Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Userboxes/Archive 2019

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Invitation for Userboxes subcategorization
I've been going through Category:Userboxes and some of its subcategories to move userboxes to a more narrow category, which is one of the tasks of this WikiProject. I've reached an arbitrary milestone: there are no more userboxes sorted under letter A in the category. In this process, I and have created a couple of new categories for user templates: about animals, office suites, and photography (full list below).

I invite you to help with organization of userboxes into categories. It is recommended to enable gadget HotCat to make the process faster. Please make sure the template categories go inside tags (see WP:CAT). Also, there is a glitch where HotCat will break parameter of Template:Userbox while trying to remove nocat. —⁠andrybak (talk) 15:07, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

• animals — deleted, as there already exists Category:Animal user templates

• Apple Inc.

• archaeology

• arts and culture to mirror Category:Arts and culture templates

• architecture

• Australian city

• aviation

• color

• computer science

• chemistry

• design

• desktop environment

• expatriates

• fiction genre

• graphics editor

• home

• human body

• human life

• law

• mind

• office suite

• photography

• physics

• plant

• podcast

• reference desk

• skill

• subculture

• technology

• text editor

• theatre

• utility

• video

• weapons

• 14:05, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

• * location by country

• * location by continent

• New subcategories for Category:Wikipedia-related user templates 11:35, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

• * Wikipedia code

• * Main Page

• * Wikipedia event

• * Wikipedia skin


 * Letter B is done. —⁠andrybak (talk) 16:50, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Letter D is done.
 * Letter E is done. —⁠andrybak (talk) 18:44, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Letter H is done. —⁠andrybak (talk) 10:42, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Letter I is done. —⁠andrybak (talk) 12:57, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Letter J is done. —⁠andrybak (talk) 16:34, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Letter K is done. —⁠andrybak (talk) 14:58, 23 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Another arbitrary milestone: the number of userboxes in Category:Userboxes just went under one thousand. —⁠andrybak (talk) 21:00, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Category:Userboxes — ✅. —⁠andrybak (talk) 19:17, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

CfDs
During this process I've come across some categories which could be improved, below are notices for these discussions.
 * Category:Residence user templates has been nominated for merging. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. —⁠andrybak (talk) 10:42, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Category:Profession user templates has been nominated for renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. —⁠andrybak (talk) 23:21, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Categories Islamic userboxes and Muslim user templates have been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:30, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Category:Russian city of residence user templates has been nominated for renaming to Category:Russian cities user templates. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. —⁠andrybak (talk) 18:17, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Category:Operating system user templates/Macintosh has been nominated for renaming to Category:Operating system user templates/Apple. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. —⁠andrybak (talk) 14:41, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

You are invited to join the discussion at Village pump (idea lab). —⁠andrybak (talk) 07:44, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Discussion at Village pump (idea lab)

Categories Lists of userboxes, Themed Wikipedian userboxes, and Userbox galleries have been nominated for discussion. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. —⁠andrybak (talk) 08:11, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Userbox galleries categories overhaul

Category:Political view user templates has been nominated for merging with Category:Political user templates. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:02, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
 * CfD nomination of Category:Political view user templates

Categories Australian city of residence user templates, German city of residence user templates, Algerian city of residence user templates, and Russian cities user templates have been nominated for renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. —⁠andrybak (talk) 10:06, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Preparation for location userboxes categorization overhaul

Next goal — Category:Interest user templates
All of Category:Userboxes has been categorized. Special thank you to User:Catfurball for helping with this task. Now, the next goal of this task is Category:Interest user templates. —⁠andrybak (talk) 19:15, 17 August 2019 (UTC)


 * I've also started a discussion for merging of Category:Interest user templates to Category:Userboxes. —⁠andrybak (talk) 19:29, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Template_talk:User_rights
You are invited to join the discussion at Template_talk:User_rights. Sdkb (talk) 17:23, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

19 August 2019 — New discussions
Recent category discussions: Newspaper user templates renaming, Life user templates upmerge, Favourite subject user templates upmerge, Health user templates renaming. —⁠andrybak (talk) 17:02, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

christianity user templates
Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Christianity/Noticeboard. 🖖 ChristTrekker 🗣 13:50, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

Userbox colours
Regarding this discussion at the administrators' incidents noticeboard on sports team user boxes and their accessibility: for NHL teams, the navboxes were modified to use colour borders, in order to meet accessibility concerns. Perhaps this would be a good approach for userboxes as well. isaacl (talk) 04:44, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Which version are you referring to? Examples would make it easier. – Sabbatino (talk) 19:59, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * The current version of NHL team navboxes use colour borders, such as Montreal Canadiens. Userboxes could, in a similar manner, use the team colours for the borders of the userbox, leaving the text legible. isaacl (talk) 21:46, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I tried that and did not succeed. Perhaps someone who has more knowledge with userbox formatting could help. – Sabbatino (talk) 08:01, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

I think with some other tweaks, this could work. I'm not a fan of process blue as the color for the team name, but I think it works for accessibility. James Miko (talk) 22:12, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm glad you find my suggested approach amenable! To be frank, examining [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:UBX/NHL-Rangers&diff=924280312&oldid=924214286&diffmode=source this recent change you made], if I were looking to put a Rangers userbox on my user page, I'd rather create my own than use that one, as the small 8 point text in thin red letters on a blue background is nearly completely illegible to me. isaacl (talk) 02:21, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Here's an example using the template that is used by the navboxes.

isaacl (talk) 09:30, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Good catch. That actually follows the design used on the NHL teams' pages, which is good since the pages that are monitored by WP:NHL are pretty much the only sports pages that deal with accessibility issues. – Sabbatino (talk) 06:22, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's what I mentioned in my first post. It's been discussed at the baseball WikiProject, but no consensus has been reached to modify its associated navboxes, tables, and so forth. isaacl (talk) 07:07, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I doubt any of the projects related to specific team sports are interested. While there is some sort of agreement on ice hockey userboxes, the opposite is with basketball userboxes. Basketball userboxes should also use the same format as basketball navboxes (this is what I had implememted into the NBA userboxes until the other editor decided to treat Wikipedia as a battleground). – Sabbatino (talk) 06:36, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Seeing that it is almost a week since last message, I assume there is consensus for the NHL userboxes? In addition, Jamesmiko has been blocked indefinitely for continuing his edit warring with other users. – Sabbatino (talk) 07:54, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't say a consensus; nothing has been done to attract the attention of other potentially interested editors. (Though it does seem that Jamesmiko was agreeable to using colour borders.) My out-of-the-blue guess is that there is an indifference, since no one is compelled to use these specific user boxes: they can always just create their own if they prefer. isaacl (talk) 17:17, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Template:Wikipedia-adnavbox listed at Requested moves
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