User talk:Eyreland
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Your posts at EAR
I have just had to refactor your two posts at EAR to fix the mess left by your use of templates. Please do not transclude templates in discussions, and particularly not in to section headings. If you need to link to a template, use tl. Adrian M. H. 18:09, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
Probably (in the long run) the Wiki webmaster needs to fix this little scripting problem! I thought that by adding spaces in my second request that the problem would go away -- but it did not.
Anyway -- as long as someone can create the needed categories to organize the messy linkages ... no harm done.
Eyreland 18:20, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
- That is not a scripting problem! If you just add {{name of template}} to a page without using tl or nowiki tags, you're gonna get the template. That's the whole point of the curly brackets in the MediaWiki software. And while I'm here, your question was not clear: do you actually want a new category? That has nothing to do with templates, but it's pretty easy to do. Just make a cat link at the bottom of a relevant article; it will be red; click on it and save the category page. You may need to add something to the edit to get it to save the page; if that happens, just an HTML comment or something (anything hidden). Adrian M. H. 18:27, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
It is my understanding that adding a new category is what one is supposed to do. It is implied that admins do this, or have this responsibility.
Templates badly needed, similar to Video formats
- Template:FOREX (Foreign Exchange, some finance infoboxes present -- but awkward)
- Template:Audio broadcasting
- Template:Error correction (a similar one exists for cryptographic hashes)
- Template:Barcodes (2d, 3d, circular etc...)
- Anyone can create a category. Adrian M. H. 13:07, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
shortwave relay station
Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove speedy deletion tags from articles that you have created yourself, as you did with Shortwave relay station. If you do not believe the article should be deleted, then please place {{hangon}} on the page (please do not remove any existing speedy deletion tag) and make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will look at your reasoning before deciding what to do with the article. Thank you. -- Iván Sánchez(talk) 08:25, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
I was going to get around to adding the 'hangon tag, however I have a very old 1994 monitor that does not render that text very well at 800x600. If you can't read the suggestion, you can't act on it. Eyreland 08:32, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
You made a change suggesting that there is a difference between Sirius/XM/WorldSpace on one hand and DVB-SH/SDR/... on the other. I agree and also left a comment on the talk page. Feel free to go ahead and make the split official. 24.81.130.107 11:20, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
The split is that Sirius/XM/WorldSpace are US corporations, and that the other items are transmission modes that would go with AM / FM / etc... although Audio Broadcasting is more of a data layer issue with other modes.
I would have included NICAM (an excellent DAB system in its own right), Zweiton etc ... but those are TV broadcast only.
The exact way to properly make the split (cleanly) has not donned on me yet -- so if someone gets to it before I do that is OK.
I did not feel the need to leave a comment, as I had little time and it was fairly clear already why the clairification was made.
Eyreland 21:17, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
