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max-height and vertical layout in infobox titles

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What are edits like this and this for? It appears to cause the vertically-aligned Manchu/Mongol text to overflow out of the infobox table cell in which it's contained and overlap the cells below it. Similarly, when you do it in running text (as here) it causes the lower parts of the vertically-aligned text to overlap the rest of the same paragraph. The better solution for running text is to avoid putting vertically-laid-out-strings in the middle of lines of horizontal text, and to rotate whichever one would be least jarring for the reader to see rotated (what is done e.g. in all Chinese-language books about Mongolian or Manchu); in infobox table cells it seems like the least-bad solution is to let the line-height be, even if that leads to absurdly-tall lines. 58.176.246.42 (talk) 03:04, 2 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Well, for the first two edits, they looks proper to me, they are not overflow out of the infobox table cell, tested on the current version of Chrome and Firefox. For the third edit, I just put some CSS properties to reduce the height of vertically-aligned text, to reduce the gap between horizontal lines. Using the max-height property in these articles is to make them happy on some browsers which do not support vertical layout. BTW which font do you used for looking them? --Great Brightstar (talk) 03:24, 2 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Unicode chart translation

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Hello. I maintain multilingual Wikimedia charts showing roadmaps to the various planes of the Unicode Standard.
I've seen your edits periodically and was wondering if you'd be interested in providing a Chinese translation for the roadmaps.
The specifics are at User:Drmccreedy/roadmap_multilingual.
There is a old Chinese roadmap to the BMP at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roadmap_to_Unicode_BMP-zh.svg but it's very out-of-date and I'd like to support Chinese in the multilingual charts instead.
The Chinese Unicode page currently uses the English version.
Thank you for any help you can offer. DRMcCreedy (talk) 03:59, 31 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

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WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.1

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Since the Projects very first edit 9 december 2002 by User:Dan Koehl, which eventually became the WikiProject Genealogy, different templates were developed, and the portal Portal:Genealogy was founded by User:Michael A. White in 2008. Over the years a number of articles has been written, with more or less association to genealogy. And, very exciting, there is a proposal made on Meta by User:Another Believer to found a new Wikimedia Genealogy Project, read more at Meta; Wikimedia genealogy project where you also can support the creation with your vote, in case you havnt done so already.

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WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.2

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Tangut Yinchuan

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Please download and test the latest release of Tangut Yinchuan as it now supports vertical text layout. The latest version of BabelStone Han also supports vertical text layout. BabelStone (talk) 15:19, 19 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

@BabelStone: OK, Tangut Yinchuan performanced better now. --Great Brightstar (talk) 13:28, 20 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
But I found one problem is, when I try Tangut Yinchuan, every glyphs looks larger than Chinese font within vertical texts. --Great Brightstar (talk) 13:32, 20 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
Can you show me a screenshot? Perhaps you need to adjust the point sizes of the Chinese and Tangut fonts so they are the same. BabelStone (talk) 13:40, 20 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
@BabelStone: Oh yeah, I just modified {{tangut/sandbox}} and then I found the problem. Here is my screenshot: [1] --Great Brightstar (talk) 02:44, 21 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
If you want to match Bushell's original table of Tangut characters you need to use a Ming/Song Chinese font at a smaller point size than the Tangut font, so that the Tangut characters are primary and the Chinese characters are secondary. At present your sandbox looks the opposite of what Bushell intended, with small Tangut characters that appear to be secondary to the Chinese characters. You may be able to achieve the right effect by reducing the point size of the Chinese font and/or increasing the point size of the Tangut font, and at the same time increasing the line gap of the Chinese font, but I think it will be very hard to get it just right. I still think that the best solution is to use a table with invisible horizontal cell lines. BabelStone (talk) 09:38, 21 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
@BabelStone: I don’t think so, I feel surprised for this phonomenon because I have compared with Tangut N4694 font, which looks well aligned with Chinese on there. --Great Brightstar (talk) 10:36, 21 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

@BabelStone: I know what’s wrong with it, the EM size have been set to 1024, if you reduce it into 1000 then they would be looks better when used along with CJK text in vertical layout. When I compared with Tangut N4694 font I found the problem. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 14:45, 9 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

That's not a problem with Tangut Yinchuan. In TrueType fonts the em size is usually either 1024 or 2048. Maybe you should try using it with a CJK font that has a 1024 em size. Anyhow, I'm not going to change the em size of Tangut Yinchuan. BabelStone (talk) 15:49, 9 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

WikiProject Genealogy - newsletter No.4: Mail list created!

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Hi, I saw your edit at Template:Sister project links/sandbox, and I was wondering if you still want to unhide that on mobile? I'm not sure if size will be an issue, but other than that, it seems to display okay. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 22:11, 25 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

Oh yay, I have found Template:Sister is already unhide on mobile, so I made this change at Template:Sister project links/sandbox to expect this template would also unhide soon. --Great Brightstar (talk) 03:11, 28 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Having fun with syntax?

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Hello

It appears you are online. I am currently reverting several of your unexplained edits that, no matter how I look at, seems to be having fun with syntax. The net result is that you add a second link that edits version number pages.

Would you mind explaining it?

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I'm so sorry that I will apologize to you. With recent notifications I found what's wrong with me. Now I found {{Infobox software}} has a parameter to create the edit link if the infobox space including multiple version number and dates, but I have not notice the introduction for this parameter in the template documentation, until I scroll to TemplateData. But anyway, I made up for it in there. --Great Brightstar (talk) 13:59, 15 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
Well, to be honest your biggest mistake was having not written an edit summary. Still, I am glad this dispute in the template namespace ended better than many others. Thanks. —Codename Lisa (talk) 14:08, 15 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
I'm decided to try to add further introduction for this. --Great Brightstar (talk) 14:12, 15 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
Is it possible to add a parameter in {{LSR}}/{{LPR}} to cancel the edit link? --Great Brightstar (talk) 14:39, 15 December 2017 (UTC)Reply
You had to ask that, didn't you? :) The biggest problem with LSR and LPR is that it is impossible to touch them without serious repercussions. They are used in too many places, and not all of them are infobox places. People have come to trust on what they do. (And by God, I hate them; they are so woefully poor in design. Did you know that the |article= actually has nothing to do with the article's name?) The correct way to replace them is to create new replace them and gradually phase them in. I am talking about carefully designed replacements that anyone would love.
The problem with this approach is that it simply needs so much man-hours of work and the payoff is negligible. And failing to finish it puts us in the same situation that the RSS-Atom competition warned up about.
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Changes to Template:Script/Hebrew

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I just noticed that you are still active on the page Template:Script/Hebrew but did not respond to my talk page comment. Can you please have a look? Basically you made some changes which put a monospaces font at the top of the priority queue, which should probably be changed to a serif font.

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OK, thank you. --Great Brightstar (talk) 14:01, 26 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

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At 3 December 2018, the list of users who support the potential Wikimedia genealogy project, reached 100!

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Template:Scalable image

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Can you tell me more about the purpose of this template? As far as I can tell (on my desktop browser) it doesn't do much more than standard image syntax, and is using Module:unstrip for some reason. Frietjes (talk) 22:44, 17 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

Oh it's a bug, I'll fix that anyway. --Great Brightstar (talk) 00:44, 18 April 2019 (UTC)Reply
I fixed that. In To Anacreon in Heaven this template should works with device screen narrower than 900P, the source code is forked from {{wide image}} and I want to create new behavior for the visual appearence of an image, the usage of Module:unstrip is my fault, sorry. --Great Brightstar (talk) 13:12, 18 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

Waste article moves

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Hello.
Did you ever look at WP:FRANCO or any kind of discussion on similar prefixes? Incnis Mrsi (talk) 19:33, 19 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Oh, thanks for pointing up, I'm already awared of the problem. --Great Brightstar (talk) 00:22, 20 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

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Does your wiki integrated TemplateStyles extension? If not, you can open our template page, click View History to get the legacy codes. In addition, you also need copy it's key dependency, Template:Writing-mode. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 16:00, 12 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Importing MongolUnicode to Fanon Wiki

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Hi, I noticed that you're the one making the most edits to the template to make traditional Mongolian script vertical. I'm also a user on Fanon wiki, and I made a fictional nation based off proto-Mongols. I want to use Mongolian script vertically to made it more immersive, but it's proven difficult to import the MongolUnicode template, and even the Fanon Wiki user I asked to help wasn't able to do it. I was wondering if you could try and see if you could import the template to Fanon Wiki for myself and others to use. --SkyGuy94 (talk) 02:25, 9 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Does your wiki integrated TemplateStyles extension? if not, you can go to our template page, click View History to get the legacy codes. In addition, you may need to port it's key dependency, Template:Writing-mode. Cheers. --Great Brightstar (talk) 16:09, 12 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

National Anthem of the South African Republic(Transvaal)

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I've finished transcribing Volkslied van Transvaal and uploaded it to Commons. Thanks for requesting this. If you need any other sheet music transcribed, I'm happy to consider it.
The national anthem of the South African Republic — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kirkworld (talkcontribs) 12:41, 2 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Yes, that's good. --Great Brightstar (talk) 02:44, 3 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Template:Football squad player

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Hi. Following this 6-month old discussion which resulted in a consensus to merge Template:Football squad player and Template:Football squad player2, we made a redesign RfC to decide HOW the resulting template should look (which ended over 3 months ago). Now, we have implemented some changes to Football squad player (which are now live). However, there are a couple of issues:

  1. One of the results of the RfC was that it would be ideal to show two columns on the PC version, and a single column on mobile version (this is how is should look like on PC, and this is how is should look like on mobile)
  2. It seems that Fs player2 doesn't use a "Fs player2 start", "mid", or "end", rather a wikitable, which complicates things (see this, for example)
  3. Finally there is Template:Fs player2 sort. If we redirected fs start and end2 to the main ones, the table would work, but the headings would be out of order (e.g. the nationality of the players appears in the last column). {{fs player}} needs to be reworked to able to accept both the normal input and the parameters used in {{Fs player2 sort}}.

Do you think these issues can be solved? @Number 57 and I discussed this at @Frietjes's talk page, and she told us to check with you (see discussion on her talk page). Nehme1499 (talk) 23:12, 18 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

To correct point 2, fs player2 does have start and end templates, but on some articles, editors have used Wikitable starts and endings instead. And if it avoids duplication, I am currently having a conversation with another editor about the split view on my talk page, with a couple of 'almost' versions produced (one in the sandbox and one in my userspace). Number 57 23:33, 18 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Template editing

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Hi. Would the template editor user right be of use to you? If so, could you make yourself familiar with Wikipedia:Template_editor#Use? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:50, 8 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Oh I think I don't have enough good acknowledges for this, so I don't want this right at the moment. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 09:04, 13 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Whpq  OK, so is there anyway to contact John McDonnell if he can confirm he have actually used this photo. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 12:33, 1 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
See Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. Note, the copyright holder is normally the photographer and not the subject of the photo. I also see it looks line you tried to ping me. Using "@" in template is not correct. You need to type {{reply to}}. -- Whpq (talk) 13:45, 1 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
Ah, I don't know who took this photo, contact John McDonnell may would help, however I don't know his email site. --Great Brightstar (talk) 14:15, 1 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
So who can help me? -- Great Brightstar (talk) 14:54, 1 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
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Thank you. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 15:35, 1 December 2020 (UTC)Reply
I sent a request at there. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 15:50, 1 December 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Could you help with some flags at the new article "List of religious flags of Vietnam" if you have the time and will to do so? I know that you have a lot more Chinese calligraphic fonts that I have and with the Vietnamese family flags I used the fonts I had available to me which I think might not be the most faithful, plus a lot of the flags are just illustrations from other sources that could be replaced with SVG's. Also perhaps you would be able to find a couple of flags I missed. ;-) --Donald Trung (talk) 19:03, 13 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

OK, I did. Some of them were listed in List of CJK fonts, while others could be downloaded from other sources on the Internet such as www.fonts.net.cn. In Inkscape, you can convert them into paths via Path → Object to Path at the menu bar. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 06:39, 14 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
BTW I've found that Giaothong1 font is suitable for them, which is available here. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 06:40, 14 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

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At the website Lyrics.vn I found the lyrics of the second national anthem of the Empire of Vietnam, they are in the public domain and could be found here:

"Việt Nam minh châu trời đông. Việt Nam nước thiêng tiên rồng Non sông như gấm hoa uy linh một phương. Xây vinh quang sáng trưng bên Thái Bình Dương. Từ ngàn xưa tài danh lừng lẫy khắp nơi Tiếng anh hùng tạc ghi núi sông muôn đời Máu ai còn vương cỏ hoạ Giục đem tấm thân trải với sơn hà. Giơ tay cương quyết ta ôn lời thề ước Hy sinh xương máu mong báo đền ơn nước. "Dù thân này tan tành chốn sa trường cũng cam. Thề trọn đời trung thành với sơn hà nước Nam !".

I think that this could be added to the Empire of Vietnam article, but I haven't been able to find a contemporary primary or secondary source that actually uses these lyrics, but this would be a good place to start. Also, I don't have any experience writing about national anthems but I know that you do, so perhaps you could do more with this information than I can at present. --Donald Trung (talk) 19:09, 13 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

I've also discovered the lyrics is published at this page, but I don't know is there any other sources I can be found and read. And I saw even Vietnamese Wikimedia only vi:Hùng Lân described the use of this song. Anyway, if you want to create an article for this, I think you can first try to translate vi:Tiến về Sài Gòn to get the experience, then you can create new article under the Draft namespace until you're sure the article can be published. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 08:51, 14 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for all the advice, mate. I'm not allowed to use the "Draft" namespace because I had a few emoji's in my signature a couple of years ago, but I can always draft those in userspace. Though I don't have much time for adopting many new projects now, so it will probably take a couple of years... --Donald Trung (talk) 10:17, 14 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
I found an article mentioned this, it looks like a news report to me: Ban Hx Ngàn Khơi Mở Nhạc Hội ‘vn Minh Châu Trời Đông’
I also found vi:Đại Việt Quốc dân Đảng also mentioned as this:

Việc giải tán Đại Việt Quốc dân Đảng đã làm các đảng viên Đại Việt mất khả năng tham chính. Trước chiến thắng của Việt Minh trong cuộc Tổng tuyển cử, ngày 15 tháng 12 năm 1945, Đại Việt Quốc dân đảng cùng với Việt Nam Quốc dân-đảng (lãnh tụ là Vũ Hồng Khanh) và Đại Việt Dân Chính-Đảng (lãnh tụ là Nguyễn Tường Tam) thành lập Mặt trận Quốc dân Đảng Việt Nam để chống lại "phe Cộng sản". Cờ hiệu của Đại Việt là lá cờ nền đỏ, tròng xanh, sao trắng và ca khúc "Việt Nam Minh châu trời đông" của Hùng Lân được dùng chung cho cả Mặt trận.

These are my newly discovery just now, I saw it might help, but I can't read. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 15:15, 17 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Donald Trung: Just passing by and seen this thread. This primary source offers musical notation and lyrics of the song, provided by the author himself. Greenknight dv (talk) 03:52, 26 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

Names of the Empire of Vietnam

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I can't believe that I didn't comment on this before, those stamps have two (2) inscriptions not in two (2) different scripts, but in two (2) different languages, one being Vernacular Vietnamese and the other being Classical Chinese. Classical Chinese was the official language of all Chinese cultural countries until sometime after World War II and despite over half of the Vietnamese language being Chinese the grammar works different, hence you get in Japanese (which likewise is mostly just Chinese) "越南帝國" (Etsunan Teikoku) but in Vietnamese "帝國越南" (Đế quốc Việt Nam), this isn't a script difference but a linguistic one. Of course, Classical Chinese was still formally used during the Empire of Vietnam period although it had a comparatively small role compared to earlier periods (this was because the Bảo Đại Emperor was educated in France and a new generation of French and French-style educated mandarins rose to prominence during his reign period), I haven't changed anything to those edits because they are correct, but the Hán in the article isn't simply a different script it is actual Chinese (because in Chinese the grammatically correct way of saying the "Empire of Vietnam" would be "Việt Nam Đế quốc"). I hope that this clears up things. --Donald Trung (talk) 09:23, 29 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

OK, I got the idea for fix. Thank you. BTW I feel something weird, because I saw the stamps having the St Edward's Crown at the top. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 17:26, 29 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
Oh God, I didn't notice those St Edward's Crowns before. I don't own any philantelic books and I don't actively collect stamps so I can't confirm if the Japanese might have imported some Malayan or North Bornean designs, but it is also possible that these are fantasies. Again, I don't know much about postage stamps but this does require some further research as it doesn't make much sense to have the St Edward's Crown on a stamp of a Japanese puppet in a former French territory. --Donald Trung (talk) 17:34, 29 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

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This is very interesting. Unfortunately, I have no ideas about this work neither in school curriculum nor in media coverage. I wonder about the authorship and craftsmanship of this anthology (?) of letters. I mean who were the authors, and did they claim their works to be nonfiction? Anyway, this specific translation into Chinese suggest that it was part of Vietnamese propaganda efforts to win support from another country, which it appears to be very successful in this case. Do you have access to the book? Greenknight dv (talk) 03:17, 26 October 2021 (UTC)Reply

Oh I haven't accessed the book yet, but I read the manga (lianhuanhua), and I agree with you that this was a Vietnamese propogenda effort. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 03:52, 26 October 2021 (UTC)Reply
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Why did you upload this image and then tag it as "an attack page"? It doesn't make a lot of sense. If you want a page that you created, where you are the only contributor, deleted, then just tag it for speedy deletion CSD G7...it's easy to do using Twinkle. Liz Read! Talk! 19:36, 3 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

I just assumed you wanted it deleted and picked the wrong code. I have deleted it under the "author request deletion" rule. —Kusma (talk) 20:19, 3 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
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Can you figure out what's wrong with it exactly? I just made a derivative image following color scheme as displayed at TAROM website. --Great Brightstar (talk) 03:41, 21 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

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Hey, I can't yet tell if the changes to the standard templates have improved, but by removeing the "|-" from the top of each template, collected tables are totally screwed up. See Ranks and insignia of NATO armies enlisted. Please don't remove the "|-". Skjoldbro (talk) 14:47, 26 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for digging up, I will fix soon. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 14:48, 26 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
If there are any other page affected, please let me know. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 14:53, 26 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
Every rank pages are affected by this change, and the "|- style="text-align:center;"" ensures that the images centred on the template. You should not remove any of these. Skjoldbro (talk) 15:40, 26 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
OK, I get new solution now. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 15:10, 26 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
Please stop removing the "|- style="text-align:center;"", it ensures that the images centred on the template, and ruins the viewing. Skjoldbro (talk) 15:40, 26 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, I've already moved "|- style="text-align:center;"" into a relevant template, so remove this line wouldn't affect content now. And I've introduced class="noresize" to make images not being compressed on mobile phone screen. So you'll see better visual appearance if you see the relavant articles on your phone. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 15:47, 26 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
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I'm curious to know the purpose of your edit to currency symbol. The articles Variation Selectors (Unicode block) and Variant form (Unicode) are not at all helpful (and I write as someone who has some technical background).

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I've seen the usage of this character in Letterlike Symbols article, which claimed to use variation symbols to reproduce different forms for script letter. I concerned once such font is used, such letters could be misrendered as chancellor style, so I insert this VS2 to make sure these characters to be displayed as what they should looks like. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 04:43, 24 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
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Did you create the North Vietnam national football team home kit image? They need one making for the away kit. The 'VDDH' added in red over white. Thanks Lankyant (talk) 23:44, 5 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

OK, let me see what to do. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 01:28, 6 October 2023 (UTC)Reply
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Hi. I have no clue & no personal interest, but why did you replace the one with the other, are you sure it's not for instance both those cities from those 2 different Baltic states? Did you check the coat-of-arms of Jurbarkas? Or was it your contribution from the start, and you realised you got them mixed up? Just curious, nothing more. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 18:13, 23 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Well, as you can see throughout the content, Jurbarkas is already there, so I decided to find another one to replace that in Other countries, cities, families section. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 02:29, 24 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

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Hi Brightstar

Firstly thanks so much for making this template, its extremely useful, I'm trying to use it for Help pages (honestly it would really help with layout) but I'm having an issue. I need to to allow a caption but for the frame to be invisible, rather than grey with a line. I've tried to use frameless, however this hides the caption. Is there some way of doing this?

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This template currently doesn't support that, sorry. But this template allowed to add a tooltip for frameless mode. -- Great Brightstar (talk) 09:02, 5 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

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