Template talk:Infobox England county

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I have designed this infobox to replace the hard-coded infoboxes currently cluttering-up the English county articles. In its present state, this infobox should be ready for inclusion on most county articles. However, there are some articles that use fields which have not yet been implemented in this template. If you change this infobox so that it 'fits' into a certain county's article, I would strongly recommend that you check to make sure that no other article has been adversely affected by your changes. The wikicode used is quite complex; I'd suggest you study it carefully before making any big changes.

Please feel free to leave any comments/suggestions/complaints below. --Marknew 10:44, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Usage 2 Discussion 3 formatting 4 titling

[edit] Usage

Copy and paste the code below into the article, then add the appropriate values to the fields. Comments (<!-- in these blocks -->) can be removed from the final code.

Name of county
Image (e.g. flag) - OPTIONAL
Motto: Motto in original language followed by (Name of language: translation into English) - OPTIONAL
Geography
Status	Status (ceremonial? administrative?)
Origin	Year of establishment (e.g. West Midlands = 1974)
Region	Government Office Region
Area - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area	Ranked 4th 1,000 km² Ranked 5th - OPTIONAL 950 - OPTIONAL km ²
Admin HQ	Wibbleton (not required if not an admin. county) - OPTIONAL
ISO 3166-2	ISO 3166-2 code - OPTIONAL
ONS code	ONS code
NUTS 3	NUTS 2/3 code
Demographics
Population - Total (2004) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop.	Ranked 4th 1,000,000 254 / km² Ranked 5th - OPTIONAL 950,000
Ethnicity	xx% White yy% Afro-Carib. zz% S. Asian
Politics
The name http://www.and-website.gov.uk/ REMOVE THIS LINE FOR No county council
Executive
Members of Parliament	Alice Bob Carol Dave Eve
Remove this line for "Districts"; otherwise enter alternative name ("Metropolitan boroughs", etc.)
Adistrict Bdistrict (Unitary) Cdistrict (numbers correspond to map)

{{Infobox England county
 | name = 
 | image = <!-- Flag, etc. -- OPTIONAL -->
 | motto = <!-- OPTIONAL -->
 | map = 
 | status = 
 | origin = <!-- (year of establishment for "new" counties) OPTIONAL -->
 | region = 
 | arearank = 
 | area = 
 | adminarearank = <!-- OPTIONAL, REMOVE LINE IF NOT NEEDED -->
 | adminarea = <!-- OPTIONAL, REMOVE LINE IF NOT NEEDED -->
 | adminhq = <!-- OPTIONAL, REMOVE LINE IF NOT NEEDED -->
 | iso = <!-- OPTIONAL -->
 | ons = 
 | nutscode = <!-- NUTS x - (x = value entered, or leave blank for NUTS 3) - OPTIONAL -->
 | nuts3 = 
 | poprank = 
 | popestdate = 
 | pop = 
 | density = 
 | adminpoprank = <!-- OPTIONAL, REMOVE LINE IF NOT NEEDED -->
 | adminpop = <!-- OPTIONAL, REMOVE LINE IF NOT NEEDED -->
 | ethnicity = 
 | council = <!-- Default value: No county council -- REMOVE LINE IF NOT NEEDED -->
 | mps = 
 | subdivname = <!-- Default value: Districts -- REMOVE LINE IF NOT NEEDED --> 
 | subdivmap = 
 | subdivs = 
}}

[edit] Discussion

How about an explanation of the terms and examples of the sort of information to go in.GraemeLeggett 11:09, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] formatting

I've made some changes to the formatting of the template, generally for standardisation but a couple for style, in terms of font-size, alignment and including the title heading within the actual box. When I have time (next week), I will begin a wide-scale implementation of the template across the country. DJR (T) 00:54, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I've implemented the {{English county control}} template so that the "executive" field can be disregarded. All the pages use the automatic function anyway, so this just simplifies matters. When I get back from holiday, I'm gonna see if I can find some other ways to rationalise the amount of input code required - some switches and the like might come in useful. DJR (T) 02:32, 13 September 2006

[edit] titling

It has increasingly become a problem that having the title as a caption causes wrapping/overlap with the infobox. For this reason, an increasing number of templates have switched to having the title within the infobox - {{Infobox United Kingdom}}, {{Infobox Band}}, {{Infobox London}} and many others. Obviously the vast majority of infoboxes still have the title as a caption as this was the prevailing norm for years. Nonetheless, I would strongly recommend moving the title to within the box - mainly for practical purposes but also stylistically. DJR (T) 09:18, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Worse than that, it looks wrong having a title outside the boxed area. GraemeLeggett 11:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)