User talk:LOL/Archive 6

Question
So, how do I use the xml source in AWB? I am not sure what to do.— Chris! c / t 01:36, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, I need to import that to the AWB settings. I figured that out, I think. But then AWB says that there is an error. Am I doing this correctly?— Chris! c / t 01:50, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah sorry, I forgot that &lt;pre&gt; doesn't preserve HTML entities. It should be fixed here.  If you copypasted the code into a text editor and saved it with the .xml extension, then you did it correctly. — LOL T/C 02:21, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I updated the infobox on all the current Spurs players and I think the script works well. I will go ahead and continue on other players.— Chris! c / t 02:45, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I will resume once you fix the multiplication sign.— Chris! c / t 02:56, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * There is an error on the multiplication sign still.— Chris! c / t 03:15, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I find it on Kevin Garnett. I manually replaced the sign.— Chris! c / t 03:21, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Hey, I have some template questions for Template:NBA current roster. Can we talk on IRC?— Chris! c / t 01:22, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Now, "| draft =" change to "| draft_round = 1 | draft_pick   = 1". So can you fix it?—  Chris! c / t 05:06, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I just fixed an error that occurred with 21st, 31st, etc. overall picks, but I haven't been able to reproduce it with the empty draft case. Do you have an example? — LOL T/C 05:26, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Odd. It is gone now. Maybe it is fixed when I update the xml code. Anyway, thanks.— Chris! c / t 05:37, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Hey, I updated infoboxes for all current players (by going thru the current roster templates). Are there any others for me to update? If not, I think it is time to implement it on retired players.— Chris! c / t 23:15, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Comment
Thanks for keeping my edits Thisuser (talk) 21:05, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Not sure why you're thanking me specifically for that, but you're welcome. :) — LOL T/C 03:29, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

User:LOL
If you want to move this to User:LOL/User page, you can just use the "move" button do perform the move yourself... unless I'm missing something? – xeno talk 13:11, 21 April 2010 (UTC)


 * When I attempt the move, I'm told that the title is on the title blacklist. I considered mentioning that in the request because it's unusual to request an inter-userspace move, but I thought it was unnecessary because the top of the section says "If you cannot move the page yourself, then request it below" and I figured someone would help me move it even if it the title weren't blacklisted. — LOL T/C 13:39, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah- that makes sense now. ✅. Cheers, – xeno talk 13:42, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. — LOL T/C 13:44, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

User talk:74.186.172.235
This IP keeps trying to insert an unverified height value. I don't have time to deal with it, but he/she probably needs to be reported to WP:AN3. Cheers, Dabomb87 (talk) 17:48, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. The vandalism did help me get them blocked with WP:AIV, so hopefully they'll stop.  If not, then I'll try to deal with it. — LOL T/C 23:59, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

UFC events
Can you please stop trying to change the UFC events, it is not needed with most of the changes i don't know what you changed. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by C.m1994 (talk • contribs) 20:10, 2 May 2010


 * I think conformity to the Manual of Style is needed, and somebody has to make the articles adhere to it eventually. How could you not know what I changed?  Also, it is a bad idea to blindly revert edits that you simply don't understand, especially in this case because you're undoing work that is needed to bring articles in accordance with the Manual of Style.  In the future, I advise that you ask the editor what they're doing instead of reverting everything while asking them to stop. — LOL T/C 20:23, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * It's called watchlist and history. c.m1994 Yo Talk to me 22:24, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * And what's that supposed to explain? By that vague response I'll assume that you don't have a good reason to undo my changes, so I'll resume my work on the MMA events. — LOL T/C 22:35, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * A good reason for you to stop editing the events is shown on Vitor Belfot's page where you repeatedly vandalized the article. --Ganre (talk) 05:48, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Can you please provide links to the diffs where I "repeatedly vandalized the article"? — LOL T/C 05:50, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Template:Infobox sports season
Hey. Is it possible to reduce the width of the left column on this infobox? For example, look at 2009–10 NBA season, everything on the right is bunched up.— Chris! c / t 22:33, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The width attribute of two of the cells caused each column width to be fixed at 50%. It should be fixed now. — LOL T/C 22:40, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks— Chris! c / t 22:58, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Hey. Is there a way that makes tagging articles with NBA project banner or assessing the importance easier? I wanted to use AWB but I don't know how to adjust the settings.— Chris! c / t 02:52, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure. Got a few diff examples for that task? — LOL T/C 03:04, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * or — Chris! c / t 03:52, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * So you want to mark everything Low if the importance parameter isn't already filled in? — LOL T/C 06:01, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, maybe you can use User:Kingbotk/Plugin. I haven't tried it myself, but it looks more useful than anything I can whip up. — LOL T/C 09:21, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, I tested it out. It worked although I had to manually add in the class and importance. BTW, if I want to make a list of talk page to tag on notepad, I add, right?—  Chris! c / t 18:03, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, like what I did here. — LOL T/C 09:45, 9 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Hey, it is me again. Can you add a parameter to Template:NBA Year so that it shows the word season at the end (Maybe somethings like  renders 1998–99 season).—  Chris! c / t 02:06, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * For flexibility I've added an app parameter; anything passed into it will be appended to the original output, so use  1998–1999 . Let me know if you like it and I'll add some documentation. — LOL T/C 06:43, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Looks good. Thanks— Chris! c / t 18:29, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * One problem. The template now adds a space in the end when nothing is pass into the app parameter. For example, see List of Chicago Bulls head coaches— Chris! c / t 18:42, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Template policy discussion
You are invited to help consider a common template policy for all WP:SPORTS biography articles at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sports.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 22:12, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Infobox video game system requirement
Hey! Whatever happened to ? Did you ask for edit, because it seems noone has done anything. It looked like a really useful change. — Hellknowz ▎talk 23:30, 7 May 2010 (UTC)


 * No I haven't bothered with it since my last comment on it. I figured that making a request wouldn't be necessary because one of the admins who responded could make the change, but since nothing's happened, feel free to request it on my behalf.  Thanks. — LOL T/C 02:39, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

NBAInfobox
The font size is way too small, why? Beast from da East (talk) 19:12, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't notice a problem with the font size, but you can modify the font-size value. — LOL T/C 06:44, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

LeBron James
Thank you for correcting. I had been so unexperienced that I cited words without mentioning its source.Heinrich ⅩⅦ von Bayern (talk) 07:16, 23 May 2010 (UTC)


 * No problem. Thank you for putting the information up there in the first place.  I tried to paraphrase the JockBio passage (to avoid copyright issues; see WP:PLAG), but I'm not very happy with my writing. — LOL T/C 07:40, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Template:NBA Finals summary
Hi. Can you help fix the template? The champion and runner-up parameters are causing people to edit-war. Maybe change it to West champion and East champion. Thanks— Chris! c / t 02:20, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, that's definitely one of the funnier edit wars I've seen. Virtually no change in output, yet anons are able to read the wikicode and fight over parameter names. :) — LOL T/C 09:14, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

NBA link
Can you come back and comment on progress at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Basketball_Association.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 20:30, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * So what is the latest?--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:37, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm planning to make team season always link to the specific team season by default, unless the check parameter is filled in. — LOL T/C 14:53, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your help. --Hhoshy 90 (talk) 00:03, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

NBA Finals Year
Hi. I find out that someone created this template, model after NBA Year. This led me thinking. Should this be combined with NBA Year? Or should they remain separate?— Chris! c / t 22:45, 18 June 2010 (UTC)


 * It doesn't seem like the template needs anything complex like dashes or ranges, so I think it's better to keep them separate. — LOL T/C 14:53, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Request for input at WT:NBA
I know you edit quite a bit of NBA articles. I think there needs to be a consensus on how to deal with free agents' team affiliation, especially in the negotiate-but-not-sign period in July. I'd appreciate your input at WT:NBA. Thanks. --Mosmof (talk) 15:46, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

All-American list content discussion
We are attempting to set a permanent All-American list content policy. See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_National_Basketball_Association.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 16:41, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

NFL Infobox
Consensus has been reached at the NFL project's talk page about the removal of the permenant As Player and As Coach features on the NFL's infobox. It is not needed as we can just add it manually as we do for the MLB and NBA infoboxes and being that over 95 percent of the player do not need As Player, it would be best to remove it. So can you remove it being you have the most experience with infoboxes? Beast from da East (talk) 23:17, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Chilean Mining Accident
What started off as several quick Anglicization edits has become a major edit project, one section at a time. I saw you were also making edits and are an experienced editor. Please do not hesitate to let me know if you have any concerns with how the updates are going or suggestions to improve it. I am told this article may appear on the main page soon. Veriss (talk) 05:03, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for looking into the timeline info
I need to log for a few hours. I'll check back again as soon as I can. I appreciate you taking the time to look into those timeline templates. Thank you again. Veriss (talk) 08:27, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

MOS
MOS isn't policy. It's a guideline. Stopping line breaks like that aren't necessary but if it makes you feel better have it your way. Cyberia23 (talk) 01:08, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Reviewer granted
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 * I wasn't expecting this, but thank you. — LOL T/C 22:48, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Infobox NBA Player
Hi, can you help me fix this template? I want to make the draft_round parameter automatically says undrafted when nothing is pass on. For example, see Jeremy Lin. The "Round:" looks quite weird there and undrafted has to be manually added into the infobox. Thanks.— Chris! c / t 22:16, 27 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I think I fixed it. Let me know if there's anything wrong. — LOL T/C 22:50, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, thanks.— Chris! c / t 23:00, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

NBL (Australia) game logs
Hi i want to do game logs for Australian basketball. Your template for the NBA is very impressive. I can't use it however due to your autolinks specific for NBA clubs. I was wondering if you could help me make a template for NBL (Australia) season game logs. I have used your season game log in 2010-11 Wollongong Hawks season. I really liked your idea on using NBA color cell :) thanks Eccy89 (talk) 03:00, 11 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Sure. It's been a while since I've worked with the templates, but as far as I can remember, you just need to make the NBL version of NBA color, and the rest is copypasting and replacing all the instances of "NBA".  It's not good to copypaste code, so sometime in the future I may create a set of generic basketball game log templates, but for now we'll just stick with the quick solution. — LOL T/C 03:43, 11 December 2010 (UTC)


 * thanks for the advice. i have created Template:NBL colour and Template:NBL colour cell but when i replaced and  with them into a "template:NBL game log start" (with the same code as template:NBA game log start an error came up... :( sooo close! what do you think the problem might be? Do you want me to save the new code so you can see it, or would you like to have a try for me? thanks again. Eccy89 (talk) 06:37, 11 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Otherwise, we could change template:NBA game log start to include Australian teams and it should work fine? I guess a re-naming would have to be in order though...cheers. Eccy89 (talk) 06:42, 11 December 2010 (UTC)


 * hi. just wanted to let you know that i got it sorted for the NBL game log start. Don't know what that error was, but i tried again and saved it just for the fun of it, and it actually worked. Well thanks for letting me copy and paste your work :) Eccy89 (talk) 07:35, 11 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Your problem was fixed here. Hooray for GFDL! :D — LOL T/C 07:39, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

WP NBA in the Signpost
"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject NBA for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Also, if you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 01:05, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Hey, you...
You should probably come to this. I thought here would be the best place of getting in touch with you lol. Ment0r (talk) 23:10, 9 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks, but I'm not really interested. Also, I've been on MSN and Gtalk all day. — LOL T/C 01:35, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Coding expertise needed
Hi there, LOL. I was informed a while back that you are a coding expert of sorts when it comes to templates. I have a huge favor to ask of you in this regard, and if you don't want to do it and/or cannot get to it right away, no worries. There are several issues with Infobox NCAA Division I men's basketball season (it's a great template, but it lacks in a couple ways). I feel that it would be easiest to just create a numbered list, to keep it orderly.

1.) The "| tourney_start = " and "| nc_date = " parameters need to show that the first-ever NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship occurred during the 1938–39 season. Any season prior to that should not automatically show those params (see 1919–20 NCAA men's basketball season for example, which shouldn't have those options appear).

2.) The "| playeroftheyear = " parameter is for the contemporary two biggest POY awards – the John R. Wooden Award and Naismith College Player of the Year. I like that those are the two chosen for that parameter because they carry the most weight in National POY consideration. However, from the 1904–05 through 1978–1979 season, the Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year award was the premier award. I am requesting that a "| helmspoy = " parameter be added (separate from the playeroftheyear) so that it can indicate the consensus national players of the year for the pre-Wooden and pre-Naismith awards.

3.) The "| champ = " parameter is automatically used for the NCAA Tournament champion. Once again, the need for a Helms National Champion parameter arises. I request that a "| helmschamp = " parameter be included for the years 1900–01 through 1981–82 (see Helms Athletic Foundation).

4.) The last request that I can think of, which is probably the trickiest, has to do with each season's naming conventions. Please take a look at the table in Category:College men's basketball seasons in the United States for a breakdown of how each season should be titled. The categories themselves have all been created, so those would be good for a reference. Note that I am requesting the name changes in accordance with the major divisions of college basketball (e.g. University Division, Division I) and not the lower-tier classifications.

Jeez, the first time I ever drop you a message and it's a laundry-list request of some major template tweaks! I apologize about that and hope this doesn't leave a bad impression of me to you :)...anyhow, keep up the good work. Cheers! Jrcla2 (talk) 21:38, 21 January 2011 (UTC)


 * No problem; I'm happy to help with this kind of stuff. :) I tried to fulfill each request.  Let me know if there are any problems or additional changes that need to be made. — LOL T/C 23:11, 21 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks again! I was just wondering if there's a way to make the space between "Helms" and "National" less elongated/awkward looking? Jrcla2 (talk) 23:49, 21 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I substituted the regular spaces with thin spaces, but don't be surprised if they get removed in the future because they cause accessibility issues. — LOL T/C 23:56, 21 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Well it works for now at least, gracias. Jrcla2 (talk) 00:43, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Template help needed
Hi, I want to make some changes to Infobox NBA Player but don't exactly know how. .I want to make the draft round and pick number into ordinal number and add "overall" to the pick number. This is needed to clarify that draft pick is the overall pick and not the pick of a particular draft round. That is what I am trying to do here. But then I run into many unintended problems after that change. For players drafted first overall, the List of first overall NBA draft picks link I originally added to the parameter no longer works. And then for the undrafted player, the "overall" appears after undrafted, which is not desirable. For players drafted territorially (e.g. Oscar Robertson), the undrafted appears along with the Territorial pick link, which is not desirable. Also with the above change, the Territorial pick link no longer works. (the problem between territorial pick and undrafted actually occurs the last time I ask you to fix the template, but I didn't notice it at that time) So, can you add the change I want to add without the unintended problem, while preserving both the Territorial pick link and the List of first overall NBA draft picks link? I try my best to describe the problem. But if you are not sure what I am talking about, ask me to explain. Thanks.— Chris! c / t 20:36, 24 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay, see if everything looks good now. — LOL T/C 22:03, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Look good. Thanks.— Chris! c / t 22:21, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I want to make another change. Can you make the infobox shows "No notable achievements" if nothing is passed into the highlights parameter? Thanks.— Chris! c / t 03:42, 29 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Sure, no problem. — LOL T/C 03:53, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I reverted this. We should be discussing this on the talk page for the template. Plastikspork <sub style="font-size: 60%">―Œ <sup style="margin-left:-3ex">(talk)  04:22, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Why? This seems to be noncontroversial.— Chris! c / t 04:56, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

RE:New NBA standings template
That automatically updates the division standings? That's pretty awesome, go for it. PDTantisocial (talk) 06:57, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

One thing about the division template, the GB section has the conference GB instead of the division GB, any way to deal with that? PDTantisocial (talk) 07:09, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Hey, is it possible to make the conference standing shows the division leaders automatically using a symbol? I don't know if adding a symbol manually would cause the symbol to show up in the divisional standing as well.— Chris! c / t 05:10, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's possible. Are division leaders restricted to the top four seeds in a conference? — LOL T/C 05:13, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes.— Chris! c / t 19:53, 30 January 2011 (UTC)

See Template:2010–11 NBA West standings, the symbol is in a wrong place. It should be next to Lakers, not Mavericks.— Chris! c / t 03:45, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh nevermind, someone forgot to update "pacificleader".— Chris! c / t 03:47, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Notice
Just to let you know. There is a discussion ongoing here that could lead to more changes for Infobox NBA Player‎.— Chris! c / t 08:37, 31 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay, I'll wait for the discussion to finish. — LOL T/C 19:36, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Also what are your thoughts on my proposal here?— Chris! c / t 02:31, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Look like nobody oppose my proposal. :)— Chris! c / t 21:25, 5 February 2011 (UTC)