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[edit] Sorry I'm not on wiki too much lately...
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User:MJCdetroit is not as active lately as he once was. When my mac is on, it is being used for much more serious things: Job searches (me) or for my wife to sell jewelry on Etsy.com (user: Elegantflair) or other stuff on Ebay. Hopefully this unemployment stuff won't last much longer; prayers, coins tossed into fountains, lucky rabbits' feet, whatever you can do that might help me... can't hurt. Thanks —MJCdetroit (yak) 02:56, 20 March 2009 (UTC) |
[edit] Elevation footnotes
Thanks for sorting this out in the template ... and fixing the Leeds page too! ( I went to edit it, having put the template on my Watchlist and spotted the update, and found you'd already been there). Looks good. And good luck with the job hunting! PamD (talk) 08:48, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Pin point size
Hi Detroiter. I was wondering if you could change the size of the fat pin point on Template:Infobox Settlement to a smaller size 6. Check out Rouen for instance and I think a small pin point makes an improved precision with the maps, especially for smaller countries. Could you make the change? Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:04, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
ALso any chance you can use your bot to standardise the infoboxes on the municipalities of Spain, the current fat ones are horrid. A lot of them don't have any box a lot have the really fat boxes. It is a complete mess. Could you use a bot to replace them with a standard infbox settlement adding data and preferably including a location map spain and most people have no idea where they are in spain from just a municipality map. Dr. Blofeld White cat 10:49, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
- I took care of the marker size.
- As for the bot stuff: I CAN'T, I no longer have a windows based computer. My only windows based computer was company owned and I couldn't take it with me when they canned all of us. Sorry. —MJCdetroit (yak) 03:33, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Ahhh thats a shame sorry to hear about your job, I'm not exactly finding it easy either. Take care. Dr. Blofeld White cat 14:01, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Request for help
I thought it might be a good idea to run a contest or two through the Countries WikiProject to attract editors to improve country coverage on Wikipedia, especially the country outlines.
I noticed you are a member of the WikiProject, and was wondering if you could help.
I've posted a message at Countries WikiProject talk page to get discussion started on what the awards programs should be and how they should be run.
Your ideas and feedback would be greatly appreciated.
The Transhumanist 23:35, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Marathon edits
Thank you for your reformatting of the Marathon article, but in the process you made changes in the national style of spelling (kilometre-->kilometer and metre-->meter) that are inappropriate per WP:RETAIN in the Manual of Style. That must have made for much unnecessary work. The article is of international interest and was written entirely or almost entirely in UK style. I've reverted those changes. Please let's not "fix" what's not broken. Hertz1888 (talk) 22:04, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- It seemed to have been a mix of both British and American English, so I choose one. If this caused you itch uncontrollably than by all means switching it to however you like was fine by me. I really truly don't have a preference either way for this article. —MJCdetroit (yak) 15:25, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Template:Convert/or
Do you have any objection to me reinstating this subtemplate? Or any pointers as to what issues it might cause, or what issues might be encountered as a result? My question is prompted by the request at Template_talk:Convert#Convert_.22or.22. --ClickRick (talk) 13:19, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
- I believe that I deleted it because I was going about it the wrong way to begin with (but that was a long time ago). I would double check with User:Jimp first. There used to display the subtemplates that needed to be fix in Template:Convert/Maintenance/outputs/standard, but it doesn't seem to work anymore.
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- disp=or does appear to work.-----308 feet or 94 metres
- I'll check out the convert talk page, but I don't get a change to login to wiki much, so don't count on me to do any fixing....sorry. —MJCdetroit (yak) 19:51, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Navy and white header
Hi. What would you say about adding a seettlement title strip at the top of the infobox in dark navy and white. Like Golden Gate Bridge for instance. What do you think? I think it would make the place name stand out more in the infobox. Dr. Blofeld White cat 09:29, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
- i did tht before & some ppl don't like it. Caused a real shit storm. blank was neutral & non offensive. but propse it again. —MJCdetroit (yak) 14:22, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Where do I propose the change? Yeah some people resist to even the smallest of changes. Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:35, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] HMIS
I would like to add some information from the NPCA to the HMIS article. Any advice for my first time doing Wikipedia editing?Florence Murrey (talk) 20:46, 21 June 2009 (UTC)Florence Murrey
