User talk:Stu9891

Football teams

Thank you for your contribution - and welcome to Wikishire.

Sports teams - that's fine. We've not covered them hitherto, simply because of lack of manpower, but the more the merrier, and we are happy to have the material here. I see that Owain has already created the "Sport in Surrey" category for it.

If you think that sports teams needs a template for an infobox, have a think about what form it could usefully take than could be developed.

RB (talk) 11:39, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks for your message. It's very welcoming. I also appreciate the accommodation granted. I've been searching for the right wiki site and thankfully I've found it. I will endeavour to look into templates. I'm out at the moment but I will start to build the article up soon and I will always be in touch with ideas and any questions I may have.

Keep up the good work. It's a great site!

Many thanks

Stuart

Hi RB (talk), I have some code from Wikipedia regarding the infobox templates. How is it best to give it to you?? Via email? Or shall I just copy and paste it here? All the best. Stu

New templates

If you have the code, just create the new template on Wikishire and see if it works. (If it is an Infobox just call it Template:Infobox team or whatever sounds appropriate; as long as it starts Template:, it will be a template.) I can fiddle with it if I think I can improve it.

We have a couple of jumps on Wikipedia, using the 'Variable' extensions for one and I try to make articles self-categorizing to some extent: the reason I am keen on Infoboxes is that I can put the category functions in the template, picking up from a field:

|county=

If you want a map link to a place, a sports ground or wherever, you can do it with an OS grid reference or with a latitude and longitude. You could have it in an infobox or freestanding, and if the latter, use {{map}} for an OS grid ref or {{wmap}} for latitude and longitude (have a look at how it is done on other pages).

It also helps to tag a page with the relevant county, so that the map templates know which maps to look at. Again, infoboxes do that for you but otherwise you can use {{county}}.

RB (talk) 20:12, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

New templates

Hi RB (talk. I am new to code so I'm still learning. I am not too familiar with how you create a template. Can I give you the code? I can email it to you if that helps. I have tried to do it but i am not getting very far.

I'll have a look at it (but not at 11 o'clock at night!) RB (talk) 22:10, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

No probs. Thank you. I tried creating Template:Infobox football club on Wikishire, then I added the code but it hasn't worked. Speak soon. Stu