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Flags in squad lists

The thread is in danger of drying up and being archived without any firm proposal being put in place. Should we let it? Kevin McE (talk) 10:45, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

IOC Templates

I have created a template called "IOC games" that will get the games described either as ""XXXX Summer/Winter" or XXXX Summer/Winter Olympics." This, will let me use PAGENAME (I think) to create a consistent link template for all of the main pages. I have created the doc page as well. Before I move it to the template namespace, could you take a quick look to make sure there isn't anything obviously wrong or in violation of some rule that I don't know of? The template is currently at User:Donlammers/templates/IOC games. Thanks.

Also, although I could create one pretty quickly now, I am currently thinking that we don't need a version specific to the media (to create a separate "media" link under the main page link), since the media is front and center on the main IOC page for each Olympiad anyway.Donlammers (talk) 12:38, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

I went ahead and moved the IOC games template and documentation out to the template namespace. You can see the results in the 1964 Summer Olympics article. When I have a couple of hours I will go back and insert it into the other games main pages (this should be just a copy and paste of the same template over and over). Thanks for the help. I will post any further communications on this and the IOC medals template in their talk pages.

I am debating whether an "IOC external links" template (just one template for the standard external links) is worth it or not. For now all that would be in it would be the "commonscat" template and the IOC games template, but it might be worth adding your IOC medals template, and we may find other things in the future. It would be pretty easy to modify the IOC medals template so that it took the page name for the games just like the IOC games template.Donlammers (talk) 16:19, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Ireland at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The reference that was used is a valid reference because the way the OCI site is designed, you cannot jump directly to the page where the team is cited, you must navigate to it by clicking on the Olympics you want. Microwave09 (talk) 23:32, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Punjab flag

Hmm, I seem to have gotten confused between commons and WP windows. Is commons:Flag_of_Punjab_(Pak).gif the file we're after?LeadSongDog come howl 21:19, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Rugby league Ireland

For some reason I was sure but now I'm not . RV'd Gnevin (talk) 23:22, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

You may be interested in this discussion. --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid (coṁrá) 19:10, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Uploading the pdf files in wikipedia

Hi. I would like to upload some pdf files in the articles of Wikipedia. Please reply to me in my talk page and give me the links of the guidelines. Thanks. Zohairani (talk) 15:47, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Pan-Celticism

There appears to be a lone edit-warrior in action, intent on disrupting the article Pan-Celticism. May I ask you to use your good offices to minimise the disruption. It has become rather wearing. Many thanks, Daicaregos (talk) 22:32, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your help ... and not even the courtesy of a reply. Real classy. Daicaregos (talk) 08:32, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

You didn't say you needed an urgent reply. I think you are better off going to Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring instead of singling me out as someone who could help—especially since I have edited the article recently and could be considered involved. I did take another look at the article yesterday, but hadn't figured out what I wanted to do. But after your message here, I don't really feel like doing anything. Insults aren't likely to motivate me, sorry. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:07, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply, which would have been welcome had it been to my initial message. I am surprised you were unable to see the problem on the article. If you are unable see that an editor is gaming the system: by exhausting other users into dropping the issue; taking no notice of consensus; and being in breach of 3RR (i.e. edit warring), then you may be interested in WP:CDA, which is a proposal to enable the Wikipedia community to remove the admin tools from existing administrators who have lost the confidence of the community. Further, if you honestly think that my message insulted you, I strongly reccomend that you take it WP:AN/I, where I will undoubtedly receive the appropriate punishment (that is, if you can find the motivation). Daicaregos (talk) 16:31, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Your sarcasm is still unwelcome here. I said that I hadn't figured out what I wanted to do, which is not the same as being unable to see the problem on the article. I saw the problem; I was still contemplating how to proceed—because I am involved in the dispute. You might be surprised that there are admins who intentionally stay away from the drama-whore infested waters of ANI, so your thinly veiled insults shall remain on this talk page. If you have no confidence in my ability as an administrator, I presume that means you shall stay away from me in the future, which is probably best for both of us. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:08, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

I apologise. You are right to think that I misread/misunderstood your reply, in that I read it as you were unable to see the problem on the article, rather than what you had said i.e. you hadn't figured out what you wanted to do. Consequently, most of my post was unwarranted. My original annoyance was due to the fact that you had replied to the cause of the problem I highlighted to you, rather than to my message, which seemed to have been ignored. So, disruptive editor wins. I give up and won't be looking at that article any more. btw I still don't think my post was insulting. Daicaregos (talk) 08:58, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Ok then, no worries. To me your message said that I was discourteous and classless, which I perceived as insults. That was only 10 hours after your first message, and I was in the middle of some other work (both on- and off-wiki), so it also felt like a rather unfair judgement. But it looks like we can call that water under the bridge now, so thanks for your last message. As for the article, there are so many changes, and that is not an area of expertise to me, so I will probably stay away. The only thing I know I object to is the use of the tricolour to represent Ireland (the island) vs. Ireland (the nation). I would prefer the flags be removed (and I said so in the RfC), but if they stay, then my quick-fix wikicode replacement of {{flag|Ireland}} is acceptable. If you are still concerned about behavioural issues of certain editors on that page, then I still think Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring might be the best course of action. Thanks again — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:45, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Opinion of logo

This relates to Template_talk:Current_sport-related but is slightly different . Would you say the logo in the infobox on Magners_League is on the main space and also in the main space? Gnevin (talk) 00:28, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

I would think that is part of the Wikipedia user interface (navigation) of that page, rather than content, despite its location inside the infobox. I would draw a parallel to the little icon inside the Celtic League Logo image, that is used to enlarge the image. Despite its location, it is part of the UI for the webpage. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 00:45, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Ok thanks Gnevin (talk) 09:09, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

File:Sin bandera.svg

I've noticed you've removed nearly all of the flag of none. Are you planning to also do File:Sin bandera.svg ?Gnevin (talk) 17:26, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

It isn't used on any pages where a flag template is used to render it, or it appears in the common icon size, so I think my work is done. It remains present on about a thousand mainspace articles, almost all as an infobox placeholder (similar to the usage of File:Replace this image male.svg for biographic articles). Feel free to edit those if you wish! — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:47, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Ok thanks. Interesting I though all the place holders had been removed Gnevin (talk) 18:25, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

I think there is some consensus to remove people placeholder images from bio articles, but many still exist. I have never seen a discussion about other types of placeholders (incl. flags) so it would probably be a bold edit to remove them. If you feel like taking on this task, there are some other placeholders still in use:

• File:No flag.svg
• File:Missing flag.png
• File:Vlag ontbreekt.svg

And there are also coat-of-arms placeholders to consider. Hope this helps — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:38, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Lets see how this gets on. I have a feeling SNOW keep will be the answer Gnevin (talk) 18:42, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

I've had a look at the source for {{Infobox Former Country}} and was totally lost, do you think you could fix it so the blank flag doesn't appear as a white flag like here?Gnevin (talk) 18:45, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

It's not white, it's transparent (with a border). That is intentional, because you can click on the (unlabelled) flag to get to the article. Without the border, it is not clear that you can click on that space to navigate anywhere. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:54, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Can't used just click the arrow? Gnevin (talk) 19:01, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

That works too, but it's such a tiny user interface element. There was a request to make this template work the way it does now; I would like to see some dicussion there before making any changes to something different. I'm not terribly fond of the current layout, but it has been like that for a long time. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:05, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Irish Rugby flag

You are receiving this message as you previous participated in a Irish rugby flag related discussion (WP:RUIRLFLAG). There are two ongoing discussions which may interest you here and here GnevinAWB (talk) 00:42, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

ukie league

See Ukrainian Major League. Ukies have sub-national flags - is this an unfair exception to the rule or what? (LAz17 (talk) 06:15, 29 January 2010 (UTC)).

See my comments at User talk:Lvivske#Ukrainian Major League. I tried to clean up that article today, but Lvivske reverted me. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 06:52, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

May I revert you too, in the KHL league and others? I want to. It's not fair to discriminate against me, by favoring him over me. (LAz17 (talk) 02:31, 31 January 2010 (UTC)).

Grow up. I am not "favoring him" or "discriminating" against you. Neither of you WP:OWN these articles, and I am working to clean up these articles in a consistent manner. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:32, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Flag /doc pages

Do you think we should develop another template instead of {{documentation subpage}} for use on /doc pages which are for categories and interwikis only? Otherwise it is quite misleading, because we certainly don't want people writing separate documentation! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 23:22, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Most of those pages have interwiki only, but some have additional comments. See {{GBR/doc}} and {{CHN/doc}}, for a couple I can think of off the top of my head. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 23:25, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

I'll see if I can think of some suitable wording. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:31, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

what is your problem? —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Catholic Knight (talk • contribs) 02:23, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Olympics interview

Aloha! I am tasked with the Wikipedia Signpost report on WikiProject Olympics, to coincide with the 2010 Winter Olympics. I have compiled some questions at here, and was wondering if you would be interested in answering them on behalf of the project. Thanks, Ks0stm If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. 19:55, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Needs your attention

This section needs your attention Gnevin (talk) 18:48, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Signpost

Hello! As a very active member of WikiProject Olympics, you have been chosen to be featured in this week’s Wikipedia Signpost!!

Please answer the questions by tonight, it goes to press tomorrow!! Thank you,

Belugaboy535136 ^contribs 19:54, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of List of East Asian and Southeast Asian countries by population

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Talkback

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A major international hockey tournament approaches, that can only mean...

The return of Russian nationalists! [1] Oh boy. Do you think we should put together a FAQ or something that we can point them towards, though I doubt it will do any good. I assume the debate will be re-booted at some point, and probably not just on the hockey pages (though those seem to be the only ones the nationalists care about) and it could get nasty again. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 16:27, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

This will be my third Games as a Wikipedia editor, and the previous experience has me thinking that the easiest approach is to "weather the storm" of nationalism and don't create a big dispute. These editors will move on to something else a week or two after the Games have ended, and we can clean things up properly then. Obviously blatant nationalistic POV can certainly be dealt with quickly, and for edits like the one you just saw, we have very reliable sources to cite. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:50, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

I suppose you're right. I hope I'm just being paranoid, though history has shown that they will show up during major tournaments do not give up easily. With the article being TFA on Friday, I think we can expect some similar edits, though hopefully there won't be any nasty disputes this time around. At least by this point it has been discussed to death, so we can point to past discussions. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 17:02, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Call for consensus/conclusion to current Ireland rugby union team icon

Hello, I am contacting you because you have been an active participant in the recent discussion on icon to be used for Ireland rugby union. I have tried to summarise the many strands and come to a conclusion based on what I perceive the consensus to be in this section - Summary of Ireland Flag discussion and suggested consensus conclusion. To move the issue to a conclusion I am asking all participants who have signed the discussion to read my summary and comment on the validity of the approach I have advocated, before the issue goes cold. I am keen that the enormous efforts of all contributors results in a tangible conclusion on this occasion.Kwib (talk) 16:35, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Discussion on use of flags and copyright at the village pump

Andrwsc, arising from the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rugby union, I have opened a discussion at the village pump about the use (and non-use) of copyrighted images in flag cruft. As the effective tzar of the country data templates, please comment. --rannṗáirtí anaiṫnid (coṁrá) 20:52, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Replied there, thanks — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 21:45, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Lethbridge flag

Hi there,

I see that you have deleted "Template:Country data Lethbridge" citing WP:WPFT, does that mean Template:Country data Calgary should be deleted too? I assumed it was alright to create the Lethbridge template since the flag file's rights did not say it was non-free, and the Calgary template has wide usage, I am seeing a mixed standard for what you called consensus. 117Avenue (talk) 00:26, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Well, that one is used on hundreds of neighborhood articles, so there is consensus to keep it for that, I suppose. I'd be happy to restore the Lethbridge one if you plan to use it on similar articles, so let me know. But it looked like you only needed a flag template for that single election article, and you can use the flag_image parameter of {{Infobox election}} to accomplish the same thing, without having to extend the already-huge flag template system. I'm nervous at the idea of maintaining thousands more flag templates for municipalities around the world. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 00:38, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

No, that was the only usage I wanted. I see now that you were the one who added the flag_image parameter to the election template. On a side note, your comments on Template talk:Infobox election#Flag would be appreciated. 117Avenue (talk) 00:46, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Rugby barnstar

		The Rugby Union Barnstar
		For your efforts in finally helping to solve the Irish flag issue . For your willingness to discuss the issues not the editiors and for at all times remaining civil. I hearby award you the Rugby barnstar

Gnevin (talk) 13:11, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks and no worries! I've started to put the flag back into articles where it had been removed, with about 100 done so far. Another 400 or so to go... — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 15:36, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

HOL template for FlagIOC?

Andrwsc, do you know if a FlagIOC template is in the works for "HOL" ("Holland"), the code and name used by the Netherlands prior to 1992 Olympics? I keep substituting "NED" in with the 1988 Olympics results I'm doing at the moment. But it would be nice if it could be accurate (the country display on the page also says "Netherlands" instead of "Holland"). Thoughts? Hooperswim (talk) 13:40, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

We had a discussion about that on the WikiProject page some time ago, and the consensus was to use NED consistently for all years. The same applies to every other country that had code changes over the years, and there were quite a few (see the notes column on the List of IOC country codes tables). — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 15:51, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Gotcha. Thanks. Hooperswim (talk) 21:55, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

No worries. I think it's much less confusing that way, especially since NED has been used exclusively for 18 years now, and is quite well known. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:19, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

DYK for 2010 Winter Olympics national flag bearers

On February 18, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 2010 Winter Olympics national flag bearers, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 12:25, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Nations participating

A reference would help. HiLo48 (talk) 02:18, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. I have not seen anything yet that explicitly states 82 nations, however. I counted 82 during the opening ceremonies broadcast (as I was double-checking the flag bearers article), but that's not a reference! If you spend the time filtering athletes by country on the official site, you'll also get 82, so that's the best ref we may have at the moment. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:07, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Alt= blank parameter in {{FlagIOCmedalist}}

Hi Andrwsc! How are you? Hope everything's going well. I wanted to ask you to add the |alt= blank parameter to the {{FlagIOCmedalist}}, as you did with {{FlagIOCteam}}, so the flags are not read as alt text. Thanks! Parutakupiu (talk) 03:49, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

 Done. Hope you are also well, Parutakupiu! — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:07, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

I'm well, thanks! Parutakupiu (talk) 20:33, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Weighted templates

The templates {{WeightedMedalTable}} and {{WeightedMedalRow}} were created by User:Crissov for use on the 2010 Winter Olympics medal table, personally I think they aren't any use and need deleting but I'd like a second opinion before nominating them. Can you see any use for them? Basement12 (T.C) 16:49, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

No, definitely not. There are news articles out there for weighted medal counts, but they are not mainstream views and would certainly represent an undue weight for that method of tabulation. I will look for the TfD nomination if you proceed with that. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:00, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Both have been nominated, and Crissov has been notified - Basement12 (T.C) 09:41, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Olympic Medal Table

I moved the source that says that USA Today used the gold-first for one olympics to be with the other sources which said that the US media "primarily" (which clearly means not always) uses the total-medal table. The other source accuses the US of a mass conspiracy, so that is the one I thought was unnecessary.

I removed the clause that says "and was used in the official report of the most recent Games hosted by the United States, 2002 Salt Lake City" for a few reasons:

1. The article already clearly says that the US doesn't always use the total medal table.

2. The article doesn't need to list every instance of a US-related entitity which used the gold-first table.

3. The cited report is made to the IOC. It does not represent the US or the US media. As the IOC uses the gold-first table, it makes sense the the OC on a games in the US would as well. Using this to support the claim that the US uses the gold-first table makes about as much sense as using it to say that the US uses French and English in its documents. The OC followed the IOC protocols...that's it.

I will post this on the talk page so we can continue the discussion over there.LedRush (talk) 20:44, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Malaya

I know there's a lot of controversy regarding other nations (Germany, Russia/USSR, Yugoslavia/Serbia), but there's absolutely no controversy that Malaya is the natural predecessor of Malaysia. Whether their territories change at the same time as the name change has absoultey no bearing. Come to think of this, neither a name change nor a territory change will prompt you to say that the two entities are "different", so why would a combination of both changes automatically means the two entities are "different"? Chanheigeorge (talk) 05:50, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

I think consistency is important here. But I found a source that makes it clear that Malaya/Malaysia should be considered together, more so than some of the other national changes. I have re-edited the infobox. Thanks — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 06:13, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Great Britain at the 1980 Summer Paralympics

The infobox on the article Great Britain at the 1980 Summer Paralympics displays the Olympic flag and not the flag of the UK, I guess this is because at the 1980 Olympics the GB team used the Olympic flag and the paralympic infobox was based on the Olympic infobox. As the paralympics weren't held in Moscow and there wasn't a boycott I assume the UK flag was used and the template needs correcting but i'm not sure how to go about it, if you could take a look it'd be appreciated. Cheers - Basement12 (T.C) 12:12, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Argh, that's a mess to fix. Basically, the IPC templates have "piggybacked" onto the IOC templates and assume the same flags etc. But the different handling of TPE provides a clue. You need to create Template:Country flag IPC alias GBR and use it in templates like {{Infobox Country Paralympics}} and {{flagIPC}}. The same will need to be done for AUS, BEL, DEN, FRA, IRL, ITA, LUX, NED, ESP, and SUI. Good luck! — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

I've created the GBR template but can't see how to include it without replacing every IOC flag template with an IPC one, to be honest i've got no real experience with templates so maybe it'd be best leaving a request for it to be changed at WT:OLY rather than breaking things on my own, i'll also ask user:jwillbur who seems to have worked on all these templates to take a look - Basement12 (T.C) 10:14, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed the problem with the 1980 flags when I first created the templates, but wasn't sure how best to fix it so I put it off till later. I just modified Template:Infobox Country Paralympics to use {{flagicon}} instead of the IOC flag alias templates for 1980. Not sure if this is the best way to go about it, but it works. Similar changes will be needed on Template:FlagIPC and Template:FlagIPCathlete. I don't have time to do them now but I can work on it tomorrow. — jwillbur 15:34, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Eh, it turned out to be easier to create new "Country flag IPC alias X" templates for each of the countries that used the Olympic flag in 1980. Should be fixed now. I'm going to start on the ones User:Aleph Kaph brought up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Olympics#Historical flags. — jwillbur 02:04, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

List of Olympic medalists in curling

Hi, I was wondering if you could provide some clarification for the 1924 medalists. The sources I've read vary greatly as to who received medals. Sports reference says it was a team of four from Britain, but the IOC lists eight and excludes one of the men listed at SR. Meanwhile, some sources say that Sweden won two silver medals, but SR and the IOC say they won one. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 21:46, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, that's certainly a mess. For the list article, the best bet might be a similar approach as the detailed note for the 1920 bronze Czech team at List of Olympic medalists in ice hockey. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:00, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

I added a note for Britain [2] However, I could not find a source that even mentioned the possiblity that Sweden received two silvers. The only mention (that I found) is the wikipedia entry on the 1924 tournament: Curling at the 1924 Winter Olympics. Do you know of any sources that mention it? -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 22:34, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Well, one of the references from the 1924 page (http://soudogcurling.tripod.com/Olympics/1924.htm) indicates that. But I'm not sure that is a reliable source. The official report shows a total of 19 actual participants on three teams (4 FRA, 7 GBR, 8 SWE) out of 30 entries (6 FRA, 8 GBR, 8 SWE, 8 SUI) on tables of page 666 of the PDF file. Starting at page 709 are the actual results, and the report is fairly clear that GBR got gold, SWE silver, and FRA bronze. There were only 3 matches played (round-robin) and my guess is that there were four different Swedes who played against the British versus those who played against the French. But it certainly looks like one team medal and not two. If you clean up the 1924 curling page, that would help! — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 23:07, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Olympic baseball

Thanks for that, was wondering why some of them had weird whitespace at the top. Staxringold _talk^contribs 22:00, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

And thanks to you, for completing that list to FL status! But I'm going to take a portion of the credit for the FL, since it was me who greatly expanded the list about 3½ years ago, by adding all the names. ;) — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:05, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

• Kewl with me. Just pop your name in at the FLC so it's in the archive! Staxringold _talk^contribs 22:11, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Archive 5

I am trying to delink an image so it can be removed from the Commons for being an exact duplicate. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 03:34, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

That's fine. I'd rather keep a redlink in the archive, to reflect the actual filename that was used in the old discussion. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:27, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

The file was deleted and redirected on the Commons, so the link is still the same. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return Fire)} 22:32, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

All-time Olympic Games medal table FAQ's

I have noticed you are quite active int he Olympic and Paralympic articles and I was wondering if I could get your help. As you have pointed out before "Every two years like clockwork"[3] the All-time Olympic Games medal table gets questions about Germany's medal count. You seam to be quite aware about this issue and I was hoping that you might be willing to help me create a FAQ page on this subject (using the FAQ template {{FAQ|collapsed=yes}}) to prevent these questions in the future. -- Phoenix (talk) 05:26, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

So what do you think? -- Phoenix (talk) 21:35, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, just came back from vacation and missed your message from the 21st. I suppose I could help you write a talk page FAQ, but perhaps we should try to be clearer in the article itself...? I had some ideas about that, by explaining how different sources have handled this problem on their equivalent tables. Perhaps we should try to improve that explanatory text first. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 21:54, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

No prob. We all have lives outside of this encyclopedia. That's why I wanted to get your input first. It needs to be clear and easy to understand. While we have about 2 years to perfect this it is better to get this done right the first time. Is there anything that you can point me too in either the text archive or other websites that can help explain this policy? Thanks -- Phoenix (talk) 21:57, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

You dont need to be involved, but can you please point me to some links or past comments that can best help me describe this policy? -- Phoenix (talk) 11:14, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

I'm not sure which "policy" you mean. If you are referring to the way we handle the German NOCs, I'd say that was a consensus but certainly not a policy in the Wikipedia sense. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:00, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Policy might be the wrong word. Bit I was wondering if you could point out the conversation where this was decided so that I can write the FAQs and link it. -- Phoenix (talk) 19:33, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Ah, ok! I'm not sure that we had an explicit discussion that led to a conclusion. If you look through the talk page archives, there are multiple threads where someone (usually German) objects to the current format, which is then defended by other editors (often me...). I think you'd have to wade through the two archive pages to find the bits you need. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:43, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Olympics infoboxes

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears all the Olympics by country infobox templates have a very similar format, links, image use, etc. Have you considered possibly abstracting them into a single {{Infobox Olympics country}}? Would that be feasible and useful to the project? Ruodyssey (talk) 06:57, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Um, that's the point. They already are. I designed {{Infobox Country Olympics}} to be the meta-template used to ensure common layout etc., and then each country infobox adds a layer of country-specific details (common for all articles for that country) so that each specific instance only has to specify the per-Games parameters. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:17, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

D'oh! I can't believe I didn't see that before. It's only at the top of every template. - Ruodyssey (talk) 09:16, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

No worries! — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:08, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Great Britain at the 1992 Winter Paralympics

A discussion you may be interested in, regarding the notability of Great Britain at the 1992 Winter Paralympics, is currently taking place at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Great Britain at the 1992 Winter Paralympics/1. I'm placing this note as article alerts are currently down. Basement12 (T.C) 16:16, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

On a related theme to the above are you aware of any previous discussion(s) that resulted in a consensus for all articles of the type "Nation at the year Olympics" being deemed notable for inclusion in Wikipedia? WP:ATHLETE says any athlete who has competed is automatically eligible for an article, meaning that any reliable source showing they competed is good enough as a reference for notability (even a source produced by the IOC). If it is WP:OLY policy for the by nation articles to be included (I believe this is the case) then I think it needs to be formailsed in a similar manner - Basement12 (T.C) 08:56, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

We had a debate about three years ago (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sudan at the 1968 Summer Olympics) that showed consensus for this type of article, but the issue then was more about the usefulness (or not) of stub-class pages, and not a debate about overall notability. But you might find it useful in the current discussion anyway. Hope this helps — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:05, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I think in the short term the issue has been solved, though that page would have been useful if not. I think the new WP:NSPORT guidelines currently being drawn up would be an opportunity to formalise the policy of having by nation, by sport and by event articles. There is a discussion at WT:OLY on the subject - Basement12 (T.C) 08:26, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Flandrensis

You have removed Flandrensis from the List of micronations. In 2009 the article was deleted because we hadn't a reliable source, but now we have one, Flandrensis was filmed for a documentary on the RTBF: http://www.rtbf.be/video/v_questions-a-la-une?id=42342&category=info I also added the link on that page, you have possible delete Flandrensis without checking the source? Could you please replaced Flandrensis on the list, now we have a reliable source we will made a small page in the future --Niels Vermeersch (talk) 10:01, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

No, I won't, because that source cannot be verified ("Aucune vidéo disponible actuellement"). — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 14:11, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

I have informed, there are others outside Belgium who can't watch the video but in Belgium itself it isn't any problem. Do you know a solution for that problem? For the case your hesitate of the documentary exist you can read information on the website of the RTBF: http://www.rtbf.be/info/questions-a-la-une/ledito-de-questions-a-la-une-208526 --Niels Vermeersch (talk) 16:15, 2 May 2010 (UTC)

Commonwealth flag

Now that you've removed the Commonwealth flag from List of titles and honours of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, what are you proposing to put in its place? --Ħ MIESIANIACAL 19:52, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Nothing. I used Template:noflag to keep the alignment consistent, but you reverted that. Also note that you reverted my change of {{flagicon|UK}} [[United Kingdom]] to the simpler and superior {{flag|United Kingdom}}, but I'm not sure why. You claim "consistent font" in the edit summary, but I have no idea what that means. Note that your preference violates WP:Accessibility guidelines, as a screen reader would say "United Kingdom United Kingdom" (i.e. twice). — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:56, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Nothing. Right, well, thanks for your effort.

Putting aside your sarcasm for the moment, I'd ask you what flag could be placed there? I see no alternatives; the flag of the Commonwealth of Nations is copyrighted and there is no obvious substitute. This is a similar situation to the flag of NATO. But perhaps the better question is why do we need any icon at all there? What extra value is there for the reader of that page? — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:34, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

I'll restore the {{flag|United Kingdom}} templates; I was mistakenly under the impression they made the country name and link bold. Must be a different template. I apologise for my error. --Ħ MIESIANIACAL 20:05, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Catamarca

Please will you comment?

• Template talk:Country data Argentina#Flagless Catamarca

— Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:40, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Huh

Just trying to figure out why you removed my reply? I already accidentally removed it once myself! (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 17:23, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Lord knows how that happened.... I was just looking at your response, but somehow managed to hit rollback? Strange that we both made that mistake; perhaps something is going on with the new Vector skin? — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:30, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Help with flags

Hello I've you are an "expert" in the flag template system and I have a message in the WikiProject Flag Template discussion. I look forward for your answer. Thanks.--An13sa (talk) 09:05, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Could you answer please, if you dont' want to answer please notice me. Thanks.--An13sa (talk) 18:51, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

I don't understand your question. It doesn't seem to be flag related. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:16, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

FYI

Since you've being dealing with this user you may be interested in Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Handicapper Gnevin (talk) 13:53, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Revert war

Please see here Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:24, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

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RSVP

I humbly request your attendance on the Talk Page at Wikiproject Olympics because you reverted one of my edits without a reasonable explanation. I would like to know what I have mis-cited. Since all of the references that I have included are a). useful, b). accurate, c). not mis-cited. Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 20:33, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Actually, they are indeed mis-cited. You wrote Moreover, at the IOC's Session in Paris, in 1901, the IOC made it clear that the second Olympic Games would be held in Athens in 1906. with a reference of Journal of Olympic History, Special Issue - December 2008, The Official Publication of the International Society of Olympic Historians, p. 2, foreword by Karl Lennartz, Tony Bijkerk and Volker Kluge. That reference makes no such statement. You are interpreting what was actually written in that reference, and that is original research. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs)

The exact words on p.2 (verbatim):

"We explained this with the example of the Olympic Games in 1906. These Games took place after an IOC decision taken at the 1901 Session in Paris under the name: Second International Olympic Games Athens 1906."

Those are the exact words from the Journal of Olympic History p. 2, Special Issue, Dec 2008. Once again, what exactly did I mis-cite? Have you read the journal? Do you have a copy? Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 21:02, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Furthermore, the next para says:

"Pierre de Coubertin who himself opposed the decision, but accepted it and shortly before the Games were organised even published an edition of the "Review Olympique" on "the occasion of the Olympic Games in Athens". Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 21:07, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Every time I try to respond I get an edit conflict! Do this in a single edit, please. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 21:17, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

I'll try to but my fingers type quicker than my brain can think and the carriage-return is an automatic reflex which probably came about from when I used to use typewriters in the 1970s. Nipsonanomhmata (talk) 23:37, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Sailing at the ....

Hi,

I see your changes at the Finn and think I understand want to go. I have however three issues with the {{SailingAt1972SummerOlympics}} template:

• It does not show the class signs (minor issue)
• It shows a windsurfer. This is hardly usable before 1988 and even from that date it is very specialized. The Olympic rings could be a suggestion. (mayor issue)
• I would like to see it horizontal at the bottom of the page. (nice to have) Something like the {{Menu}} template.

The footnotes for the crossout is a better solution.

Regards NED33 (talk) 17:37, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

We have a long consensus at WP:WikiProject Olympics for the vertical navbox format and style. You'd have to bring it up there to change to something different. As for the windsurfer icon, I totally agree. The pictogram we use (at File:Sailing pictogram.svg) was originally created by User:Parutakupiu, and he did a wonderful job of making all Olympic sport icons similar in style. He is still active, and I think he would not object to a request to make something less anachronistic. Could you explain to him what you'd like, something that can be generically used on all Olympic sailing articles past-present? I'm guessing it would be a single sailor dinghy, perhaps. You'd want something with the "stick man" to have consistent style, and not just a boat by itself, I think. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:34, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Okay I can live with The vertical navbox. Shall we for the time being move to the Olympic circles while I check with User:Parutakupiu, User:Barbetorte and other sources? Do you mind if I change Rank back to the Finn sign or a combination? Regards NED33 (talk) 18:46, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

I just left a message for Parutakupiu. I don't think there is a rush; we've had that icon for a couple of years, so a few more days to change is fine. I don't think the Finn sign image makes sense as a table heading, and it wouldn't pass the manual of style guidelines. It also stretches the width of the first column, making the table wider unnecessarily. Perhaps just show it as a normal image at full size (e.g. right-side thumbnail) if you think it should be on the article. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:04, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Are you in for the comprimize I just made?NED33 (talk) 19:33, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

I suppose. But it is still contrary to the MOSICON guidelines. If you try to improve this article to good article status, for example, it would be noted then and the image would have to be removed from that location. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:45, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

I settle for good minus on this one :-). NED33 (talk) 20:09, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

I just missed the navboxes at the bottom. Do you mind if I put them back? By doing this you can start wherever and find the for you related info on Olympic sailing. Thanks for your other improvements. Nice working with you. NED33 (talk) 18:50, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

I removed them because they don't align with the Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates guidelines. A navbox should only be placed on articles in the same series or category. For example {{OlympicSports}} is only located on the Archery at the Olympics, Sailing at the Olympics, etc. top-level sport articles, not on every per-event page beneath that. {{Olympic Games Sailing}} is only placed on the Sailing at the 1900 Summer Olympics .. Sailing at the 2008 Summer Olympics articles, also not on every per-event page underneath that. And most importantly, {{Olympic class sailboats}} should only appear on the pages about the boat classes themselves (e.g. Finn (dinghy)). It is not directly relevant to this article. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:04, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Well.... The History of the Finn as class is interrelated, like most of the Olympic classes, with the Sailing and reults of the Olympics as well to the history of the Olympic classes themself as boat. Hyperlinkingthem will help finding info. So I pleed for adding at least the {{Olympic class sailboats}}. ThanksNED33 (talk) 19:33, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

But Finn (dinghy) is already linked in the article, as the second word from the start, no less. I agree that is necessary. But you don't need a navbox to link from this article to RS:X (sailboard) or any of the other boat articles. They're not related to this article so the navbox shouldn't be on it. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:45, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

OkayNED33 (talk) 20:09, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Here the heading~and first content row of the FD. I put the gender in as well. I assume I need 'this for yhe years up to 2012 were for the first time a class is Male or female.

Rank	Helmsman (Country)	Crew	Race I		Race II		Race III		Race IV		Race V		Race VI		Race VII		Total Points
			Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
	Rodney Pattisson (GBR)	Christopher Davies	1	0.0	11	17.0	1	0.0	3	5.7	1	0.0	1	0.0	DNS	35.0	22.7

NED33 (talk) 20:20, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

For multiple-person boats, I think you want to keep all the crew together in one table cell. (This is what we've done for many other Olympic sports with "small teams", such as rowing and some fencing and cycling events.) Perhaps something like:

Rank	Country and Crew	Race I		Race II		Race III		Race IV		Race V		Race VI		Race VII		Total Points
		Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
	Great Britain (GBR) Rodney Pattisson Christopher Davies	1	0.0	11	17.0	1	0.0	3	5.7	1	0.0	1	0.0	DNS	35.0	22.7

If you think it is important to highlight the helmsman, perhaps add another symbol before or after the name. (Perhaps commons:File:Captain sports.svg...?) Don't forget to explain all the image symbols in a table legend, especially if you use the male/female symbols for open class events. (I think the male/female symbols should not appear on any men-only or women-only event pages, as they would be redundant.) Lastly, be sure to use {{Gold01}} instead of {{GoldMedal}}, as we prefer the legible numbers instead of tiny graphics, for WP:ACCESSIBILITY reasons. (The template you are using doesn't even have English alt text, it says "Oro"!) — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 21:44, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

{{Gold01}} Perfect, wish I knew it earlier. The Helmsmen specially nowadays is not more important but the role is different therefore it need something extra. So I have a lokk at rowing tomorrow. I will make the legendat tomorrow and take care about the redundancy from 1988. CU tomorrow, and I hope we keep communicatie like this before to make any changes one way or the other. I like it very much. NED33 (talk) 22:14, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I have looked at rowing, soccer and Bobsledge. Non of them list the specific roles. I do not think this is a right thing for sailing. So I suggest to keep it in two columns and not to make a extra symbol or so, The table does not go too wide so no problem there. Regards NED33 (talk) 10:17, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I think that Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics is much improved in the last couple of day's! Maybe a few percentages can be gained but that will cost too much time in relation with wat still has to be done. Therefore I will use 1972 as the boilerplate for the more regulair Olympics. I will also try to get 1900 as close as possibe to the boilerplate, but this one need, with some other early Olympics, some small differences. Tomorrow I start with 1908 and work my way up.

Moreover, That leaves us with the discussion about the difficult years. At this moment I will not touch 04, 16, 40 and 44 since there are no results there. But in the future I like to spent some time with you about that issue, since there are quit a few things to mention here. Some of the decision then taken had influence on Sailing in general and Olympic Sailing in special. So for the moment I propose not to discuss them and I like to plee to let, in the light of the above, 1896 live for the moment till we move to the difficult years discussion.

So I will take away the {{Underconstruction}} tags on 1972.... and later today 1900.... to make them a part of the Wiki dynamics again.

Regards

NED33 (talk) 17:47, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I created the general statistics table in Sailing at the Summer Olympics. I have only a problem with graying out the olympiads of 96, 04, 16, 40 and 44. Do you have a trick in your toolbox:-)? NED33 (talk) 15:12, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

We have a better and generic graphic in the templates. NED33 (talk) 15:13, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Korea Republic

Hi, can you add

| name alias-futsal = Korea Republic

| link alias-futsal = Korea Republic {{{mw|}}} national futsal team

to this template ? --Mohsen1248 (talk) 19:10, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

 Done — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:34, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

thanks, sorry but I have another work for you to do (thanks in advance).

do you know why this ( {{fbu|23|KOR}} ) ==>> South Korea instead of Korea Republic , can you fix it ? --Mohsen1248 (talk) 22:53, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

 Fixed — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 23:31, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Sailing at the 1900 Summer Olympics

Hi,

I't me again. I saw the changes on this article. Altough I like the cooperation tonight I do not agree on a few changes you made:

• Your information about the number of countries is not correct. Mixed teams or other ZZX teams are always concideres as a separate country (hence ZZX of 1992 for the former CCCP teams) Therefore there are 7 countries.
• The number of participants are arbitrary and no one knows the real thing anymore. So 177 is fine for me. But I'm missing the statistics table. This is a table I like to build up during my actions on the next Olympics. Here you can see the changes the sport made over the years. In 1900 it is almost empty but it will ve complete when I reach 2008/2012. I like therefore to put ik back or do you have a better alternative?
• Is the style guide the only reason to take out the info about the venue's. A bit more background (location on the map, how does ik look) would not harm.

Regards NED33 (talk) 20:58, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I suppose the mixed team complicates things. Explanatory footnotes are best. But note that "ZZX" was an artificial after-the-fact construct for the 1896–1904 results only. The 1992 Unified team is known as "EUN".

The number of competitors at these Games is a bit of a mystery, so I think the best bet might be to explain the situation using the available reliable sources we have, even if they disagree a bit. e.g. Mallon says X, De Wael says Y, etc.

As for the statistics tables, this is great information, but not for this article. We put these summary statistics on the top-level sport pages, in this case Sailing at the Summer Olympics. But it should only be on that page, and not duplicated for the 24 individual per-Games pages for sailing.

As for the venues, I think it is inappropriate to put an infobox in the article for each of them, and certainly irrelevant to show the flag and the coat of arms for the location. The one useful bit of information you had was the geo coordinates, but I think that can be placed in the infobox, which I have just done. (Good idea, I don't think we've done that before!) If the contemporary photos are useful, they could be placed as normal thumbnail images; they don't need to be in an infobox.

Lastly, I am also happy with the cooperative edits we've been doing. I was afraid it might look like I was being disrespectful of your good work by making so many changes, but I'm actually quite pleased we have somebody working to improve the Olympic articles for an entire sport! I just want to make sure those edits are consistent with what we've been doing on all the other Olympic articles in the past few years. Thanks again — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:11, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Sandbox/test

I think you could delete this Sandbox/test page. It has no text on it and is virtually useless. Please tell me what you think. I found the page today. 207.166.197.123 (talk) 01:09, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Please leave me a talkback message if you answer here. 207.166.197.123 (talk) 01:19, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Country data templates

Please see template talk:Country data Germany and template talk:Country data United Kingdom. We need templates for Allied-occupied Germany and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (can this be called UKGBI to save loads of typing?). Mjroots (talk) 06:32, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

I've added the Government flag to the UKGBI template, but it isn't linking correctly in the RMS Titanic article. Any idea why this is? Mjroots (talk) 18:32, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Something funny with the cache on that page, I suppose, because works perfectly properly here. Perhaps ask at WP:VPT...? — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:28, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Never mind, it was just bad infobox markup. Fixed now. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:31, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Mjroots (talk) 19:38, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Help please

I am having difficultly getting through to an editor at Talk:Overseas Chinese#Northern Ireland Flag who seems to think I need to get a change made at Template talk:Country data Northern Ireland. I have explained why that template will not be changed but they do not appear to be listening. Perhaps someone more patient could explain why that template will not be changed? Thank you. O Fenian (talk) 10:43, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Volleyball players

I have seen that you edited some volleyball articles. Some players articles, most of them looks outdated. I would like to improve players by country. Could you please choose a country to contribute with? Please take a look on Yekaterina Gamova, Hélia Souza, Serena Ortolani and Kenia Carcaces for a model to follow. Please can you please improve some volleyball players with infobox and some addons? References are very important. Let me know. Oscar987 22:37, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Mass speedy deletion

Hello again. I thought I should let you know that User:Sfan00 IMG has performed a mass speedy deletion nomination of files that are on the commons, but should be here on Wikipedia, including two that we have previously talk about, File:Flag of Calgary, Alberta.svg and File:Flag of Lethbridge.svg. If the deletions goes through it will create a mess on a lot of pages. There has to be a better way to transfer the files here. 117Avenue (talk) 17:53, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

There is no problem. The images exist on Commons, so he's only nominating the redundant en.wiki description pages for deletion. This will have no effect on image usage. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:07, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Favor requested

I need a favor from you if are interested. On the peer review page of WP:OLYMPICS, I have an article on The Whistler Sliding Centre that is up for peer review in that section. This was the article I mentioned in the WP:OLYMPICS interview in Signpost back in February prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. I was able to get it up to WP:GA on 22 June 2010, only the second Olympic venue to ever get this honor after the venue that they will use for the Sailing at the 2012 Summer Olympics events at London in the United Kingdom.

Would it be possible for you to do this? Please advise. Chris (talk) 20:21, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

I sent you a message on this on the 3rd. Do you have any intentions of reviewing this? Please advise. Chris (talk) 22:25, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't reply earlier. I'm not really fond of writing detailed article review comments, especially for a lot of prose text. But it looks like your article is at GA status already, so I'm not sure what additional review you needed from me...? — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:54, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

I would like another peer review before I take the article to FAR. That is why I was asking. If you not interested, I will ask someone else. Chris (talk) 23:27, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Another user has done the review on WP:OLYMPICS. Please disregard. Chris (talk) 01:13, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

FSM template

Hey mate! I have a request concerning the {{Country data Federated States of Micronesia}} template. I'm not familiar with the workings behind country data templates, so I apologise in advance. At present, the shortname alias "Micronesia" is used; a redirect is also at {{Country data Micronesia}}. I'd like to see these removed. It's not a common name for the country; certainly not used in any official documents (either from the domestic government, foreign governments, or international bodies). According to reputable sources, the country does not have a short-form name: the ISO, the FCO, the USCIA, the USBGN, the UNGEGN. I suppose it would be similar to having a {{Country data America}} template. I know where to propose the deletion of the redirect, but the removal of the alias is the problem, as the template is hard-locked. At present, there is about 320 transculsions of the redirect. I can cleanup those links in no time if need be, but I was wondering if there a way to change the output so that (e.g.) "{{flag|Micronesia}}" = Federated States of Micronesia. Is this possible? Should a discussion be opened beforehand? Your assistance and advice will be greatly appreciated. Regards, Night w (talk) 17:00, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

No, the output of {{flag}} uses the input parameter directly, so you would have to manually change all the instances of {{flag|Micronesia}} to {{flag|Federated States of Micronesia}} (or to {{flagcountry|FSM}} to save some typing) before removing the redirect. I think the best place for a discussion might be Talk:Federated States of Micronesia so you'd reach all the people interested in the country, as the flag tempate pages aren't widely watched. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:25, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

On a related note, is "FS Micronesia" acceptable? See {{MIC}}. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:28, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll open a discussion at the talk page you suggested. As for "FS Micronesia", it's not an official short-name, but I've used it myself numerous times as a short-hand way of writing, and a Google search gets around 250k hits. Are you thinking change the name of the redirect/alias? Night w (talk) 18:21, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

I think many of the {{flag|Micronesia}} instances might be for tables where "Federated States of Micronesia" is too long, so it might make more sense to change those to {{flag|FS Micronesia}} instead. I think the "shortname alias" should be removed (it's only used by {{flagcountry}}) but a Template:Country data FS Micronesia redirect would be useful for tables etc. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:56, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. I've changed over most of the transclusions to one of the better three alternatives, {{MIC}} included. I also logged an RfC at Talk:Federated States of Micronesia to get a wider response. Night w (talk) 12:37, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Upon further reflection, I'm not sure that "FS Micronesia" is a good idea (rather like saying "US America", which nobody does) so I've deleted the redirect I created. I'm also going to replace the instances of {{MIC}} and TfD that, since it is not a valid country code. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:35, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Hey, I opened an RFD here for this issue. Night w (talk) 16:25, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Template:Infobox election‎

My apologies for my edits to Template:Infobox election‎. I thought they were unused fields that didn't do anything. I guess that's the great thing about Wikipedia, you learn something new everyday. 117Avenue (talk) 15:23, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

ROC templates

When you updated the doc files for {{TWN}} and {{TPE}}, did you intentionally leave out the links to {{CHN-ROC}}? If so why? --Lasunncty (talk) 03:05, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that was intentional. I didn't think that CHN-ROC should be described as an alternate form for the same country; it refers to a distinctly different entity. Of course, there is some amount of historical continuity between the pre-Civil War ROC and the current ROC, but I still think it is inaccurate to list the templates together. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 04:36, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Ok, I agree with you there. I only listed it for the historical connection. I didn't intend to imply that they were the same thing. The ROC might disagree, however. --Lasunncty (talk) 18:36, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

1964 Finn Victors.jpg

Hi Andrwsc,

The historic files image:1964 Finn Victors.jpg and image:Yachting Race Area.jpg are chalenged that they 'have rational enough to be used as faire use images. Can you help? If these go more of the unique historic pictures will go in time.

Regards

Rudy, NED33 (talk) 21:18, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

I can't disagree with either of those challenges. For a copyrighted image to be used to describe a historic moment, the moment itself must be discussed in the article text. Three guys smiling on the medal podium isn't a historic moment. A good example of a historic or iconic moment would be File:Carlos-Smith.jpg. As for the map, there are two problems. One is that particular artistic rendition of the map of Sagami Bay is not historic. The map can be re-drawn in a free version. The other problem is that you are using it on multiple pages; fair-use images must have limited use. Hope this helps — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:26, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

1916 Olympics Melbourne?

Hi, I have a picture of a Dutch stamp early last century. That is correcty looking at the price of it:-) I reads 1916 Olympiad Melbourne and it shows a (probably) a metre class yacht. Was there a 1916 bid other that Berlin? Do you have more info on this? Regards RudyNED33 (talk) 20:11, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

I have never heard of a 1916 bid from Melbourne. Are you sure that the "1" isn't a "5" (for "1956")? According to our referenced Bids for Olympic Games page, it wasn't even a candidate in 1916. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 20:39, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Is it this stamp? That's from 1956. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 20:43, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

That's the one. The price (2 + 3 cents) does not fit the 1950's. Or is it a very bad image?NED33 (talk) 09:32, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

User 24.190.185.164

Hello, Andrwsc.

I see that you've just deleted List of Dominican provinces by population. That was a favorite haunt of user MRDU08, who's blocked indefinitely. But why isn't his IP address blocked, too? I see a message on its talk page about its perhaps being shared, but I see no sign that it is, in its contributions history. He's used the IP just this week to do his usual mischief, and created another account, A233AShty (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). I've spent quite a bit of this evening undoing their changes. SamEV (talk) 04:29, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm reluctant to block any IP addresses for extended periods, but I'm happy to help undo MRDU08's mess, so feel free to drop me a message whenever you see new edits. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 04:37, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

OK, thanks. At least now I understand that it wasn't an oversight that the IP's not blocked.

BTW, I'd help undo his beauty pageant-related edits, but I'm too much out of my element there, so other than for lack of sources, I wouldn't know how to judge those edits. SamEV (talk) 04:59, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

RE: edits to Template:Country data Yugoslavia

Please see my response here --DIREKTOR ^(TALK) 19:27, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Yup, I've just been composing a reply to your message. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:39, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

ECO flag

hi,plz tell me how i can make ECO flag!!??
tnx. Shahin (talk) 22:22, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

If you want to make a flag icon template out of File:Economic Cooperation Organization logo.png, you cannot. That is a copyrighted image, so it is against Wikipedia policy (specifically, WP:Non-free content criteria) to use it in a template, transcluded on multiple pages. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:29, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

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Papal States

Can you create a country data template for the Papal States please? Mjroots (talk) 07:18, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

 Done — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 12:10, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, need a couple of tweaks now. I've tried to add a link alias but it doesn't seem to work. The {{Navy}} template link needs fixing, article is at Papal Navy. Mjroots (talk) 13:01, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

All you needed was link alias-naval since there is no unique ensign image. {{navy|Papal States}} and {{navy|Papal States|old}} work as expected, as do {{shipboxflag|Papal States}} and {{shipboxflag|Papal States|old}}. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 13:38, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Template:Country data Kingdom of Great Britain

The use of {{flagicon|Kingdom of Great Britain|naval}} is not producing the correct flag. Can't work out why this is. Mjroots (talk) 08:06, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

 Fixed — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 12:13, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Your replacing of Spanish flag templates

I've noticed you had been replacing "flagicon|Spain|1939" with "flagicon|Spain|1945" on a lot of Wiki pages. Why do you replace one outdated version of the flag with another one? I think the proper use would be just "flagicon|Spain" which gives the default modern version of the flag.

Per WP:MOSFLAG, Use historical flags in contexts where the difference matters. That's why a thousand Wikipedia pages use the Franco-era flags for events that happened between 1938 and 1977. My recent edits are to correct a problem, where there were actually two different variants in this era, but the flag template only supplied one. So flagicon|Spain|1939 etc. is being changed to flagicon|Spain|1938 or flagicon|Spain|1945 as appropriate. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:31, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Fair use images on sailing at the... summer Olympics

Hi,

As you might have noticed many of the fair use images have been removed from the pages sailing at the... this week by User talk:Rettetast. As result a bot is buzy to label them as orphans since they are used no longer. As result of that the images might be deleted.

A few months have past since I started the upgrade of the sailing at the ... series, and with your help on it was possible to reach a high level of generic format for this series. At this moment 1900 till 1972 were upgraded to this high level and the article series heve now left the stage of stub and have grown to a mature status as you will agree.

As we discussed the use of the fair use images by the Finn victors of 1964 the result of the discussion was keep. When these images of races and victors of the Olympics will be deleted we will loose significant information of the history of the sport. Knowlegeble sailor will get a lot of information if they compare, as example, a star race from 1948 with that of one of 1984. Information about development in handling, rigging, tunning and sailing the boat by top sailors at the top event.

By removing the images, that support the articles in a way only words can not convey, the article series will loose valuable information and maturity. The images are not there for decoration but perform an informative rol.

Can you please support the battle of maintaining the level of information maturity in this article series, before the images are deleted and undoing of the changes of User talk:Rettetast will not be possible without creating the images again. Thanks in advance. RudyNED33 (talk) 10:42, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Well, I can't disagree with what Rettetast has been doing. I think you need to understand WP:Non-free content criteria, as I think your fair-use rationales are stretching and breaking the limits of that policy. For example, you say that File:1948 Opening at Torbay.jpg is required because Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because the photo and its historical significance are the object of discussion in the article, but that isn't true. You only used that photo as an infobox decoration, and that was an infobox for the Torbay location so not appropriate. You mention in a single sentence that there was a separate opening ceremony, but that sentence does not require that illustration to significantly increase readers' understanding of the topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding (per WP:NFCC#8). You also have two image galleries, one for boats and one for sailors, and those galleries completely violate the policy because galleries (by definition) are not "minimal usage". I understand your passion for these articles and the photos certainly make them look nicer, but we can't break Wikipedia policy (i.e. not "just a guideline") to illustrate our articles nicely. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:22, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Serbian honours (Only Serbia (national football team))

http://www.olympic.org/en/content/National-Olympic-Committees/serbia/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jolo Buki Original (talk • contribs) 14:50, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

What significance does that link have for the football team? FIFA (http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=srb/index.html) is the reliable source for that. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:06, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Serbian national football team haven't honours. In honours at the article is gold an 1960 Olympics and similar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jolo Buki Original (talk • contribs) 17:53, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Similar in articles about other Serbian national teams. In yugoslavian teams Croats were big bulk.

--Jolo Buki Original (talk) 17:57, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

List of National League pennant winners

I see no discussion on Template talk:Frac about deprecating that template, only about re-working it for better visibility. As to MOS:NUM, it specifically states that "The template ⁄ is available for representing common fractions." Using the Unicode fractions is contrary to WP:ACCESS, as they are not consistently read by any screen reader. This list also passed through the featured list candidacy process with the frac template, so I would suggest updating your browser instead of changing to unreadable Unicode. (not watching your talkpage, so if you respond, please leave talkback) — KV5 • Talk • 15:58, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

MOSNUM says that {{frac}} is "available", not that it should be exclusively used. It does not say anything at all about Unicode characters, let alone their deprecation. There is no mention at all about fractions on WP:Manual of Style (accessibility), and indeed, the Template talk:Frac discussion seems to indicate a problem with that method with respect to screen readers. Lastly, a suggestion to switch from IE8 is somewhat disingenuous, since that is the most popular browser used by Wikipedia readers. I think it is unacceptable to keep formatting and accessibility problems on a featured list. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:08, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

And I think that it is unacceptable to add additional formatting and accessibility problems to a featured list (actually, in this case, two featured lists), as you have done. You should have discussed, per WP:BRD, before reverting back to Unicode fractions again. — KV5 • Talk • 16:17, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

What formatting and accessibility problems did I introduce? The talkpage claims seem to be that Unicode solutions are better. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:19, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Formatting: the Unicode fractions are barely big enough to read at a 1024x768 resolution, much less a larger resolution. Accessibility: as I said, screen readers ignore Unicode fractions, skipping them completely. — KV5 • Talk • 16:30, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Where do you see comments about screen readers ignoring Unicode fractions? The recent Template talk:Frac discussion says the opposite. I don't use one, so I don't know. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:34, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Here is one of several discussions in which I have participated: link. — KV5 • Talk • 17:19, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. I've read through that, and it sounds like User:Dewelar is the only editor in that discussion with screen reader experience, but there is no actual discussion from WP:ACCESS. I shall start something there and hopefully get a current opinion from an expert. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:05, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

OK. Let me know what you find out with a note at my talk page, if you don't mind. Thanks. — KV5 • Talk • 18:17, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Youth Olympics country infoboxes

Hi Andrwsc, I'm seeking your feedback with regards to the usage of per-country Youth Olympics infoboxes. The main discussion is here. I was told you're coordinating the Olympics infoboxes, so here am I to solicit your opinions :D ANGCHENRUI ^Talk♨ 12:39, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Did you get...

...all of the templates created by the same editor and at the same time as Template:Country data Oruro? I noticed that several were created, but by the time I got around to tagging them my "hook" had been deleted and I couldn't access the contributions of the creator. 69.181.249.92 (talk) 23:18, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Help on FLC comments

Hey Andrwsc. Hope you're ok! Could you help me answering the comments on this FLC page? Mostly the first one about the reliability of Sports-Reference which I can't seem to have a proper answer for... :S You don't need to answer there for me, just give me some arguments in favour of the website. Thanks! Parutakupiu (talk) 12:32, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Gosh, that page was right there in front of me! So easy... Thank you so much for the prompt answer! Best regards. ;) Parutakupiu (talk) 18:21, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Flagicon

Actually, I am about to start revamping every South American nations' article in order to facilitate the usage of the flags and cities (all very well within the manual of style). I am not merely using it for decoration. Please do not make it harder. Admitedly, the motivation behind first starting this is to make the chart on the Records and statistics of the Copa Libertadores#By city more relevant (this qualifies perfectly for its usage) but I decided to go ahead and do the same for every nation of South America. There are only 10 countries so it shouldn't take a lot of time. Please undelete anything you have deleted. Theresident (talk) 18:40, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

There is very strong consensus against the use of municipal flags for decorations like this. If you can convince the editors at WT:FOOTY of your plan, then I will undelete the templates, but I can't see that happening. The Manual of Style exists for a good reason. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:42, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

1908 Olympics field hockey

It is a confusion whether the flag should be use flag of "England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland" or just "Great Britain"? Because all 4 nations represented for Great Britain in Field hockey at the Summer Olympics for 1908. --Aleenf1 11:44, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

I would say the UK flag is most appropriate, since that is what they used at the opening ceremonies etc. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:48, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

Youth Olympics in Infobox Olympic event

Hey there, Andrwsc. When you have the chance, could you do your magic here? Thank you! Parutakupiu (talk) 23:08, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

List of Arab flags & Pan-Arab colors

Hello,

What should I do for these two pages? The IP contributor seems to be playing safe position. Can you protect them?

I asked him to stop putting POV information on the article, explained that following WP's NPOV policy, disputed territories should be listes separately (not as part of the forst claimer, nor as independent (under the rule of the second claimer)), but it didn't help... He answered by putting the same message on my talk page [4]!!

I think I'll give up, people like this one are too strong for me :p

Omar-Toons (talk) 13:14, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

The edit-warring on those pages is getting ridiculous. I have fully-protected both pages for you to arrive at a lasting consensus with the other editor(s), so please use the article talk pages for discussion. Also please note that you are both in violation of WP:3RR, so please consider this a warning to stop, or you will both be blocked. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 21:12, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Country Template NL

He Andrwsc, thanks for the fast response to my edit request on the country data page for the netherlands. I was just correcting my request (as I apparently had missed the last discussion on the army-flags...) when I saw you already had performed the inclusion of the Batavian republic flag... rgds! L.tak (talk) 17:10, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

No worries! — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:41, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Flag of French Guiana

I believe you may have been precipitate in changing the flag in the country data template for French Guiana. The new flag has been approved only by the minor authority, so it seems that it is the flag of the département, not of the region, and as region is the higher ranking level of authority, this flag is noit appropriate to represent the region. If a country level flag is needed, presumably it should be that of France: French Guiana is as much a part of France as the Isle of Wight is of England or Alaska of USA. I've posted thoughts here. Kevin McE (talk) 17:18, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

DR Congo

Hi once again, please change Democratic Republic of the Congo to DR Congo, thanks in advance. --Mohsen1248 (talk) 12:29, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

 Done — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:03, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Mockingjay

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Mockingjay seems to have been vandalized a bit lately. 95.34.175.206 (talk) 21:10, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Jeff Deslauriers

Thanks for cleaning this up for me, I figured out how to move pages after I made the changes to this article. Whoops...

--Russ Jericho (talk) 22:23, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Maratha Confederacy Template

I don't mind the clean-up, but there's something wrong here. The Maratha Confederacy may be referred to via a flagcountry, as it was common in the latter stages of the country to be called as the Confederacy as opposed to the Empire. I don't see why a redirect alias from Confederacy needs to be removed.

And the flagcountry entry should really be either Maratha Empire or Maratha Confederacy, because there's no such country or state as "Maratha", which is a demonym. Sabre (talk) 04:39, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Ah, I see. I usually look at the "List of sovereign states" series to determine if a shortname alias should be used, and List of sovereign states in 1769 uses "Maratha". I suppose that should be fixed. But I took a look (with AWB) at all 80 pages that use the flag image, and only four pages use it with "Maratha Confederacy", so I'm not sure the redirect is needed either. But I've restored both anyway. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 06:30, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

I did some snooping around, and I don't see any evidence of the state being called merely "Maratha" anywhere. Maps of the period describe it as either "Mahratta States" or "Mahratta Confederacy". The Confederacy redirect should stay, for posterity's sake and also because it's pertinent.Sabre (talk) 14:01, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Darius

Hi. :) Regarding your comments at User talk:Darius Dhlomo, I wonder if it would be a good idea for you to bring up at WP:ANI why you think a community ban is warranted? I have not looked at his extensive talk page history beyond scanning for copyright concerns (in part because I don't want to prejudice myself in leaving this note!), but I suspect that many admins will look only at the reason for which he was blocked and the unblock request and not notice that you have wider concerns. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:51, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Good suggestion; I have just started a new thread. Thanks — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:47, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Reply

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Another reply. :) -- Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 16:14, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Please, I don't need silly talkback messages. I watch every talk page I comment on. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:16, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Please stop

Please stop. Gwen Gale (talk) 19:37, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Please explain why you need to extend a high-use template merely for an icon image on your user page. That is the sole transclusion instance of the CHpantone variant on all of Wikipedia, and I fail to see why you need to clutter the country data template for your own purposes. Also, in your revert, you re-added the altvar line. Why did you do that? Why do you think it is needed? — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:42, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

The Pantone colour is one of two defined and authorized by the federal government in Zurich, it belongs in the template, the template is not complete and moreover misleading without it.

On another topic, until I know that removing the altvar will not limit helpful functionality now or at some later time, I see no need to remove it.

Please use the template talk page for further discussion. Thanks. Gwen Gale (talk) 19:52, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

As you wish. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:57, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

East Germany

Please see template talk:Country data East Germany - the East and West German flags were identical between 1949 and 1959, per the Flag of Germany article. Therefore it would seem that we need a 1949 variant of the East Germany flag (i.e. West Germany flag linking to East Germany article). I've tried but can't work out how to do this one. Mjroots (talk) 19:51, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Irish Free State

Hi Andrwsc, I just noticed that there is no {{flag|Irish Free State}}. It would be essentially identical to {{Country data Republic of Ireland}} but used in different circumstances. Maybe there is a deliberate reason for it's absence. --RA (talk) 18:34, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

I suspect most of the time people used something like {{flag|Ireland|name=Irish Free State}} (especially with sport templates like {{fb}}, where you'd want to link to Republic of Ireland national football team anyway), but since there is a distinct Irish Free State article, there is no reason not to have a country data template. I've just created it! — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 20:47, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Legend as ever! Thanks. You wouldn't mind putting it in as a related template for [[[:Template:Country_data_Ireland#Related_templates]]? --RA (talk) 21:07, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

2004 Ryder Cup

Hi. I don't understand your edit summary explanation in reverting my edit. I didn't change the flag and I understand that the EU flag is also the flag of Europe more generally. My point was that we shouldn't call the team an "EU" team, when it doesn't specifically represent the European Union. Cordless Larry (talk) 15:11, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Your edit removed the flag of Europe from the infobox altogether. Why would you think that is better? "EU" as an internal parameter to {{Infobox Ryder Cup}} doesn't mean "European Union", it just means to display the Europe flag & team. You'll notice that the alt text for the image says "Flag of Europe". — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 15:14, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I have just realised that. I didn't realise that the flag was dependent on the infobox field. I still think it's a problem to abbreviate "Europe" to "EU" when it's the common abbreviation for "European Union". It's not just the flag it effects, it also appears after the captain's name. Cordless Larry (talk) 15:17, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Those are a consequence of using {{flagicon|EU}}, which ought to be {{flagicon|Europe}}. I can fix that quickly with an AWB run later today, but for now I am restoring the flags that you removed. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 15:21, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

I suggest we change the infobox template to use "Europe" rather than "EU". Cordless Larry (talk) 15:20, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Sure, but that type of work should happen before you damage the articles. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 15:21, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Once again, I'm sorry for that. I obviously didn't realise the implications of my edits. Cordless Larry (talk) 15:22, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) Now what's going on? I changed the template and then started to change "EU" to "Europe" in each of the articles. I then find you reverting my change to the template! Cordless Larry (talk) 15:29, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I have a better repair in mind that doesn't wreck the infoboxes in an intermediate state while editing, as you've done. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 15:31, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Can you just stop for a moment? There is a way to repair this in such a way that you don't damage anything in the meantime... — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 15:28, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

If you hadn't have interrupted me, I would have had the issue resolved in a matter of seconds. I have to say that I find your attitude and failure to assume good faith rather humiliating. Cordless Larry (talk) 15:32, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

I am annoyed at the carelessness of your edits. You damaged the infobox of a dozen articles without even knowing it, only because you objected to a parameter that is only seen in wiki markup. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 15:35, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Yes, and you've made me aware of my carelessness and I've apologised for it. Now that I know how the template works, you're preventing me from changing it for the better. Cordless Larry (talk) 15:36, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Furthermore, as I've mentioned above, the parameter is not only seen in markup. It also appears after the European captain's name. Cordless Larry (talk) 15:38, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

If you had "fixed" the template like this in the first place, nothing would have been broken at any time. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 15:39, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Only that still doesn't seem to have done anything about the initial problem, as "EU" is still appearing after the captain's name. Cordless Larry (talk) 15:41, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

OK, I get it now - we still need to change the individual articles. Cordless Larry (talk) 15:44, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Well, yes. That was my point; you were only altering a single flag in the infobox, but doing absolutely nothing about the other flags in the article. You couldn't bother to spend the time to fix it properly or wait for me instead of stampeding ahead with an incomplete set of edits. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 15:51, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

The EU and European flags display exactly the same in articles, so I didn't judge that to be as important as fixing the abbreviation problem, which was visible to readers. Cordless Larry (talk) 15:55, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

(ec) Well, actually they don't. You are dismissing people who use screen readers, for whom the flags are rendered differently. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 15:59, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

OK, but I still don't see how the presence of one problem with an article prevents me from resolving another. There are lots of articles on Wikipedia with multiple issues, but we don't ask editors not to attempt to fix one of them unless they fix all. Cordless Larry (talk) 16:02, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

GB and Ireland Ryder Cup teams

I'm loath to touch Template:Infobox Ryder Cup again and it's a more complicated issue this time, so I'm reporting this issue to you in the hope that you can fix it. The 1973 Ryder Cup, 1975 Ryder Cup and 1977 Ryder Cup articles have "GB" after the Great Britain and Ireland captain's name. Could you change this to "GB and Ireland", or something similar? Cordless Larry (talk) 22:06, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Yes, certainly. Also, the 1977 infobox wraps in an ugly way that it didn't used to. I'll get to it soon! — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:29, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for fixing that. I see that you also changed the US captions, but now they're inconsistent. Most use "United States", while others such as 1985 Ryder Cup use "USA". The Ryder Cup website seems to use "Europe" and "USA", so I suggest that we use those. Cordless Larry (talk) 11:48, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

When I made those edits, I made the infobox match the article prose. If "Team United States" or "Team USA" was used in the article, that's what I used for the infobox. So they are consistent within the article, but not between articles, as you've seen. I can start another quick AWB run to make them all "USA". — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 15:11, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Great, thanks. Sorry for being such a stickler. Cordless Larry (talk) 16:00, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

No, not at all! I'm a firm believer in consistency too. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 23:28, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Multi-sport events

Hello! Would you be interested in joining WikiProject Multi-sport events? We work on improving Wikipedia's coverage of multi-sport events. If so, please feel free to add your name to the members list! Thanks!

— Not sure if you have the time to commit though; you seem really busy :) Perhaps you know of editors who might be interested? Cheers, ANGCHENRUI ^Talk♨ 09:45, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Country data Leeward Islands

Hi there. I had tried to create the template for Country data Leeward Islands yesterday to be able to display the image at File:Leewards.PNG. I see that it has been deleted by you. Was there something wrong? Sorry, I haven't created a country data template before and apolgise if I made any mistake.

Is there any scope to re-create this template correctly?

Aditya.krishnan.82 (talk, contribs)

The image File:Leewards.PNG is copyrighted, so it is against Wikipedia policy (WP:NFCC) to transclude it from a template. Only the Leeward Islands cricket team article can display the image, under a valid fair-use rationale. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:16, 13 October 2010 (UTC)