Template talk:Infobox historic district
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| Administration | |
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| Status: | Urban district (until 1931) Municipal borough (after 1931) |
| HQ: | Barking |
| History | |
| Created: | 1894 |
| Abolished: | 1965 |
| Succeeded by: | London Borough of Barking London Borough of Newham |
| Population | |
| 1901: | 21,547 |
| 1961: | 72,293 |
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[edit] Optional population figures
To add the first and last recorded population figures for each district add the following optional syntax to the articles:
|PopulationFirst= 21,547 |PopulationFirstYear= 1901 |PopulationLast= 72,293 |PopulationLastYear= 1961
[edit] Optional area figures
Many districts had substantial boundary changes. To include the first and last recorded area figures add the following optional syntax to the articles:
|AreaFirst= 29,720 acres |AreaFirstYear= 1894 |AreaLast= 16,376 acres |AreaLastYear= 1934
[edit] Maps
I'm not sure i like the way the coats of arms are evicting the maps to outside the infobox. Should we have a further parameter for the use of the map? (maybe an 'image' parameter to do things the old way and also 'map' and 'arms' parameters?) Morwen - Talk 09:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- As the person who's been doing a share of the evicting, I would agree. Having the CoA or maps floating around the article is messy. I think the problem mainly occurs with districts created in the 1970s and subsequently abolished, unless someone plans on drawing hundreds and hundreds of maps... Lozleader 15:11, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
- I've added an optional 'Civic' to add the CoA etc in the same style as the LCC met borough infoboxes. I've deliberately put it away from the "succeeded by" field as, at first glance, it makes it looks like it is the CoA belongs to the successor. Mrsteviec 23:03, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Width
Why does this box need to be so wide? On most pages it just results in acres of unnecessary space. Owain (talk) 08:35, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- The current width is pretty standard with other similar infoboxes. Mrsteviec 10:17, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- Does it even need to have a fixed width though? If there are no images, or the images are narrower than 300px then it takes up an awful lot of space. I am looking at Monmouthshire as an example here. Owain (talk) 10:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
