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I'd like to use Template: Infobox Former Country in the New Hebrides article, but it doesn't work quite right because it doesn't allow for a territory being a colony of two countries rather than one. How can I solve this problem? Can anyone help me? Btn551 ( talk) 03:11, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
It seems that this template lacks former ISO country code, top level internet domain code (TLD), telephone calling code and maybe others. Do you think that these codes should be in the infobox or in the article text? -- pabouk ( talk) 09:36, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
08-April-2008: To allow customization of the title-bar and the infobox background, I have added 2 new parameters inside the style="xxx" properties lists. The style can be changed either for the whole infobox or also for the title/name area:
For example, using titlestyle=background:lightgray will set the background color behind the name data. Also, using boxstyle=left-margin:1px will re-align the infobox for similarity in both browsers Firefox and MS Internet Explorer (MSIE). Maintaining similar formatting between Firefox and MSIE is all very complicated, so adjusting the style properties helps: view the article " Kingdom of Gwynedd" in both browsers to note the shift of the infobox. Adjusting the infobox style in other browsers might help maintain similarity in those browsers as well. Only 2 lines inside the template were changed (just below "Infobox proper begins") to implement the new parameters. I tested the changes in my user space before copying into the live template. - Wikid77 ( talk) 04:42, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
There are some issues explained on the talk page. A user is hoping to modify the template because (as I understand it, I'm not involved) it does not have enough parameters to show how Portuguese Timor was not a formal colony during part of its occupation. I'm sure he/she can explain it better for you, but I told the user I would ask. Thanks! SGGH speak! 21:44, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello, is there a way to increase the size of the text contained in the "image_map_caption". The legend at Moresnet is currently practically unreadable. Cheers, Str1977 (talk) 13:06, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
The before-after of ALL former countries - if there are more than one of either -- do not show up. Clicking on the arrow does nothing but add "#before-after" to the URL. This seems to be a problem only on those infoboxes with more than four successors or predecessors. Rcduggan ( talk) 21:07, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
|Afroeurasia= ... [[Category:Former monarchies}}|{{{common_name}}}, {{{year_start}}}]]
Could someone add this, please :
|Indonesia = {{#if:{{{_noautocat|<noinclude>yes</noinclude>}}}||[[Category:Former countries in Indonesia history|{{{common_name}}}, {{{year_start}}}]]}}
aday (talk) 18:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
The code dealing with calling codes in this template is buggy.
{{#if:{{{calling_code|}}} |<!--then: --> {{!}} '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling code]]''' <td>[[+{{{calling_code}}}]]}} {{#ifexist:{{{calling_code_note|}}} |<!--then: <td> {{{calling_code_note}}} }}
The problems are:
This is quite a big problem because it breaks the template for any countries with > 5 predecessor/successor states. Could an admin administer the fix? Revised code:
{{#if:{{{calling_code|}}} |<!--then: --> {{!}} '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling code]]''' <td>[[+{{{calling_code}}}]]}} {{#ifexist:{{{calling_code_note|}}} |<!--then:--> <td> {{{calling_code_note}}} }} }}
Foobaa ( talk) 05:28, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
OK this was slightly wrong: it should be
{{#if:{{{calling_code|}}} |<!--then: --> {{!}} '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling code]]''' <td>[[+{{{calling_code}}}]] {{#ifexist:{{{calling_code_note|}}} |<!--then:--> <td> {{{calling_code_note}}} }} }}
i.e. delete the two braces after [[+{{{calling_code}}}]]. I have to say that the more I look at this code the less sense it makes — why use ifexist here? And I don't think that the td there is a good idea. Anyway, this will fix the floating braces. Foobaa ( talk) 16:59, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Can someone remove the stray }} on the top of the form please. – Kaihsu ( talk) 13:32, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
This seems to have been sorted. Cheers. – Kaihsu ( talk) 09:17, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Could someone merge {{ Infobox Former Subdivision}} into this infobox? They are practically identical save for the status line and few automatically generated categories. This infobox seems to be well-maintained while subdivision box not so much. There could be a parameter like "type=country/subdivision" that would decide the different treatment of the few items. Any takers? (I am no good at this super-complicated coding). Renata ( talk) 04:26, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
This template is being used by League of Nations, and I thought it might be nice to include the Covenant of the League of Nations in the infobox.
Could we include fields like:
constitution type = Charter
constitution name =
Covenant of the League of Nations
Thanks, TheMightyQuill ( talk) 16:03, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I think there is a quotation mark missing and double styling in this code:
{{{!}} width=100% style="text-align:center; margin:0 auto; style="border:0;"
I thought we should delete second "style="
"
Mmehdi.g ( talk) 13:35, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Please help Could someone take a look at All-Palestine Government and fix the flag link either in the article or this template? It presently links to the dab Flag of Palestine. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 00:38, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}} Please replace all instances of Image:Blank.png with Image:3by2white.svg. Thanks in advance. It Is Me Here ( talk) 17:54, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
now; I'd forgotten to do so earlier.
It Is Me Here (
talk)
09:28, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm going to decline this. In this case, SVG is not superior. --- RockMFR 17:07, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}} Just a small error:
{{#if:{{{p14|}}} | {{!}}style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"{{!}} {{#if:{{{flag_p14|}}}|[[Image:{{{flag_p14}}}|20px|border]]|{{#if:{{{image_p14|}}}|{{{image_p14}}}|[[Image:Blank.png|20px|border]]}}}} {{!}}style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;"{{!}} [[{{{p12}}}]]}} {{!}}-
the p12 on the last line should read p14
CS 46 23:41, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
The map2 row is colspanned 3, instead of 2. Since the infobox is now protected and I can't edit it any more, could someone fix this, please? — OwenBlacker | Discussion 19:26, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
The instructions for date_start and date_end say: "These dates are automatically wikilinked so it does not matter it you say "10 April" of "April 10" – your personal “Date and Time” preferences will display the date the way you want to see it." So the infobox at Kingdom of Iceland, for instance, has wikilinked start and end dates. Doesn't that conflict with WP:UNLINKDATES? Art LaPella ( talk) 18:14, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
Please unprotect this template or remove the blatantly misleading "constant development" banner. Or, if you want to make a serious change, see line 171 and 185: –
should be changed to: –
because the n-ndash should not be spaced when used with years only, only with more specific dates (see
WP:YEAR,
WP:ENDASH). —
CharlotteWebb
19:03, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
If I do get anyone's attention, could they also address the backlog of unresolved issues above:
Thanks, I guess. — CharlotteWebb 19:15, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Disabled request. tl;dr. Seriously. I'd be happy to unprotect this template and let you all edit it, except it actually is heavily transcluded, so that's not really an option. Throw some content in the Template:Infobox Former Country/sandbox and I'll happily sync the page. Cheers. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 02:42, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Maybe we could, like, enable the stable versions extension and worry a bit less about who might vandalize what at any given time. — CharlotteWebb 16:53, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
How can you change the width of the Infobox so that the countries which preceded / succeeded are not squashed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jazzyjones45 ( talk • contribs) 18:32, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
I've got a "ref" tag within the stat_pop1 attribute, but am getting some gibberish in the output. Please see the Democratic Republic of Armenia article's infobox. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. Serouj ( talk) 23:13, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to make the start/end year optional? In the case of Mongol Empire for example, there is significant disagreement about its end year, and possible candidates include 1260, 1271, 1294, 1368, 1370 and 1635. I'm aware that the start/end years are automatically used to assign this entity to establishment/disestablishment categories, but in such case there is no real consensus on when it was disestablished. Thanks.-- Choulin ( talk) 23:03, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Alot of the articles with this template tend to have redlinked century establishment categories. Please fix this by editing the template to "century establishments" (like Category:4th century establishments) rather than "Century establishments" (like Category:4th Century establishments). -- Toussaint ( talk) 04:39, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
is it possible to add a box for the largest cities with population to the template? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bizso ( talk • contribs) 21:33, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
These changes ought to be have no visible or impact on the article's wikipedia behavior. What does change is their behavior in browsers that recognize the Microformat information that would be exposed by your infobox if these innocuous alterations are made. To see this new behavior, install Firefox's free Operator toolbar, and visit page Gojoseon a google map icon should be activated on your toolbar. This will take you to the capital of this Former country. Information on the beginning and end of the country are also exposed to internet applications. To see this, select on Options->data formats, and check the debug mode checkbox. In the article, you can select toolbar Events.Gojoseon.Debug. This will display the date exposed (actually, these are BC dates, although the display doesn't indicate this fact on this screen).
The changes may be seen by doing a diff (show changes) from User:J_JMesserly/Infobox_test and what is now the current version of the template. The only changes are the addition of "vcard vevent" to the infobox class, and "fn org summary" to the class of the cell that mentions the topic of the infobox. These table classes are recognized by add ons like Operator. Embedded templates like {{ start-date}} and {{ address}} expose time and place information. Microformats functionality like the find using Google/Yahoo/Mapquest button will be native in most major browsers (Both Firefox and IE have announced this). This part of an effort to prepare WP for supporting this functionality in advance of this mainstream support for these sorts of features. Thanks. - J JMesserly ( talk) 23:32, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
{undent)Perhaps you misunderstood. Concretely, can you explain what harm is done to an article with the proposed change? What is the user of wikipedia not able to to that they could do before? How does this "damage" affect the user of wikipedia? I'm sorry, but if you cannot demonstrate harm, then there is no valid objection. - J JMesserly ( talk) 07:43, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | → | Archive 9 |
I'd like to use Template: Infobox Former Country in the New Hebrides article, but it doesn't work quite right because it doesn't allow for a territory being a colony of two countries rather than one. How can I solve this problem? Can anyone help me? Btn551 ( talk) 03:11, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
It seems that this template lacks former ISO country code, top level internet domain code (TLD), telephone calling code and maybe others. Do you think that these codes should be in the infobox or in the article text? -- pabouk ( talk) 09:36, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
08-April-2008: To allow customization of the title-bar and the infobox background, I have added 2 new parameters inside the style="xxx" properties lists. The style can be changed either for the whole infobox or also for the title/name area:
For example, using titlestyle=background:lightgray will set the background color behind the name data. Also, using boxstyle=left-margin:1px will re-align the infobox for similarity in both browsers Firefox and MS Internet Explorer (MSIE). Maintaining similar formatting between Firefox and MSIE is all very complicated, so adjusting the style properties helps: view the article " Kingdom of Gwynedd" in both browsers to note the shift of the infobox. Adjusting the infobox style in other browsers might help maintain similarity in those browsers as well. Only 2 lines inside the template were changed (just below "Infobox proper begins") to implement the new parameters. I tested the changes in my user space before copying into the live template. - Wikid77 ( talk) 04:42, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
There are some issues explained on the talk page. A user is hoping to modify the template because (as I understand it, I'm not involved) it does not have enough parameters to show how Portuguese Timor was not a formal colony during part of its occupation. I'm sure he/she can explain it better for you, but I told the user I would ask. Thanks! SGGH speak! 21:44, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
Hello, is there a way to increase the size of the text contained in the "image_map_caption". The legend at Moresnet is currently practically unreadable. Cheers, Str1977 (talk) 13:06, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
The before-after of ALL former countries - if there are more than one of either -- do not show up. Clicking on the arrow does nothing but add "#before-after" to the URL. This seems to be a problem only on those infoboxes with more than four successors or predecessors. Rcduggan ( talk) 21:07, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
|Afroeurasia= ... [[Category:Former monarchies}}|{{{common_name}}}, {{{year_start}}}]]
Could someone add this, please :
|Indonesia = {{#if:{{{_noautocat|<noinclude>yes</noinclude>}}}||[[Category:Former countries in Indonesia history|{{{common_name}}}, {{{year_start}}}]]}}
aday (talk) 18:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
The code dealing with calling codes in this template is buggy.
{{#if:{{{calling_code|}}} |<!--then: --> {{!}} '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling code]]''' <td>[[+{{{calling_code}}}]]}} {{#ifexist:{{{calling_code_note|}}} |<!--then: <td> {{{calling_code_note}}} }}
The problems are:
This is quite a big problem because it breaks the template for any countries with > 5 predecessor/successor states. Could an admin administer the fix? Revised code:
{{#if:{{{calling_code|}}} |<!--then: --> {{!}} '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling code]]''' <td>[[+{{{calling_code}}}]]}} {{#ifexist:{{{calling_code_note|}}} |<!--then:--> <td> {{{calling_code_note}}} }} }}
Foobaa ( talk) 05:28, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
OK this was slightly wrong: it should be
{{#if:{{{calling_code|}}} |<!--then: --> {{!}} '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling code]]''' <td>[[+{{{calling_code}}}]] {{#ifexist:{{{calling_code_note|}}} |<!--then:--> <td> {{{calling_code_note}}} }} }}
i.e. delete the two braces after [[+{{{calling_code}}}]]. I have to say that the more I look at this code the less sense it makes — why use ifexist here? And I don't think that the td there is a good idea. Anyway, this will fix the floating braces. Foobaa ( talk) 16:59, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
Can someone remove the stray }} on the top of the form please. – Kaihsu ( talk) 13:32, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
This seems to have been sorted. Cheers. – Kaihsu ( talk) 09:17, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Could someone merge {{ Infobox Former Subdivision}} into this infobox? They are practically identical save for the status line and few automatically generated categories. This infobox seems to be well-maintained while subdivision box not so much. There could be a parameter like "type=country/subdivision" that would decide the different treatment of the few items. Any takers? (I am no good at this super-complicated coding). Renata ( talk) 04:26, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
This template is being used by League of Nations, and I thought it might be nice to include the Covenant of the League of Nations in the infobox.
Could we include fields like:
constitution type = Charter
constitution name =
Covenant of the League of Nations
Thanks, TheMightyQuill ( talk) 16:03, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
I think there is a quotation mark missing and double styling in this code:
{{{!}} width=100% style="text-align:center; margin:0 auto; style="border:0;"
I thought we should delete second "style="
"
Mmehdi.g ( talk) 13:35, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
Please help Could someone take a look at All-Palestine Government and fix the flag link either in the article or this template? It presently links to the dab Flag of Palestine. — Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 00:38, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}} Please replace all instances of Image:Blank.png with Image:3by2white.svg. Thanks in advance. It Is Me Here ( talk) 17:54, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
now; I'd forgotten to do so earlier.
It Is Me Here (
talk)
09:28, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
I'm going to decline this. In this case, SVG is not superior. --- RockMFR 17:07, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}} Just a small error:
{{#if:{{{p14|}}} | {{!}}style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle;"{{!}} {{#if:{{{flag_p14|}}}|[[Image:{{{flag_p14}}}|20px|border]]|{{#if:{{{image_p14|}}}|{{{image_p14}}}|[[Image:Blank.png|20px|border]]}}}} {{!}}style="border:0; padding:0; vertical-align:middle; text-align:left;"{{!}} [[{{{p12}}}]]}} {{!}}-
the p12 on the last line should read p14
CS 46 23:41, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
The map2 row is colspanned 3, instead of 2. Since the infobox is now protected and I can't edit it any more, could someone fix this, please? — OwenBlacker | Discussion 19:26, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
The instructions for date_start and date_end say: "These dates are automatically wikilinked so it does not matter it you say "10 April" of "April 10" – your personal “Date and Time” preferences will display the date the way you want to see it." So the infobox at Kingdom of Iceland, for instance, has wikilinked start and end dates. Doesn't that conflict with WP:UNLINKDATES? Art LaPella ( talk) 18:14, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
{{
editprotected}}
Please unprotect this template or remove the blatantly misleading "constant development" banner. Or, if you want to make a serious change, see line 171 and 185: –
should be changed to: –
because the n-ndash should not be spaced when used with years only, only with more specific dates (see
WP:YEAR,
WP:ENDASH). —
CharlotteWebb
19:03, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
If I do get anyone's attention, could they also address the backlog of unresolved issues above:
Thanks, I guess. — CharlotteWebb 19:15, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
Disabled request. tl;dr. Seriously. I'd be happy to unprotect this template and let you all edit it, except it actually is heavily transcluded, so that's not really an option. Throw some content in the Template:Infobox Former Country/sandbox and I'll happily sync the page. Cheers. -- MZMcBride ( talk) 02:42, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
Maybe we could, like, enable the stable versions extension and worry a bit less about who might vandalize what at any given time. — CharlotteWebb 16:53, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
How can you change the width of the Infobox so that the countries which preceded / succeeded are not squashed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jazzyjones45 ( talk • contribs) 18:32, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
I've got a "ref" tag within the stat_pop1 attribute, but am getting some gibberish in the output. Please see the Democratic Republic of Armenia article's infobox. Any help is appreciated. Thank you. Serouj ( talk) 23:13, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Is it possible to make the start/end year optional? In the case of Mongol Empire for example, there is significant disagreement about its end year, and possible candidates include 1260, 1271, 1294, 1368, 1370 and 1635. I'm aware that the start/end years are automatically used to assign this entity to establishment/disestablishment categories, but in such case there is no real consensus on when it was disestablished. Thanks.-- Choulin ( talk) 23:03, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Alot of the articles with this template tend to have redlinked century establishment categories. Please fix this by editing the template to "century establishments" (like Category:4th century establishments) rather than "Century establishments" (like Category:4th Century establishments). -- Toussaint ( talk) 04:39, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
is it possible to add a box for the largest cities with population to the template? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bizso ( talk • contribs) 21:33, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
These changes ought to be have no visible or impact on the article's wikipedia behavior. What does change is their behavior in browsers that recognize the Microformat information that would be exposed by your infobox if these innocuous alterations are made. To see this new behavior, install Firefox's free Operator toolbar, and visit page Gojoseon a google map icon should be activated on your toolbar. This will take you to the capital of this Former country. Information on the beginning and end of the country are also exposed to internet applications. To see this, select on Options->data formats, and check the debug mode checkbox. In the article, you can select toolbar Events.Gojoseon.Debug. This will display the date exposed (actually, these are BC dates, although the display doesn't indicate this fact on this screen).
The changes may be seen by doing a diff (show changes) from User:J_JMesserly/Infobox_test and what is now the current version of the template. The only changes are the addition of "vcard vevent" to the infobox class, and "fn org summary" to the class of the cell that mentions the topic of the infobox. These table classes are recognized by add ons like Operator. Embedded templates like {{ start-date}} and {{ address}} expose time and place information. Microformats functionality like the find using Google/Yahoo/Mapquest button will be native in most major browsers (Both Firefox and IE have announced this). This part of an effort to prepare WP for supporting this functionality in advance of this mainstream support for these sorts of features. Thanks. - J JMesserly ( talk) 23:32, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
{undent)Perhaps you misunderstood. Concretely, can you explain what harm is done to an article with the proposed change? What is the user of wikipedia not able to to that they could do before? How does this "damage" affect the user of wikipedia? I'm sorry, but if you cannot demonstrate harm, then there is no valid objection. - J JMesserly ( talk) 07:43, 8 February 2009 (UTC)