Template talk:Tennis player2

Comments

This is looking better but there are a couple of problems: The Wins are incorrect. For Grand Slams, it is 11 victories overall, NOT how many times he participated in the Slams. So it should show 11 victories, with 6 in singles and 5 in doubles. Hayford Peirce

Keep in mind I'm just working on the template format, not the data. --Robert W King 11:48, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

Having said that, I'm not sure what you, Hayford, are referring to? The table currently shows 11 wins of which six were singles and five were doubles. That seems to be what you want? There is no participation figure for grand slams, although, a participation number is included for the Davis Cup in the text field. Chris Day (talk) 11:56, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

Hmmm, are there *two* templates? This one and another one? This one seems correct, the other one is wrong.Hayford Peirce 12:00, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

One's a header template, the other is the data box.--Robert W King 11:59, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

Under Biographical, there's a colon in front of Birth and Death is indented, which looks funny. Hayford Peirce 12:08, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

That's fixed now. Chris Day (talk) 12:12, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

Nationality

Sorry, I don't see how I put my comments in that box. Anyway, I don't know what to do about it, but it seems wrong to have a single wide space for Nationality and then use it just to put in a couple of initials. In my Famous tennis players I used the entire word spelled out (since there was, of course, no space constraints). What could be done here? Maybe just put the nationality into the Bio info? Hayford Peirce 11:55, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

I'm thinking we could have images for flags to put along with the abbreviations --Robert W King 11:54, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

There were arguments and revert wars at WP about the Nazi (and Franco) flags being used for players during those epochs, ie, for Gottfried von Cramm, the great German player of the 30s, who was anti-Nazi, actually.... Hayford Peirce 12:05, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

I could go without flags. There seems to be a flag mania on WP and I would hope we could avoid that here in CZ. Is there a good reason to use flags? I suppose it is easy to scan a list for a competitor from a particular country, but only if you know your flags. Chris Day (talk) 12:14, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

Fair enough, I can agree to that.--Robert W King 12:13, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

I'm not hot for flags myself. I have no particular objection to them (if there's space), but it seems pointless to me. WP childishness.... Hayford Peirce 12:15, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

Could you turn the header Nationality into two lines maybe, Nation- and ality below it? That would narrow the space and leave more room for the other categories. But I dunno what it would look like.... Hayford Peirce 12:18, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

Technique

Could the handedness be on the line above Amateur or Professional? I think it would look better, and there seems to be ample space to do so. Hayford Peirce 12:20, 6 July 2007 (CDT)

How about now?--Robert W King 12:38, 6 July 2007 (CDT)