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It would be nice if this template supported adding two data points. Sometimes a person's age is mentioned in two news stories and a template like this could help better triangulate the date (basic math) instead of leaving the second data point unused. czar 18:14, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Per previous
discussion there is desire from some (including myself) that the default behaviour should use the MOS mandated “1950 or 1951”, and use a slash (“1950/1951”) only when requested. I have set the
sandbox to accept |slash=
, but kept default behaviour as is (with |mos=1
in place, but to be deprecated) for until we are confident that all pages that will need |slash=y
have had it added (for use in space-constrained places, like tables, or infoboxes?). This means that when we then shift default behaviour, any page that has |slash=y
will remain the same, but every other page will display the or
.
This first change should be invisible to the reader, but I do want to confirm no opposition before moving forward. Alternatively, if there is a sense that there are more slashes where they shouldn’t be than there would be ors where they shouldn’t be, we can just shift the default immediately, and review for |slash=y
after. Of course help to review templates in either case is very much essential (via
AWB/
JWB).
@ Trappist the monk, PamD, Schwede66, Kendall-K1, and Cymru.lass: Pinging users who expressed interest previously. — HTGS ( talk) 01:47, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
I found a source dated January 4 which provided the person's age. This means there is a 99.2% chance one year, and 0.8% chance the other year. It would great if we could display it that way, so readers understand there is a extremely high probability in which year they were born.
For example:
1967 (0.8%) or 1968 (99.2%) (age 55–56)
It could be default, or optional. It could be documented as only useful when the odds are less than 10% in one year, for example. It could display by default, but only when the odds are less than 10%, for example. There are many ways to do this.
-- Green C 18:43, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
@ Deor regarding those parser function errors, do you have any other examples? It’s just that those two pages use input dates of September 81, 1988 and September 52, 2022 respectively, and I think it might actually be better to use the parser errors to check and correct typos than to prefer the more permissive version of this template. — HTGS ( talk) 20:45, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Birth based on age as of date template. |
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Archives: 1Auto-archiving period: 365 days |
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It would be nice if this template supported adding two data points. Sometimes a person's age is mentioned in two news stories and a template like this could help better triangulate the date (basic math) instead of leaving the second data point unused. czar 18:14, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
Per previous
discussion there is desire from some (including myself) that the default behaviour should use the MOS mandated “1950 or 1951”, and use a slash (“1950/1951”) only when requested. I have set the
sandbox to accept |slash=
, but kept default behaviour as is (with |mos=1
in place, but to be deprecated) for until we are confident that all pages that will need |slash=y
have had it added (for use in space-constrained places, like tables, or infoboxes?). This means that when we then shift default behaviour, any page that has |slash=y
will remain the same, but every other page will display the or
.
This first change should be invisible to the reader, but I do want to confirm no opposition before moving forward. Alternatively, if there is a sense that there are more slashes where they shouldn’t be than there would be ors where they shouldn’t be, we can just shift the default immediately, and review for |slash=y
after. Of course help to review templates in either case is very much essential (via
AWB/
JWB).
@ Trappist the monk, PamD, Schwede66, Kendall-K1, and Cymru.lass: Pinging users who expressed interest previously. — HTGS ( talk) 01:47, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
I found a source dated January 4 which provided the person's age. This means there is a 99.2% chance one year, and 0.8% chance the other year. It would great if we could display it that way, so readers understand there is a extremely high probability in which year they were born.
For example:
1967 (0.8%) or 1968 (99.2%) (age 55–56)
It could be default, or optional. It could be documented as only useful when the odds are less than 10% in one year, for example. It could display by default, but only when the odds are less than 10%, for example. There are many ways to do this.
-- Green C 18:43, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
@ Deor regarding those parser function errors, do you have any other examples? It’s just that those two pages use input dates of September 81, 1988 and September 52, 2022 respectively, and I think it might actually be better to use the parser errors to check and correct typos than to prefer the more permissive version of this template. — HTGS ( talk) 20:45, 9 January 2024 (UTC)