User talk:XD1

Template for U.S. state and city categories
You're welcome to use truckUS on any such category, to add quite a bit of info with very little work. See Forum:Templates update. And don't be fooled by blue category links - blue doesn't mean they are existing categories. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 12:54, September 5, 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
You pointed "ADD" in the right direction, and despite problems I managed to add a truck page. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 01:53, January 11, 2012 (UTC)

Improving the input form
There seems to have been some small improvement since I reported to Christina months ago, with the result that I can create a page.

However, there's at least one big problem when the form is viewed on my Toshiba Satellite laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium. Near the bottom, there's a line that says "*Required". Nothing else. It seems to look just as it did when I produced a screenshot for Christina's perusal. When the form was really working properly, that was the section in which people could add categories. There is now no such section apparent. I see that my new page was put into Category:Trucks, which is perfectly fine, but I had nothing to do with it and I would have added more categories if I had been given a chance. Fortunately, my failure to enter anything in that vicinity did not result in rejection of the form.

It seems that I cannot edit the new page using normal wiki edit. That could be a bad thing but maybe it isn't. It does mean that I can't add a category for the location, which is not very good.

Near the top of the form is a field for City and State. Not a good choice. Many food trucks (even in the USA) are in neither. How about changing that so that it asks for "town or county" and thus fits right into Category:Towns and counties?

Kind regards. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 02:09, January 11, 2012 (UTC)