Template talk:Infobox Co-operative

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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)

I've added a line for members. However, I do understand the problem of quoting active members. Richard ( T | C ) 17:52, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Well done Richard. I'm using the new features already. Gobonobo T C 04:52, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
  • As well as the foundation date, do you think it would be a good idea to have a date when, where applicable, the Society ceased to exist? I'm thinking of this for use on the United Co-operatives article but I believe it could come into use for a good number of other articles. Richard ( T | C ) 18:13, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Good idea, I like :) - AmishThrasher 12:08, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
  • I've been doing a fair bit of research on UK Co-operatives to add to the Co-op UK article. It was devised in my head as a simple table. However, it seems now to be taking on too much detail for easy presentation. I am now thinking that the information may well be better suited as forming part of this Infobox. Take a look at what I've done so far at User:R.carroll/co-ops but please do bear in mind that it is very much work in progress.
What do you think to adding categories to the Infobox for the number of different trading outlets an individual society has? I see both pros and cons to the idea (a major con being that it will not be relevant to a great number of articles where the Infobox is placed yet they don't need to be completed)
Going back to my original reason for doing the research, filling the Co-op UK article with Infoboxes would be messy, unnecessary and confusing to casual readers so I am a little unsure of where to take this research! Help and advise on my quandary would be greatly appreciated.
Finally, I thought I may as well join the Project. Richard ( T | C ) 00:22, 13 January 2008 (UTC)