Wikipedia:Requested templates/Existing/2005/August

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[edit] Request #1

A template for high schools (or even all institutions of education). I was looking for one and didn't see it, but:

  • am I looking in the wrong place?
  • am I asking in the wrong place?
  • should I be the one doing it? If so, how?

I know that there are lots of pages on different U.S. High schools. I just didn't see any common theme.

Gnirts 02:46, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

See Template:Infobox School and the discussion page there. --CBDunkerson 03:03, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Extended Biography Template

I would like an extended biography template that has more than simply dates of birth and death. In particular I would like to have slots for standard biblographic data such as:

  • Education
  • Nationality
  • Occupation(s)

The advantage of having this in template form is that it is then possible to build better query interfaces and would eventually allow a large number of categories to be dispensed with such as Irish Engineers which is really just the intersection of two categories that could each be compiled automatically by a bot. Equally a lot of silly lists could be avoided. For more info on these ideas see my user page.

The existing template seems to be very limited, am I just looking in the wrong place?

One objection to this might be performance but I would rather look into ways to improve performance. For example locking the template to prevent graphiti designed to cause a massive sequence of collateral edits. --Gorgonzilla 20:44, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

See Template:Infobox Person. --CBDunkerson 03:03, 16 March 2006 (UTC)