Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/Archive 14

Any way to block automatic categories?
Is there a way to use a userbox but block it from automatically adding you to a user category? Tim D. Williamsonyakkety-yak 03:39, 7 January 2016 (UTC)


 * The easiest way is to create the userbox yourself.  Mlpearc  ( open channel ) 03:41, 7 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I ended up doing just that. Tim D. Williamsonyakkety-yak 04:14, 7 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Mlpearc ( open channel ) 04:23, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Variables in userbox template
I've seen at least one userbox that uses for the type size in the info section. Can someone point me in the direction of a help topic that will explain why someone would call the info-s parameter this way? Tim D. Williamsonyakkety-yak 03:26, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
 * It sets a default of 8 but allows the user to specify a different size when placing the box. Etamni &#124; &#9993; &#124; ✓ 21:46, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you!Tim D. Williamson yak-yak

This is stupid, but...
I created a couple of new userboxes here and can't figure out how to create the call template for them (should I put each of them on their own subpage and then use the name of that as the call template?). I'd like to have it so I can add them to the main gallery and I think there are a couple of other users in the horse project who'd like them. White Arabian Filly ( Neigh ) 22:21, 12 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Not stupid at all. Yes, you need to create a new subpage to your userpage, or you can create them as a subpage to UBX. Don't quote me on that last part. Look at some of the userboxes in the gallery and see how their creators set them up. I put all of mine in Timdwilliamson/ubx/...

- Tim D. Williamson yak-yak 22:47, 12 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I did them in userspace and it seems that's the most popular way. White Arabian Filly  ( Neigh ) 20:30, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Templates for how users support we deal with transgender people
Go to Village pump (proposals) and you'll see a section (posted shortly before this post) about user boxes talking about how they support dealing with transgender people. Georgia guy (talk) 20:38, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

font ❤
Handles up to 8 right now.⇔ ChristTrekker 18:58, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Realized I forgot to provide a convenient link: User:ChristTrekker/favorite font ⇔ ChristTrekker 16:55, 10 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Nice userbox! Though—the proper place for this would be Wikipedia talk:Userboxes/New Userboxes.  Eman  235 / talk  06:13, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Oops, I thought I saw ppl posting userboxes in archived pages of this. Maybe that was an older practice. It's even mentioned at the top of this page, but there's so much boilerplate I didn't even notice. ⇔ ChristTrekker 14:50, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Mobile view
No one of the collapsible tables suggested in this page will work in mobile view! (Check here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes ) I think this should be fixed. ᚪᛋᚦᚩᚾᛏ (Asþont) &#124; Talk 15:31, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Sideboxes?
One of the three examples near the top contains the text:
 * Userboxes can have one or two sideboxes.

But neither "sideboxes" nor "side boxes" can be found elsewhere on the page. Should this read "side image boxes" or "side images"? Thanks! —Geekdiva (talk) 01:50, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

How to present userboxes on a website external to Wikipedia (and even externally to WMF)
Dear all, could anybody suggest an easy method to (other than the not so stable iFrame-method) present a userbox on a website external to WMF? (Verheyen Vincent (talk) 04:08, 8 April 2017 (UTC))

Limiting userbox autocategorisation

 * There appears to be a strong consensus at WP:CFD that most userbox autocategorisations are inappropriate. Accordingly I have strengthened the previous "caution" at Userboxes.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 05:40, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

list of many examples of userboxes
Is there a list of userboxes? 05:26, 13 January 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goodtiming8871 (talk • contrib Is)
 * See Category:Userboxes.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  15:36, 13 January 2018 (UTC)

Proposal: nomenclature
I propose that userboxes be renamed editor boxes. Where possible, in the few that I use, I prefer to be described as an editor rather than a user. A new userbox has been created that I decided to use, but I edited the userbox text, substituting "editor" for "user", so that the userbox now says, "This editor..." instead of "This user".

I left my rationale on the talk page of the new userbox creator, as follows: "I think "editor" better conveys the humanity and agency of the writers of Wikipedia, and the word "user" has always been a somewhat dehumanising abstraction and unintentional dismissal of human beings since engineers started using the term in the middle of the last century.

In addition, the term "user" could be applied broadly to anyone who merely consults Wikipedia rather than edits it, but even those people would be better described, in general, as readers rather than users.

If the community feels that implementing this proposal is a burden too large to undertake, perhaps the style manual describing how to create user/editorboxes could simply be reworded to encourage or even mandate the use of the word "editor" rather than "user".

I urge Wikipedia to adopt this attitude to its valued editors and to rename userboxes to editor boxes (or editorboxes). Let us be humans instead of anonymous cogs in a machine in 2019. If this proposal would be more appropriately posted elsewhere, please let me know. Thank you. — O'Dea (talk) 13:00, 1 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Well, I can think of one VERY small downside to that. If a user/editor is trying to find a way to fit something a bit long into one of these boxes, "User" has one third fewer characters as "editor."  Or to put it the other way round (and rather more strongly), "editor" has 50% more characters than "user." Uporządnicki (talk) 14:50, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am conscious of the small size of user/editorboxes and have even designed a box from scratch purely for my own page, to accommodate text. User/editorboxes are elastic enough to expand sideways and downwards to embrace a few more characters, rather like your own bassoon box. Wikipedia is not paper. — O'Dea  (talk) 20:36, 1 January 2019 (UTC)