User talk:Fma12

Calligraphy

I'm intrigued as to why someone with your experience would consider it appropriate to add the unannotated addition

• Calligraphy.co.uk

to the External links section. Have I missed something? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 09:31, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

@JMF: Just to satisfy your curiosity: that website used to be a real guide for caligraphy enthusiasts. I have not entered there for a long time so I didn't realise it became a commercial site. Even experienced users may committ mistakes. Anything else I can help with? Fma12 (talk) 09:35, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

If I came across as sarcastic, it was unintentional. I came to your talk page expecting a newbie and began to question my own kneejerk response to apparent spam. I try not to throw stones, all the windows in my greenhouse would have disappeared years ago. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 09:51, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

No problem, it's all clear. My only aim is to contribute. Thanks for your message. Fma12 (talk) 09:57, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

November 2025

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@Diannaa: Could you tell me which is the content I textually copied (according to you) from the source given? I was careful in trying to use my own words, but as all the changes were erased from the edit summary, I can't compare what I wrote with the source I took the information from in order to verify what you say.

• "The squad continued to being a successful team under the coaching of Scottish mentor, U.S. Olympic coach and Soccer Hall of Famer Jimmy Mills. In the mid-1970s, Haverford became a frequent NCAA tournament qualifier and won the Middle Atlantic Conference Southern Division five times (1976–1982) under coach Dave Felsen"
• "Joe Amorim became head coach in 1983 and won three more MAC South titles, including a victory over undefeated #1 Elizabethtown in the 1988 MAC final"--— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 13:26, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

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Color schemes on college football navboxes

Fma12, I see you have made some edits to number of college football navboxes to tweak the syntax and clarify some notes, e.g. Template:Rutgers Scarlet Knights football navbox. Thanks for that. But changing the standard color scheme should not be done in an ad hoc manner or without discussion. The same goes for navboxes for other sports. Jweiss11 (talk) 04:43, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi, @Jweiss11:, first of all, I didn't "tweak" the syntax, I just added an existing template (secondary color scheme) to some football navboxes. I know that some changes requuire a previous discussion in order to reach a consensus, but do you really think it is needed for a simple addition of a secondary color? I would agree with you if changes had consisted of different colors than the schemes used by the schools, but as far as I know, it was not the case.

Speaking of Rutgers, black is the secondary color used even in uniforms (some of which I rendered myself in the past). Sorry but I consider this topic so trival to open a discussion. Fma12 (talk) 09:28, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

When I said you tweaked the syntax, I was referring to all the edits that you made Template:Rutgers Scarlet Knights football navbox. You own edit note reads "footnotes, format, synthax". I assumed "synthax" was a typo, a misspelling of "syntax". If not, what does "synthax" mean? Adding the secondary color scheme to the group headings breaks the standard form that was reached by consensus and has been place for over a decade. Rutgers' secondary color of black is used for the borders in the standard format via Template:CollegePrimaryStyle. What's your goal here? You want to change the color scheme for some of the navboxes, but not all? Or all of theme? Either way, this does indeed require a discussion if you plan to pursue such changes that contravene long-standing consensus. Jweiss11 (talk) 12:09, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Was really there a consensua for the football navboxes or You are going to revert changes just because You don't agree? Can You provide a link to that consensus? Cause i haven't find any discusión related to colors at Rutgers template so I would like to read what discussion your arguments are based on. I'll be awaiting. PD:i'm not a native English speaker and don't use online translators so I can commit mistakes or mispells. Fma12 (talk) 14:05, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

Yes, the standards for these navboxes go back to 2011. The discussions are buried in the archives at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football/Archive 10#College football team navboxes and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football/Archive 11#College football team navboxes for starters. It would he helpful if you could answer what I asked above: do want to change the color scheme for some of these navboxes, but not all? Or all of them? Jweiss11 (talk) 23:46, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

I've thoroughly reading those discussions in order to find references to the use of primary/secondary colors on navboxes to prove that your reversions were based on actual consensus. But I couldn't. Instead, the only comments about colors were about championships or other issues not related with the topic. Because of that, could you indicate me what part of the discussion disallowed the use of secondary colors on navboxes? Otherwise, I'd tend to think that your reversions were -at least- unaproppriate and I could report them (which I always prefer before being engaged in an edit war).

Regarding your answer, well, let me clear something first: my interest for college athletics dates back some time: I vectorised 100 (American) football uniforms for different teams (you can see them here), created the College football and College soccer teamplates, and I've contributed uploading loads of group photographs used in different teams and players articles.

About navboxes, I started editing them according to conference, and in other cases, I chose my favorite teams first. I'd like to give proper format to all of them, but the amount of college American and association football teams is so huge and this could take a very long time, and I have other interests apart from NCAA sports.

I edit/create articles as long as my time and activities allow me to do.

I hope my answer was enough to explain my position. Fma12 (talk) 18:41, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

The specific discussion about the color usage on the navboxes probably occurred in subsequent discussions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football. I can keep looking, and so can you. I'm happy to revisit the color issue with a new discussion in that forum or wherever else might be appropriate to get input from more editors. I was not questioning your interest level in college sports, and I have indeed noticed and appreciated your work on the uniform images for some time. I also understand that everyone's time is limited. The point I'm trying to drive home is that there is a value in having standard design and formatting in structures with a large number of analogous instances, like these team navboxes. That standardization helps editors to manage the development of these topics and aids readers in navigating and understanding the content. In this particular case, that standardization has been supported by strong consensus among the regular editors of college football and related topics. At the moment, there are 542 American college football team navboxes; see Category:American college football team navigational boxes. And they are have a stable, consistent form going back to 2011. This form was then rolled out to other college sports as well, although outside of football and basketball, consistent application may vary. There are about 700 college basketball team navboxes, 143 for baseball, 1 for field hockey, 144 for ice hockey, 61 for soccer, and 57 or softball. If a change in design is going to be made to them, there should be consensus behind that change, and then implementing the change can be a collaborative effort and the workload shared by a number of editors. Jweiss11 (talk) 22:16, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Pattern page

sleeves, shorts, socks format broken... Эльдар Шукоров (talk) 18:07, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

@Эльдар Шукоров: What page are you talking about? Could you be more specific, please? Fma12 (talk) 18:42, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Football_kit/pattern_list

(3 sections no photos) Эльдар Шукоров (talk) 23:18, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

Yes, I saw and updated some wrong reversions. Fma12 (talk) 23:20, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

College football team uniform graphics

If you have time, would you be willing to please update the uniform graphics files here on Wikipedia for the Oregon Ducks, Washington Huskies, UCLA Bruins, USC Trojans, Oklahoma Sooners, Arizona Wildcats, Arizona State Sun Devils, California Golden Bears, Stanford Cardinal, Utah Utes, Colorado Buffaloes & BYU Cougars to reflect their current conferences? Oregon, Washington, UCLA & USC are all now in the Big Ten Conference. Oklahoma is now in the SEC. Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, Colorado & Utah are all now in the Big 12 Conference. California & Stanford are both now in the ACC. Let me know if that would be something you would have time to do or would be willing to do? CharlesEditor23 (talk) 15:30, 7 September 2026 (UTC)

Hi @CharlesEditor23:, thanks for the offering but I am not currently interesed in updating those uniforms. I made them more than ten years ago in a very different moment of my life, in which I had more free time (rendering the uniforms really took much time so I tried to add the more details to them).

I have been focused on other interests since then and although I consider those uniforms a good work that brought me great satisfaction, it belongs to the past so my enthusiasm isn't the same as it was back then. Fma12 (talk) 10:00, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

OK. I understand. Thank you for getting back to me. I'm just trying to find other editors who would be willing to do it for me. I don't have the time to do it. I've already asked TheGoodGeneral 1 (talk) if they would do it, but they have yet to reply to the messages I've left on their talk page. CharlesEditor23 (talk) 05:28, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

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October 2026

Heyo. Regarding your recent edits to Cadbury's Chocolate Factory, Tasmania when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Specifying |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= needs to be defined in the template in order to work. You can look at the documentation for the template being used, but it is also helpful to use the preview button before saving an edit; this helps find any errors that have been made and ensures that the values added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is highly recommended that editors use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions of if I can help explain further, please let me know! Thank you. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 00:34, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Hi, @Zackmann08:: First of all, I always make a preview of the page before saving the changes. It was one of the many thing I've learnt in my more than 20 years as an user.

After taking a look at both, my first edit on it and the edit you modified, I still haven't found any reference to unknown paramethers in none of them. Furthermore, before editing the page I had copied the template:Infobox_factory synthaxis exactly as it appeared.

Could you please indicate me in what part of the edits the "some_param=" appeared? I'll be awaiting for your reply, best wishes. Fma12 (talk) 09:11, 27 October 2026 (UTC)