by using a pair of HTML tags (<references> and </references>) in place of the <references/> tag. These reduce clutter within articles, by putting all the citation details in the section at the end where the footnotes are displayed. As with other citation formats, these should not be added to articles that already have a stable referencing system, unless there is consensus to do so. When in doubt, use the referencing system added by the first major contributor to use a consistent style.

The example below shows what list-defined references look like in the edit box:

The Sun is pretty big,<ref name=Miller2005p23/>
but the Moon is not so big.<ref name=Brown2006/>
The Sun is also quite hot.<ref name=Miller2005p34/>
==Notes==
{{reflist|refs=
<ref name=Miller2005p23>Miller, E: ''The Sun'', page 23. Academic Press, 2005.</ref>
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<ref name=Brown2006>Brown, R: "Size of the Moon", ''Scientific American'', 51(78):46</ref>
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The Sun is pretty big,[1] but the Moon is not so big.[2] The Sun is also quite hot.[3]

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  1. ^ Miller, E: The Sun, page 23. Academic Press, 2005.
  2. ^ Brown, R: "Size of the Moon", Scientific American, 51(78):46.
  3. ^ Miller, E: The Sun, page 34. Academic Press, 2005.

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The Sun is pretty big,[1] but the Moon is not so big.[2] The Sun is also quite hot.[3]

  1. ↑ Miller, E: The Sun, page 23. Academic Press, 2005.
  2. ↑ Brown, R: "Size of the Moon", Scientific American, 51(78):46
  3. ↑ Miller, E: The Sun, page 34. Academic Press, 2005.
Chris, I tried this because it is such a great improvement ... but I cannot get it to work. Milton Beychok 22:35, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
I tried it in my WP sandbox and it works perfectly. But the identical edit box coding does not work in my CZ sandbox. Has that Cite.php extension revision been implemented for CZ? It would greatly improvement the readability of edit boxes and make editing revisions, rewrites, etc. very much easier. Milton Beychok 23:36, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
I agree with you with regard to why we want this here. I'm assuming this does not work here at CZ, I was testing it here. The text above might be confusing, it is a direct cut and paste from wikipedia. I'll ask Dan if he knows what to changes need to be made to the Cite.php exension here to make this workable.Chris Day 21:04, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Categories for images

What do you think of letting images inherit the categories of the articles they are used in? I think this should not be too complicated — the code for this is all in the {{subpages}} system, and images are placed via {{image}}. The only problem I see is that imagemaps are currently not compatible with the latter. --Daniel Mietchen 20:38, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

How would the categories be placed on the image page? What is the mechanism for "inheriting" the categories from the articles they are placed in?
As to the plan, it sounds like a good way to know what images are being used in each workgroup or subgroup. A problem I forsee in the future is that such categories are too broad. A better way would be able to break them down further into groups of categories, i.e. pictures used in articles on "Biology AND Chemistry" or "Biology AND Chemistry AND Health Sciences" Would that be possible? Chris Day 21:15, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
The more I think about it, the less sure I am about the mechanism, at least with the currently installed extensions. My initial thought was that we would need an {{images}} template on each image, which could then place categories much like the subpages system does. The problem is that there is just one place where the relevant information is stored in the subpages system, and unless we introduce some metadata system for images (which would probably not be a good idea), there will always be several such places for images used on more than one page. SemanticMediaWiki, however, may come to the rescue, so by the time we really need the feature, we may actually have it. --Daniel Mietchen 16:24, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Re-approval of Gasoline

Hi, Chris, I think that I have responded to the points raised by you and by Howard on Talk:Gasoline. Howard has asked for your help in how to do the re-approval nomination (see Talk:Gasoline). Would you please help him? Thanks, Milton Beychok 20:45, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

" Nitrogen cycle" section of Air

Chris, I noted your very recent edits of Nitrogen cycle. I would much appreciate your looking at the "Nitrogen cycle" section of the Air article and correcting/revising/whatever you believe is needed. Thanks, Milton Beychok 00:08, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Better use of subgroups?

As you may have noticed, I've been creating quite a few subgroups (e.g., the specialties of internal medicine, veterinary medicine), assorted computing topics, etc. In general, I conceived each subgroup as highly correlated with a mailing list, professional organization, or some other recruitment target.

If they are to be a recruiting and work planning tool, would it be possible to display the article status in the list of articles for the group, rather like rpl? Howard C. Berkowitz 06:42, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

It also might be useful to display the list of subgroups from a link on the left, just as we do for workgroups. Someone else probably has to do that.
The Subgroups article seems to suggest there can be subgroups of subgroups, but doesn't explain the syntax. Here would be an example:
  • CZ Internet applications subgroup
    • CZ World Wide Web subgroup
    • CZ Electronic mail subgroup
    • CZ Distributed computing subgroup

--Howard C. Berkowitz 15:12, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

As I have already said elsewhere: The idea of workgroups, subgroups, and potential subsubgroups should not be used as a substitute for a good subject classification (we will need one!). Unless there are at least three (better more) authors interested a "group" makes no sense. --Peter Schmitt 15:53, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm not suggesting these as a substitute for classification. I'm suggesting these as preparing for an agreed-to recruiting campaign just to get such members, for which we clearly don't have enough current Citizens. For example, CZ: Internet operations is the specific goal of the North American Network Operators Group, which has a mailing list to which I subscribe and at which I've been active. If I send a mail to the list soliciting membership, including a pointer to the subgroup gives potential Citizens an idea what exists as resources, what can be improved, or, perhaps under the homepage for the group, what is needed. In like manner, I'm on a Trauma and Critical Care mailing list, which covers two subgroups. Web people tend not to be interested in email and vice versa. Howard C. Berkowitz 16:00, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
I have to agree with Peter. Don't we have to have three interested editors before we create a subgroup? D. Matt Innis 16:12, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
Actually, no -- anyone can create, although endorsement requires editors. I haven't always had an endorsing editor, although I myself have the Editor status for most except medical. Nevertheless, under "be bold", what is being broken? This is additional information and doesn't delete anything in place.
Yes, if it might be also of value as an interim categorization system, how is it bad to help readers find things for which the current workgroups are at too coarse a level of granularity? Simply as an author, I find them useful to see what exists and what is needed. Howard C. Berkowitz 16:15, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

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Re your Pinkwich5.js page

Chris, on your Pinkwich5.js page [2], you show: 

// install User:Pilaf/Live_Preview page preview tool
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="'
+ 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Pilaf/livepreview.js'
+ '&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"></script>');

May I ask what functionality that code provides you, and how does one implement that functionality?

Thanks.

BTW: I use WikEd, it works well in latest versions Firefox and Chrome, but not IE9 (beta) or Opera. Anthony.Sebastian 20:06, 11 October 2010 (UTC)


Tony, I stole it all from someone's page, I forget who. It was so I could get preview functionality. But I don't know anything about how the code works. Sorry i can't be more helpful. Chris Day 23:41, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Vote!

Hi Chris! Did YOU Vote??? See the orange Sitenotice header! D. Matt Innis 23:59, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

The page I went to was a lot of nominations but I didn't notice a place to vote. I'll look again. Chris Day 02:09, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
That's scary! If you couldn't find it :( You have to follow the links to the voting pages for each one. D. Matt Innis 02:11, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
I got it now. I just didn't read it properly. I was expecting to vote on the charter but that was all long gone. I'll vote now. Chris Day 02:13, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Oh, didn't think of that! I changed the banner - see how bad we need YOU! D. Matt Innis 02:17, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Well it would help if I had read the prolog instead of jumping right to the tables. Anyway I voted. Chris Day 02:30, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
There you go! Democracy in action! D. Matt Innis 02:34, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
Perfect proof, I would say, that Democracy Is For The Birds! (hehe) Hayford Peirce 03:08, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Approval for Thylakoid

Chris, I prepared what Gareth calls a "short and sweet" article, Thylakoid. Will you look it over to see if you could add your name to the Approval banner? Otherwise let me know what you think it might need. Thanks. Anthony.Sebastian 15:22, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

New Biology editor

We have a new Biology editor named Dorian Q. Fuller. Perhaps you may wish to put a welcome message on his Talk page. Milton Beychok 16:47, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Re Thylakoid Approval

Chris, I responded to your comments on the Thylakoid Talk page, making a number of edits and adding images. If it looks okay to you, will you consider adding your name ToApprove. Thanks. —Anthony.Sebastian 04:52, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

New Biology author

User:James Parker is a new Biology author, a student at Edinburgh interested in molecular genetics. Bruce M. Tindall 17:32, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

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Hi, Chris, thanks for dropping in again, I knew you would. I have a question for you... Ro Thorpe 19:25, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

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Removing Talk:ArticleName/Draft

Thanks for your note. The one thing I haven't been able to do is completely remove the /Draft Talk pages for articles with status '0' while retaining the information in the Talk page banner. The {{subpages}} template has been altered so that clicking 'Talk' in the banner goes to the main article's Talk: page, but for articles with citable versions (former approved articles), this still redirects to Talk:ArticleName/Draft and not just to Talk:ArticleName, because only the former displays the definition, unused subpages, etc. I tried to fix this by altering the 'To Approve Inner' template by removing the references to 'Draft', but this results in all the information in the banner of the Talk page disappearing if the status is '0'. I tried various other edits and templates, but no joy. Can you suggest anything? Thanks. John Stephenson 15:35, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

No suggestion off the top of my head. I'll have to re-familiarize myself with the code, but I'll take a look. Chris Day 18:58, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

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