Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Userboxes/Archive 2020

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CfD nomination of Category:DYK user templates
Category:DYK user templates has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. —⁠andrybak (talk) 22:05, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Maintenance tasks
Where do I find the maintenance tasks tracking Category? I only found Category:Userboxes with insufficient color contrast so far. I think it would be useful to add to the template at the top of the page. Also is there a requirement to check with the userbox creator before increasing color contrast (where color isn't related to sport or particular meanings)? Some userboxes are subpages of particular users. Amousey (they/then pronouns) (talk) 11:56, 8 June 2020 (UTC)


 * To your first question: don't know, but to your second question: be WP:BOLD and just fix it and see if there are objections. Many userbox creators don't understand the code to solve text contrast problems, particularly in links ("blue on blue") and are grateful for the fixes. Just make sure you leave a clear edit summary. I usually add "feel free to revert if you don't like the changes", since this is user space. - Ahunt (talk) 12:49, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

For Template:Userboxshow
I created Template:Userboxshow from scratch. Basically, it is an alternative to using both yy, yytop and yyend in the How to add new sections for the section where you put new userboxes. Even though the number of parameters is only 6, it actually functions really well:

Here is how it functions: Use something like this:

for a single userbox or use

for multiple userboxes.

And then the current model for the rest.

Now this isn't perfect; there is a big space between the text and the actual userbox(es) for 1 to 3 userboxes. However, I hope that you will be able to fix this. Anyways, my question is to the rest of the people, are we going to replace the current model with the new model that I showed you above? {&#123;31&#125;} {&#123;25A (talk)&#125;} 22:05, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I think I fixed the problem (see here for test case). However, since the template can display a maximum of only six userboxes, I'll see if I can tweak it some more to make it useful for large lists. - ZLEA T\C 00:06, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Citation bot
I couldn't find any user box that mentions User:Citation bot/use, so I decided to make Template:User wikipedia/Citation bot. Are there any other user boxes that mention the Citation bot? I want to make sure that I didn't create a duplicate. Thnx. Jerm (talk) 22:20, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Parameter "topic" in Template:Template category
You are invited to join an initiative to make user template categories more consistent. We should add parameter topic to the template template category, which is present in almost every user templates category. Example edit: Special:Diff/976676303. As you can see, we sometimes already include a category description on the page, but outside of the banner template. Aside from such user template categories, you can also help with adding topic to template categories in Category:Template:Template category with no topic or description. —⁠andrybak (talk) 09:55, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

User script to help category clean up
When editors copy-paste userbox code to their user pages, they often end up also copying the categorization wikitext. This incorrectly places their user page into one of template categories. This can also happen, if categorization wikitext on a userbox page is not wrapped in . To help with cleaning up of such errors, this user script (courtesy of User:SD0001) highlights and scrolls to user pages appearing in template categories: To use it, add it to your common.js. —⁠andrybak (talk) 15:21, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

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Template:User published author
Is there a way Template:User published author could be reworded or something so that it's the size of a standard userbox? Currently, "peer-reviewed" is within a nowrap template and this is causing the userbox to be slightly larger than standard.  Bait30  Talk 2 me pls? 03:28, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Looks like it has been done! - Ahunt (talk) 12:49, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , nope, I have just fixed a linter error in the wikitext. I haven't touched the wording and font size. —⁠andrybak (talk) 20:42, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I checked your diffs, though and the font and box size changed, at least in Firefox! - Ahunt (talk) 20:47, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

User:SpinnerLaserzthe2nd/America's Funniest Home Videos
I need help. Some Wikipedians have their videos on AFV. Is it okay if you can fix this? Thanks. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 00:02, 5 December 2020 (UTC)

Bot to flag user-right top icons?
Some top-icons should only be displayed by those who have the corresponding user-right.

Would it be worth making a bot or script to periodically check the topicons in Category:User top icon usergroup templates against the actual user-groups and either make a report that can be gone through manually? davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs) 🎄  17:59, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Factually incorrect information in userboxes
Are there guidelines for deadling with verifiably false information in userboxes? For example, putting the incorrect number of edits in Template:User mainspace edits? Mysteryman blue 22:36, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * I think WP:UBCR is the policy concerning inappropriate userboxes. Jerm (talk) 23:00, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * That's actually a guideline, not a policy, but regardless, it does not cover the issue raised by the OP. But, why is it an issue anyway? Who cares what number of edits someone puts in a userbox? If I put "this user has made 1 billion edits to Wikipedia" on my userpage, how does that affect anyone? </end rhetorical questions> - wolf  23:16, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I meant guideline, and I never did say it covered Mysterymanblue concern. Was just pointing out the only thing concerning inappropriate userboxes. Jerm (talk) 23:28, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you for pointing out this guideline. I was wondering because I saw a user with ~200 edits with a userbox claiming to have several thousand. The user had engaged in some disruptive edits and I thought the userbox might serve to make them appear more experienced than they really are and prevent them from receiving assistance/suggestions. I would not mind comical misuse of userboxes, but somehow the edit count issue seemed more significant to me. I would concede that ultimately the issue is not that important because 1) edit count doesn't mean much 2) disruptive edits are disruptive regardless of who makes them and 3) the remedy of "correcting" userboxes is perhaps worse than the problem it solves. <b style="border-radius:2em;border:solid #34c 1px;padding:0 5px;background:linear-gradient(101deg,#34c 71.4%,#fff 0)"><i style="color:#fff">Mysteryman</i> <i style="color:#34c">blue</i></b> 00:10, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Based on what I've seen before, only newly registered or less experienced users falsify their editing history. I can only assume that particular person just copied and pasted it from another editors user page. That's usually the case. Jerm (talk) 00:20, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Agree with Jerm. Besides, when dealing with a disruptive editor, tptb would never go by their userpage, just the problematic edits, related talk page posts (if any), and their history (ie: block log, restrictions, warnings, etc.) - wolf  01:34, 25 December 2020 (UTC)