Template talk:Information
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Frequent errors with the Template:{{Information}}
Items from wikimedia, other projects and sister wikis should be expressed by an internal link and never by a URL.
date
Templates like ISOdate or Upload date will generate the correct format.
Date is corrected with the next cleanup.
But only the date-format yyyy-mm-dd can be displayed correctly in the users preference and translated into national languages.
Year, month and day (month and day optional) of the date should never be written as 04.05.06 or 7/8/09 — even the cleanup script will have problems to interpret and correct it !
source
Best will be to use a template – e.g.
- {{Own}}00 – the standard; other "own" templates are e.g.
- {{Using}} – when an URL (or an explanation) follows
- {{Based}} – when one or more files should be specified (optional with their creator and/or file display)
- {{Taken}} – when a camera should be specified (or {{Scanned}} when the file results from a scan)
The source field may also bear the specification of attributed files.
author or artist
The standard is to specify a wikipedian with the Template:{{U}} or one of its variations - they comprise other namespaces and projects, e.g.sister-wikis;
everywhere instead of a (single) user a user list or a Creator can be specified.
When an SVG file is the result of a conversion from a raster image, the Template:AutVec can specify both users (or user lists) and the raster original (or file list);
it is a bad style to specify original file[s] and their creator[s] otherwise and more complicated !
Whenever possible, author/artist/vectorizer should be a linkable item. Never use "me", "myself", "own" or other non-informative nonsense!
WYSIWYG
It should be WYSIWYG. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Edinburgh_Place_Ferry_Pier_and_Hong_Kong_Island_skyline_at_night_2004.jpg&diff=prev&oldid=962442971 leaving 1 line between 2 lines should show me
Hong Kong La foto è stata scattata il 31 agosto 2004.
instead of a single line
Hong Kong La foto è stata scattata il 31 agosto 2004.
this is something lone overdue! RoyZuo (talk) 20:28, 27 November 2024 (UTC)
Other versions
I've been trying to add three other versions of the site taken on File:Trader's Hill, GA Historical Markers-04.jpg, but unfortunately, they're misaligned. I know there are supposed to be tools to fix this, but I can't find them. Simply using the gallery markups aren't working, and neither is anything I found in the other versions templates so far. --DanTD (talk) 13:34, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
- I don't think align=left, center and right were intended to be used that way, but to align image in a page with text flowing around it. A solution here use one of the gallery options listed such as Help:Gallery_tag or {{F}}, {{G}} templates; further information on Category:Other versions templates. For example this seems to work:
- Category:Other versions templates
<gallery mode=packed>File:Trader's Hill, GA Historical Markers-01.jpg|The opposite side, which tells citizens and visitors of Charlton County's first masonic lodgeFile:Trader's Hill, GA Historical Markers-02.jpg|The opposite side, which tells citizens and visitors about Fort AlertFile:Trader's Hill, GA Historical Markers-03.jpg|The opposite side, which tells citizens and visitors about the oldest sawmill in the county</gallery>- Devon Fyson (talk) 06:15, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
incarnation
How does the file description data come from with the plain template like here? --16:32, 27 May 2025 (UTC) Mateus2019 (talk) 16:32, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
