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Change the academic_affiliation =
to academic_affiliations =
. Often times, universities have multiple affiliations (see University of Minnesota as an example), not just one.
Corkythehornetfan (ping me) 00:45, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
|affiliation=
and |religious_affiliation=
? — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 03:03, 7 August 2016 (UTC)|affiliations=
is already alias to sports affiliations) — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 03:19, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
|affiliation=
can already be displayed as "affiliation" or "|affiliations=
" (see University of Notre Dame). As for the religion one, I can't think of any that are affiliated with two religions so I think that on is O.K. If there are, then we could make this change to that field as well. Corkythehornetfan (ping me) 04:36, 7 August 2016 (UTC)|academic_affiliation=
to |academic_affiliations=
, but rather the parsing of the latter as well, and pluralizing the visible label when it is used. The code for this can easily be adapted from the |affiliations=
code, if people want that done. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 02:32, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
| label14 = Affiliation | data14 = (({affiliation|))} ... | label55 = ((#if:(({sporting_affiliations|))}|((longitem|Sporting affiliations))|Affiliations)) | data55 = ((#if:(({sporting_affiliations|))}|(({sporting_affiliations))}|(({affiliations|))))}
This makes no sense at all; |affiliations=
is being treated as a variant of |sporting_affiliations=
not of |affiliation=
, and there is no |sporting_affiliation=
. There exist both |religious_affiliation=
and |academic_affiliation=
, but no plural version of either. So, this template has clearly been randomly modified in "too many cooks" fashion for too long to have much rhyme or reason any longer.
What I would do is give each of these things both a singular and plural form, keep them together, and use a simple #if
at each of them to change the displayed header to plural form if the plural parameter is given, and also add an error check to detect the use of both the singular and plural variant at the same time, in case someone somehow thinks they are not mutually exclusive. The |sporting_affiliations=
parameter was clearly tacked on later, and is documented out of order with the other parameters, but it makes sense to have this specific parameter. What affiliations could need to be documented in the infobox that are not one of academic, sporting, or religious? If we are certain there are some, then it should be |other_affiliation=
and |other_affiliations=
, with |affiliation=
and |affiliations=
as aliases of these, and those short versions deprecated (as ambiguous) by simply no longer listing them in the documentation. It's just confusing to have an |affiliation=
and |affiliations=
parameter pair at all when there are other parameters for specific affiliation types. Over time, any |affiliation=
that really should be classified as academic, sporting, or religious (which is probably all of them) would be migrated to one of the more specific parameters. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 06:35, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
PS: Oh, and I'm fine with not having a plural |religious_affiliations=
per above observation that the case would be unlikely to arise. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 06:41, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
Could we change the "budget" parameter to both "income" and "expenditure"? Absolutelypuremilk (talk) 20:13, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
I propose that hymn be added as a parameter. If there is to be a link to "Hymn" on the left side, it should be to School song.Naraht (talk)
|free_label
. Esrever (klaT) 21:38, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
I have just noticed that a university in Toronto has this office. Is it reasonable to allow for it? SewerCat (talk) 18:39, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
|head_label = Vice-Provost
|head = John Walsh
I am creating a new template and would like the template's documentation to not have the "edit source" button next to each section when the documentation is transcluded to the template page, just as Infobox university's documentation when transcluded onto the template page does not have those buttons. Does anyone know how I can make this happen? Ergo Sum 17:34, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
Because users want to show more major special custom data, I am adding 9 more custom free-data parameters for the upper, middle and bottom of the infobox. When similar custom label/data pairs have been added into other infoboxes, a common problem has been bunching all extra labels together in awkward areas, and so instead the custom fields here are split into 3 groups, at top, middle and bottom:
Along with the prior lone "free_label=" at "free=" there will be a total of 10 custom label/data pairs for other mottos, game yell slogans, fight songs, other affiliations, or satellite campuses, etc. Also, any of those 10 custom lines could contain short notes to clarify unusual data, or link more footnotes. By limiting the extra fields to just 10, then the intent is to allow more major list items, but not encourage further wp:data hoarding, such as dozens of related events, or scores of notable people, where extra detailed text instead should be outside the infobox or in related pages. Are there any other issues about adding these custom data lines into the infobox? -Wikid77 (talk) 08:39/08:47, 7 July 2017 (UTC)
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It currently just says "((Infobox" under blank syntax. This needs correcting to "((Infobox university". Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk 23:32, 16 August 2017 (UTC)
((edit template-protected))
is usually not required for edits to the documentation, categories, or interlanguage links of templates using a documentation subpage. Use the 'edit' link at the top of the green "Template documentation" box to edit the documentation subpage. — JJMC89 (T·C) 18:32, 17 August 2017 (UTC)The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Should there be a fixed image size for logos on university infoboxes? If so, what would the ideal image size be? Eden5 (talk) 03:10, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
It would be nice to add the high-use tag even though editing is locked
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so editors could readily see why the template is locked for editing. Blainster (talk) 22:06, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
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I would like to add this in front of the "country" parameter:
< ! - - { {Flagright | Country name here! } } - - >
It looks nice to have the country flag in every university infobox.Brainist (talk) 14:24, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
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Please undo the recent change of default size for the image to postage-stamp size, and set it back to what it was before, user thumbnail preference. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:44, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
|image_size=
field. I won't change it back, but if others feel differently, then they can go ahead and revert it, but I expect a discussion on it by the person who reverts it or Justlettersandnumbers. Corky Buzz by the Hornet's Nest 18:02, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
|image_upright=
and not a fixed pixel value. Frietjes (talk) 20:31, 14 November 2017 (UTC)Where do you list the cities, when a university has branches in multiple cities and in different states and/or countries, those sites sometimes not being campuses as well? According to this listing (external link) there are over 300 of what they call 'branch campuses'. That list doesn't include branches that are in different cities within one country. I'd think there are many more of those. And, like I said, often branches are not campuses, but just the university education and/or research buildings. Each country their own culture, right? So, perhaps it would be appropriate for the infobox to add branches, as well as main site? Is there anyone who can do this? --OSeveno (talk) 10:33, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
|location=
. Frietjes (talk) 14:19, 19 November 2017 (UTC)Should there be a parameter for academic term (semester, trimester, quarter, block, etc)? I think academic term, academic calendar, or academic year should be included. --50.64.2.22 (talk) 05:00, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
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Can we fix the link in the parameters of Chair (official) to Chairman?--Tærkast (Discuss) 20:48, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
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Can a predecessor parameter with the option to change this to predecessors please be added to this template. A consensus shouldn't really be required for this as there are universities around the world that were established from a merger of two or more predecessor universities. The parameter is optional and would only be used for those applicable. It would be ideal to situate this just after type and before established (similar to Infobox company). Can this be done? Steven (Editor) (talk) 15:29, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
I think the two tabs is missing.
This tabs if added after or before Affiliated tab will helful in Categorisation. -jinoytommanjaly (talk) 18:15, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Courses in a country will be approved by a agency. For example in india it is All India Council of Technical Education. And an ID is provided to each college. If this is added to Infobox it's easy to verify the information provided in Article is true. jinoytommanjaly (talk) 14:06, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
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Can we get a new parameter for "Acceptance rate"? Perhaps it should be specified as "Acceptance rate" but either way it's a commonly searched for statistic across most universities.
This is what I'd suggest:
acceptancerate
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Chsh (talk • contribs) 17:42, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
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template. — JJMC89 (T·C) 19:53, 19 March 2018 (UTC)I've recently seen a few articles where editors inserted "<name> (incoming)" into the "President" field of this template; this was inserted alongside the incumbent so there were two names, the current officeholder and the future officeholder e.g., [3], [4]. I removed the incoming person from the template as it seems to be trying to cram too much information into this (already bloated) template. But I'm checking in here to see what others think. ElKevbo (talk) 17:38, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Can someone please explain to me why "Former names" are included in this infobox? It seems like we're trying to squeeze too much non-essential information into the infobox. This particular bit of information seems like it's much better left for the "History" section or, in some (but not all) cases, the lede. ElKevbo (talk) 05:31, 3 February 2018 (UTC)