User talk:Mini-mitch/Archive Talk 5: Difference between revisions

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== Lyrics ==

Yeah, sorry about that.  Didn't even realize until after you fixed it.  Figured he should have gone above the TBA folks, didn't know if the announced order for the actor was more important than the character itself.  --[[User:Witoki|Witoki]] 16:38, February 25, 2011 (UTC)

==Whoa==

==Big toc==

And, yes, there is a known inequality in the way the various TV infoboxen are coded.  That's why a part of the redesign is to eliminate the various infoboxen into a single TV box, a single audio box, a single novel box, a single comics box, and the like.  Get all the code in one place and maintenance is extraordinarily easier.  But that's a few days away yet.  

==Drop down==

*anything that is used as a valid alternate name in the lead of an article.  [[Tony Head]] and [[season 27]], etc., were all emboldened in the leads of articles.  '''Any time an alternate name for the topic is emboldened in a lead, it automatically ''requires'' a redirect based on that name.'''  Doesn't matter if it's never linked to.  As a valid alternate name for the topic, it must lead people to that article if they type it in the search box.  Simple as that.  Also, you may not personally like calling new series by a seasonal name, but this battle was fought long before you joined the wiki.  You're subverting a compromise reached long ago.  If you don't like references to "season 28" or "season 30", fine — but you'll definitely need a forum discussion to change current compromise.  As things stand, the series number gets preference, but the season numbers are valid redirects.   

==Policy inconsistency==

You've recently completely unprotected [[The King's Dragon]] without explanation. I'd like one, please, considering that multiple admins have been trying to protect the creation of [[Touched by an Angel]] (and [[Touched By An Angel]], for that matter).  The former book comes out in July, the latter in August.  What's the difference?  Both are future publications, but one is only slightly ''less'' in the future than the other.  

==Moving images==

*[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Bio_damper Bio dampers] appeared numerou'''r'''s times, they debuted in [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/DW DW]: ''[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Runaway_Bride The Runaway Bride]''. [[User:Fbultimatrix|Fbultimatrix]] 11:38, March 7, 2011 (UTC)

==Names of Episodes one and two==

Thanks for finding the actual tweets for the eppisodes thanks :) [[User:AdricLovesNyssa|AdricLovesNyssa ]]

==Template editing==

==NA==

==Quotations==

You removed a quotation from [[Melanie Bush]] last month and said in your revision note that it was against MOS.  I've replaced your deletion because:

May I request that you please '''read the MOS and/or policy pages''' before you take action on what you ''think'' they contain.  As an admin, you, me, Skittles — '''we''' — have an especial burden to be ''right'' about our policies.  

{{Please see|Should novels & audio stories have a plot description?}} --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] / '''[[User talk:Tangerineduel|talk]]''' 14:38, March 23, 2011 (UTC)

Taking all that on board, if you're ''really'' thinking the headers need revision, there are some compromises we could go for.  One thing is that the headers aren't really "big" in a font-height sense.  They're  w i d e .  I've put in letter-spacing, which is not typically done on most wikis. I could dial that back a little.  And we could drop the actual font size down minimally.   

::Hey, thanks for the screenshot so quickly.  I'm not seeing any problems with it though.  I don't detect any sort of collision in the screenshot.  Oh, wait there is a tiny area of collision at your name in the upper right, isn't there?  Okay, let me ask you this.  Is this the ''normal'' zoom in Chrome?  Or have you zoomed in a bit?  And if you've zoomed, how have you done so?  See, in Firefox, you ''can'' get into trouble when you choose to zoom "text only".  By the very name of the command, it should be obvious that "zoom text only" means that you're distorting the text versus the rest of the page.  If you uncheck that selection, and then zoom ''the whole page'' in or out '''in proportion''', you'll never get collision.  At least not so far as I can detect.  I spent a lot of time on the wikia header bar checking for just this problem, and as far as I can see it's a robust design.  Neither I nor any programmer can code things to prevent a page from strange effects when the text and page sizes are ''deliberately'' changed by the user to be out of synch with one another.  Go to ''any'' Wikia wiki page, try the trick of Firefox zooming with text only, and you'll be disappointed by the results.  Obviously, you're using Chrome, not Firefox, but you should check to see ''how'' you're zooming.  ~~

::Oh yah!  One important question.  When you zoom in, and the text gets larger, does the page scroll off the right side of the screen?  Or is the page width unaffected by zooming?  That is, do you get a horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the page when you zoom, or . . . not?  If you're '''not''' getting a horizontal scrollbar at the bottom of the page, then you're zooming in a way that code can't help.   

== Firefox "problems" ==

*The guest cast table is the laziest damn piece of table-making I've ever seen.  I'm sure Google Chrome doesn't recognize the border, because it's only defined with a single character — %. Firefox accepts that laziness, but other browsers don't.  Nothing's "wrong" with Firefox, ''per se''.  It's just accepting a value of "%", where other browsers don't.  If you take away the '''border = "%"''' then you won't see a border in Firefox.  Conversely, if you define it sensibly with an actual numeric value, line thickness, and line type — then Chrome (and every browser) ''will'' see it.

*I'm not seeing that the episode table on this page runs episodes 10 and 11 together so they appear as a two parter.  The code in this area seems sound.  Could you take a screenshot to show me what you're talking about?

*I'm unfamiliar with any "aliens and enemies of series x pages" that put a list into columns.  The template pages don't generally use columns, and those are the only "aliens and enemies of series x pages" of which I'm aware.  Could you provide me with links to the pages that are giving you grief?  (I will say, however, that if you're talking about the pages in the category [[:category:Aliens Navigation templates]] — don't worry, they're all being ''completely'' recoded within the next few days.  

::What version of Firefox are you using?  That looks most unusual.  (If you're using a bleeding-edge Beta version, all bets are off as to precise rendering.)  Also, does '''every''' infobox look like this to you, or is it only {{tl|infobox Individual}}?  In my Firefox, I don't experience this problem on the Amy Pond page (or any page).  I do note, however, there was a coding problem on the Amy Pond page, in that the editor who made the infobox with that ridiculous unorder list structure failed to close the list properly.  I've closed it properly now.  Does that affect your view of this page positively?   

::As for the table on the series 6 page, you are again getting different results to me.  To determine whether this is a problem with {{tl|prettytable}}, might I suggest that you go to that template, see what links to it, and go to other pages that use it?  That way, we can immediately determine whether it is the template itself, or something funky on the plague-ridden series 6 page.

:::Well, upgrade if you think you must, but do so only through the update feature within Firefox.  Don't update manually to a beta version. As for the specific problems you're seeing, there's no such thing as a "random" problem on a computer.  There's always a repeatable problem. To resolve this, you just have to be systematic about it.  For instance, you say that {{tl|prettytable}} seems to be wrong on every page, but that "different" lines disappear on different pages.  If you take screenshots of these various problems, we should be able to diagnose it.  {{tl|prettytable}}, let's remember, is a ''very'' old template here, so I've never looked at it to any great degree. Since you're the only one experiencing the problem (apparently), you've got to do the research yourself, unfortunately.  But if you provide the evidence, I'll try to help provide a solution.

:::Also, you didn't quite answer my question before. Has the Amy Pond page resolved?  And you've now identified {{tl|infobox Individual}} and {{tl|infobox Species}} as posing a problem for you.  Can you test other infoboxes and tell me which ones are working perfectly for you?   

==Torchwood==

:PS: I like your guidelines at the top of your TP. Could I copy/paste those guidelines onto my TP? I think they're a nice caution not covered in the welcome template. --[[User:Bold Clone|<span style="color:blue">'''Bold'''</span>]] [[User Talk:Bold Clone|<span style="color:gold">'''Clone'''</span>]] 23:57, March 26, 2011 (UTC)

:The reason I removed it was that it wasn't ''really'' a rumor at all. The man said he would ''like'' to come back, and that is that. It doesn't say anything one way or the other about whether he really ''is'' coming back. We don't even know if there is a ''possibility'' for him coming back, we just know that the actor ''wants'' to reappear. However, if we rephrase the "rumor" so that it sounds like a rumor, then that's fine with me. Also, thanks for letting me use your guidelines. :) --[[User:Bold Clone|<span style="color:blue">'''Bold'''</span>]] [[User Talk:Bold Clone|<span style="color:gold">'''Clone'''</span>]] 18:07, March 27, 2011 (UTC)

==Italics==

Remember to put titles in italics. For example: ''[[A Textbook of Botany]]''.----[[User:Skittles the hog|Skittles the hog]]--<small>[[User talk:Skittles the hog|Talk]]</small> 17:38, March 28, 2011 (UTC)

== Can you help me? ==

== Stubs/Navbox problems ==

Noticed your problem on Czech's page. I had the same problem earlier. I went to preferences and saved the settings (I didn't make any changes). This solved it for me, it may work for you.----[[User:Skittles the hog|Skittles the hog]]--<small>[[User talk:Skittles the hog|Talk]]</small> 20:33, April 6, 2011 (UTC)

:Here's the simple test for deciding if it's a wikia problem. Check the color and font of "Recent Wiki Activity". If it doesn't look like the below image then you have a wikia problem, not anything wrong with tardis itself.   

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== Please stop editing stub pages ==

== The Impossible Astronaut ==

Thanks for the suggestions.  I probably will move to make a book and film stub, though I'm not quite sure yet how to distinguish between in-universe books and oou books — visually I mean. The curse of this new method is that you've got to be able to capture the idea in a 25px icon, and I'm not sure how to do that with books yet.  It'll come to me eventually.

:Oh, hmm, yeah, I still don't know about "item" though.  What kinda icon would you use?  I think it's a lil too general to represent.  It's okay for the stub category to have ''some'' articles in it.  I think it's down to 27 articles, which is pretty good from its high around 400 or so.   

== Video on series 6 page ==