User talk:GrafZahl

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 * You're welcome, and no apologies needed (are you sure you aren't en-3?) Happy editing! Lectonar 07:17, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

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Hello, thanks for your contribution to Infobox Town, I've been always wondering whether some type of conditional syntax was possible, but was also too lazy to go thru Wikimedia syntax tutorials to check this out. Do you, by chance, know if using this syntax one is able to hide even some cells in a table? Besides this template I also created three additional ones for cases when either the coat-of-arms or the map were unavailable. Would it be posiible to make the template even more flexible, so that it didn't display the appropriate cells when these fields were empty? --Caroig 15:17, 21 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Following your example, I improved the coat-of-arms and location map links - if they aren't provided a text is displayed instead, but I'd still appreciate if it were possible not to display the cell at all in such case. --Caroig 15:42, 21 October

2005 (UTC)

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I've added conditional syntax to every item in the Infobox. If any data is missing NA gets displayed instead. (I haven't tested the new code thoroughly so there might be errors.) There's, however, a problem with "founded" or "first_documented", what if neither of them is available? What if we had fields say "first" and "first_type", the former would contain the year and the latter the type of data, i.e. either string "Founded" or "First documented" (and probably, when first_type was empty "Founded" would get displayed by default). Or we could leave the year field named as "founded" and then have say "founded_type"; this wouldn't require to modify any older pages where the Infobox is used, on the oher hand the field names would be a bit misleading. –Caroig 21:01, 22 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I've already submitted the latter style, hope you don't mind, I believe it's even more flexible now. BTW, it would really be great if one could use PHP for templates (could be restricted to if, print ... directives), such code would be much more elegant and would definitely parse faster, not talking about more flexibilty (it's very ugly how the alternating table row colors are achieved here). I think we could have a template with even conditionally shown cells if we didn't use the wiki table syntax (pipes) but standard html tags. It might also be parsed faster, but it would probably be against good wiki style.


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Leimen
Thanks for catching my error in the Joseph von Henikstein article. I was so caught up in translating that I forgot to check my links and just blindly assumed that Leimen went to the Leimen in Galicia, when I should know better! -Maaya 04:21, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

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 * Hi Count# ;) if you can provide a verifyable source for the information that von Henikstein was born in Leimen (Galicia) rather than Baden, you are very welcome to post it on de:Diskussion:Joseph von Henikstein - we are in need of one, as sources available on the internet support Baden. Cheers, --dealer ofsalvation 17:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I can't. The notion that Henikstein was born in Galicia was introduced by User:Maaya, see [], so you should ask them. I merely established the disambiguation page Leimen based on that information.
 * I just rechecked the edit histories and I have a theory: Maaya mistakenly believed Henikstein to be born in Galicia and so wrote "Leimen, Galicia", but in reality, there is no town called "Leimen" in Galicia. I'm very sorry if I should have corroborated an innocent mistake. It just never occurred to me that the primordial information "born in Leimen, Galicia" might be wrong.
 * --GrafZahl (talk) 23:22, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Coats of Arms
Hi there! I just added a topic for Nußloch and I was wondering where you got the coat of arms for Leimen. I want to add one without violating any copyright. I also used your image for the location of Leimen. I figured given the scale of the map of Germany, the red dot for Leimen is close enough.

Thanks!

--imars 13:50, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

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