Category talk:Maintenance templates

Recent Flagging

Regarding my recent obsession with plastering maintenance templates over a steeply increasing number of pages, I figured I would make my motivations clear. It's no secret that the site is full of troubled pages, so the problems might as well be identified and flagged so that editors, including myself, can easily target and (not always so easily) chip away at them. (Hence the "Flagged Pages" link in the Navbar.) The aim is not to just point other people at these pages, tell them to fix it, and walk away... but I figured it could be easily interpreted like that. --Reichu 10:11, 2 May 2009 (PDT)

Wiki Syntax

I'm rewriting these so they use Wiki syntax... and have a bluer border. Also including automatic article talk page and edit links to some. ObsessiveMathsFreak 22:02, 7 September 2007 (EDT)

No problem but I'm kind of fond of the ones I originally used, i.e. "I really can't describe an Eva any other way"--V 22:04, 7 September 2007 (EDT)

Mostly the only changes I intend to make are to use the platinum script version of any dialogue. But I think we should keep the Stranglove one, despite it being external in some sense. ObsessiveMathsFreak 22:16, 7 September 2007 (EDT)

Template Use

Let me know if you think any of the templates are superfluous, or if you have any issues with them. If anything seems excessive, I'll gladly remove it. Also, the spgerror template. Any issues with it?--UrsusArctos 21:19, 3 March 2008 (PST)

Spelling errors can be fixed in a matter of minutes now that firefox incorporates a spellcheck function, thus correction for spelling isn't really much of an issue. --V 23:06, 3 March 2008 (PST)

Point taken. I'll probably take it down tomorrow morning. --UrsusArctos 03:57, 4 March 2008 (PST)

Actually, I think I could make a more expansive "Cleanup2" and "Cleanup3". Deconstruction becomes cleanup2...simpler to remember. And spgerror becomes cleanup3. Cleanup2 is for articles that aren't a total mess but are larger than they need to be, and cleanup3 is for ones that have spelling and grammar erros and minor violations of convention. Firefox spell checker works for new entries but not for existing errors. --UrsusArctos 06:18, 4 March 2008 (PST)

Ursus there only really needs to be one "Cleanup" template; you're spending time on making NEW "Cleanup" templates rather than actually cleaning up the articles. --V 15:03, 4 March 2008 (PST)

I've been adding some new templates and tweaking older ones. I'd really like to "cut the fat" off all the old ones. The images are too big, and going through large quotations to get to the actual point of the template is obnoxious.

Also, regarding spelling errors: Firefox can't handle things like their/they're/there and its/it's, etc., etc. Homophone mixups are still spelling mistakes. Firefox's dictionary file is also incomplete. --Reichu 15:29, 13 June 2008 (PDT)

Unprotected a whole bunch of templates that had been protected for no reason at all. Feel free to cut the fat off them- there's more than one template I made that doesn't look like it needs to be used, or which could at least be trimmed down. --UrsusArctos 18:15, 13 June 2008 (PDT)