User Talk: LevantineArchivist

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February 2026

25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hello! Thank you for your recent contributions to :Khamsin (magazine) ↗. I did have one note for you. I am working on a maintenance project to clean up :Category:Pages using infoboxes with thumbnail images ↗. In the future, please do not use thumbnails when adding images to an infobox (see WP:INFOBOXIMAGE ↗). What does this mean? Well in the infobox, when you specify the image you wish to use, instead of doing it like this:

{{para|image|{{var|<nowiki>thumb|Some image caption ↗</nowiki>}}}}

Instead just supply the name of the image. So in this case you can simply do:

{{para|image|{{var|SomeImage.jpg}}}}.

There will then be a separate parameter for the image caption such as {{para|caption|{{var|Some image caption}}}}. Please note that this is a generic form message I am leaving on your page because you recently added a thumbnail to an infobox. The specific parameters for the image and caption may be different for the infobox you are using! Please consult the Template page for the infobox being used to see better documentation. Thanks!! '''Zackmann''' (Talk to me ↗/What I been doing ↗) 03:36, 27 February 2026 (UTC)

:Thanks for the info, will keep this in mind in the future LevantineArchivist (talk) 23:15, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

WP:PIA ↗

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Sean.hoyland (talk) 04:01, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

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April 2026

25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Thank you for your contributions ↗ to Wikipedia. Regarding your recent edits to :Mohamed Nafa ↗ when you modified the page, you introduced {{cl|Unknown parameters|unknown parameters}}. Just because you specify {{para|some_param|{{var|some_variable}}}} does not always mean that variable will display. The {{para|some_param}} must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview ↗ button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a '''Show preview''' button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you 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, contact the help desk ↗ for assistance.
Thank you. '''Zackmann''' (Talk to me ↗/What I been doing ↗) 01:52, 30 April 2026 (UTC)