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Use different style for section cleanup messages?

Template {{unreferenced}} offers quite different appearances, depending on whether it is applied to a whole article or only an article section. In the latter case it is not centred, much smaller, and with a reduced text. I don't find this an improvement, but could live with it if this is uniformly applied across all cleanup templates. However, that is currently not the case, as you can see here. The imbalance between the amboxes is typographically unappealing. Worse, it makes it look as if the essay-like issue is much more serious than the lack of sources, thus giving an impression that is totally wrong.  --Lambiam 14:57, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

And along comes another dissatisfied editor. Please, feel free to join the club! Fleet Command (talk) 20:22, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

This page Ironicly needs fixing

As the "Clean-Up" template now requires a "reason" tag, the page is now broken.

I'd fix it myself, if it wasn't for my lack of knowledge with these tables. Karjam, AKA KarjamP (talk) 12:17, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

I have fixed the problem. —Ynhockey (Talk) 10:48, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
Well you might have fixed this one page, but you removed new functionality from 20,000 articles! So I have reverted your "fix" and we are currently discussing on Template talk:Cleanup how best to sort out the display on this page. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:07, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Multiple Issues Typo

'Multiple Issues combined (Section of an Article)' and 'Multiple Issues combined (Top of an Article)' have the Same tag, And I don't know which is correct or what the missing one is.

So I can't fix it.Larek (talk) 02:18, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

This is a cleanup template with a very opaque name. I've requested that it be renamed to something else, see Template talk:Jagged 85 shortened ; it also doesn't seem to be listed here. -- 76.65.131.248 (talk) 11:38, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Best practices question when cleaning up articles

When editing an article to address issues (e.g., {{blp sources}} or other cleanup), is it appropriate for the editor, after having made a good faith effort to take care of the cleanup, to remove the template message themselves? Or is there a procedure for trying to get the person who added the template message to verify that they are satisfied with the changes? I suspect it's proper for the editor to remove it, but this doesn't seem to be addressed anywhere that I can see, and I'm currently working on fixing up a {{blp sources}} article and would like to know if there's a best practice for this. Thanks. Gmporr (talk) 17:43, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Yes, any editor can remove a cleanup tag if they feel that the problem has been dealt with. I don't think there's a guideline that spells this out specifically, but WP:BOLD is probably applicable here. DoctorKubla (talk) 09:28, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
Thx :) Gmporr (talk) 21:50, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

User: YellowPegasus

Can someone look at YellowPegasus (talk · contribs) recent renames of image cleanup templates? Should they use the opaque Wikijargon term "Wikigraphist" (wikigraphists work at WP:Graphics lab and WP:Wikigraphist doesn't exist). Since YellowPegasus is an account that is only 1 month old, I'd think these are not widely accepted renames? -- 70.24.247.127 (talk) 07:02, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Proposing a "tertiary source-inline"

As of December 2012, {{primary source-inline}} turns into an article tag of "[non-primary source needed]"

We have some situations in Spaceflight-related articles where we must temporarily resort to using tertiary sources from hobbyist-compiled web-encyclopedias such as Ed Kyle's "Space Launch Report". When we do this, we would like to keep the use of such tertiary sources temporary, and keep a lookout for a better WP:SECONDARY source to replace it.

Proposal: might it be possible to have a {{[[template:Tertiary source-inline|tertiary source-inline]]}} turn into an article tag of ''[[wikipedia:No original research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources|non-tertiary source preferred]]''? Or maybe even better might be: ''[[wikipedia:No original research#Primary,_secondary_and_tertiary_sources|secondary source preferred]]''

Thanks for considering this. Cheers. N2e (talk) 14:58, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Wouldn't {{Better source}} be good enough? WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:00, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Template:Cleanup-film?

I noticed that there's a book-specific cleanup template at {{Cleanup-book}}, but not one for movies. I created one based on Cleanup-book in my userspace: User:Atlantima/Template:Cleanup-film. How does it look?--Atlantima (talk) 21:51, 27 February 2013 (UTC)