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Q1: Can you add a new field so that I can list an important person at a university?
A1: Probably not. To preserve due weight, there is consensus that only someone "essential to understanding the institution" should be listed. Normally, only one person — the head of the institution — qualifies for this, although in rare cases where top authority is shared jointly, two or (even more rarely) three people may qualify. All others should be mentioned in the body or just omitted.
There are many existing fields for listing people. If you are working on a university with an unusual name for a top authority, the |head_label= parameter can be used to provide the name of the role and the |head= parameter can be used to provide the person in it. However, this method should not be used to list anyone other than an insitution's top authority.
Template-protected edit request on 19 May 2023[edit]
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Thanks for the suggestion, IP. There has been some previous discussion about this, but it's complicated, as "athletic" is only used to refer to sports generally (as opposed to the Sport of athletics) in North America, and "Sports nickname" sounds a bit weird. Happy to discuss further, and to implement the change if consensus forms to do so. {{u|Sdkb}}talk 16:03, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The links to wikidata does not seem to work. All the information for various information is trancluded. In you try to use the template Infobox university for any article, it loads only the title and none of the information which is indicated in Wikidata. Nornally, if you just indicate the template for any article you should automatically load most of the information in Wikidata, without having to separately load the informaion. This happens for the infoboxes for settlements or persons, but not for universities. Why? Afil (talk) 05:07, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Afil, we'd like for this template to fetch Wikidata values for its parameters, but that needs to be set up, and it hasn't happened yet. See some recent efforts at this thread. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}}talk 05:19, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! I recently encountered an example of this template used on National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, where both Template:Native name and the native_name_lang parameter of this template were set. This resulted in the output of the entire output of the native name template (which was "國立陽明交通大學 (Chinese)") being wrapped in a div whose language was set to Chinese, which is semantically incorrect because the "(Chinese)" text is English. I've changed it to use only Template:Native name, and not the native_name_lang parameter, which keeps the previous style (including the "(Chinese)" specifier at the end) without the incorrect semantic tagging. Any ideas on how to make this work together more nicely with Template:Native name (or make it more clear that it shouldn't be used with the native_name_lang parameter)? Tol (talk | contribs) @ 05:17, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Template-protected edit request on 14 July 2023[edit]
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Our school has Co-Dean. I updated the sandbox. Could you kindly help add an optional item Co-Dean under Dean of of the infobox? Thanks! CEIBS Marcom (talk) 09:23, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Is there a reason the head_label parameter cannot be used for this? Robminchin (talk) 15:09, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Declined. The |head_label= parameter can be used, assuming the position is important enough to qualify. {{u|Sdkb}}talk 18:58, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Does being a UARC quality as an academic affiliation?[edit]
Doing a spot check, it doesn't look like being a UARC is usually listed under academic affiliations. I could be way off base, but is that an appropriate thing to list under academic_affiliations? Darkage7[Talk] 17:10, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Darkage7, are you talking about on the UARC's page? I think {{Infobox institute}} might be a better fit for such an article, but if this one is to be used, |parent= would probably work better than |academic_affiliations=. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}}talk 18:55, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
For example, the University of Washington's Applied Physics Lab is a UARC, affiliated with the Navy. Under UW's "academic affiliations" it doesn't list it. It does list that it's a space-grant and a sea-grant university. It seems to me like that might be an appropriate place to list that it's also a UARC. Perhaps I'm just barking up the wrong tree. The more I think about it perhaps such a connection is more appropriate for the Lab entity's specific page, rather than the University itself. Darkage7[Talk] 19:08, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I would save that for the lab's page. |academic_affiliations= has in its description that it should be used only for Academic organizations of which the institution is a member and provide essential definition of the institution (mission, values, activities, etc.). A lab within the university being affiliated with the Navy doesn't mean that the university as a whole is defined by that affiliation. (I'd also say that being space grant isn't an affiliation that warrants listing, cc ElKevbo.) {{u|Sdkb}}talk 19:23, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with the direction the discussion is going and the advice that has been provided. ElKevbo (talk) 21:14, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Make the former name an optional but not required field in infobox[edit]
For some universities, the former names include a long list of different names. The length of the former name list may even be equal to or longer than the half space of the whole content in the infobox. For this situation, it is not appropriate to put the former name list in the infobox,as it will significantly damage the readability of remaining important information in the infobox. We should make it an option to either include the former name or not. Jianghaizhi (talk) 23:03, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Having so many former names that it would bloat the infobox seems like a rare situation. But in the event that that is indeed the situation, editors absolutely have the discretion to not include them. Sdkbtalk 23:09, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The parameter is already optional and, as Sdkb says, editors have the discretion to not include all former names. I'm not sure what you're asking for here. Robminchin (talk) 00:16, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
They are here because of an dispute at University of North Texas. There is an open discussion in the Talk page - you're welcome to weigh in there in that specific context. ElKevbo (talk) 00:28, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]