User talk:BrianJ34

Hey BrianJ34

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:49, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

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Macrons
I see that you moved this article to Pāpāmoa, but this is contrary to our naming conventions, and may not be correct. See WP:NZNC for the naming conventions. For New Zealand place names, we use macrons when the NZ Gazetteer does so, but they list "Papamoa" as the official name. Most Māori names containing "papa" use the meaning of "flat" rather than "pāpā" which means a gecko, privet or to compress.

I also noticed that you replaced each instance of "pakeha" in the article Pākehā with macrons, but this breaks references, and the link to the article on pakeha (spider), as well as changing the titles of references and resulting in nonsense such as "pākehās" for historical use. I've reverted that.

Please do not add macrons where they are not appropriate. I suggest you move Papamoa back to the original title. If you don't do so in the next day, or provide a convincing argument as to why it should have macrons, I'll do so myself. The appropriate place to make that argument is at Talk:Pāpāmoa.- gadfium 02:21, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I have found numerous sources for macrons in Pāpāmoa since, e.g. Pāpāmoa Hills Regional Park, Pāpāmoa and Pāpāmoa 'pink' beach house sells for $3.15m - almost $1m above CV, so it appears the existing etymology in the article is incorrect, and I will remove it. I hope the NZ Gazetteer corrects itself soon.- gadfium 23:42, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Ironically the NZ Gazetteer lists the official name of Otumoetai as "Otūmoetai" and this school uses the name "Ōtūmoetai". Interesting. --BrianJ34 (talk) 08:00, 16 September 2020 (UTC)