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Copied comments[edit]

These comments are copied from User:Ddawson/User instruments and were thus responding to the proposal version of the wikipedia page.

Good idea[edit]

I wholeheartedly agree. You're right; this should be modelled after the language templates and the formatting should match exactly. Keep up the good work. I might be of some assistance, too. Krun 20:33, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Good thinking[edit]

I'm in favor of standardization, especially in favor of ease-of-use. You have my permission, support, and thanks for taking the initiative. Ryan Prior 21:34, September 6, 2005 (UTC)

Looks good![edit]

Bah, go right ahead. Not entirely sure I like the abbreviation for "piano", but I don't know what else could be used. Hermione1980 23:11, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Fine[edit]

I'm fine with anything you do. I really just have it for fun so it's no big deal. Do whatever you like. Rentastrawberry 00:20, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, whatever[edit]

I don't really care. ♥purplefeltangel 02:07, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Same here. I pretty much just put it in there for the heck of it, because I saw somebody else with one of 'em. If you think you can improve it, go ahead. If you don't think it needs improvement, you won't be hurting anything by leaving it. The Literate Engineer 07:56, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

S'fine with me too. the wub "?/!" 14:36, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm with them. Deltabeignet 23:27, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yep yep. Whatever. Just get out of the way of my TV. --DLeonard 11:24, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

I'm still trying to figure out how these new templates work; they seem ok, but it would be best to explain how instruments incorporate with the language template. For example: {{Babel-3|en|de-1|org-2}} Or something. Cmadler 00:08, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your suggestion. I added some clarification as a final section above. The problem is that the User instruments categories don't have the naming consistency that the User languages ones do. For instance, Category:User piano has 'pno' in the tag (thanks to Krun), and Category:User organ has 'org' in the tag and as the code for the template (thanks to me). As I said above, pay attention to the name in the template if you want to use it. Ddawson 03:47, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Good with me[edit]

I like standarization and templates. Trysha 05:07, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like it's a go[edit]

Well, I don't see any opposition to this after several days. Plus, Krun went ahead and converted some templates himself. (Thanks for the help.) So I guess it's accepted. I'm still open to comment here, though. Ddawson 06:46, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I thought it was supposed to be that way[edit]

When I first saw the bass user templates, there was the basic bass one and the bass novice one... there always seemed like there should be more but I didn't want to interfere with someone else's project or anything. Thumbs up from me. mxdxcxnx_{T C} 17:55, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Trombone[edit]

Everything you are doing looks great, but I thought that a person that played the trombone was a tromboner, not a trombonist. --Lord Vold e mort ^{(Dark Mark)} 21:25, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, first of all, I haven't touched the user-page templates for trombone. Check the page history to see who did. OTOH, I did look them over, along with everything else, and didn't find anything wrong with them. I looked for tromboner in several dictionaries, but didn't find it. So, it's safe to say the proper from is trombonist. Ddawson 21:44, 15 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Heh-heh... He said "tromboner"... heh...

Seriously, though, thanks for your efforts. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 17:48, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Of course "tromboner" was a joke. That's what we used to call 'em. <D'oh, I violated the archive rule> --Lord Vold e mort ^{(Dark Mark)} 16:39, 20 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Other comments[edit]

Shirkers[edit]

Different subject, but along similar lines: how about templates with which Wikipedians could categorize themselves based upon how much of the time they are supposed to be working is instead put toward Wikipedia editing? I created an example using {{User blank}}:

{{User blank|[[shirk]]er|This user contributes using a '''copious''' amount of '''[[Employment|company time]]'''.}}

This creates:

shirker

This user contributes using a copious amount of company time.

P.S. to DDawson: Sorry, I didn't notice you had closed the discussion before I posted this on your Talk subpage.

-- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:45, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]