Category talk:Pages using infoboxes with thumbnail images

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Cleanup Tracking

For tracking the clean out of this category. The letters marked "yes" should have no pages in them. If they do, they are new occurrences. This will make it easier to leave messages on individual user's talk pages.

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AWB settings

I've got the category down from c. 6500 to c. 4500, but have decided to move on to something else. It's on my to do list! I have posted advice and AWB settings at User:John of Reading/AWB settings/Pages using infoboxes with thumbnail images. -- John of Reading (talk) 08:40, 20 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@John of Reading: never did manage to get AWB setup on my mac... But manually editing I've gotten it down to 2,890! The finish line is approaching.... --Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 19:16, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Explanation needed

This category really needs an explanation of what is wrong with the pages listed in the category (ideally with a link to the relevant guideline/MOS) - is it that using "thumb" means that there's an unnecessary border around the image in the infobox? Perhaps a link to Template:Infobox#Examples. Some advice about how to fix them would also be useful. DexDor^(talk) 05:41, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DexDor: I've expanded the category description. -- John of Reading (talk) 05:55, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@DexDor and John of Reading: I've also added WP:INFOBOXIMAGE which should help. --Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 19:22, 17 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple images

Currently the first article in this category, in alphabetical order, is 2008 attacks on Christians in southern Karnataka, which places two images in its "image" parameter. I thought that {{Multiple image}} would fix it, but User:John of Reading/Sandbox shows that it doesn't work. The only solution I can see is to [obtain concensus to] add an image2 parameter to {{Infobox military conflict}}. -- John of Reading (talk) 05:32, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Zackmann08: I have undone your edit to this article, as you "solved" the double image problem by leaving one image and the other caption. What is your usual method for taking double-image infoboxes out of the tracking category? -- John of Reading (talk) 21:14, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@John of Reading: Thank you for catching that!! My error. One of the issues of getting on a roll with these edits is I get sloppy. My usual approach is to pull one image out of the infobox. Both images can be used in the article of course! But I don't see any reason that both images need to be in the infobox. --Zackmann08 (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 22:34, 21 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

thumb tag add thumbnails in desktop searchbar

as far as I can tell, thumbnails are added to the desktop search bar only if there is a thumbnail image in the article.

For single image articles with an infobox, where the only image is in the infobox, that means they will never have a thumbnail in search, unless you can add a non-visible thumbnail (have not found a way to do that yet).

this seems less than ideal. What's the reason for this anyway? CompleteAnonymity (talk) 13:02, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]