User:Islander/labs

Lego Template Design
My attempt at a colour scheme for the Lego template:

Signature Experimenting
The Islander The Islander  The Islander  The Islander  The Islander  The Islander   The Island er   The Island er   The I s l a n d e r

Linking
The Islander

Possible Usurption

 * The Islander 17:05, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Talk Islander 17:04, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The Islander
 * Talk Islander
 * Islander Talk
 * And the winner is...
 * Talk Islander

Use of Flags in Television Infoboxes
We are trying to guage a final consensus as to whether flag icons should or should not be used in television infoboxes. Please go HERE, and voice your support/opposition/neutrality. Thank you. Talk Islander 14:17, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

==Use of Flags in Television Infoboxes== We are trying to guage a final consensus as to whether flag icons should or should not be used in television infoboxes. If you have a view on this, please go HERE, and voice your support/opposition/neutrality. Thank you. ~

Contestants and eliminations
The following table (containing the contestants along with their mentors) shows the scores obtained each episode by each contestant, along with those who were eliminated (red), and those who came second to last, just escaping elimination (yellow):

British Criminals
Something needs to be done about this category, and in all honesty, I don't know what - the standard delete/rename/merge solutions may not be suitable in this case. As it stands right now, one could add, any British citizen who, say, had once stolen a bar of chocolate and been caught. They do, after all, have a criminal record. However, I feel that this would seriously violate WP:UNDUE - if you place a person in this category, you effectively place a label at the bottom of their page calling them a British criminal, which though may in the very strictest sense be true, is far too heavily weighted. In turn this violation of WP:UNDUE would clearly constitute a violation of WP:BLP, one of our most important policies.

Now, I have an actual example of this problem, which lead me to start this TFC: Danny John-Jules. Recently, John-Jules was found guilty of two counts of battery, and sentanced to 120 hours of community service. This clearly should be (and is) mentioned in the article, fully referenced. However, anonomous IPs are insistant that this British Criminal category be placed on his article. John-Jules is not notable for this one criminal offence, he is notable as an actor, specifically as Cat from Red Dwarf, and as such I feel that effectivley adding a 'British Criminal' lable to the bottom of his article is a gross violation of WP:BLP and WP:UNDUE. Now if, as I suspect was it's original intention, this category was used on an article for, say, the parents of Baby P, then that would be completely fair - that is all they are mainly known for. In John-Jules' case, however, this template is not appropriate.

Like I said, it's not immediately obvious to me what should be done, only that something does need to be done, but at least two options seem open to me: 1) we delete the category (less desirable), or 2) we place stricter guides on the category as to which articles can acceptably be 'branded' with it (in which case all current members of the category would need 'vetting', to ensure that they qualify), or 3) we rename the category to something more along the lines of "Established British criminals". With that in mind, what are people's thoughts? ~