Template talk:Historical populations

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[edit] Creation

I've created this template to combine the features of Template:USCensusPop and Template:Histpop, both excellent templates. I think it's preferable to have one template rather than two templates that do the same thing in slightly different ways. This template is very simple to use, and can easily substitute for either of the above templates. I also tried to streamline it to make it easier to modify, as well as make it XHTML compliant. It should be pretty extensible, and I welcome any comments/criticism.

Don't worry, I won't be mass-changing any templates already in use unless I can get a consensus that this template is suitable. If people are resistant, I'll be happy to delete this (or merge it into the other two). —Werson (talk) 01:48, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

If you somehow merge them, you'll need a template parameter that makes the years wikilink appropriately to US Census, but only sometimes... you wouldn't do it if the article isn't a US article, and you wouldn't do it if it is a US article but the year isn't an official census year. How do you plan on doing that? Timneu22 (talk) 11:00, 13 June 2008 (UTC)