Template talk:Infobox company

Template-protected edit request on 16 July 2022

Can you change “Headquarters” to “Location” so that it can match the parameter |location=? 70.71.80.27 (talk) 19:34, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

 Not done: The |location=-type parameters have been upgraded to other names, such as |hq_location=, |hq_location_city= and so on. They still work, but the use of only "location" was confusing and ambiguous, since ideally a company may have several "locations" and only one "headquarters". P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^put'r there 19:01, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Country field

Notice in some United Kingdom company articles there has been some edit warring with an editor replacing England in the country headquarters field with England, UK. This appears to have been contentious with several editors reversing. So the question is should headquarters be listed as:

• city, country, e.g. London, England or
• city, country, crown dependency, e.g. London, England, UK.

Can't see any evidence of the issue having been discussed, either here or at WP:WikiProject Companies, but if a consensus can be reached, this can be referred back to when it flares up to try and avoid the constant edit warring. As it stands the template has two fields:

• hq_location_city =
• hq_location_country =

Given that we don’t even link countries per WP:OVERLINK, for mine, city, country is adequate with no need for crown dependency, much like we have Paris, France, not Paris, France, European Union. Homeltraix (talk) 20:54, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

As this is not specific to this infobox, this is probably not the best place to discuss this. However, take a look at Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Archive_222#Removal of "UK" from location field in infoboxes, the most recent discussion, to see how contentious this is.

Also, with the example of London, WP:OVERLINK says that is sufficient by itself. There is another related discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Linking#Implementation in infoboxes that says the existence of multiple fields in infobox templates is not a justification to ignore project linking guidelines. MB 23:03, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

Map

I think this template should be able to display a map. I understand the parameter may not be helpful for a major corporation with many office and/or retail locations, but sometimes a company operates from a single location. For these articles, I think a map for the infobox would be helpful.

Thoughts? Concerns? Anyone able to implement? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 22:01, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

See Template_talk:Infobox_company/Archive_12#Map, and by extension Template_talk:Infobox_company/Archive_9#Coordinates, in which "no" continues to be the consensus. Primefac (talk) 09:38, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 16 December 2022

It seems that this template generates a links in links lint error whenever there is a reference supplied for the |ISIN= parameter. See Current version of Draft:Icecat (company), where the |ISIN= parameter is causing this lint error. But now look at this example based on the usage at Icecat, with a reference on almost every parameter except |ISIN=, and there is no lint error.

Icecat

[[File:ICECAT.svg|frameless|upright=1]]
Company type	Public company
Traded as	NPEX:ICECAT
ISIN	NL0012751226
Industry	Product Information Management
Founded	2001 (2001)
Founders	Martijn Hoogeveen
Headquarters	Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Key people	Martijn Hoogeveen (CEO) Emre Tan Altinok (Managing Director) Marco Noor (CFO)
Products	Product Content Technology Product Taxonomy Management Product Content Management & Syndication
Revenue	€11 million (2021)
Operating income	€2.7 million (2021)
Net income	€27.9 million (2021)
Total equity	€43.6 million (2021)
Website	icecat.com

References

Please fix to allow |ISIN= to take a reference without generating a links in links lint error. —Anomalocaris (talk) 20:30, 16 December 2022 (UTC) Anomalocaris (talk) 20:30, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Ostensibly, there is only one fix to this, which is not enforcing a link. Instead, I expanded the template {{ISIN}} to cover the use case we previously had here. Therefore, ISIN parameters should now be migrated from |ISIN=X to |ISIN={{ISIN|sl=n|pl=y|X}}. |ISIN2= and |ISIN3= are also now covered in |ISIN=. I will start with some migration work soon. IceWelder [✉] 00:52, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

@Anomalocaris: I have also applied the new scheme to the draft you mentioned. IceWelder [✉] 03:33, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

Edit request 16 January 2023

Add param worker representation= XYZ with preference for wiki-linked values e.g. Tesla and unions, Starbucks unions or other wikilinks in Category:Labour relations by company The wikicode for this would be inserted at the bottom with

| label42 = worker representation | data42 =

Thank you for your consideration ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 15:46, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

• This was discussed before but did not really reach a consensus. Generally, consensus should come before any edit request. Do feel free to revive the discussion. IceWelder [✉] 18:12, 16 January 2023 (UTC)