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I've applied the styling features of Template:Infobox NHS hospital which allowed for the hospital name in large and section headers. The UK template has a series of location parameters (locale and county), yet this one has just a Location - would not a country parameter be useful ? I've added the necessary code to include the picture (see Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) and added width and caption options. Not sure what is supposed to be done with the Logo image. David Ruben Talk 02:01, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm not yet sure how the articles have been set up to use the template, but Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center (Seattle) set the logo parameter as [[Image:Childrens logo.gif]] whereas I've coded the template to take just Childrens logo.gif (see edit change) David Ruben Talk 02:21, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I propose that Template:Infobox NHS hospital be merged into this template. There are already some UK NHS hospitals that use this template and not the NHS-specific one. It would be more useful to have just the one hospital template to cover all the likely countries that English speaking editors are likely to add (US, Canada, Ireland, UK, NZ, Australia, South Africa, Caribbean etc). Now I think there are some good additional parameters in the Template:Infobox NHS hospital that should be added to this one and it is clear that this template could do with a country parameter. So I suggest the following by way of preliminary modification before merging in Template:Infobox NHS hospital .
Currently the location parameter is used for local area and state for US hospitals (eg "Washington, DC"). The Template:Infobox NHS hospital currently splits the information into locale (probably equates to County for US) but confusingly displays on the template as 'Place' and county (which in UK equates to State for US). Neither template currently specifies Country.
This is not difficult to amalgamate, being similar to the citation templates that allow 'author' to be defined, or allow 'first' and 'last' names to be defined (likewise 'date' or 'year' and 'month' parameters used). So the template takes either 'Location', or 'Locale' & 'County'.
There is though a compelling reason to split US hospital location details into Locale and State parameter information (see Wiki-Links below).
I think though we should consider non-UK/US and allow for a Country code which is appended to the end of the location details. As per other templates and Manual of Style, this should show just the 2-letter international abbreviation (see Template:Drugbox which so marks certain parameters if set).
Defining the country then allows an additional field to be auto-generated, namely the Wiki-Links parameter seen on Template:Infobox NHS hospital. For UK hospitals this shows a link to 'National Health Service' & 'Hospitals in the United Kingdom' and is therefore a means of abbreviating what might otherwise appear in a 'See also' section.
For US hospitals this would of course link to Category:Hospitals in the United States or, if US hospitals had a distinct State parameter to one of its subcategories. Only problem I can foresee in the coding is that Category:Hospitals in the United States has only 39 sub-cats, and last time I looked the US had rather more states than this - still this is not hard to code with parser functions (i.e. to sub-cat if one exists else to the overall 'Category:Hospitals in the United States').
UK NHS hospitals are part of NHS Trusts which may have more than one hospital in the group. The UK NHS template allows this trust to be defined. Clearly 'NHS Trust' applies only to UK, but presumably private hospitals may belong to a larger company. I suggest the best generic term would be Organisation or Group organisation or Group which should be self explanatory for editors adding details about hospitals in a variety of countries. (Group is shorter and avoids organisation/organization American/British English conflict, buit is less descriptive - which do other editors prefer?).
UK hospitals divide between NHS or Private, in US I guess you have Private/Medicare/Charity ? Likewise we split NHS hospitals into Community, District General, or Teaching Hospitals.
Affiliation = for US hospitals is used for University association, not sure quite the term that we would use in UK, but clear enough not to warrant any adjustment.
Certification = US has clearly defined "Levels" of emergency trauma care. The terminology is foreign to us Brits, the UK template allows for definition of A&E (ED) present or not and also has a Type parameter to define as Community (generally without A&E and often for outpatient only with no inpatient care), District General (which would have an A&E) and Teaching hospital (which would have higher level of surgical sub-specialism).
To make any sort of sense for UK hospitals, again alternative parameter definition would need be allowed (perhaps triggered by the country code being set to UK). The options are:
Clearly there are several tweaks and alternative-parameters in my proposal for merger. The template coding I can easily do and would leave current US hospital pages unaffected, but would allow UK hospitals to be ported across to this template. It would also give scope for hospitals in other countries to make use of the single hospital template in English wikipedia. Do editors have thoughts on these ideas ? :-) David Ruben Talk 01:12, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
So proposal for additional or renamed parameters is as shown (I've rearranged order of some elements of the two infoboxes to give the sequence structure set out in the first column, generally current InfoBox Hospital template parameters kept, but 'Certification' whilst will be kept for backwards compatability, should be depreciated in favour of less US-centric "Emergency" parameter. Feel free to propose tweaked names, eg "Emergency&Trauma")
Structural Element |
Current Template | Updated Infobox Hospital | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Infobox Hospital | Infobox NHS hospital | From existing | New or renamed | Examples of values for new parameters | |
Heading | Name | hospital name | Name | . | . |
Images | Image | image | Image | . | . |
Caption | . | Caption | . | . | |
Width | . | Width | . | . | |
Logo | . | Logo | . | . | |
Location | Location | locale | Location | . | . |
. | county | . | Region | . | |
. | . | . | State | US=State, UK=England, Wales, Scotland or N.Ireland. Allows for wiki-link section to automatically try to link to Lists of hospitals in <State> (if no such list then will link to that for <Country>. This currently only seems apply to US & UK, but could also apply to Canada & Australia) | |
. | . | . | Country | . | |
Classification | . | Trust | . | Org/Group | UK = the NHS Trust, for private (& thus US) name of private company |
. | . | . | Category | UK=NHS/Private, Elsewhere Public/Private | |
. | type | . | Type | UK=Community, District General, Teaching, Maternity, Speciality | |
Speciality | . | Speciality | . | . | |
Certification | A&E | . | Emergency | UK= Yes/No, US=I/II/III and shows link to appropriate classification | |
Other info | Affiliation | . | Affiliation | . | . |
Beds | in patients | Beds | . | . | |
Dates | Founded | opened | Founded | . | . |
. | . | . | Closed | . | |
Links | Website | website | Website | . | . |
. | Wiki-Links | . | Wiki-Links | These include autogenerated list links to relevant State (UK means England Wales, Scotland or N.Ireland) for UK & US, otherwise to Country |
This would give the following overall structure:
{{Infobox Hospital | Name = {{PAGENAME}} | Image = | Caption = | Width = | Logo = | Location = <!-- --- Move US State details to the Region parameter --> | Region = <!-- NEW. UK: the County or city. US: City or County --> | State = <!-- NEW. UK: England, Wales, Scotland, N.Ireland. US: US State abbreviations (used in autogenerated Wiki-links) --> | Country = <!-- NEW. --> | Org/Group = <!-- NEW. UK: for NHS=Trust or Private company. US: Company organisation or group --> | Category = <!-- NEW. UK:NHS or Private. US: Public or Private --> | Type = <!-- NEW. Community, District General, Teaching, Specialist --> | Speciality = | Emergency = <!-- New. UK: Yes/No, US: Trauma certification level (I/II/III) - 'Certificsation' depreciated but kept for compatability --> | Affiliation= | Beds = | Founded = | Closed = <!-- NEW. --> | Website = | Wiki-Links = <!-- NEW. Template will automatically add 'List on hospitals in...' link for State or Country if defined --> |}}
David Ruben Talk 04:18, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
To see working examples of how this might look for NHS and US articles, plus how the upgrade would affect existing articles, please see
User talk:Davidruben/Templates/Test1. As you will see, it has little real change to existing articles, but offers scope for wider usage, auto-generates wikilinks to location detail and also adds 'See also' links automatically. There is a little rearranging of the order of items (I've tried to put organisation info together before a more patient-orientated services section)
David Ruben
Talk
18:03, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Abridged from discussion thread with Aylahs: David Ruben Talk 00:26, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Aylahs I see you have expanded the range of countries that Template:Infobox Hospital recognises - thank you. I am curious, in for example The Aga Khan Hospital for Women, Karimabad what does "ISO 9001: 2000" mean under Classification - is this to do with emergency/trauma provision or a quality standard to the hospital as a whole? The upgraded Template will be replacinmg "Classification" for something along the lines of "Emerg.Dept." So I need to know if we need to provide some additional "Quality Standard" parameter for the articles you have recently created... Yours David Ruben Talk 23:26, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
{{Infobox Hospital | Name = {{PAGENAME}} | Org/Group = <!-- NEW. for NHS=Trust/Health board (UK NHS) or Private Company organisation or group --> | Image = | Caption = | Width = | Logo = | Location = <!-- --- Move US State details to the Region parameter --> | Region = <!-- NEW. UK: the County or city. US: City or County --> | State = <!-- NEW. UK: England, Wales, Scotland, N.Ireland. US: US State abbreviations (used in autogenerated Wiki-links) --> | Country = <!-- NEW. --> | Category = <!-- NEW. UK:NHS or Private. US: Public or Private --> | Type = <!-- NEW. Community, District General, Teaching, Specialist --> | Speciality = | Standards = <!-- NEW. e.g. international ISO where absence of national standards --> | Emergency = <!-- NEW. UK: Yes/No, US: Trauma certification level (I/II/III) - 'Certificsation' depreciated but kept for compatability --> | Affiliation= | Beds = | Founded = | Closed = <!-- NEW. --> | Website = | Wiki-Links = <!-- NEW. Template will automatically add 'List on hospitals in...' link for State or Country if defined --> |}}
The Public/Private/Charity status would perhaps be best served by a parameter that links to to the article Health care system. So "Category" seems a poorer choice of parameter name than perhaps "HealthCare" (would "Funding" be better ?). I can get the coding to recognised for the UK "NHS" to show "Public NHS" and for US "Charity" to link to Charity care. It is nearing the end of consultation period over template upgrade - so any thoughts ? David Ruben Talk 16:59, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
{{Infobox Hospital | Name = {{PAGENAME}} | Org/Group = <!-- NEW. for NHS=Trust/Health board (UK NHS) or Private Company organisation or group --> | Image = | Caption = | Width = | Logo = | Location = <!-- --- Move US County/City & State details to Region & State parameters --> | Region = <!-- NEW. UK & US: the County or City --> | State = <!-- NEW. UK: England, Wales, Scotland, N.Ireland. US: The US State (used in autogenerated Wiki-links) --> | Country = <!-- NEW. --> | HealthCare = <!-- NEW. UK:NHS. AU/CA: Medicare. US:Medicare/Medicaid/Charity. ELSE freetext, eg Private --> | Type = <!-- NEW. Community, District General, Teaching, Specialist --> | Speciality = <!-- Only if particularly notable or state as "Teaching" --> | Standards = <!-- NEW. e.g. international ISO where absence of national standards --> | Emergency = <!-- NEW. UK: Yes/No, US: Trauma certification level (I/II/III) - 'Certificsation' depreciated but kept for compatability --> | Affiliation= <!-- University or Medical School association --> | Beds = | Founded = | Closed = <!-- NEW. --> | Website = <!-- --- As http://www..... add optional <Space> followed by display text, 'homepage' is added to this --> | Wiki-Links = <!-- NEW. Template will automatically add 'List on hospitals in...' link for State or Country if defined --> |}}
I would appreciate comment on choice of parameter names, e.g. 'HealthCare' vs. Funding, alternatives to 'Standards' (applies to developing countries with external accreditation certification), 'Region' vs Area (i.e. County, but this does not apply outside of UK & US). In the next day or so, I shall implement the changes (see demonstration)... David Ruben Talk 03:06, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
From Kerowyn's and my own talk pages, I copy the following:
David Ruben
Talk
03:09, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your interest. I've wanted to make up a better template, but I don't really have the programming skills to do it properly. I've taken a look at the proposal and it looks good to me. I've copied the proposed template over here, and added my comments K e rowyn Leave a note 02:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
{{Infobox Hospital | Name = {{PAGENAME}} | Image = | Caption = | Width = | Logo = | Location = <!-- --- Move US State details to the Region parameter --> | Region = <!-- NEW. UK: the County or city. US: City or County --> | State = <!-- NEW. UK: England, Wales, Scotland, N.Ireland. US: US State abbreviations (used in autogenerated Wiki-links) --> | Country = <!-- NEW. --> I think these parameters could be combined into one, since "Location" generally includes city and state/county by default. | Org/Group = <!-- NEW. UK: for NHS=Trust or Private company. US: Company organisation or group --> I feel like this entry and "Affiliation" are basically the same thing, so they could be combined. | Category = <!-- NEW. UK:NHS or Private. US: Public or Private --> | Type = <!-- NEW. Community, District General, Teaching, Specialist --> | Speciality = | Emergency = <!-- New. UK: Yes/No, US: Trauma certification level (I/II/III) - 'Certificsation' depreciated but kept for compatability --> It isn't necessary to keep the "certification" title here, since trauma levels are generally descriptive of emergency services. | Affiliation= | Beds = | Founded = | Closed = <!-- NEW. --> | Website = | Wiki-Links = <!-- NEW. Template will automatically add 'List on hospitals in...' link for State or Country if defined --> |}}
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I've applied the styling features of Template:Infobox NHS hospital which allowed for the hospital name in large and section headers. The UK template has a series of location parameters (locale and county), yet this one has just a Location - would not a country parameter be useful ? I've added the necessary code to include the picture (see Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) and added width and caption options. Not sure what is supposed to be done with the Logo image. David Ruben Talk 02:01, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm not yet sure how the articles have been set up to use the template, but Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center (Seattle) set the logo parameter as [[Image:Childrens logo.gif]] whereas I've coded the template to take just Childrens logo.gif (see edit change) David Ruben Talk 02:21, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I propose that Template:Infobox NHS hospital be merged into this template. There are already some UK NHS hospitals that use this template and not the NHS-specific one. It would be more useful to have just the one hospital template to cover all the likely countries that English speaking editors are likely to add (US, Canada, Ireland, UK, NZ, Australia, South Africa, Caribbean etc). Now I think there are some good additional parameters in the Template:Infobox NHS hospital that should be added to this one and it is clear that this template could do with a country parameter. So I suggest the following by way of preliminary modification before merging in Template:Infobox NHS hospital .
Currently the location parameter is used for local area and state for US hospitals (eg "Washington, DC"). The Template:Infobox NHS hospital currently splits the information into locale (probably equates to County for US) but confusingly displays on the template as 'Place' and county (which in UK equates to State for US). Neither template currently specifies Country.
This is not difficult to amalgamate, being similar to the citation templates that allow 'author' to be defined, or allow 'first' and 'last' names to be defined (likewise 'date' or 'year' and 'month' parameters used). So the template takes either 'Location', or 'Locale' & 'County'.
There is though a compelling reason to split US hospital location details into Locale and State parameter information (see Wiki-Links below).
I think though we should consider non-UK/US and allow for a Country code which is appended to the end of the location details. As per other templates and Manual of Style, this should show just the 2-letter international abbreviation (see Template:Drugbox which so marks certain parameters if set).
Defining the country then allows an additional field to be auto-generated, namely the Wiki-Links parameter seen on Template:Infobox NHS hospital. For UK hospitals this shows a link to 'National Health Service' & 'Hospitals in the United Kingdom' and is therefore a means of abbreviating what might otherwise appear in a 'See also' section.
For US hospitals this would of course link to Category:Hospitals in the United States or, if US hospitals had a distinct State parameter to one of its subcategories. Only problem I can foresee in the coding is that Category:Hospitals in the United States has only 39 sub-cats, and last time I looked the US had rather more states than this - still this is not hard to code with parser functions (i.e. to sub-cat if one exists else to the overall 'Category:Hospitals in the United States').
UK NHS hospitals are part of NHS Trusts which may have more than one hospital in the group. The UK NHS template allows this trust to be defined. Clearly 'NHS Trust' applies only to UK, but presumably private hospitals may belong to a larger company. I suggest the best generic term would be Organisation or Group organisation or Group which should be self explanatory for editors adding details about hospitals in a variety of countries. (Group is shorter and avoids organisation/organization American/British English conflict, buit is less descriptive - which do other editors prefer?).
UK hospitals divide between NHS or Private, in US I guess you have Private/Medicare/Charity ? Likewise we split NHS hospitals into Community, District General, or Teaching Hospitals.
Affiliation = for US hospitals is used for University association, not sure quite the term that we would use in UK, but clear enough not to warrant any adjustment.
Certification = US has clearly defined "Levels" of emergency trauma care. The terminology is foreign to us Brits, the UK template allows for definition of A&E (ED) present or not and also has a Type parameter to define as Community (generally without A&E and often for outpatient only with no inpatient care), District General (which would have an A&E) and Teaching hospital (which would have higher level of surgical sub-specialism).
To make any sort of sense for UK hospitals, again alternative parameter definition would need be allowed (perhaps triggered by the country code being set to UK). The options are:
Clearly there are several tweaks and alternative-parameters in my proposal for merger. The template coding I can easily do and would leave current US hospital pages unaffected, but would allow UK hospitals to be ported across to this template. It would also give scope for hospitals in other countries to make use of the single hospital template in English wikipedia. Do editors have thoughts on these ideas ? :-) David Ruben Talk 01:12, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
So proposal for additional or renamed parameters is as shown (I've rearranged order of some elements of the two infoboxes to give the sequence structure set out in the first column, generally current InfoBox Hospital template parameters kept, but 'Certification' whilst will be kept for backwards compatability, should be depreciated in favour of less US-centric "Emergency" parameter. Feel free to propose tweaked names, eg "Emergency&Trauma")
Structural Element |
Current Template | Updated Infobox Hospital | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Infobox Hospital | Infobox NHS hospital | From existing | New or renamed | Examples of values for new parameters | |
Heading | Name | hospital name | Name | . | . |
Images | Image | image | Image | . | . |
Caption | . | Caption | . | . | |
Width | . | Width | . | . | |
Logo | . | Logo | . | . | |
Location | Location | locale | Location | . | . |
. | county | . | Region | . | |
. | . | . | State | US=State, UK=England, Wales, Scotland or N.Ireland. Allows for wiki-link section to automatically try to link to Lists of hospitals in <State> (if no such list then will link to that for <Country>. This currently only seems apply to US & UK, but could also apply to Canada & Australia) | |
. | . | . | Country | . | |
Classification | . | Trust | . | Org/Group | UK = the NHS Trust, for private (& thus US) name of private company |
. | . | . | Category | UK=NHS/Private, Elsewhere Public/Private | |
. | type | . | Type | UK=Community, District General, Teaching, Maternity, Speciality | |
Speciality | . | Speciality | . | . | |
Certification | A&E | . | Emergency | UK= Yes/No, US=I/II/III and shows link to appropriate classification | |
Other info | Affiliation | . | Affiliation | . | . |
Beds | in patients | Beds | . | . | |
Dates | Founded | opened | Founded | . | . |
. | . | . | Closed | . | |
Links | Website | website | Website | . | . |
. | Wiki-Links | . | Wiki-Links | These include autogenerated list links to relevant State (UK means England Wales, Scotland or N.Ireland) for UK & US, otherwise to Country |
This would give the following overall structure:
{{Infobox Hospital | Name = {{PAGENAME}} | Image = | Caption = | Width = | Logo = | Location = <!-- --- Move US State details to the Region parameter --> | Region = <!-- NEW. UK: the County or city. US: City or County --> | State = <!-- NEW. UK: England, Wales, Scotland, N.Ireland. US: US State abbreviations (used in autogenerated Wiki-links) --> | Country = <!-- NEW. --> | Org/Group = <!-- NEW. UK: for NHS=Trust or Private company. US: Company organisation or group --> | Category = <!-- NEW. UK:NHS or Private. US: Public or Private --> | Type = <!-- NEW. Community, District General, Teaching, Specialist --> | Speciality = | Emergency = <!-- New. UK: Yes/No, US: Trauma certification level (I/II/III) - 'Certificsation' depreciated but kept for compatability --> | Affiliation= | Beds = | Founded = | Closed = <!-- NEW. --> | Website = | Wiki-Links = <!-- NEW. Template will automatically add 'List on hospitals in...' link for State or Country if defined --> |}}
David Ruben Talk 04:18, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
To see working examples of how this might look for NHS and US articles, plus how the upgrade would affect existing articles, please see
User talk:Davidruben/Templates/Test1. As you will see, it has little real change to existing articles, but offers scope for wider usage, auto-generates wikilinks to location detail and also adds 'See also' links automatically. There is a little rearranging of the order of items (I've tried to put organisation info together before a more patient-orientated services section)
David Ruben
Talk
18:03, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Abridged from discussion thread with Aylahs: David Ruben Talk 00:26, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Aylahs I see you have expanded the range of countries that Template:Infobox Hospital recognises - thank you. I am curious, in for example The Aga Khan Hospital for Women, Karimabad what does "ISO 9001: 2000" mean under Classification - is this to do with emergency/trauma provision or a quality standard to the hospital as a whole? The upgraded Template will be replacinmg "Classification" for something along the lines of "Emerg.Dept." So I need to know if we need to provide some additional "Quality Standard" parameter for the articles you have recently created... Yours David Ruben Talk 23:26, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
{{Infobox Hospital | Name = {{PAGENAME}} | Org/Group = <!-- NEW. for NHS=Trust/Health board (UK NHS) or Private Company organisation or group --> | Image = | Caption = | Width = | Logo = | Location = <!-- --- Move US State details to the Region parameter --> | Region = <!-- NEW. UK: the County or city. US: City or County --> | State = <!-- NEW. UK: England, Wales, Scotland, N.Ireland. US: US State abbreviations (used in autogenerated Wiki-links) --> | Country = <!-- NEW. --> | Category = <!-- NEW. UK:NHS or Private. US: Public or Private --> | Type = <!-- NEW. Community, District General, Teaching, Specialist --> | Speciality = | Standards = <!-- NEW. e.g. international ISO where absence of national standards --> | Emergency = <!-- NEW. UK: Yes/No, US: Trauma certification level (I/II/III) - 'Certificsation' depreciated but kept for compatability --> | Affiliation= | Beds = | Founded = | Closed = <!-- NEW. --> | Website = | Wiki-Links = <!-- NEW. Template will automatically add 'List on hospitals in...' link for State or Country if defined --> |}}
The Public/Private/Charity status would perhaps be best served by a parameter that links to to the article Health care system. So "Category" seems a poorer choice of parameter name than perhaps "HealthCare" (would "Funding" be better ?). I can get the coding to recognised for the UK "NHS" to show "Public NHS" and for US "Charity" to link to Charity care. It is nearing the end of consultation period over template upgrade - so any thoughts ? David Ruben Talk 16:59, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
{{Infobox Hospital | Name = {{PAGENAME}} | Org/Group = <!-- NEW. for NHS=Trust/Health board (UK NHS) or Private Company organisation or group --> | Image = | Caption = | Width = | Logo = | Location = <!-- --- Move US County/City & State details to Region & State parameters --> | Region = <!-- NEW. UK & US: the County or City --> | State = <!-- NEW. UK: England, Wales, Scotland, N.Ireland. US: The US State (used in autogenerated Wiki-links) --> | Country = <!-- NEW. --> | HealthCare = <!-- NEW. UK:NHS. AU/CA: Medicare. US:Medicare/Medicaid/Charity. ELSE freetext, eg Private --> | Type = <!-- NEW. Community, District General, Teaching, Specialist --> | Speciality = <!-- Only if particularly notable or state as "Teaching" --> | Standards = <!-- NEW. e.g. international ISO where absence of national standards --> | Emergency = <!-- NEW. UK: Yes/No, US: Trauma certification level (I/II/III) - 'Certificsation' depreciated but kept for compatability --> | Affiliation= <!-- University or Medical School association --> | Beds = | Founded = | Closed = <!-- NEW. --> | Website = <!-- --- As http://www..... add optional <Space> followed by display text, 'homepage' is added to this --> | Wiki-Links = <!-- NEW. Template will automatically add 'List on hospitals in...' link for State or Country if defined --> |}}
I would appreciate comment on choice of parameter names, e.g. 'HealthCare' vs. Funding, alternatives to 'Standards' (applies to developing countries with external accreditation certification), 'Region' vs Area (i.e. County, but this does not apply outside of UK & US). In the next day or so, I shall implement the changes (see demonstration)... David Ruben Talk 03:06, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
From Kerowyn's and my own talk pages, I copy the following:
David Ruben
Talk
03:09, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your interest. I've wanted to make up a better template, but I don't really have the programming skills to do it properly. I've taken a look at the proposal and it looks good to me. I've copied the proposed template over here, and added my comments K e rowyn Leave a note 02:30, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
{{Infobox Hospital | Name = {{PAGENAME}} | Image = | Caption = | Width = | Logo = | Location = <!-- --- Move US State details to the Region parameter --> | Region = <!-- NEW. UK: the County or city. US: City or County --> | State = <!-- NEW. UK: England, Wales, Scotland, N.Ireland. US: US State abbreviations (used in autogenerated Wiki-links) --> | Country = <!-- NEW. --> I think these parameters could be combined into one, since "Location" generally includes city and state/county by default. | Org/Group = <!-- NEW. UK: for NHS=Trust or Private company. US: Company organisation or group --> I feel like this entry and "Affiliation" are basically the same thing, so they could be combined. | Category = <!-- NEW. UK:NHS or Private. US: Public or Private --> | Type = <!-- NEW. Community, District General, Teaching, Specialist --> | Speciality = | Emergency = <!-- New. UK: Yes/No, US: Trauma certification level (I/II/III) - 'Certificsation' depreciated but kept for compatability --> It isn't necessary to keep the "certification" title here, since trauma levels are generally descriptive of emergency services. | Affiliation= | Beds = | Founded = | Closed = <!-- NEW. --> | Website = | Wiki-Links = <!-- NEW. Template will automatically add 'List on hospitals in...' link for State or Country if defined --> |}}