User talk:Jrnold

infobox flags
Hi. I have noticed you have been updating hundreds of infoboxes, and when I went to correct some changes you made to Battle of Fort Henry, I see that you modified the dates in the flags templates. The list of acceptable date parameters are in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Country_data_United_States and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Country_data_Confederate_States_of_America, and 1862 is valid for neither. Although I am not a fan of these flag icons, I think that once they are deployed, it is important that the flag selected should match the date of the battle, even though this requires a bit of research about when the flags were introduced. I do not intend to recheck all of the changes you have made, but I hope you will be able to go back through and correct these errors. Thank you. Hal Jespersen (talk) 21:32, 25 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Sorry. I'm not a big fan of flag icons either; I think they are redundant information. However, I had noticed that they are the standard in articles like Gettysburg. I hadn't noticed that those templates required a subset of years since I wasn't getting any error messages. I'll go back and clean up the errors. I was mainly concerned with adding coordinates to battles and making the infoboxes have more structured data that would be easier for dbpedia.org to extract. Jrnold (talk) 22:13, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. I just got sick of fighting people who add the icons. Yes, I think error messages in the templates would have been a good idea. Hal Jespersen (talk) 15:39, 26 August 2011 (UTC)

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