Template talk:Newdelrev

Image links
Someone please fix this template to accept image links... See this edit and following to see what I mean. — Edokter  •  Talk  • 20:55, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Improving template
Okay, so I finally figured out a way to make this template work for non-mainspace stuff. I've got a proposed change at User:Lifebaka/Sandbox/newdelrev which handles everything except links to XfDs nicely, and doesn't require a change in usage for mainspace DRVs (which is most of 'em). I'm not thinking there's a good way to fix all of the XfD links outside of mainspace, given that quite a few (CfD, TfD) don't use the transclusion-and-subpage method AfD does, so I'm not that worried about that particular bit. If anyone has a brilliant suggestion for how to code it so we don't need an extra parameter, I'm all ears. Cheers, everyone! lifebaka ++ 13:29, 8 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I have no idea if it will work, but assuming it works it will be an improvement. (Template skills aren't in my tool box.)  GRBerry 16:25, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I tested it here to check if it works for non-mainspace pages, and only the XfD link is broken. I've also tweaked it since that test to show "XfD" when ns is specified, instead of "AfD".  If anyone would like to test below (or in my sandbox), the code is  ; ns is left blank for mainspace.
 * Also, thinking about it, I'm gonna' go see if I can whip something up for talk namespace stuff. But for now this should work.  Cheers.  lifebaka ++  16:39, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * HA! Got it.  Code now works for any namespace.  However, it's pretty darn ugly, 'cuz I can't find a clean way to do the code.  It also sorta' breaks for non-talk articles, just 'cuz there isn't a simple way to link to a lot of XfDs (like I already said above), but the rest of the links should work for all possible pages.  Cheers.  lifebaka++ 17:54, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm working on getting some more concise code. In the meantime, this is the last fully functional version.  Cheers, everyone.  lifebaka++ 02:02, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Okay, because few people pay attention to this template, I'm just gonna' go update it. The code for providing links is going to be replaced with drvlinks, which I just created. This'll make the code look much cleaner when this template is substituted onto pages. Cheers, everyone. lifebaka++ 13:16, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * This template messes up the section headers — if you edit a section, the header is something other than the HTML anchor, so you return to the top of the page and not the section header when you're finished. Stifle (talk) 08:26, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Ech, sorry about that. Should be fixed now.  The s are substituted.  Cheers.  lifebaka++ 21:20, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The addition of the namespace parameter may function technically but it's creating a lot of confusion for readers and users. We're having to amend almost every nomination because the headers are not being handled correctly.  I think this version has to go back to testing.  Please put the old version back in the meantime.  Thanks.  Rossami (talk) 19:21, 20 August 2008 (UTC)


 * A simpler solution would be to just remove mention of the ns parameter from the notation added to all the DRV logs and the DRV instructions. It's not required for articles, anyways, and I'd assume anyone who wants to dispute a non-article XfD or other deletion should be savvy enough to figure it out from a separate notation page.  Feel free to revert the text I added to Deletion review/New day and to Deletion review, or the template itself if necessary.
 * I'm open to suggestions on the template code itself, but I'm pretty sure there isn't a way to code in namespace detection into it to avoid the ns parameter. Cheers.  lifebaka++ 21:06, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Man, this template is craptastic. I just spent a few minutes figuring out wtf I'm supposed to put in that "ns=" parameter for a normal article, and couldn't figure it out. The instructions say to "leave it blank", but neither reasonable interpretation of that works: Jpatokal (talk) 16:36, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

====[[:
 * Foo]]====

Left ns= as blank

:Bar
ns parameter omitted entirely
 * Yeah, the header doesn't work. I don't know how to fix it.  However, it can be fixed after substitution.  Cheers.  lifebaka++ 17:02, 1 October 2008 (UTC)


 * You broke it, it's your job to fix it. If you don't know how to, you need revert back to a working version.  Because right now, that template is useless for all cases except those that need a namespace! Jpatokal (talk) 07:51, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Documentation template
editprotected Please replace  in the template with. Thanks. -- Suntag  ☼  18:08, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅. Cheers.  <i style="color:green;">lifebaka</i>++ 18:12, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Add notification dynamic link
When Template:Ifd2 is displayed at IMFD, it shows a Notify link that enters into a notification routine when pressed. The notification routine notifies the uploader of the deletion. Couldn't Newdelrev have something like that - a Notify link to the deleting admin's tall page. That would make it easy to make the DRV notification in case the DRV poster forgot. -- Suntag  ☼  21:07, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * It could be done. It'd require a parameter to give the deleting admin's username, though.  You could do it with a variation on the URL used there, something like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Example_User&action=edit&preload=Template:DRVNote_preload&editintro=Template:DRVNote_editintro&section=new&create=Post+a+comment, where Template:DRVNote_preload would be " <PAGENAME> " and Template:DRVNote_editintro would be "Please replace <PAGENAME> with the name of the page." or something like that.  I could figure out how to set up a wizard to do it instead, which wouldn't require another parameter for newdelrev, if you'd like.  Then a link to that could be added to Deletion review/Next day.  Anyways, just sorta' thinking out loud, as it were.  Cheers.  <i style="color:green;">lifebaka</i>++ 21:26, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Template issue
This template doesn't seem to work properly. See Help_desk. Either you include ns=Article and you get a link that doesn't work (because Article: doesn't vanish itself) or you include no value for ns and it inserts a line break. I'm not great at esoteric templates; can someone take a look? Stifle (talk) 09:38, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Dammit, I haven't been able to figure out a way to do this. As I'm sure I've stated above a few times, the issue is that True will always yield True, regardless of whether or not ns is specified.  I've tried putting the substitution as a separate parameter, using subst:, but that's not working either.  I've got the code I've been trying for the header over at User:Lifebaka/Sandbox/newdelrev, feel free to play with it.  If anyone has any suggestions, I'm fully open to and would welcome them.  Cheers.  <i style="color:green;">lifebaka</i>++ 15:08, 24 September 2008 (UTC)