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Contents 1 {{service record}} 2 {{AFV}} 3 Template:Infobox Polish Navy 4 {{ADF Unit Box}} conversion questions 4.1 Add aircraft->equipment/equipment_label mapping 5 Ship articles infobox conversion drive

[edit] {{service record}}

Something to think about: should {{service record}} replace the (now redundant) fields in {{Infobox Military Unit}}and {{Infobox Military Person}}? Kirill Lokshin 04:11, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

On second though, it's not really worthwhile for people. Kirill Lokshin 04:22, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] {{AFV}}

Conversion is all done. Only talk and project pages link to it now as per [1].--Sus scrofa 13:59, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Infobox Polish Navy

Putting this template on record as needing conversion to {{Infobox Ship Example}}. Maralia (talk) 20:36, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Noted. :-) Kirill 04:24, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

User:Bellhalla has converted instances of this template & nominated it for deletion: Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:Infobox Polish Navy. Maralia (talk) 15:23, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] {{ADF Unit Box}} conversion questions

The request is to convert calls of {{ADF Unit Box}} to use {{Infobox Military Unit}}. The instructions matche the ADF   "FEG" entry with a Infobox Military Unit entry. As I started to help with conversions, the units that I found had FEG entries. — ERcheck (talk) 23:51, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

The FEG entry isn't meant to have a counterpart. The standard infoboxes only provide the next higher unit; we don't put the entire chain of command into the infobox. Kirill 20:46, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Add aircraft->equipment/equipment_label mapping

I have amended the conversion mapping for {{ADF Unit Box}} to include the use of equipment and equipment_label=Aicraft in place of aircraft=. I hope this is acceptable to all --Yendor1958 (talk) 11:34, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Looks fine (although the unit template does have specific aircraft fields, if anyone feels like sorting them by type). Kirill 11:36, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ship articles infobox conversion drive

WP:SHIPS is currently in the midst of converting all articles under their project scope to a standard infobox: {{Infobox Ship Begin/doc}}. As many of our articles are also Military history articles, I am posting this cross-project notice. Any help is welcome, as always. The articles are tagged on their talk pages in two ways:

• Those lacking an infobox are tagged with {{ship infobox request}} and are put into Category:Ship articles without infoboxes
• Those with an infobox other than {{Infobox Ship Begin/doc}} are tagged with {{newinfobox}} using the following syntax: {{newinfobox|type=ship}} and are put into Category:Ship articles needing infobox conversion

Each of these categories currently holds over 500 articles each, and is probably over 1000 for conversion. -MBK₀₀₄ 23:22, 28 February 2008 (UTC)