User talk:Clarkperkins

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Happy editing! SwisterTwister talk 03:40, 27 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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SEC 2013 Baseball Bracket

I saw you created {{SECBracket2012}} last spring, and wondered if you could take a stab at a template for the expanded bracket to be used this year. The bracket itself is here. Any interest? The 2013 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament page could really use it! Billcasey905 (talk) 00:55, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Clarkperkins (talk) 00:39, 8 May 2013 (UTC) I have it up on the SEC tournament page now.[reply]

Great job, thanks! One more template that we need is one to handle the 1950 College World Series. It's very similar to {{2011LLWSBracket}} with a slight difference in the loser's bracket. A sketch of it appears on page 20 of this book. Would you have time and interest in setting it up? Billcasey905 (talk) 13:16, 15 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Clarkperkins (talk) 17:00, 16 May 2013 (UTC) Take a look at it here: {{1950CWSBracket}}. I think it's right, but I'm not entirely sure.[reply]

Thanks for your help, looks good! Billcasey905 (talk) 18:55, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

another bracket

I hope you don't mind templates, I found another one I was hoping you might help with - the A-10 is using a 7 team bracket this year that looks like this. It looks to me like {{8Team2ElimBracket}} could be adjusted to fit, but I definitely don't have the template skills. Would you take a look? Billcasey905 (talk) 19:14, 19 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

TemplateData is here

Hey Clarkperkins

I'm sending you this because you've made quite a few edits to the template namespace in the past couple of months. If I've got this wrong, or if I haven't but you're not interested in my request, don't worry; this is the only notice I'm sending out on the subject :).

So, as you know (or should know - we sent out a centralnotice and several watchlist notices) we're planning to deploy the VisualEditor on Monday, 1 July, as the default editor. For those of us who prefer markup editing, fear not; we'll still be able to use the markup editor, which isn't going anywhere.

What's important here, though, is that the VisualEditor features an interactive template inspector; you click an icon on a template and it shows you the parameters, the contents of those fields, and human-readable parameter names, along with descriptions of what each parameter does. Personally, I find this pretty awesome, and from Monday it's going to be heavily used, since, as said, the VisualEditor will become the default.

The thing that generates the human-readable names and descriptions is a small JSON data structure, loaded through an extension called TemplateData. I'm reaching out to you in the hopes that you'd be willing and able to put some time into adding TemplateData to high-profile templates. It's pretty easy to understand (heck, if I can write it, anyone can) and you can find a guide here, along with a list of prominent templates, although I suspect we can all hazard a guess as to high-profile templates that would benefit from this. Hopefully you're willing to give it a try; the more TemplateData sections get added, the better the interface can be. If you run into any problems, drop a note on the Feedback page.

Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 22:06, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ACC tournament bracket

Thanks so much for fixing the ACC tournament bracket. I had tried modifying the SEC tournament bracket you did to have the higher seeds on top, but I was unable to figure out how to do it. Thanks again, it looks great now. Rreagan007 (talk) 02:32, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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