Template talk:Infobox Co-operative

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[edit] Suggestions

Nice to borrow the code from {{Infobox Company}}. A couple of thoughts:

1. Link "Type" to Cooperative instead of to Category:Types of companies.
2. Have a shorter piece of "meta info" than the entire {{Co-operatives}} series navbox
3. An entry for "Members" - number of members is very interesting, even though co-ops have a hard time distinguishing dormant accounts from active members.
4. An entry for "Total dividends" - much more interesting than net income (after-tax profit) for a co-op
5. An entry for "Trading area" - where co-ops in the same industry agree trading areas so as not to compete with one another
6. For a merged business, can we agree that the foundation date be that of the oldest component of the merger, or the date of the most recent merger?

What do you think? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 21:27, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

• I agree that the navigation box is unwieldly and could be much shorter. Perhaps it can be shortened to the Rochdale Principles and the basic company information. The political and economic theories and key theorists sections seem appropriate on the main page about cooperatives, but don't feel particularly useful on every page that is about a cooperative.
• I would like to see a separate infobox template for different types of cooperatives, allowing for different information for each subtype. For instance, a line to list the number of members makes a lot of sense for a consumer or housing cooperative, but less so for the other categories. Gobonobo 21:59, 16 February 2007 (UTC)