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I had previously asked similarly regarding this back in February 2021- what is supposed to be listed for this parameter? All the documentation says is, "show's producer". This could be a range of things, including those credited as 'producer' (like the parameter is named), those credited as 'executive producer', or it could be the main production company behind an awards show. If there isn't a specific one of these options that should be listed, I suggest changing that and updating the documentation as such. It should be more clear what exactly is supposed to be listed here. Magitroopa ( talk) 05:50, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
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Description of suggested change: Please add new parameter "time" (presentation time) if possible as shown in Sandbox Facts707 ( talk) 08:08, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
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template. How does it help readers to have this information in the infobox? What time zone should be used? If the time of the award ceremony is truly important, you can put it in the |date=
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Please add the missing parameters ribbon
, obverse
and reverse
to the list of valid parameters for the unsupported parameter check at the bottom of the template. This will remove e.g.
Jeevan Raksha Padak from
Category:Pages using infobox award with unknown parameters, where it is currently erroneously placed. The change has been made and tested in the sandbox.
Wham2001 (
talk) 13:41, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
|former name=
has a space rather than an underscore. This is inconsistent with the other template parameters and (as far as I know, though I'm not a template expert) general usage. Should it be renamed, and if so how does one go about doing so? The parameters is used on about 776 articles (according to
this search, which is clearly not perfect). Thanks,
Wham2001 (
talk) 09:20, 14 August 2023 (UTC)|former name=
parameter has been supplemented with |former_name=
, so both will work. Thanks again!
P.I. Ellsworth ,
ed.
put'er there 10:00, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
|former name=
to |former_name=
(consistency, potential for confusion) and disadvantages (breaking old revisions, watchlist spamming). I don't really have enough experience working with templates to know where the balance of utility would lie – I think that you and Paine Ellsworth likely would know better. I agree that if it's to be changed it's much better if Primebot makes the edits. Thanks,
Wham2001 (
talk) 07:04, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
|former name=
parameter was added by editor
Vivaelcelta back in 2014 with
[this edit, so for almost a decade editors have been leaping over this hurdle with no discernible challenges. Maybe "well enough" should be "left alone"?
P.I. Ellsworth ,
ed.
put'er there 08:38, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
I don't understand how this field is supposed to work. As of 2/3/2024, Robin Boyd Award is throwing an error at Category:Pages using infobox award with unknown parameters because of its
current_awards =Lyons|Lyons (architecture firm)
line. The template documentation says to omit the wikilinks as the formatting is automatic, but then what is one to do in cases like this? Zaathras ( talk) 18:49, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add an option to skip automatic wikilinking of entries in the current_awards field?
The current behavior isn't compatible with piping wikilinks, and it'll create red links if there's no article for the entry.
Every other place in wikipedia trusts editors to add wikilinks when appropriate, so I'm not sure why this one field does it automatically.
I understand changing the existing behavior would break lots of existing infoboxes, but could an option be added to skip the automatic wikilinking?
Stephen Hui ( talk) 18:53, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
|current_awards=
as can be seen in
British Independent Film Awards, is to link to the article of the current edition of the awards, not a random collections of words.
Gonnym (
talk) 02:57, 28 April 2024 (UTC)