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No birth date

Corbin Braxton (Virginian), has an unknown birth date. The parameter in the info box for date of birth does not allow for "unknown", but it does allow "0000" for a birth year without generating an error message.

But at age of death, the infobox does not allow for 0000, nor unknown, nor unk, so an “Expression error: missing operand” is generated.

Is there a convention to use here? TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 08:42, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@TheVirginiaHistorian: For the death date you need ((death date)) instead of ((death date and age)). (((death-date)) would work as well.) I've made the change in the article for you. For the birth date, I'm not sure there is a way to specify "unknown" in machine-readable format, so I just removed the birth date template altogether. Best — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 09:31, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. The situation doesn't come up often, and will less so as I advance in the Charts of Virginia Conventions delegates. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 14:47, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Protected edit request on 13 March 2017

Add date of death March 13th, 2017 173.49.208.203 (talk) 18:44, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not done - this template is for birth dates only, I suspect from your question that you want to change a date on an article. If you are not sure how then perhaps as at Talk:Morton Deutsch, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 18:53, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

An infant parameter

Could someone add an |infant=yes parameter? So instead of ((birth date and age|2016|11|28)) and ((death date and age|2017|7|28|2016|8|4)) appearing respectively as 28 November 2016 (age 0) and 28 July 2017 (aged 0), the "0" is replaced with their age in months and days i.e. 28 November 2016 (age 8 months and 3 days) and 28 July 2017 (aged 11 months and 24 days). It would save having to use ((Age for infant)).--Nevéselbert 19:07, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the ((edit template-protected)) template.
On the substance of the request, wouldn't it be more sensible to change the template's default action for ages <1 or >115 rather than add extra parameters? Cabayi (talk) 20:06, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I hadn't thought of that. If that's indeed possible then yes, Cabayi, that would be more sensible. Not sure whether that might make it harder to code, though.--Nevéselbert 21:16, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

RfC about whether there should be an infant month-day and super year-day parameter

Would it be a good idea to have |infant=yes and |super=yes parameters? So instead of having to use ((Age for infant)), |infant=yes would display the age of said infant in months and days rather than years. With super-centenarians, |super=yes would display their age in years and days, rather than just years. Relisted by Cunard (talk) at 18:42, 15 October 2017 (UTC) per Snuge purveyor's review, "lots of suggestions, none in agreement". --Nevéselbert 23:29, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for correcting my incorrect assumption R. I had not taken royalty into account. I wonder how many of these kinds of articles will exist at any one time. I still don't think that the parameter is useful. Where would it stop - age one? After it stops how would moving the BDA info to the regular field be done. I understand that others will disagree but I just don't see a beneft to readers — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarnetteD (talkcontribs) 16:40, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

After it stops how would moving the BDA info to the regular field be done.

By removing the |infant=yes parameter. This is meant to be a technical proposal aimed at benefiting editors rather than readers. Instead of having to use ((age for infant)) for young royals and the like, or ((age in years and days)) for the oldest people on Earth such as Violet Brown, editors can simply use a parameter to do just what those templates offer. It would probably mean deprecating ((age for infant)), as the new parameter would render that template redundant.--Nevéselbert 20:14, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Snuge purveyor (talk) 00:26, 13 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]