Template talk:Infobox comics team and title

Series creator

Defining a separate series creator doesn't seem to be working (or I'm doing something wrong - its happened before), see: S.W.O.R.D. (comics). (Emperor (talk) 14:52, 10 January 2010 (UTC))

Should be fixed now. - J Greb (talk) 18:08, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

Date range formatting

The template seems to be using emdashes (—) for its date ranges (and possibly for other number ranges). The manual of style suggests endashes (–) for this purpose. Not an emergency, I just thought I'd point it out for whenever someone next wants to overhaul the template. Thanks. --Ibn (talk) 08:46, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Category bug

In JFH: Justice For Hire, the template inserts [[Category:Fictional organizations|]], and this displays at the beginning of the article instead of being treated as a category for the article. Something is wrong, but the template looks too complex for me to easily figure out where the error is. --Stefan2 (talk) 14:25, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

should be fixed now. Frietjes (talk) 16:51, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Still happens at Stormwatch (comics)#The New 52 - it's displayed at the start of the section.--Oneiros (talk) 22:01, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

The wrong Infobox was used there anyways. I've fixed it for that page. || Tako (bother me) || 22:28, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Testcases and sandbox edits

I've added some basic test cases for the template (more are welcome), and updated the sandbox version with some changes:

1. Don't display an on-page please select 'group' or 'pub' error message; in the sandbox version, the template just uses either {{{name}}} or {{{title}}} or {{PAGENAME}} (first one that isn't blank) in those places, and adds the page to a new tracking category, Category:Pages using Infobox comics team and title without group or pub parameters.
   That'll prevent things like the transclusion at Weapon Zero that's currently showing the error message in the live, on-page infobox.
2. Check for transclusions that have BOTH |group=y AND |pub=y set (using Module:Check for clobbered parameters), and add those pages to Category:Pages using Infobox comics team and title with conflicting parameters.
   I don't know that there are any such transclusions currently out there, but it's a potential mistake that's easy to monitor for.
3. Only populate the above two categories, as well as Category:Comics infobox without image, from the main article space.

I'd like to get the tescase transclusions out of Category:Misplaced comics infoboxes as well, but I have to investigate how to do that without breaking tracking on other transclusions outside of the article space.

Finally, the testcase transclusions are currently behaving a bit odd — they extend past the bottom of the {{Test case}} containers when expanded, forcing a {{clear}} between each case. Maybe that's even normal for infoboxes, I'm not sure. But fixes welcome, if there's a better approach.

Though I'm going to fix Weapon Zero now, obviously (so the issue I mentioned won't be visible unless you pull up an older revision), I'm still hoping to get the sandbox transferred to the live template pretty quickly. Displaying a template-code error message in the article namespace is generally not OK, and we have a better solution to that (tracking categories). So, point is, if you're watching this template please raise any issues or objections ASAP. FeRDNYC (talk) 20:42, 14 June 2022 (UTC)