User talk:John James

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Template:Wikipedia text

Hi John: thanks for the heads up regarding a bug. Could you give me an example of a page that is having the issue you describe so I can look? I'm only aware of one potential issue with this template, and that is that for pages with multi-word titles, it's important to use underscores instead of spaces. So, for example, instead of:

{{Wikipedia text|Supreme Court of the United States|Edition ID}}

type

{{Wikipedia text|Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States|Edition ID}}

Let me know if that helps. --Forgottenman (talk) 07:02, 9 April 2011 (MSD)

Yeah that took care of it. Interesting I missed that. I actually went back to the template page and noticed the underscores are there in the example...I would have sworn they weren't there before, but I can see the page hasn't been updated in months so I obviously just overlooked it. Thanks for the response. --John James 08:49, 9 April 2011 (MSD)

On Categories

Hallo John James, very nice work on all the newly created content pages! There is one thing, though, I am not so sure about - does it make sense to create so many new categories, most of which will stay empty for the foreseeable future? (See e.g. the categories on the Peter Schiff page.) Pestergaines 00:38, 12 April 2011 (MSD)

I've removed these categories from that page. Categories are only helpful to readers when there are a significant number of articles in each one. I don't see a need for copying Wikipedia's bureaucracy and structure in our much smaller wiki. --Forgottenman (talk) 00:51, 12 April 2011 (MSD)

Yeah that was really the only one I left them all on. I wasn't sure about that figured they were mostly pretty general categories that other things would fit into without too much difficulty. --John James 09:10, 12 April 2011 (MSD)

Infobox template

Hallo John, you have recently updated the Infobox template to a much larger feature set. That is all to the good, but it seems all the country boxes are now broken. (See e.g. Ireland.) What can be done to fix this? Pestergaines 14:36, 3 May 2011 (MSD)

FYI: I'll do a revert on the Infobox template, hope that things will work fine afterwards. Please let me know if that's not the case! Pestergaines 12:55, 6 May 2011 (MSD)