User talk:William Allen Simpson/Templates

Howie Gordon and

Hi, since {{Big Brother USA season 6 background}} is being considered for deletion, would you be willing to wait for the conclusion of that before removing it from all the individual bios, like Howie Gordon? I would like people to see it, during the deletion debate. I think this debate has signfance beyond this one case, and I would like people to see how it's used when making a decision. If there's a delete result, then I'll naturally go to every bio article, and put things right (unless somebody beats me to it). --Rob 17:34, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

As they say, bad cases make bad law. The articles needed drastic cleanup regardless of the TfD.

--William Allen Simpson 17:59, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Cross-reference templates

Please see my user page; I object strongly to all efforts to make cross-references uniform, especially by deletion. Please stop making people use formats they do not prefer becuase of one poorly attended discussion on TfD. Please stop raining TfD tags all over Wikipedia. Attend to the articles you edit.

A policy against most template-changing bots would follow from this logic. Septentrionalis 03:43, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Could be. In this case it could easily have been achieved with a few simple instructions in the guidelines. My problem was not the uniformity, it was the way that the bot made massive changes without consensus for the change. Apparently a bit of a war going on between Netaholic and others. TfD is the process that applies. Blame Netaholic for the "rain" of templates with the TfD tags.

--William Allen Simpson 03:57, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Then what you want is to stop the bots. Talking with Netoholic is always worth trying, although it may not work; then go to the village pump or WP:AN. TfDing the template is throwing the baby (however ugly) out with the bathwater.Septentrionalis 04:03, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Already did all those things. Also, Bot talk page. No stopping him.

--William Allen Simpson 04:10, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Then I suppose your remedy is an RfC, followed by ArbCom. I will support, for what that's worth. Septentrionalis 21:30, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Did you really just nominate Further and Main article/s for deletion? Was it some form of relatiation for Template:Background? -- Netoholic @ 15:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

As to the former, this must be a rhetorical question, since the nominations speak for themselves. As to the latter rhetorical question, please stop casting aspersions upon my character. I'm sure there must be a guideline or policy against this behaviour.

--William Allen Simpson 16:17, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Arbitration of Netoholic

Arbitration for Netoholic (talk · contribs) seems reasonable. I'm actually more concerned with Splash (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA)'s conduct during this. He seems to be giving favor to Netoholic when he clearly doesn't deserve extra/added consideration. Netoholic has been extremely disruptive over the past few months (see WP:AUM's edit history and the talk page there for some examples), so why Splash is giving favor to him is beyond me. Let me know what you need for any arbitration you seek and I'll do my best to assist.

BTW, I brought "If defined (and others)" to WP:DRV; I also left a comment on "Template:Background". —Locke Cole • t • c 03:58, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Political scandal templates

Per your recent vote on TFD, see also Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 April 7#Template:Cunningham Scandal and Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2006 April 7#Template:Jack Abramoff. Regards. — Apr. 8, '06 [19:43] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

A day late on the nomination, but I agree that the same move to categories and lists would be beneficial.

--William Allen Simpson 01:47, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Security Protocol Template

Actually the reason I only did the protocols I did was because I only got that far before someone decided to tfd it. Deciding where to put EAP and SASL is non-trivial.

TfD nomination of Template:Redirect5p

Template:Redirect5p has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Hairy Dude 11:06, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Template:Lx

Yeah, having a log link would be handy methinks. As I mentioned in my full revert edit summary, see m:Talk:ParserFunctions where one of the proposals/suggestions is to add a set of new magic words to allow for URL encoding/decoding. Unfortunately Tim hasn't been very responsive on there as of late, so you might want to ping him on the mailing list; it'd be really nice to have this (either as part of ParserFunctions, or more ideally IMO, built in; in the latter case, you could probably ask any dev to do it). —Locke Cole • t • c 22:12, 25 April 2006 (UTC)