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With this edit I intended to remove the "Founders" line from the infobox for the article. Unfortunately, The line displays from Wikidata when the field is empty. There are multiple founders in Wikidata, but the label display "Founder". That need to be fixed so it says "Founders" when there are multiple founders. Can we also add an option to suppress the line as well? Richard-of-Earth (talk) 21:38, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The |fetchwikidata= parameter can be set to "no" to disable calling WD, which I have done on the article. For the record though it is an all-or-nothing parameter, so turning it off removes all WD calls in the infobox. Primefac (talk) 17:37, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@IceWelder: We really should make this template have its parameters aligned, so that when editors copy it, they copy it aligned, and so it will be aligned in more articles. This makes editing and reading the code much, much easier. I haven't met any editor who disagrees. What "issues" do you claim it causes, and why are you edit-warring your preference as well, while trying to accuse me of the same? ɱ(talk)13:56, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds like you're a singular adamant person acting against the will of other editors in those conversations, and arguing your way into succeeding. How does the spacing make it harder for mobile editors? No space makes everything intensely cluttered and jumbled, for mobile and desktop editors. Yet I can tell I won't persuade you. ɱ(talk)14:04, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello all, I aligned the infobox parameters on this infobox's documentation, meaning editors using this template will start with an aligned infobox, where all the parameters and their data line up. Another user in the conversation above reverted me, and has seemed to have a long-time preference against this. What should we do for Template:Infobox company/doc? -- ɱ(talk)14:07, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support alignment. This makes it easier to read the values instead of just a wall of text-code. This is also pretty standard in a lot of infoboxes so nothing new is suggested here. Gonnym (talk) 14:17, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This is somewhat lame. My personal preference is without all the extra spaces, but I wouldn't get upset about it! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:31, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have a strong preference either way. On one hand, we'd add unnecessary space if we align everything, and we should generally try to avoid creating overly long wikitexts when smaller wikitexts would work fine. On the other hand, the infobox template is marginally more readable when aligned, and the change is less than a kilobyte in length, so I'm not sure if the length drawback is or is not outweighed by the readability benefit. (Summoned by bot) — Red-tailed hawk(nest)15:37, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Is this visible only to editors who happen to view the source code at that place? If yes, I recommend that you Wikipedia:Assume good faith, thank the other person for their attempts to contribute to the Wikipedia:Prime objective enunciated by Jimmy Wales, trying to provide freer access to the sum of all human knowledge, and focus on things that seem more important in the long term. (I keep a diary with "to do" lists. This helps me distinguish between things that upset me but don't matter much to others from things that can really help others. Let others do whatever they want as long their actions do not substantively degrade the quality of information provided to the general public.) DavidMCEddy (talk) 16:15, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to voice a procedural oppose as this kind of discussion should be held in a forum that would affect all infobox-style templates. Furthermore, the discussion should focus more on accessibility than personal preferences on particular styles. Doing so for one template and one template only would not aim for wider improvement or even consistency, rather reinforce one style preference in one instance. Additionally, I would oppose the change (both for this case and for any large-scale discussion) as it makes infobox code difficult to read and edit on small screens, especially mobile devices, while having little no advantage in other cases apart from that some believe it to look nicer. IceWelder [✉] 17:58, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]