User talk:Tomruen/polyhedron db testing

I don't understand this template, but it would be nice if the image linked to the animated spinning image, like the image in truncated cube should have a link to Image:Truncatedhexahedron.gif, so that the link can be taken out of the See also section. — Omegatron 03:46, 29 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Another image field could be added for animations if all of a set had them. I don't know how or whether a template infobox could ignore fields that are undefined. Tom Ruen 06:37, 29 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Okay I tested for regular polyhedra: Template:Reg_polyhedron_stat_table
 * Platonic_solid and Kepler-Poinsot solid
 * Tom Ruen 06:44, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

See User:Tomruen/polyhedron database documentation

Documentation and SVG
Hi Tomruen,

I just attempted (and failed) to convert Reg polyhedra db to use the SVG equivalents to the JPG images it's using at the moment. I'm not sure what went wrong, but it would be nice to use the SVG versions per Category:Wikipedia images available as SVG.

Additionally, since the template doesn't look very nice when viewed as the template alone, and personally, I found the documentation quite hard to find, it might be an idea to transclude the documentation into the template page, in a similar way to (for example) Template:Citation.

I'd try and do both of these myself, but I have no experience in editing templates, and what I did think was fairly simple failed quite miserably, so I'll leave it to someone with more experience… me_and 10:14, 6 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi Meand, I restored your SVG changes and it seems to work file for me. I agree better/easier-to-find documentation needed, pure negligence on my part. Can you see any problems now or describe them to me? Tom Ruen 20:14, 6 June 2007 (UTC)


 * They seem to work for me as well now. I don't know what was going on there then, but all is well now, so I shan't complain :D me_and 15:31, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I viewed Regular_icosahedron via mobile & found that the table image is inexplicably a JPG. Tracking it here w/ some difficulty, it seems something reverted since the above discussion. Could you check? TSamuel (talk) 13:28, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Subproject
When you(or someone) gets around to it, It would be great to form a subproject that could be a central database about polyhedrons and related material. I can try drafting something up if you are amenable. --Cronholm144 07:06, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguating "hyperbolic plane" in Uniform hyperbolic tiles template
Hello Tomruen, I have been disambiguating hyperbolic plane. Template:Uniform hyperbolic tiles db has many references to hyperbolic plane. These templates show up in many articles and cause links to hyperbolic plane which is a disambiguation page. I would propose the following change to the edit code of this template page:
 * Change every occurance of [ [ hyperbolic plane ] ] to [ [ Hyperbolic geometry | hyperbolic plane ] ]

That would get rid of all the ambiguous links. I would not dream of doing this myself because I am not sure of all the implications. Perhaps we want to leave it ambiguous?

By the way, you are apparently one of the caretakers of all the gorgeous geometric diagrams in Wikipedia. Well done sir!

You may reply here or on my talk page. Thank you for your time.--Foobarnix (talk) 22:35, 17 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Sounds good to me, if you can do it! :) Thanks for your kind words - I get lots of help! Tom Ruen (talk) 03:00, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Left margin on polyhedron tables
I'm trying to add some spacing on the left margin of the polyhedron stat tables, but I'm having some trouble making it work. See for example Pentagonal hexecontahedron: the left margin of the table is 0, which makes the text squish too closely to it. I added style="margin-left: 1em" to Template:Semireg_dual_polyhedron_stat_table and it seems to work on the template page, but not in the original article. What am I doing wrong?&mdash;Tetracube (talk) 01:58, 4 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Hmm, the problem seems to have fixed itself. Perhaps templates are cached, and it was just a matter of waiting for the old version of the template to get refreshed?&mdash;Tetracube (talk) 18:43, 5 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes, I think if you edit an article with a template, with no changes, the template will be updated. At least I've noticed cases where that worked, when refresh page didn't. Tom Ruen (talk) 21:16, 5 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Interesting. Thanks for the tidbit!&mdash;Tetracube (talk) 22:17, 5 February 2014 (UTC)

Weird bold text on prismatic polyhedra
The templates for prismatic polyhedra, as the one seen here, have a very strong bold on the title, which doesn't match with the rest of the templates, and seems somewhat unprofessional IMO. I don't know enough about Wiki code to fix it myself, do you think you could help with that? –OfficialURL (talk) 21:41, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

I now understand Wiki code, and I have fixed it myself. – (talk) 00:50, 12 April 2020 (UTC)