User talk:Evaglow/Archive 1

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Infoboxes

I admittedly snoop on IrishLass' talk page, we all kind of snoop on each other, IrishLass, Flyer22, and myself, the little guardians of the soaps but only reply when I think the question could be answered faster. Since she's not around in the evenings, no access where she lives I believe, I'd like to help. When you "implement" an infobox, you can't just put "soap" between "character" and "infobox" because the fields are different. She taught me to go to this page and copy the infobox and then move the information to the correct fields. I, personally, like this method better and you get all the fields. I always remove the color fields and it defaults to colored bands in the box. You can do it TAnthony's way, but it gets kind of messed up and you lose a couple of fields. Hope this helps. Feel free to ask if I've confused you. CelticGreen 01:42, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick response. I'm confused though... I have been and do copy the template exactly from the template page and fill it out. In fact, I even have the template saved in my own personal tools so I don't have to go back and forth each time. I believe I'm using the most current version of the template unless there have been some recent changes or others are making changes after I've implemented them. Thank you for explaining the situation. —Evaglow 01:47, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

You're doing it right. What was happening was that people were going around just putting the word "soap" inbetween character and infobox and it would look sort of like the infobox should but when you did the drop down to see relationships, those were all messed up. I'll check a couple of your boxes and let you know if your are doing it right. As long as Parents and Romances show as categories, you're doing it correctly.CelticGreen 01:49, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Took a look and you only have one "small" literally problem. In the new infobox, you don't add the < small > tags. Those need to be removed. It's defaulted as part of the new box layout. CelticGreen 01:52, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know. I'm so happy to hear about the < small > tags being a part of the layout now. Those were a pain! Thank you for the heads up. I'll make those changes. Thank you! —Evaglow 01:57, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Children of Salem

Is a work in progress not ready for reveal or edits, even the most well meaning. Please do not edit the page as your edits kind of messed up the page, although I'm sure there was no intention to do so. If you have any questions, contact TAnthony, IrishLass, or myself for futher explanation. Thanks for understanding. CelticGreen 11:42, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Redirects to Children of Salem

Good morning ~ or afternoon where ever you may be. I'd like to explain what is going on and let you know that while I assume your edits were made in good faith, they were misguided. The Children of Salem page is just starting. I'm working on it as quickly as I can but it is far FAR FAR away from being ready to have redirects to it. Please, I will take care of adding the redirects when the time comes. Prematurely redirecting from an article with necessary information that I need to finish the COS page, to the COS page is only going to cause more work. While I see you are anxious to help, let's get everything in place before moving forward with redirects and total obliteration of articles. I'm on top of this and have asked TAnthony and CelticGreen (and soon maybe Flyer22) to help. I just don't want premature redirects to the page yet. Several more characters have to be added and the table sorted and the like. The page is less than 24 hours old. Let me get it actually started. I do have a question though. How did you even find it? I've not advertised that it's available or linked anything to it. Just curious. And I do want you to know, that I do know you were trying to help, it's just not at that stage yet. Thank you for understanding. IrishLass 13:31, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

I apologize for making any premature changes. I realize how much effort and work is put into a page like that, as was my experience with Children of The Young and the Restless. I was merely trying to help. As for finding the page, it is (and was) listed in Category:Days of our Lives for public viewing, which is where I found access. Again, I apologize if my changes caused more work for you. I will stand on the sidelines for now regarding the page until everything is squared away. I do wish you good luck though. :) It's off to an amazing start! —Evaglow 02:42, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Eva, first, if I leave a message, I will look for a reply where I leave a message, okay. It stays that right on my talk page. Thanks!! The category notation was removed because I do want to just work on this for a while before unveiling. Thank you for the compliment. It's rough going but I want it to look amazing before linking a bunch of names. Glad you understand. There's plenty of work to do on other articles so I'm glad you understand my desire to keep this to myself for a little while. Thanks again. IrishLass 15:05, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorting

I happened to have Image:Theyoungandtherestlesslogo.jpg on my watchlist; I've restored the {{DEFAULTSORT:}} command, which establishes a default sort key for any "unkeyed" categories, in this case "Television logos". This is obviously ideal to keep the image/article sorted. Adding "PAGENAME" or a manual sort key to any category will override these settings, as in the case of the "Y&R images" category. And by the way, the DEFAULTSORT command is also the suggested sort method for articles in general. — TAnthony^Talk 03:18, 17 November 2007 (UTC)