Template talk:Infobox classical composer/Archive 1

Notes for converting Infobox musical artist to use this

Most fields are the same, so it's a fairly easy switch. A few fields are added; a few (agreed upon) are lost. Fields that need to be checked:

Occupation - if it only contains a single value ("Composer") then remove this field from the article. If more than one, then change the field-title to "Occupations".
Era - this field and value can be added - see /doc page for the suggested values to use.
List of works - this field and value can be added

All other fields can be deleted. (specifically: Background, Origin, Instrument, Years_active, Label, URL, Notable_instruments)

Ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Infoboxes (or me) for any future assistance. :) -- Quiddity (talk) 07:48, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox

Anyone mind if I convert this to use the meta template {{infobox}}. This is assuming that there is no significant change to its appearance of course. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:14, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please do. I tried at one point, but never got back to it. -- Quiddity (talk) 20:27, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Version in the /sandbox and examples on /testcases. The only real difference seems to be the width, which is 22em. I believe this is the usual "recommended" infobox width. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:01, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The only problem is (with the typefaces my system uses) the "Historical era(s)" heading gets linewrapped at that width. If you can solve that, then everything else is good to go. :) -- Quiddity (talk) 21:22, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It gets wrapped my end, also. Pretty minor problem, IMO. Perhaps we need to think a little more about the title of that field, if it is an issue... (!) (See my question about plurals, also, though: getting rid of the brackets might shorten the title enough to resolve the issue.) --Jubilee ♫clipman 22:11, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Removing the plural didn't change it. Solved with a non-breaking space ( ).

Other changes are good to go, MSGJ. -- Quiddity (talk) 01:23, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:44, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Parameters

Can I suggest some simplification of the names of the parameters?

Using all lowercase is easier to type, i.e. "occupations" instead of "Occupations".
"image" might be clearer than "Img".

— Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:04, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Makes sense to me --Jubilee ♫clipman 21:18, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fine by me, if those tweaks synchronise it with our standards elsewhere. -- Quiddity (talk) 21:22, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:44, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Plurals

Tony1 mentioned the ugliness of e.g. "Historical era(s)". Any more on that? IIRC, Quiddity asked the infobox project and got some feedback: was it practicable? --Jubilee ♫clipman 22:07, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

1 reply - Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Infoboxes#Plurals - I don't know which is preferable. Probably #3? -- Quiddity (talk) 23:48, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Probably. However, given that the vast majority of composers that the box will be applied to are listed in ony one era then singular "Historical era" is likely to be the default, IMO: I'd just run with that personally --Jubilee ♫clipman 00:25, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, and done. -- Quiddity (talk) 01:17, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Experiment in a real article

Gavin Bryars: I replaced {{Infobox musical artist}}. Can't see anyone objecting to that and it looks good, IMO. Thoughts? --Jubilee ♫clipman 23:17, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I got reverted... :( --Jubilee ♫clipman 09:19, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]