User talk:Gurulegend

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Native Latin speakers?

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Dirk Nowitzki

Hi, please remove the image from your user page as only free images (copyright expired, GFDL, CC) are allowed in user space and not fair use images. Please read WP:IUP for further information. --Gurubrahma 08:43, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox NBA Player

First of all, nice work, it looks better than the one I had been proliferating. Secondly, you might work some unit calculation templates into the infobox, see Template talk:Height, Template talk:Weight. — May. 30, '06 [10:52] <freak|talk>

Cool. Will check those out. gurulegend 20:12, 30 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I see you've added the unit calculators to the template. I've given it a bit of an overhaul, including converting to m:ParserFunctions, which have obsoleted both {{qif}} and HiddenStructure. Unfortunately, attempting to mix wikitable code and parser functions gets rather confusing due to unintended interpretation of the pipe character "|" so I converted it to straight html, and it should work exactly the same as before, with one non-trivial change to the image syntax. This is partly to prevent certain different articles from having drastically different image sizes. The image on the LeBron article was previously 364 pixels tall, but I changed it so that the sizing of all the images is controlled within the template itself. If necessary though, it would still be possible to create a parameter for overriding the default size specification, by changing:

...|200x250px|...]] to

...|{{{image_size|200x250px}}}|...]]

But I don't see any immediate need to add that feature. Let me know if you disagree. By the way, in case you didn't know, specifying two dimensions (instead of just the width) for an image's size will force it to scale down to fit within an imaginary box. This is helpful to prevent disproportionately tall infobox images from dominating the entire right side of the screen. — Jun. 5, '06 [09:56] <freak|talk>

Nice. I think as long as all images seem to appear with decent dimensions and proportions, the template will be great. --gurulegend 20:14, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the only real problem I forsee, is people attempting to use some really low-resolution images, which will look ugly if stretched too far beyond their actual size. Such images would be better off deleted in my opinion. — Jun. 5, '06 [20:45] <freak|talk>

Another question regarding the infobox, since the nationality/flag template has been added, is how best to handle cases like Shawn Bradley, who has dual citizenship in both Germany and the United States, perhaps an optional nationality_2 parameter and show two flags on separate rows? Which do you think looks better:

Nationality	Germany United States
or...
Nationality	/ Germany/United States

— Jun. 5, '06 [22:14] <freak|talk>

I think two rows looks better. Don't want those boxes getting too wide. --gurulegend 01:44, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I'll go ahead and do it that way for now, it will be easier, and it doesn't matter that much to me. If somebody wants it the other way, I can change it just as easily, using the same parameters even. It might take a bit of time and coding, but it's better to have as much of it as possible within the template, to make the articles easier to read/edit. — Jun. 6, '06 [02:16] <freak|talk>

Okay, added it for the sake of Shawn Bradley, and probably others. Will post on template talk page also, see [1]. — Jun. 6, '06 [02:31] <freak|talk>

St. Mark's Relation?

I noticed that you have made some edits to the St. Mark's School of Texas Wiki entry. Out of curiosity, are you affiliated in any way to the school? --Schadenfreude52 02:11, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Heh, that's neat. I am a senior (come fall) at St. Mark's. --Schadenfreude52 17:09, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dallas, cool. I'm in Texarkana, by the way. — Jun. 6, '06 [02:18] <freak|talk>

Nice, GO MAVS! gurulegend 02:19, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested in joining Wikipedia:WikiProject American football?

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laksjf

Hey, I've renominated the template for deletion. Let's push this template thru to deletion, and get as many of your like minded friends to vote.[2]199.126.28.20 03:28, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Image:StMarksTexasCrestColorImg.png

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basketball player and basketball biography

you might find Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2012_February_29#Template:Infobox_basketball_player interesting, and wish to comment. Frietjes (talk) 21:25, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox basketball biography

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