User talk:Jkudlick/Archive 2

Professional leagues in England
At this AfD you stated that Aldershot Town F.C. football team is or was semi-pro. The main article for this team says it is professional in the lede section, see: Aldershot Town F.C.. This is confusing.

However, I am trying to understand what constitutes a professional league in England. It seems they are everywhere in that country - see:English Football League. Is it possible for you to explain what constitutes an English professional team that would merit notability on Wikipedia? Is notability mostly based on independent coverage in reliable sources? If this is more than you have time for then no problem. Steve Quinn (talk) 04:37, 31 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Consensus is that a fully professiona league is one where the players are compensated enough that they do not need supplemental income, and that season articles are only appropriate for teams in those leagues. Team articles are appropriate for leagues at lower levels, and important statistics can be included in the team articles.


 * I'm actually out of town, so feel free to ask any additional questions at WT:FOOTY. — Jkudlick • t • c • s 16:32, 31 July 2016 (UTC)


 * This helps clear things up - I'll be looking around to see what else I can discover. Thanks for pointing me to WT:FOOTY, this is very helpful. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 03:45, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)
Hi. About your revert based on consistency, how about if I do two columns for own goals at all articles related to the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification?. Thanks in advance. The Replicator (talk) 17:09, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
 * There are three columns for goal scorers in all the articles. To have two columns for own goals makes no sense as it introduces inconsistent formatting into the article. Right now the consensus at WP:FOOTY is to have three columns for goal scorers, including own goals. If I hadn't made the change, someone else would have. You are free to introduce your idea at WT:FOOTY if you wish. — Jkudlick • t • c • s 17:18, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I malformed the first ping, so here it is again. — Jkudlick • t • c • s 17:19, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

Nonsense warning
If you do not have the courtesy to start a discussion, templating me for vandalism is certainly out of the question. The Banner talk 17:40, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

substituting Template:nfa
Can you help me with your recent edits to 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC Third Round. Is there something wrong with using the Template:nfa that it needs reverting to original text ? Isnt that the whole point of a template to make things easier and more efficient ? Matilda Maniac (talk) 23:37, 16 September 2016 (UTC)


 * The text of the template documentation had read "," akin to nft and nwft. I altered the documentation to include subst only to make it more clear that the intent is for it to be substituted. It is true that the intent of a template is to make repetitive tasks simpler, as it is far easier to type  than it is to type  . All I did in the article was to add   to the template calls as directed in the template documentation. — Jkudlick • t • c • s 10:24, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
 * my apologies. I hadnt realised that using subst causes the wikitext saved as a result of the edit to differ from the text which the user actually entered in the edit window. It just appeared to me that you were typing in the longhand version. I will still use nfa|AUS or equivalent for (Australia) in football boxes - as its easier for me - knowing that at some point these can all get substituted by an editor or a bot at a later time.  Cheers.  Matilda Maniac (talk) 03:34, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

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Nwft template
Hi!

Your edit to the Nwft template and maybe others has broken several articles because that template was often used without the subst: and with the 3-letter code instead of the full country name. Granted, those occurences should have used subst:, but some articles didn't (such as Belgium women's national football team), and AnomieBOT has afterwards subst'ed these but only after your edit to the template, which has resulted in the bot creating constructs such as MEX.

Why did you so drastistically simplify the Nwft template? It makes it less consistent with related templates such as Template:Nfa. The point of these templates is to speed up typing anyway (as established in this discussion), e.g. CZE is quicker (and safer) to type than Czech Republic. So I'm curious what was wrong with the previous code, as your edit only commented "updating code". Sygmoral (talk) 16:31, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

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SVG question
First of all I would like to thank you for creating SVG ribbons for the administrative service awards. I would also like to ask how you created the ribbons. - ZLEA T\C 23:19, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
 * I actually just use a text editor to write the SVG code. I'm not much of an artist, but I'm excellent at math and coding, so simple SVGs like this are how I can contribute. — Jkudlick &#x2693; t &#x2693; c &#x2693; s 00:10, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Question regarding your work on the service awards
Hi, quick question for you... when you were creating the new ribbons for all the service awards, how were you doing it? I am getting ready to update a number of military awards, including fixing their ribbons. Right now I'm looking at doing it in photoshop, but I recall once seeing a tool online for quickly creating ribbons. just curious if you had any insight since your ribbons are excellent looking. thanks! Will (talk) 02:23, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the compliment! I actually just use a text editor, like Notepad, to edit the SVG code and view the results in a web browser. I experiment with colors using MSPaint and get the RGB values from the color select menu. A lot of it is trial and error trying to get the colors right or the shapes in just the right places. Getting the stars right was the trickiest part since I needed to use trigonometry to figure out where the star points needed to be. Let me know if I can be of any further assistance. — Jkudlick &#x2693; t &#x2693; c &#x2693; s 04:39, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I never thought of doing them with direct svg code! that makes total sense. I'm not too worried about doing things like stars and weird shapes for what I'm working on, as I'm doing US military ribbons and they are all vertical stripes. Thanks for the help! Will (talk) 11:14, 27 August 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2016 Summer Olympics football group standings templates


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Your comment regarding service awards
Hey, I saw your comment regarding service awards. Are you positive that there are no problems with displaying the wrong reward? Because, right now, there is a deletion request, that was opened up on my userpage (which you can find yourself), and apparently people disagree with you, and think that it is indeed a problem to display the wrong reward. Bryan.Wade (talk) 02:07, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

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