User talk:PMJ/Archive 1

Hi there
Nice to know that there is another medical student from my uni contributing to wikipedia...anyway, Im a fourth year medic, nice to meet you. Thanks for contributing to the Articles on Woolmanhill hospital and the Materinity hospital!

LOL..should have realized its you Phillip. Saurabhb

ANCA
Brilliant stuff on ANCA. If we're ever stuck for a reference linking pANCA and Churg-Strauss we can always use Seo et al 2004 (which I used to prepare Wegener's granulomatosis). JFW | T@lk  04:50, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Template:Parish church
Hi. I bumped into this template on the St John the Baptist, Egglescliffe page while creating and populating the raft of 'Churches in ' categories. I am not qualified to comment on the quality of the template (relative to other templates, that is) but it does look like a potentially useful thing to add to the many other church articles.

I have noted that it is 'under development', so I won't step on your toes by 'fiddling', and I hope you'll accept some friendly constructive criticism:
 * Were you planning to add an 'image' field at the top of the template? (It seems common practice and would brighten the articles.)
 * The 'Clergy' bar is twice as thick as the other subtitles. Have had a look and cannot see why!
 * The grey shading is a little pale. I do not notice it when viewing the page on my laptop.
 * Would the template do for other churches, or only Parish churches?
 * In the article text, once the template is in place and populated it will be possible to replace the link Anglican with [[Anglican]] – which is important in an encyclopaedia as the two terms are not strictly interchangeable
 * It might be helpful to editors if instructions for using the template are added to the template page
 * Once you are happy with it, would be worth promoting its existence at the WikiProjects for Anglicanism and Christianity

Having viewed most of the articles in the 'Churches in ' cats, it is clear to me that at least half of the English 'church' articles need extra work (at least a third are still stubs) and a consistent approach to content would be beneficial. Adopting your template when I re-visit the church pages next year will be a good start to this.

Cheers -- EdJogg 10:18, 4 December 2006 (UTC)


 * See PMJ's reply at User talk:EdJogg


 * Thank you for the invitation, but I must decline for the moment - I have so many other WP projects on the go! However, I must try to plan tackling the church articles next year, and if I start using the template then  I shall certainly tweak it if needed. (Indeed, I've just corrected a typo!)
 * EdJogg 22:56, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Template 'clergy line problem'
OK, I've had a bit more of a look. (That's the problem with being a software engineer...can't stop the testing!)

The two pages that are 'wrong' have a Rector, the one that works has a Vicar. This is significant. Try changing the title of the first priest. You will find that 'Priest' and 'Vicar' work fine, 'Rector' and 'Curate1' have a 2-line title, 'Curate 2' and 'Minister' have a 3-line title, and 'Pastor' has a 4-line title. There MUST be a link between this problem and the position of the appropriate row in the template. I suspect the other sections would suffer the same problem too. I don't know how these templates 'work', so I must let you experiment further. It is possible that when the conditionals cause TWO lines to be missed, WP equates this to a blank line in the title (in the same way that two blank lines between paragraphs will leave a big space).

EdJogg 23:34, 5 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Actually, I lied. Before I had submitted that last message I realised what was the probable problem, and did a quick experiment... ...FIXED!  Have a look at the last two differences and you'll see the necessary tweak.  You may want to apply this to any other templates you've been developing!
 * This certainly appears to have fixed the existing problem. Could you please find time to play with the pages that use the template to ensure I haven't broken something else by mistake? Thanks.
 * EdJogg 23:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Selby Abbey
Hi,

Having followed User:EdJoggs talk page to here, I have added your template to Selby Abbey. I too think it is a good idea (I have added Prebendary and Canon to the template as other members of the clergy).

I was wondering why a large amount of white space now appears at the top of the article. Any ideas?

Mdcollins1984 00:31, 6 December 2006 (UTC)


 * After much experimentation... ...FIXED! Please see template history, etc for changes applied. (May be best to check the 'before' vs the 'after', to avoid all the faffing about in between!)
 * Width specified in template does NOT limit image, so can standardize on 250px (should be suggested in user instructions on template talk page). 'thumb' adds border around image and includes title; 'center' centres the image within the template, but causes the caption to change slightly (without 'center', the caption is OK, but a 'thumb' image will drift to the right!)
 * Phew! -- EdJogg 02:34, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Anglicanism COTM
The Anglicanism Collaboration of the Month has been reactivated! Please consider going to the page to either vote for one of the nominated articles, or nominate one yourself. Thanks! Fishhead64 03:00, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Category:Churches in Argyll
Hi, blanking a page is generally a bad idea. If you want to let delete a wrongly created article or in this case a category and nobody other than you has made a contribution, you can add db-author on it; this will draw an admin's attention to it and he will delete it. In connection with this, you might find it interesting to read Blanking. Greetings and Merry Christmas. Phoe talk 13:50, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Talk page blanking
Did you really mean to delete you talk page? Generally other editors postings should not be deleted, but you are allowed to do pretty much as you like with your talk page. If you were merely trying to archive old stuff and so shorten the current page, then you may create a sub-page to be used as an archive (eg User talk:PMJ/Archive 1) - see How to archive a talk page. Feel free to ask to you need help with this :-) Yours David Ruben Talk 02:11, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Oops, I meant to add a link then just forgot! PMJ 11:34, 5 January 2007 (UTC)