Template talk:Calendar/isoMonthStartSun

Change format to put Sunday first

I'd like to use these low usage templates in a new Wikicalendar template. The current templates have Monday as the first day. I'd like to change this template to be Sunday first. I'd like to change the shade of blue too. Any objection? -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 03:59, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

I went ahead and changed the format to Sunday First (see my vacuous reference proof below...)
JLSjr (talk) 05:35, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

I don't know what "vacuous reference proof" is but I don't see it. I see no discussion on this change and if it is to be done it must be done to all of these templates. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 09:45, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

You may not know this, but you are my very first human reponse on Wikipedia. Thank you, thank you very much. Please pardon the exuberant naiveté, as (ironically) this fact is probably obvious. Regardless, on to the subject.

NOTE: I am not being flippant in the following remarks, I sincerely welcome your guidance.

All I have read in Wiki references, regarding editing encourages discussion; however, if one sees something obvious, they are to be bold and go to it! The initial discussion point (above) had been "in place" for well over a year, with no dissenting opinions offered. Now, as the Template is specifically titled as a calendar, in which a month's weeks StartSunday; I considered it "by definition" an obvious situation.

Again, not being trite, just explaining my feeble, nerdy, computer geek humor. In the Wiktionary, it states: [Adjective] vacuous - Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant

A few (honest/humble) questions:

1. Does the edit to this template have any direct affect other templates?
2. If so, are the affects adverse to the nature of that template?
3. Should one wait until someone else "agrees" with a proposed edit, before making it?
4. Was the edit inappropriate; and if so, please rate the magnitude of impropriety on a scale of 1-10

If indeed this edit is problematic, I would (or you may) certainly revert it to its original configuration.

JLSjr (talk) 06:11, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

In the two years since my first comment, this template has been deprecated. At the time, there was some objection elsewhere to having calendars start with Sunday. As much as a calendar starting with Monday looks odd to you and me, calendars starting with Sunday look just as odd to folks in some parts of the world. Instead of editing this template, I had created a new template at Template:CalendarCustom which is dependent on the direct replacement for this template, Template:Calendar/Sun1stMonthStartSun. It allows you to set which day to start with.

To respond to your questions directly:

1. No, because this template isn't really used anymore.
2. See #1.
3. Not necessarily. That's what WP:BOLD is all about. But being bold also carries the risk of being thumped in the head like whack-a-mole – which I had done because I forgot that this template isn't even used anymore.
4. 2

-- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 12:29, 27 March 2010 (UTC)