User talk:Patrick/Feb 2010 - Nov 2011

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Template:Sortfrac

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Patrick, I noticed that you are the creator of the above template. It's currently not working properly. I was wondering if you might be able to give it a look. Thanks! KV5 (TalkPhils) 21:21, 6 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Where is the example that does not work?--Patrick (talk) 23:06, 6 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

MfD nomination of Help:Navigational image

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Help:Navigational image, a page you substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Help:Navigational image and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Help:Navigational image during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. The Evil IP address (talk) 21:58, 12 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Template:Npp

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Hello Patrick. I've noticed that you are the creator of the above mentioned template. Just want to know, does that page have a hidden function or is it just orphaned? Kind regards. Rehman(+) 03:15, 13 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

I deleted it, it was outdated.--Patrick (talk) 06:28, 13 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
I understand  . Thanks and regards. Rehman(+) 06:29, 13 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox Dutch municipality/coords and maps

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Timestamp plus x

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Klassieke Mechanica

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Patrick, bedankt voor het zorgvuldig nalezen van grote delen van mijn tekst. Ik heb soms nogal de neiging om met A in lijn hoofd te zitten en toch B te schrijven. Dit is klaarblijkelijk gebeurd op verscheiden plaatsen van het hoofdstuk over "Centrale kracht", met de verwarring tussen parabool- en hyperbooltakken. --Huibc (talk) 16:45, 25 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Graag gedaan. Mijn complimenten voor je boek.
Wat betreft "de som van de twee massa's"[1]: als je die vermenigvuldigt met de gereduceerde massa krijg je het product van de massa's. Ik heb het kort opgeschreven omdat ik dacht dat je de uitleg voor de lezer er zelf bij zou willen zetten. Zeggen wat k moet zijn zo dat het precies klopt heeft mijn voorkeur boven zeggen dat het ongeveer klopt als de ene massa erg klein is, te meer omdat "G maal de som van de twee massa's" zo eenvoudig is.--Patrick (talk) 22:28, 25 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
Je hebt volkomen gelijk. Ik heb er ook mijn Goldstein nog eens op nageslagen. Ik heb het echter nog nergens in die vorm geformuleerd gezien. Groeten, --Huibc (talk) 10:52, 27 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

Gravitational potential equations added

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Patrick, you added the following equations to Gravitational potential Thus we get:

 
 
 

These equations seem to imply that  

I tried but I could not figure out why this is true. Could you explain how you got this result? RHB100 (talk) 23:07, 4 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

GA reassessment of Burger King

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I have conducted a reassessment of the above article following this request. You are being notified as you have made a number of contributions to the article. I have found some concerns which you can see at Talk:Burger King/GA1. I have placed the article on hold whilst these are fixed. Thanks. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 03:40, 14 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Nomination for deletion

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Lb

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File:Locmap arnhem.png listed for deletion

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Comp

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Proposed deletion of The Blonde with Bare Breasts

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Articles for deletion nomination of The Blonde with Bare Breasts

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The Blonde with Bare Breasts

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Godd work on fixing my translations. Thanks. Keep your eyes open for more reviews in newspapers. Hope you like that I have a poster for the article. Best, Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 06:49, 5 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Yes, I like your additions, thanks!--Patrick (talk) 11:38, 5 July 2010 (UTC)Reply
And I found a new review in Variety. Score! Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 21:09, 7 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Nomination for deletion of Template:Lsc11

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Is LinkSearch case-sensitive

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Hello. Please check this: MediaWiki talk:Linksearch-text#Case-sensitive?, thank you in advance. — AlexSm 15:36, 15 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Changing Template:Xsign to omit blanks

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I have been asked by User:Xeno to remove the blanks from the username data in Template:Xsign. The problem has been the insertion of "&#32;" before the username (such as: &#32;XXX7) everywhere in the signature-line, as follows:

<small><span class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:&#32;XXX7|&#32;XXX7]] ([[User talk:&#32;XXX7|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/&#32;XXX7|contribs]]) 20:48, 29 July 2010 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->

The new version will omit all of those codes (of "&#32;"). Reply below if you have any other issues about changing that template. Thanks. -Wikid77 (talk) 09:05, 31 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

OK, this was not clear from your comment on Template talk:Xsign.--Patrick (talk) 09:15, 31 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for your help in the past on this template. There seems to have been some regression ([2])? The 32; bits are back instead of raw spaces. Best regards, –xenotalk 21:45, 2 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Template:Country data Netherlands/doc

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Hello, take a look at the recent change to Template:Country data Netherlands#Military ensigns (that text was automatically generated). Does this solve your issue of {{navy|Netherlands}} not being documented as such? — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:39, 5 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Yes, thanks.--Patrick (talk) 13:54, 6 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Template:Flagc

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What is the point of that? There is no need to link to an image description page from a 22 pixel icon. A flag gallery, for example, will use standard image syntax and thereby provide links to image description pages, but for icon purposes, that doesn't make sense. Further, it directly contradicts WP:ACCESSIBILITY principles, as icons would be read by screen readers like "flag of the Netherlands dot ess vee gee". This is precisely what the standard flag templates avoid through their proper usage. I don't understand what problem you are trying to solve. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 23:59, 6 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

It is intended for pages where the flag is information, not just decoration, but where there is only room for a small image. I know there are flag galleries, but this is for pages giving an overview of various info about countries, including the flag. The image description page provides a large version of the image.--Patrick (talk) 00:05, 7 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
If your recent edit to List of countries and dependencies by population density is an example of that, then your interpretation is the opposite from consensus usage. Flags have nothing to do whatsoever with the subject matter of that page (population density), but serve solely as a navigation aid to help people find country names. There is strong consensus to remove the links to the image description pages from flag icons, from past discussions on the project talk page etc. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 00:12, 7 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Perhaps the name of that page needs to be changed. It gives also the population, the area and the flag.--Patrick (talk) 00:18, 7 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
Or, remove the irrelevant flags.... Population and area are used to compute density, so their inclusion makes sense. But in any case, your new template is an "accessibility disaster" to quote an old discussion at WP:WikiProject Flag Template. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 00:25, 7 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
In many cases the flags are not really one of the subjects of a page. The "accessibility disaster" was about those pages. For pages giving an overview of various info about countries we should not disable useful functionality. If necessary we can make a separate page without flags.--Patrick (talk) 00:35, 7 August 2010 (UTC)Reply
I improved accessibility in accordance with WP:ALT#Captions and nearby text, using alt="flag".--Patrick (talk) 10:14, 7 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

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The hint that helped

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Thank you for your pointing to the problem & solution at the Village pump (tech), what helped & taught me out of the problem. Please accept this written barnstar. -DePiep (talk) 09:50, 8 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks!--Patrick (talk) 10:07, 8 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Template substitution question

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Hello Patrick. I've been trying to get a template of mine working properly and it seems that you are an expert in template substitution. Would you be able to help me? The template in question is Template:Dab album. I would like to be able to subst: this template and get the resulting wikitext rather than the parser output. Is this possible? Thanks, 28bytes (talk) 08:06, 27 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Done.--Patrick (talk) 08:55, 27 September 2010 (UTC)Reply
Thank you very much!! It works perfectly. 28bytes (talk) 09:00, 27 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Elements infoboxes

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Whatever you're doing there (I believe a great improvement), please discuss at WP:ELEMENTS first. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 22:35, 29 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Hi Patrick. Because you created MediaWiki:History short, you may be interested in Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2010 October 23#MediaWiki:History short. Cunard (talk) 06:51, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

Thanks.--Patrick (talk) 11:16, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

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Operation and operator

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Could you explain the reason for your edit of operation (mathematics), please? It seems to me that the two operations on a vector space are addition and scaling, while there are usually infinite number of operators, which are simply maps between vector spaces. — Kallikanzaridtalk 14:48, 20 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

Any function is an operation, so a function between vector spaces is a special case.--Patrick (talk) 17:46, 20 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
I thought you get an algebraic structure by fixing a few maps from a direct product of a set with itself n times to the set itself and calling them operations, all other maps you don't consider operations. Say you have vector spaces U and V, and then you consider an operator  , how is that an operation, on what set is it an operation? I don't like asking it, but do you have a degree in mathematics? — Kallikanzaridtalk 19:03, 20 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
I am referring to what the article says: Thus, in the most general sense given here, operation is synonymous with function, map.--Patrick (talk) 20:14, 20 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
I understand. I don't think that this is a correct definition, I'll look into it. — Kallikanzaridtalk 20:19, 20 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

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High impact coded template

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Patrick, could you review the code for Template:Automatic taxobox? The template will eventually be used on hundreds of thousands of wikipedia articles. It has been in development for the past few months. However, it has a few squirrely aspects still remaining. Due to the high impact of the template, it should be reviewed extensively by someone with good template coding skills. Xeno recommends I ask you and User:Wikid77. Requests have been placed for input, but no feedback has been gotten as of yet, possibly due to the Western holidays. The template does require a thorough review by knowledgeable editors prior to full roll out, and our input would be valuable. Thanks, --Kleopatra (talk) 18:23, 29 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

I made some comments at Template talk:Taxonomy/Avialae/skip and Template talk:Infrataxon().--Patrick (talk) 20:07, 31 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

Find the target of a redirect?

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Hey, you seem to know a bit about coding, so I figured you might have an answer here. If I want use code to grab the target of a page known to be a redirect, how would I do that? Bob the Wikipedian (talkcontribs) 04:33, 1 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

See Template talk:Automatic taxobox/Archive 8#Taxon parameter, moved pages.--Patrick (talk) 10:48, 1 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Thanks for that. It makes a lot more sense now. — This, that, and the other (talk) 06:19, 11 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Time template

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Hi Patrick,

If you're still around, could you take a look at Template talk:Time#Change use? Regards,
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float table positioning

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Hi, added a section about float positioning to meta:Help talk:Table which you were active on; feel free to chime in if interested. Mathglot (talk) 21:27, 3 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Public transport in the Netherlands

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Proposed deletion of Cuddling

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Stepped on your edits

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I don't know what happened, but it appears I stepped on your edits in space debris. Sorry! Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:01, 18 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Need some JavaScript help

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Dear Patrick! Please take a look at project:WikiProject User scripts/Requests#partial_link_substitution. I used [3] to manipulate the numerical links following "VIAF" at Gilad Shalit, Anton Sterbling, Richard Wagner (novelist). Thanks for any help in advance. Greetings from Munich
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Please take a look at [4]. I was not active at bugzilla during last years. Do you mind to open a discussion / a bug report? Thanks in advance!
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Template:Location map Amsterdams metrostation listed at Redirects for discussion

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Template:Location map Amsterdams metrostation. Since you had some involvement with the Template:Location map Amsterdams metrostation redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). –droll [chat] 20:35, 5 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Dictionary

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Ml

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Template:Number table sorting

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I noticed that you worked on the current version of {{Number table sorting}} (nts). I have a version that will sort negative numbers correctly in the template's sandbox and some test cases here. I would appropriate any thoughts. I'll watch the template talk page if you want to comment there. It will use more resources but I think it is worth it. If you think it might break some pages then maybe the template could be forked. I've asked MSGJ to comment as well. –droll [chat] 01:28, 20 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

I have not checked it in detail but it seems fine.--Patrick (talk) 12:39, 20 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

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Invitation to New Orleans developers' meeting

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New Orleans Wikimedia Hackathon
 
MediaWiki and Wikimedia developers' meetup
Hi, Patrick. I'd like to invite you to come to the New Orleans Hackathon 2011. It's an opportunity for MediaWiki developers and Wikimedia operations engineers to come together to work on advancing Wikimedia's tools and infrastructure, focusing on Wikimedia Labs (starting with the dev-ops virtualization cluster), and to train and to squash bugs.

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It's mostly going to be dev sprints and bugsmashing, with some discussion and workshops. The event is open to anyone who wants to come and contribute, and is an opportunity to spend time with senior MediaWiki developers & ops engineers, write beautiful code, and learn about the latest developments.

If you can make it to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 14-16 October 2011, we'd love to have you. Please add your name to the attendees list. Thanks! Sumanah (talk) 20:23, 24 August 2011 (UTC) (Volunteer Development Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation)Reply

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Nomination of Status quo for deletion

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MfD nomination of Wikipedia:Recent Changes coefficient

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language template again

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Hi Patrick,

There's still a bug in the template, and it's beyond me.

If there is no iso3 field, then Template:Infobox language/ref seems to set it to the string {{{iso3}}}. It would be nice if it would just return null, but I don't know how to differentiate {{{iso3}}} as a field and {{{iso3}}} as a string. — kwami (talk) 22:33, 21 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

Use {{{iso3|}}}.--Patrick (talk) 22:43, 21 November 2011 (UTC)Reply
Ah, thanks. I'd tried that in the subtemplates, but not in the main one. Seems to work now. — kwami (talk) 22:49, 21 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

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