Talk:Tao Hongjing

Mysteries of Infoboxes
Hi. I have a question about changing the Infobox Chinese historical biography to the more common Infobox person. I don't know much about Infoboxes, but is there any way to retain or restore the information that gets deleted (such as simplified graphs, W-G romanization, zi and hao names, etc.)? Could the Template:Infobox Chinese be embedded? Thanks, Keahapana (talk) 20:44, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi The changing of the infobox is part of a Wiki-wide move to scrap Infobox Chinese historical biography and replace them with more generic infoboxes such as Infobox person, Infobox royalty and Infobox officeholder. You can see here for the discussion. As for retaining or restoring the romanisation, zi and hao, you can use Chinese and place it just below the Infobox person on this article. You can refer to Sun Yat-sen, for instance, as an example on how to do it. Thanks.    LDS  contact me 06:42, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that's good to know. And thanks for all the work you do on improving WP. Would you like to restore the info or should I? Best wishes, Keahapana (talk) 22:01, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I think maybe you can try it and have fun with infoboxes. Thanks.   LDS  contact me 05:31, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, not so much. I was able to figure out embedding the {{Infobox Chinese, but the problem is that Sun Yat-sen doesn't use {{Infobox person, it uses {{Infobox officeholder, which has different parameters such as native_name (wikilinked to other names.) The current Other names link to the Tao Hongjing section doesn't look right. How can this be fixed? Thanks, Keahapana (talk) 01:01, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Chinese allows only up to three alternative names. In Tao's case, he has too many other names, so it is not possible to make all of them show up in the embedded {{tl|Chinese}} template. I think it is best to include only the important ones (e.g. family and given names, courtesy name, pseudonym). I have attempted to fix the infobox such that it looks more like the one on Sun Yat-sen's article. Hope it looks fine now. Thanks.   LDS  contact me 07:05, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, thank you. Keahapana (talk) 22:07, 29 October 2017 (UTC)