Template talk:Infobox Person

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Contents 1 Usage 2 Member of field 3 This box should be merged with Wikipedia:Persondata 4 Sorry guys 5 Formatting issue 6 "Dead" fields 7 Nationality

[edit] Usage

Foo Bar
Foo
Born	Foo Foo
Died	Foo Foo
Title	Foo
Salary	Foo
Term	Foo
Predecessor	Foo
Successor	Foo
Political party	Foo
Boards on	Foo
Religious belief	Foo
Spouse	Foo
Children	Foo
Website	Foo
Foo

{{Infobox Person
| name           = Foo Bar
| image          = IIH.png
| caption        = Foo
| quote          = Foo
| birth_date     = Foo
| birth_place    = Foo
| death_date     = Foo
| death_place    = Foo
| title          = Foo
| salary         = Foo
| term           = Foo
| predecessor    = Foo
| successor      = Foo
| party          = Foo
| religion       = Foo
| spouse         = Foo
| children       = Foo
| website        = Foo
| footnotes      = Foo
}}

Most fields are optional - check with the related WikiProject for specifications about which fields to include. (For example, an article on a scientist wouldn't have any use for the "predecessor" field.)

The imagesize parameter can be left out, in which case the image defaults to 225px wide. It should be used especially with images that are smaller than 225px wide, so that they don't get stretched out to 225px, which looks unsightly.

[edit] Member of field

Hello, has there been any discussion regarding an optional "member of" or similarly named field in the Infobox? It would be especially useful to have that for articles about individuals who are for example a member of multiple governing boards. Kurieeto 14:56, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

I've added an optional "boards" field to contain this information. It sits between the party and religion rows, and can contain former and current board of director/trustee/governor memberships. Kurieeto 02:10, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This box should be merged with Wikipedia:Persondata

In particular, if an article or more specific template uses this box, then they should get "persondata" metadata for free. Right? Pcb21 Pete 14:45, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

I would concur. I've just posted a message about this over at the Persondata talk page, suggesting that Persondata is merged into this template. Mike Peel 21:01, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sorry guys

Guys, sorry! i did something terribly wrong. But now I changed it to its previous one. 192.38.83.6 09:51, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Formatting issue

The way this sits at the top of each page is not very pleasing to the eye. How about making it float:right? It would make all the articles that use it look much nicer. - Dave C.^{talk | Esperanza} 06:33, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Dead" fields

There seem to be a number of dead fields in this box.

I cannot get entries in the employer, birth name and other fields.

Also, should there be a background color to the header on this box?

trezjr 02:11, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nationality

I tried adding nationality as an option, but

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Nationality	Earth from Template:Infobox NBA Player was not very useful. Can anyone help? You may have to look at the edit this page screen to see the full code I included. Kenallen 00:22, 1 April 2007 (UTC)