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Is male-to-female ratio a parameter worth including? Arbitrarily0 (talk) 04:02, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
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The subheading 'Academic staff' is wikilinked to 'Faculty (teaching staff)', which itself is a redirect to Faculty (academic staff). The meaning of the heading on its own is clear - no link is needed to explain it. In addition, by introducing the notion of Faculty, whose meaning differs within the English-speaking world, it just creates confusion. Therefore I request the term 'Academic staff' should be unlinked. Colonies Chris (talk) 09:02, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
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Since there's already a website category, can this be updated to include links to social media sites? At least Facebook/Twitter?
128.84.155.26 (talk) 16:59, 13 June 2012 (UTC)Brian
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Rector is a dab page. Please change the link of label20 to Rector (academia). --Quest for Truth (talk) 12:34, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
I propose we add a date qualifier to the endowment by adding a new "endowment_year" field. I've recently noticed that the endowment figures on some pages are pretty out of date (three years old), when better information is clearly available. See, Hope College, Calvin College. Some places have "as of" dates added ad hoc to the end of the figure (Yale University). Some have up to date information, but no date available without clicking through to the primary source. See Wheaton College (Illinois). As these figures change yearly, we should let our readers know how old the information is (and remind our editors to make updates), and having a field is a good way to remind people to add this information.
An very widely used and high visibility example of what I mean is in Template:infobox country. There, the Gini and HDI fields have dates included in parentheses right next to the term. Thus for United States we have:
|Gini = 45.0[1] |Gini_year = 2007
yielding
Gini(2007) 45.0
I unfortunately have no idea how to work with template syntax to make this happen, if people think it's a good idea. Erudy (talk) 02:47, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
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I think we should allow the use of geoloc+map in the infobox. I have tryed it in the sand box, and it's working. So if there is no opposition I think it might be a good idea (it's widely used already on the French Wikipedia). XIIIfromTOKYO (talk) 18:14, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
Why is "streetaddress" and other address fields missing from this infobox? It exists in Template:Infobox school. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 10:34, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
((#if:(({location|))}|<span class="extended-address">(({location))}</span>|((#if:(({city|))}|<span class="locality">(({city))}</span>))((#if:(({state|))}(({province|))}|, <span class="region">(({state|))}(({province|))}</span>))((#if:(({country|))}|, <span class="country-name">(({country))}</span>)) ))((#if:(({coor|))}|<br />(({coor))} ))
((#if:(({address|))}(({streetaddress|))}(({street|))}(({location|))}(({Location|))}(({region|))}(({Region|))}(({city|))}(({city/town|))}(({state|))}(({country|))}(({province|))}(({county|))}(({postcode|))}(({postalcode|))}(({zipcode|))}(({country|))}(({country1|))}(({coordinates|))}(({latitude|))}(({longitude|))}(({latd|))}(({longd|))}|
! colspan=2 style="text-align: center; background-color: lavender" ((!)) ((#if:(({streetaddress|))}|Address|Location))
I would like to propose the idea that a "founder" field be added to this template. Many schools have a founder who is either already deceased or who does not occupy any of the other existing "position" fields of the template. Thanks Mercy11 (talk) 13:06, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
This template has a |motto=
parameter, and a |mottoeng=
for the English translation when the former is not in English. In such cases, we should also have a |motto_lang=
parameter, to take the relevant ISO language code (e.g. "fr" for French). See |native_name=
and |native_name_lang=
in ((Infobox settlement)) for a similar case.
The relevant markup would be something like:
((#if:(({motto|))}((#if:(({motto_lang|))}|<span lang="(({motto_lang))}" xml:lang="(({motto_lang))}"))>(({motto))} ((#if:(({motto_lang|))}|</span>)) ))
but I'd be grateful if someone could check that, please. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:56, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
|motto=
, the doc page states, "If not in English, use ((Lang))". The template ((Lang)) is used on about 300,000 pages, and already incorporates the functionality of |motto_lang=
. I see no reason for parameter |motto_lang=
; it is just clutter. I suggest that it is not necessary, and be removed. HairyWombat 18:49, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
((Infobox university)) needs to change to support bare filenames at the |image=
field. -- Magioladitis (talk) 14:19, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
|image_name=
, as described on the doc page. HairyWombat 15:26, 8 August 2012 (UTC)A "traded_as" field is available in Template:Infobox_company, but not in the infobox for colleges and universities. I noticed that the DeVry_University infobox places the info under "type", but template documentation does not indicate that the trading info should be appended to the "type" field. I think the "traded_as" field should be used to keep consistent with how the information is presented in corporation articles. Thelema418 (talk) 21:31, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
But that is why I think it is needed; the information doesn't stand out and it is presented in a way that is inconsitent with how such information is presented in corporation profiles. Any private university can be publicly traded on the stock market. This is perhaps "novel" in the history of colleges, but there are at least 10 publicly traded universities in the United States. Thelema418 (talk) 23:15, 14 August 2012 (UTC)
|free_label=
/ |free=
can be used for this. HairyWombat 20:05, 17 December 2012 (UTC)I noticed a "Nobel Laureates" section on MIT's infobox today and realized it has been there ever since Umofomia added the information more than 4 years ago. I think it is a great addition to the infobox but it is currently not a part of the university infobox template. I understand this section will not apply to all universities but this short bit of information could help the reader quantitatively determine a universities prestige or merit in the research community. With that said, I would like to propose adding a Nobel Laureates section to the university infobox template. --Triesault (talk) 01:05, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
|free_label=
/ |free=
. The Doc page states, "Use free_label to display any specialty field title.", and I would suggest that "Nobel Laureates" is an appropriate use for this parameter. The number of possible fixed (unfree) fields is virtually infinite, so these should be deployed with care, and reserved for fields that are common to many universities. A "Nobel Laureates" field could be used by only a few universities.|free_label=
for "Nobel Laureates" (and |free=
for the number). At the moment, no example is offered. HairyWombat 04:42, 10 December 2012 (UTC)Sorry to disturb.
I think there are two problems regarding the infobox.
The reference title of TIMES rankings on the infobox is "Top 400 – The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011–2012" but the website actually shows the results of their 2012-13 rankings.
Moreover, I personally suggest to make it clear that the QS World University Rankings is different from the QS Asian University Rankings in the positions of Asian universities they give in the same year. The template shows on the Global section the result of the QS World rankings with the title "QS" while the Asia section displays the result of the QS Asian rankings under the same title without indicating that they are actually independent of each other. One may think that, for example, HKUST is No.1 in Asia and 33rd in the world, but the fact is that it was placed at 33rd worldwide and 4th in Asia by the QS World University Rankings in 2012 (HKU is regarded as NO.1 in Asia) and just topped the league table of QS Asian rankings in the same year.
As I don't know how to modify the template, I hope someone can have a look on that. Thank you!
14.136.64.76 (talk) 13:53, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
I am a postgraduate student in King Abdulaziz university in Saudi Arabia. Our course instructor has given us an assignment to write a document about technological education in Saudi Arabia. We have done that. I created a logo to put it in an infobox. But the parameters Course instructor and Postgraduate Students are not included in the university template, so I can write our course instructor name and our names in the infobox. Could you please add these two parameters so I can get full marks because of the job that I have done specially with the logo? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abuaaser (talk • contribs) 23:22, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
I agree with no course lecturers -- if you Abuaaser need a course page then it should probably not even be hosted on wikipedia proper but another wiki. Or create your own template similar to this one. Because the university entries (I've seen) using this template lists student population not individual students. However, I do think it is a good idea to add masters, graduate students, and post-doctoral to the list. It would make the template more universal since different countries use the words differently (I only know about US and CA though). However, when the university websites list their population it would be more correct, in my opinion, to match the word choice for proper citations. Also maybe adjunct since sometimes they are not always counted among "academic staff" since it is employment at will, but that would probably be too much and I doubt many universities list that data. Frederika Eilers (talk) 04:20, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
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<code> | data32 = ((#if:(({location|))}|<span class="extended-address">(({location))}</span>|((#if:(({city|))}|<span class="locality">(({city))}</span>))((#if:(({state|))}(({province|))}|, <span class="region">(({state|))}(({province|))}</span>))((#if:(({country|))}|, <span class="country-name">(({country))}</span>)) ))((#if:(({coor|))}|<br />(({coor))} )) </code>
to:
<code> | data32 = ((#if:(({location|))}|<span class="extended-address">(({location))}</span>|((#if:(({city|))}|<span class="locality">(({city))}</span>))((#if:(({state|))}(({province|))}|((#if:(({city|))}|,)) <span class="region">(({state|))}(({province|))}</span>))((#if:(({country|))}|((#if:(({city|))}(({state|))}(({province|))}|,)) <span class="country-name">(({country))}</span>)) ))((#if:(({coor|))}|<br />(({coor))} )) </code>
This will make the display of commas conditional on a preceding value being present. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:19, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
I would like to propose the idea that a "founder" field be added to this template. Many schools have a founder who is either already deceased or who does not occupy any of the other existing "position" fields of the template. Thanks My name is , and I approve this message. 18:25, 1 August 2013 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Mercy11 (talk • contribs)
Most infoboxes on Wikipedia have a field called native_name_lang where the correct ISO 639-2 for the native_name text can be added. The Infobox university is missing this field. Rincewind42 (talk) 15:07, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
Virtually all University articles on Wikipedia start the same way: the name in english (e.g. Royal Institute of Technology) and between parenthesis the native name (Kungliga tekniska högskolan) and the abbreviaton (KTH). The name in english and the native name are fields of the infobox, but the abbreviation for some reason isn't. I believe it's worth including it there. I actually think it's fundamental, and it should probably be at the top, before anything else, since it's so often more recognized than the full name.Ariel Pontes (talk) 16:40, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Mercy asked me to take a look. I'm reluctant to make changes this early in my template-editor career. I don't see consensus here (yet). And I caution against adding fields that involve more than core information about the university, since everything in an infobox is (or should be) included in the main text. My personal decision would be not to add the three in question, but it's not about my personal likes, so let's see if consensus develops. Tony (talk) 07:41, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
I have created an alternative to the demo image Dabney-minimalist in vector format. Use it if you wish to promote the use of vector formats over png. Image:Dabney-minimalist-vector.svg Kyle(talk) 07:30, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
Where is the university article guideline, similar to WP:USCITY for cities. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 18:30, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Could you please add "Language" to the template? In some countries most of the universities teach in the local language but some of them teach in English, so this addition could benefit lots of students. --Bo yaser (talk) 12:15, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Should we include if a University is semester or quarter hours in the infobox? Although both are accredited universities, credits don't often transfer between the two systems. Vincent C (talk) 17:23, 31 August 2014 (UTC)