Wikipedia:Requested templates/Archive 12

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Would it be possible to make a template with all the geologic ages and their corresponding radiometric ages? It should work somehow like this: typing ((template:age.danian)) should return "66.0 ma" or "66.0 million years". Maybe the output could have "not unit" (66.0) "short unit" (66.0 ma) and "long unit" (66.0 million years). If someone can make the template I could fill it with all the numbers and names. Here is a link to the table of the information this template would use http://www.stratigraphy.org/ics%20chart/ChronostratChart2012.pdf). Tobias1984 (talk) 18:58, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

I started the template here. --Tobias1984 (talk) 15:09, 1 November 2012 (UTC)

::Can't get it to work. Could somebody take a look? :) --Tobias1984 (talk) 19:15, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

It works now. But it returns a lot of spaces in tables (e.g. List of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points) and it messes with the formatting when it is inserted into a text. --Tobias1984 (talk) 11:12, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

I even got that to work now. So I guess I don't need any help anymore :). My problem was that there was a break after the closing bracket s "}}" and before the noinclude tag. --Tobias1984 (talk) 15:02, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

You mean in the documentation? I fixed it. If you need more help, simply ask me at my talk. Regards, mabdul 15:23, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi! I'm from lb-wiki, not requesting a new template but (if possible) a fix of our localisation map templates, which our user Kaffi copied from en-wiki. Unfortunately he's off already for quite some time, so I can't ask him any longer, and at our small wiki nobody else has a clue about this kind of templates. It's difficult to notice any mistakes, because the general programming looks a priori fine, but in some cases it strikes nevertheless for being really obvious: Rome located in the sea, Brussels located outside the Brussels-Capital Region, Chicago not at Lake Michigan. We would be very grateful for any helping hand or idea on this subject. --Otets (talk) 10:06, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

It's not the template. The coordinates entered are different. Secondarywaltz (talk) 17:41, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Would be funny if it would be that easy, but no. Chicago and Rome use exactly the same coordinates as en-wiki, and Brussels is only veeery slightly different (which does not cause a delocalisation of dozens of miles). The templates work actually fine if the maps have their original size (cf. my test page), but as soon as they're in the "infobox" templates in a shrunk size, the markers are the more delocalised the more shrunk the maps are. --Otets (talk) 11:56, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

I would like to propose the following template, to be named OnProd -

[[{{{1}}}]] was [[Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion#Nominating|nominated for deletion]] on [[:Category:Proposed_deletion_as_of_{{safesubst:#time: j_F_Y }}|{{safesubst:#time: Y-m-d }}]]

The template would be called by code such as this: [[PageName]] was [[Wikipedia:Proposed deletion#Nominating|nominated for deletion]] on [[:Category:Proposed deletion as of 20 January 2013|2013-01-20]].

The purpose would be similar to {{On AFD}} but for deletion nominations rather than discussions. It would be used in our project name space to easily insert the necessary information to update the proposed deletions section of the project page.

The transcluded text would look like this:

PageName was nominated for deletion on 2012-12-29

} 22:13, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

I guess I don't need to request this - I've put it up at Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Template:OnProd.

No longer watching this page - thanks for being patient with me.

} 22:46, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Streaming services

Hi could some create an Infobox template for articles like lovefilm netflix and sky go the name could be called template:Infobox streaming services or something else 142.4.216.61 (talk) 16:43, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Have you tried using {{infobox website}}? Or {{infobox company}}? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:42, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

but what I mean creating an Infobox for these streaming sites so you can add information like video formate what video player does it use and more 86.173.149.162 (talk) 00:35, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Ask on the talk page of the website infobox, for those parameters to be added. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:11, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

It seems there is no support for a wikisource link in a poem infobox as there is in a book infobox. Can this functionality be added? ie:

{{Infobox poem
...
...
| wikisource = The Raven
}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aschuess (talk • contribs) 03:26, 14 March 2013‎

 Done --207.62.160.91 (talk) 06:15, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

I request two templates, to solve the problem of when an article is merged leaving behind a redirect but the merged article's talk page is kept in place, resulting in talk topics for the destination article being found on two talk pages, including when one or both pages are archived. Once the second talk page is started, a history merger of the talk pages is almost always inappropriate, because it is not a true merger but an overwriting and there's a need to preserve old content and attributions for copyright reasons. So the talk pages should be kept but readers of either should be told of the other. Cross-references between current talk pages are needed. (They're not needed on archival pages.)

I created similar messages on both models, but using the {{Notice}} template, at Talk:Wife selling (Chinese custom) (post-redirection) and Talk:Wife selling (destination). I did not find any similar or related template and I don't remember ever seeing a similar situation on another talk page.

The destination article's talk page should tell readers that a companion talk page can be found where the old talk page was. The talk page for the former article that is now a redirect should have a notice discouraging talk except to improve the redirect but otherwise recommending that talkers go to the destination article's talk page.

The default text should not speak of merger because, to be precise, that is not always the process, and move seems generic enough. I'm not sure the losing article would always be a redirect; I suppose it's possible (although apparently lately uncommon) for an article to be deleted but the talk page kept (I have seen an archive kept when both the article and the current talk page were deleted), and therefore the default text should not assume that the losing page is a redirect. It also should not be assumed, when drafting the default text, that a redirect will always stay a redirect. Each new template should have a parameter for naming the other talk page and that parameter should be mandatory. Both should have icons; the destination page's template should have an icon for a notice while the former article's talk page's template should have an icon for a stop sign. Substitution probably should not be used.

One could be named Template:Talk_destination. I don't know what to name the other (Template:Talk_...).

The notices I created can, presumably, be replaced with the new templates.

Thanks.

) 16:07, 30 June 2013 (UTC) (Corrected phrasing and moved text: 16:15, 30 June 2013 (UTC))

Ramesh Kshitij

You are kindly requested to help me to add standard templates to add Ramesh Kshitij page and i want to standardize it with notably.

talk

) 21:57, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

tables with floating header row

check out the big table on this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_the_Children_State_of_the_World%27s_Mothers_report

once I've scrolled past the header, I can't see it without scrolling back up, which bugs the crap out of me when I'm trying to compare countries.

So what is the solution?

a) the table header row should float down with me while the table is on the screen

b) (regarding comparing rows) a filter by [header key]:[verb]:[value] directive.

eg. Filter by 'Nation' 'equals Israel' OR 'contains Palestin' would let me compare the row for 'Israel' and 'Occupied Palestinian Territory' (the 'contains' verb would allow me to not have to know what they called those territories here now) and then compare them side by side.

Downtowncanada (talk) 16:51, 3 August 2013 (UTC)

Hi

talk

) 13:51, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

A talk page may really be about a closely-related talk page, such as if an article was merged or redirected but the talk page was not and might or might not still be in use. The two best solutions seem to be to move content from one talk page to the other or to add a message box high on each talk page cross-referencing the other. Moving risks losing a history for attributions, needed because of copyright; that could happen if a now-empty talk page is associated with an article or a redirect and both the article or redirect and the associated talk page are deleted. Adding a tag is easier. I've already created custom messages for a couple of talk-page pairs. I don't know if anyone else has done this. I don't know if we need a standard template for the purpose, but I understand there is a preference that if a message has to be posted enough times then it should be made into a template. These are cases I know of:

• Talk:Rafael Vinoly
• Talk:Wife selling referencing Talk:Wife selling (Chinese custom) (the latter opposes new topics)

This does not have to be designed all at once to be at least minimally useful. A simple template can be made somewhat more sophisticated later.

I suggest that text be from a choice of two sentences and a custom string and that there be one parameter for the talk page to be referred to. The two sentences, the first being the default:

• There is additional content at
• There may be additional content at

Either sentence or the custom string would be followed by the destination (as a link) and a period.

Designing to be small seems to be visually good.

It may be useful to advise readers normally to post to one or the other to the exclusion of current practice. To that end, a choice of two additional sentences could follow the basic sentence, separated by a space, using one optional parameter:

• Future topics for either talk page generally should be started on the [[...|other talk page]], not this one.
• Future topics for either talk page generally should be started on [[...|this talk page]], not on the other one.

The ellipsis would be replaced by the value of the parameter for the other talk page or by the current talk page's title, respectively. If topics could generally be started on either talk page, the parameter would not be applied.

A final optional parameter could support a custom string.

If it is desired to be especially emphatic in discouraging starting new topics on the current talk page, a parameter might make the box not small, replace the icon with a more intense choice, and apply a more directive sentence, such as:

• Please do not post any discussion here unless you are posting about the present ... [page/article/redirect/other]. Previous ... [page/article/redirect/other] contents were merged into ... [destination] and any new discussion should be posted to Talk:... [destination].

I don't know if a maintenance category is needed, but adding it can wait, since its effect would be retroactive for pages still tagged.

) 21:43, 5 October 2013 (UTC) (Corrected a talk page title: 21:49, 5 October 2013 (UTC))

Do we have a collapsible box that expands to full width?

Our current collapsible templates seem to have fixed width. I would like a collapsible box that, when expanded, changes its width to 100%.

Something that could we could float right and allowing article text to wrap-around, but when expanded could take up the full width of the column.

Do we already have that? if not, is it possible to create it? --HectorMoffet (talk) 19:57, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Could somebody please translate fr:Modèle:Loi belge to create {{Cite Belgian law}} (along the lines of {{Cite Russian law}} etc.)?

It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 15:27, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Could somebody please translate it:Template:Cita legge italiana to create {{Cite Italian law}} (along the lines of {{Cite Russian law}} etc.)?

It Is Me Here ^{t / c} 15:28, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Can someone make a template showing that the carbon dioxide concentration int he atmosphere is decreasing or increasing (compared to the previous year )? This would require a list of data, but thats allready available, see the keeling curve article, and Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. The idea is that the template shows clearly whether we are losing or winning the war against global warming. You could add the text "We are _ _ the war against global warming" (first _ gets generated text (ie slow, moderate, fast) and second _ gets either the generated text "winning" or "losing" . The slow, moderate or fast would be generated from the difference in percentage between the numbers of the last year and the year before.

^{10:28, 21 January 2014 (UTC)}

I'am looking desperately for a kind of TextInputField without any button. For instance the extension mediawiki Extension:Quiz comes with a TextInputField BUT with a button. I would like to youse this TextInputFields (or something similar) as a scratchpad for the language student (for my projects in de:wikibooks and es:wikilibros) - here is some example where I would like to integrate it. The input in the TextInputField must not be evaluated or further processed. it should just be possible for the reader (student) so type his inputs (befor he opens the solution to look for the correct results). Maybe some kind of mw:Extension:InputBox will do the same thing, BUT they all come with a button (that I am not able to suppress. Outside Wikipedia-world some kind of easy HTML-text would do this. Can somebody help me please. --Bin im Garten (talk) 19:11, 5 January 2014 (UTC)

Closest I could come up with

 

You can create an input field with a really small button, but it's still limited to the features of mw:Extension:InputBox. There isn't any way to create a form on Wikipedia as <form> and <input> tags are not whitelisted. Template:Inputbox has more on why it can't be done on Wikipedia. The search button also can't be removed because the whole thing must be edited within a #tag magicword format. Penitence (talk) 14:30, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

The template red links in this section cover either musicians, musical ensembles or organizations. They should be navigation boxes at the bottom of the articles. Musical templates should contain the people, albums and songs associated with the topic. Organization templates should contain the people, products, and subsidiaries affiliated with them.

--Jax 0677 (talk) 02:28, 21 December 2013 (UTC) --Jax 0677 (talk) 17:51, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi! I'm from lb-wiki, not requesting a new template but (if possible) a fix of our localisation map templates, which our user Kaffi copied from en-wiki. Unfortunately he's off already for quite some time, so I can't ask him any longer, and at our small wiki nobody else has a clue about this kind of templates. It's difficult to notice any mistakes, because the general programming looks a priori fine, but in some cases it strikes nevertheless for being really obvious: Rome located in the sea, Brussels located outside the Brussels-Capital Region, Chicago not at Lake Michigan. We would be very grateful for any helping hand or idea on this subject. --Otets (talk) 10:06, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

It's not the template. The coordinates entered are different. Secondarywaltz (talk) 17:41, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Would be funny if it would be that easy, but no. Chicago and Rome use exactly the same coordinates as en-wiki, and Brussels is only veeery slightly different (which does not cause a delocalisation of dozens of miles). The templates work actually fine if the maps have their original size (cf. my test page), but as soon as they're in the "infobox" templates in a shrunk size, the markers are the more delocalised the more shrunk the maps are. --Otets (talk) 11:56, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

It's still not fixed. Is there anybody who could give us a helping hand? --Otets (talk) 17:42, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

I would like a template for the KFC related pages. I would like it modelled on the Burger King template. The pages I would like to be included in the template are:

KFC KFC advertising History of KFC KFC Original Recipe Double Down (sandwich) KFC in Japan KFC in China List of countries with KFC franchises Colonel Sanders (founder) Pete Harman (key founding figure) David Novak (CEO of Yum!, KFC's parent company) Roger Eaton (president of KFC)

KFC Twenty20 Big Bash Harland Sanders Café and Museum KFC Yum! Center

Farrtj (talk) 14:55, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

t · c

) 01:42, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Series overview

I'd like it if there were a template for series overview tables. They are usually seen on television episode lists, where are then transcluded onto their main article. A lot of them go malformed when a well-meaning editor with little experience parsing wikitables tries to edit a cell and ends up breaking the whole thing. As well as that, there exists no standard for their appearance, usually being built from copy-and-pasting existing ones; thus, they usually vary in their presentation, which can get a little confusing.

Below is a wikitable illustrating what one looks like with common parameters, as well as proper formatting per

MOS:DTAB

:

(TV series) series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired			DVD release date			Blu-ray release date
			Season premiere	Season finale	Network	Region 1	Region 2	Region 4	Region A	Region B
	n	0	December 0, 0 (0-00-00)	December 0, 0 (0-00-00)	(network)	December 0, 0	December 0, 0	December 0, 0	December 0, 0	December 0, 0
	A–B	0	December 0, 0 (0-00-00)	December 0, 0 (0-00-00)	(network)	December 0, 0	December 0, 0	December 0, 0	December 0, 0	December 0, 0
		0	December 0, 0 (0-00-00)	December 0, 0 (0-00-00)	(network)	December 0, 0	December 0, 0	December 0, 0	December 0, 0	December 0, 0
	Non-season		—			—			—

) 22:15, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Why does this template contain irrelevant information about the DVD releases? We're not here to sell a product, and this information has no business being at the top of the page. It's the least important information about the series.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 22:22, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

For the sake of demonstration; a large chunk of

t · c

) 22:33, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Whisternefet, if going forward with this, please add an optional field for a third column under "Originally aired" that is labeled "Network". See List of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episodes and List of Cougar Town episodes as an example of where this would be necessary. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 22:59, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Done (although that possibly brings up the problem of rowspan, if that is to be preferred).

t · c

) 23:09, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Because it exists(ed) on a featured list does not mean that readers found it valuable. No one really challenged it for what it was, because the lists was neat and clean. DVD release info is the least valuable information in the entire article. Nielsen ratings/rankings hold way more value than DVD releases, as would the broadcast day and time (as you can quickly provide a comparison to a show's broadcast day/time to its Nielsen numbers). There is a reason that the DVD info (Home Media) is the last thing on the page. Not to mention that a show released in Region 2 and 4 is again, the least relevant information to provide a reader when trying to provide an overview of a series. You're placing

undue weight on what amounts to the marketing/sale of the show, and not on the encyclopedic content.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me)

00:17, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

As you should be aware, MOS:TV says "The inclusion of DVD releases in episode lists is not a requirement but up to editor preference", and editors seem to prefer including DVD releases. Strangely, the MOS says nothing about Blu-ray, but that's a MOS issue. Typically, DVD release tables duplicate a lot of the information included in the series overview table so DVD and Blu-ray dates are typically included in the series overview table to eliminate unnecessary redundancy. We see a similar thing in ratings tables, where often the only difference between the episode list and the ratings tables are the viewer figures, which was a reason that |Viewers= was added to {{Episode list}}. --AussieLegend (✉) 01:41, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

I know what the MOS says, I wrote it. Just because it isn't a requirement doesn't mean it isn't on basically every single page. That said, it doesn't negate the fact that you're putting preference to the sale of a show over actual informative content like viewership ratings and date/time of broadcast. The fact that a series was released in Japan is irrelevant when looking at the overview of a show. Remember, you're arguing for a table that is a "Series overview", NOT a "page overview". There is a difference. The DVD release is irrelevant to the series itself, as it doesn't impact whether a series continues or not. Thus, if you're going to say that an overview table needs to exist, then it should contain information that is relevant to the series, not just duplication of irrelevant dates of home media release.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 02:56, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

@Aussie, the way I'm reading that, it is for a section inclusion on the List of eps page, not necessarily in the overview template. So as I'm reading it, if the Home media info is not on the LoE page, the info should not be in the overview table. It appears that it as just become "accepted" (using that lightly) for the info to be there, because other pages did it. Having thought on Bignole's arguments a while, I actually believe it would be a better fit to have the viewer info (premiere viewers, finale viewers, avg viewers and rank, or something like that) in the table instead of the DVD/Blu-ray releases. - Favre1fan93 (talk) 04:13, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

"A lot of them go malformed when a well-meaning editor with little experience parsing wikitables tries to edit a cell and ends up breaking the whole thing." - A template isn't going to stop this happening. It still happens with infoboxes and, most notably, {{Episode list}}. Regarding the code that you've presented, {{Start date}} can only be used once per row, therefore {{End date}} should be used for the season end date and the DVD and Blu-ray dates have to use raw dates. --AussieLegend (✉) 01:22, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

It happens a lot more with wikitables, I notice. For the most part, the code isn't always easy to decipher, and even more so with all the gobbledegook to make it comply with

t · c

) 01:44, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

Template for "1930s in music (UK)" - request

Sorry if this is a simple enough matter that I could fix it myself, but I don't know how. Could a template like this:

1940s in music in the UK
Best-selling singles Best-selling albums
Events
1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949
←1939 1950s→

...be created for "1930s in music (UK)"? I've just created 1939 in British music, and it would be good to have such a template to link this with the subsequent decades (i.e. starting with 1940 in British music. Alfietucker (talk) 15:51, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Slightly off-topic on this page, but I'm hoping to find some interested template editors to assist with the significant backlog found at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Holding cell, particularly with the merge results. Thanks in advance. -- Netoholic @ 21:15, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

@Netoholic: I'll be glad to help. TheQ Editor (Talk) 21:43, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Hi all, I'd like to request help with a template I'm piloting for use on the GLAMwiki pages. The plan is to create a directory of pages for each institution which has worked with the GLAMwiki movement. This was approved by the GLAMwiki community at my session at Wikimania. There is a rough template in my sandbox based on the Foundation's Template:User info. I've produced some mock ups in this Prezi that was presented at Wikimania. Unfortunately I can't seem to get my head around the JSON elements and how to create the whole range of new fields that are required. Some help would be massively appreciated! I'm sure that there will be questions about it so please do get in touch. Many thanks! PatHadley (talk) 13:58, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

My new Template:Cite Josephus, intended to site two external cites, doesn't go very far. Can you help it? trespassers william (talk) 11:06, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

What do you mean by "doesn't go very far"? What's not working? — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 15:41, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

OK, I gave it a shot. Let me know if it's OK. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 17:04, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello there, I would like to request a new redirect template called

00:25, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Could you explain in more detail what you would like to achieve? It's not clear to me that you mean by "mark redirects". What visual appearance in articles do you wish the template to achieve? — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 08:32, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

@

ChampionMan1234

08:36, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

OK, looks a bit too complicated for me, sorry. Hope someone else can help. Perhaps you should ask the editor(s) who worked on {{R from alternative language}}. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 13:01, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Hi! I can code most HTML templates and wikimarkup sleeping, but I need an example template that can pop-open or not (Hide or show toggle) at the readers discretion on the Wikibook to show technical examples, as outlined in full here.

• This need is essentially an understated 'inline' form of the page bottom nav templates we use so often here on history and technical pages. The Wikibook CSS and JS files differ slightly (they seem to have partitioned more into include files, for starters.), but figuring out what's there that is needed for this should be straightforward with someone familiar with the class definitions here. It always helps to know what to search for! (or so I've found! <g>)
• Also, if anyone knows if I can somehow gimmick the Search Window to only see in the one book (I'm figuring some scriptlette in my JS?) it would help me out in the land of subpages that is Wikibooks structures.

I'm best reached at my talk there and we can skype or IM if someone takes up this gauntlet!

Thanks for the time! // FrankB 04:33, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

I would like to make an infobox template for cyber "threat actor" and some of the other entity types in the STIX data model from US DHS. It would enable better content on many pages in the Category:Cyberattacks.

A template for threat actor would fields in common with other templates, such as Template:Infobox person

Is the best practice to just copy all those fields, or is there something like template inheritance?

I see that the Template:Infobox criminal starts with a reference to "person": {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = ....

Does that mean that it is inheriting from "person"?

I have started prototyping this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jrf/Template:Infobox_cyber_threat_actor

You'll have to edit source to see my comments and questions there. I would very much appreciate any guidance/help with this.

jrf (talk) 09:52, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

English translations of Homer is using a collapsing method not present in the related category. May I prepare the template in talk namespace? 84.127.115.190 (talk) 22:27, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Example:

Template talk:Collapse more text

84.127.115.190 (talk) 19:40, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

I'd like to add a switch to {{Expand French}} so that |topic=mil goes to Category:Military articles needing translation from French Wikipedia instead of its parent Category:Articles needing translation from French Wikipedia. A lot of military articles are already so classified (e.g. 3rd Army Corps (France). However I can't do so, because the template is fully protected (why?)

I left a message to this effect on the template's talk page on 24 October 2014 but nothing has come of it. Could anyone here do it? It would seem uncontroversial.

{{Expand Polish}} might be handled the same way (that seems the only other one with a specific "military" category, Category:Military articles needing translation from Polish Wikipedia). Si Trew (talk) 09:00, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Hello, template people! The DST templates display the start or end date of Daylight Saving Time for a particular year. I would like to request that the {{DST start date/EU}} and {{DST end date/EU}} templates be enhanced to include an optional parameter 2 of disp=, that would suppress the display of the year if "disp=dm" was specified. This would be analogous to the current "disp=md" parameter of the {{DST start date/US}} and {{DST end date/US}} templates. That is....

• Currently {{DST start date/US|2015}} displays as "March 8, 2015" and {{DST end date/US|2015}} displays as "November 1, 2015" (without the quotes).
• Currently {{DST start date/US|2015|md}} displays as "March 8" and {{DST end date/US|2015|md}} displays as "November 1".
• Currently {{DST start date/EU|2015}} displays as "29 March 2015" and {{DST end date/EU|2015}} displays as "25 October 2015".
• I am requesting that the disp= parameter be added to the two "EU" templates so that {{DST start date/EU|2015|dm}} would display as "29 March" and {{DST end date/EU|2015|dm}} would display as "25 October". Note the specification of "dm" rather than "md", to reflect the day-month-year date format displayed by the EU templates.

This would be useful in multiple situations. What I'd like to use it for at the moment is to add a table to the the British Summer Time article, similar to the one near the beginning of the Daylight saving time in the United States article, showing the start and end dates for different years. Since the year would have its own column, I'd like the year in the start and end date columns to be suppressed. Thanks! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 18:23, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

•  Done @Mudwater: I've also added the {{TemplateData}} to these templates. Si Trew (talk) 09:24, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

@SimonTrew: Great, thanks! — Mudwater ^(Talk) 10:45, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

I was wondering if we should also have a more-general template for these (at {{DST start date}}, to cover other dates and to be able to have US/EU, delegating to thse ones, and to change the display format or mdy or dmy as as parameters, deal with Double British Summer Time (oddly red), and so on. However, I'm assuming they have fairly limited use and it's not worth doing so right now; it would be rather an first-year college student's programming exercise. Si Trew (talk) 12:54, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Hello, I was hoping someone could help create a sort of Template:Navbox for topics related to Technical communication. The layout I had in mind is along the lines of Template:Communication studies. I believe such a template would help users interested in the field to better understand it, its subfields and so forth. Articles on the topic are neglected and still in need of a lot of work, but hopefully that will be changed soon.

What exactly should be included is still up for debate, and I've had a hard time finding others who would participate; this can't be a one man show. For the time being, I have some suggestions though there is no rush to do this now and feedback on the choices would be great. These are some of the links which I think could be included:

Subfields: Technical writing, Information architecture, Technical illustration, Technical translation, Technical documentation

Important concepts:

Single source publishing, Content management, Usability

Organizations: Society for Technical Communication, IEEE Professional Communication Society, Council of Science Editors, SIGDOC, European Association for Technical Communication, Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators

Prominent figures: Dan Jones (professor), Gordon Graham (writer), JoAnn Hackos

It goes without saying that this is a very rough idea and I am merely thinking out loud about what could be included. If anyone thinks differently, then please participate.
Even without a clear idea, I was hoping to have some assistance at least with the rough outline of a navbox while the details of what should or shouldn't be included could come afterward, as the box can always be edited and changed. Thanks so much for anyone who takes the time to think about this. MezzoMezzo (talk) 03:55, 10 December 2014 (UTC)