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[edit] Syntax

From Jamie Silverstein.

{{Infobox Figure skater
|title= Jamie Silverstein
|image=
|caption=
|country= {{USA}}
|residence= [[Bloomfield Hills, Michigan|Bloomfield]], [[Michigan]]
|height= 160 cm
|weight= 
|partner= '''[[Ryan O'Meara]]'''
|coach= [[Igor Shpilband]],<br>[[Marina Zueva]]
|skating club= Arctic FSC
|retired= 
|combined total=
|combined date=
|SP score=
|SP date=
|FS score=
|FS date=
|dance score= 155.51
|dance date= 2005 Sk Amer
|CD score= 29.98
|CD date= 2006 Four CC
|OD score= 48.28
|OD date= 2005 Sk Amer
|FD score= 78.79
|FD date= 2005 Sk Amer
}}

From Beatrisa Liang (note how unused fields can be left out for easier editing):

{{Infobox Figure skater
|title= Bebe Liang
|image=
|caption=
|country= {{USA}}
|residence= [[Granada Hills, Los Angeles, California|Granada Hills]], [[California]]
|height= 149 cm
|weight= 
|coach= [[Ken Congemi]], [[Frank Carroll]]
|skating club= All Year FSC
|retired= 
|combined total= 159.91
|combined date= 2006 Four CC
|SP score= 61.04
|SP date= 2006 Four CC
|FS score= 98.87
|FS date= 2006 Four CC
}}

[edit] Empty syntax

{{Infobox Figure skater
|title=
|image=
|caption=
|country= 
|residence= 
|height= 
|weight= 
|partner= 
|coach= 
|skating club= 
|retired= 
|combined total= 
|combined date= 
|SP score= 
|SP date= 
|FS score= 
|FS date= 
|dance score= 
|dance date= 
|CD score= 
|CD date= 
|OD score= 
|OD date= 
|FD score= 
|FD date=
}}
  • Currently, only the title and country fields are mandatory, the rest are optional.

[edit] Hints

  • for the country field, use the ISO codes for countries:
country= {{GEO}}
  • for the partner field, I like to format the text link in bold:
partner='''[[Jayne Torvill]]'''

[edit] Removal of thumbnail

The thumbnail looks really bad inside of the infobox. There should be a way to have the image without the the thumbnail. The caption can be place under the image. The problem is I don't know how to make the size variable. If anyone knows how could they please help me? rydia 05:47, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

  • The image thumbnail is OPTIONAL. You don't have to put anything there, it's just a convenience. The reason for only one type is for consistency, you don't want people putting variable sized images causing all sorts of formatting problems. Plus too many people have violated image size guidelines, and that had to stop. This infobox itself is for convenience only, you're free to create you're own and use that. Also, the caption is there to give proper credit to avoid image deletion. --Pelladon 18:23, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Rydia, you were right. I had been thinking the same thing. I took the caption outside of the image, and removed the frame.--Esprit15d 19:45, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of weight field

I've notice abuse and controversy over this field. Not to mention it's hardly used anyway. Any suggestions as to deleting this or possible actions? --Pelladon 17:49, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Changed Turned Pro to Retired

Field change. Feel the Retired field was more useful and general. --Pelladon 21:10, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Picture Size

The picture size either needs to be made smaller or be made into an editable option. The restriction to 200px makes some of the low-res promo pictures very pixelated. See Sarah Hughes. Sue Anne 20:11, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I originally used a thumbnail to display the photo, but other users insisted on a frameless design. This caused smaller photos to expand to 200px to fill the frame. No easy solutions. Would reducing the size to 100px satisfy everyone? —Pelladon 19:34, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

I had a look at a few other Infobox's and what some of them (e.g. Infobox_Tennis_player) do, is require the wiki link for the image in the data for the template, rather than just the name of the image.

E.g. the usage of the template would look like this:

{{Infobox Tennis player
|image= [[Image:Andre Agassi Indian Wells 2006.jpg|300px|Andre Agassi at the 2006 Indian Wells Masters]]

rather than

{{Infobox Figure skater
|title= Sarah Hughes
|image=Hughes_sarah.jpg

This will allow more flexibility on each page - which I think is a good thing. This change would require changing every page that uses this infobox, but it's only about 50 pages - which I would be willing to do myself. --Gary van der Merwe 18:35, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I tested this out using Sandbox - and it works well. Any objections to me making this change? --Gary van der Merwe 19:08, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

What we really need is this: [1] --Gary van der Merwe 08:35, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

If you're willing to make all those changes, good luck. I just hope people don't abuse this option. Also you need to test the case for no image as well. —Pelladon 16:53, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Done. Please let me know if there are any problems. --Gary van der Merwe 19:37, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Choreographer

I added a line to stick in choreographer information. Kolindigo 22:06, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox for pre-ISU Judging System Skaters

I noticed that most of the skaters who competed during the old judging system don't have infoboxes. We should update the infobox to allow for results for those skaters as well.
Skeetidot 06:07, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

What sort of results do you mean? Kolindigo 21:17, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
Something along the lines of Best Results for Tara Lipinski, or results by event for Michelle Kwan or Chen Lu. Skeetidot 01:50, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Well, there's always Template:Infobox Figure Skating Competition 6.0. The best/most recent results box as seen in many articles is not connected to the infobox and can be modified to remove the "total points" part of it. Kolindigo 03:19, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Former" fields

I added "former" fields for coach, choreographer, and partner. I think the former coach and choreographer would be useful for retired skaters to make it clear that they are not currently being coached by those people, but they were coached by them, as well as being useful for notable former coaches and choreographers in general. Former partner for notable past partnerships for ice dancers and pairs skaters. Kolindigo 05:05, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Only for living people?

I was trying to update the infobox at Christopher Bowman when I realized that this template doesn't have any death parameters such as death_date or death_place, etc. I'll be having to switch that article's infobox to {{infobox person}}. You might want to consider updating this template to include such parameters. Cheers! 75.193.153.60 (talk) 20:37, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Added. :) Kolindigo (talk) 22:08, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Weight, revisited

I agree with Pelladon above. This field is prone to abuse and misuse. Furthermore, there is no official weighing in for figure skaters like there are for other sports, and there is no weight on the ISU biographies. This field would be very hard to find sources for and I don't think it's necessary. I vote to remove it. Kolindigo (talk) 19:29, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

It has been over a week and no one has objected, so I am removing the field. Kolindigo (talk) 20:16, 13 June 2008 (UTC)