The gloss the user gets when hovering over the fl. is flourit. I think it's an extremely narrow class of readers who don't know what fl. means, but when reminded it's short for flourit, thinks, "Ah yes! That clears things up." Perhaps we should add something more explicit, in English e.g. something like
(though that's isn't quite satisfactory). EEng (talk) 19:28, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Back to the point at hand... any thoughts on the hover text I suggested? EEng (talk) 00:37, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
A recoding of this template and accompanying updated documentation is now at at the sandbox. It is proposed that the new version become live around March 1. 72.43.99.146 (talk) 01:51, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
A boolean option (|brackets=yes
|b=yes
) was added to template:floruit/sandbox today to display the template's output in parentheses if there is a value to date. I am not certain if WP:MOS has anything to say about such display. Option is proposed to become live if it doesn't run contrary to style. 72.43.99.146 (talk) 13:41, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
I added some tracking categories a few weeks ago, and I have yet to see any movement or usage of the more... esoteric parameters offered by the IP-edited version of this template. Thus, I have reverted to a "simple" version.
The added parameters were unused, but more importantly they were unnecessary. For example, there was no need for a "suffix" parameter, when the first parameter could just as easily handle the full text. Nor was there for a "unit" (same reasoning). Primefac (talk) 16:33, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
Please see proposed merger (leaving behind a wrapper at the original template name): Template talk:Reign:Overhauled, and basically a meta-template – maybe merge some stuff?
— SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ< 04:42, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
I think the second line of the template:
|<span style="display:none;">(({1|))}</span>
needs replacing with:
|<span style="display:none; speak:none;">((padleft:(({1|))}|4|0)) </span>
as seen in ((circa))
Currently, ((floruit|1172|1230))
generates fl. 1172 – c. 1230. But this is wrong. When giving a date range as a floruit, those are the earliest and latest dates of attestation. There is nothing "circa" about the second date. Srnec (talk) 00:13, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
((floruit|1172–1230))
, which generates fl. 1172–1230. I think that if you want a circa'd range, that should be spelled more like ((floruit|c=1172–1230))
or ((floruit|circa|1172–1230))
or something along those lines. I'll be trying to accomplish something like this for ((died-in)) in the next few minutes. (Edit a few minutes later: ((died-in|c|1230))
now produces d. c. 1230.) --Quuxplusone (talk) 18:49, 2 March 2022 (UTC)((floruit|((c.|1172–1230))))
does exactly the right thing — fl. c. 1172–1230 — so I'm removing my |c|
parameter from ((died-in)). --Quuxplusone (talk) 19:28, 2 March 2022 (UTC)