Template talk:Infobox Celebrity

External links in template
External site links should be in the external links section of an article like with every other article.

(This template is used by these articles)

I've made a change, feel free to discuss if you think it should be changed back, however this seems to be pretty much the standard. --Mistress Selina Kyle 03:43, 22 December 2005 (UTC)


 * A website link in an infobox is pretty standard, where it makes sense. Look at Template:Infobox City, Template:Infobox School, Template:Infobox Company.  Celebrities are their own companies, in a very real sense.  -- Netoholic @ 07:23, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Image size
G'day. How do I reduce the size of the image to its normal size? The template seems to make all images the same size. The image at Ray Martin (television presenter) has been enlarged and is thus pixellated. Maybe we can have a pixels line in the table. Cheers and Happy Editing! Jpe|ob 03:45, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't know how, but it can be done. The problems are every other image using the template will be full size, and if you have a pixelated image of a person at 200px it's honestly a pretty crappy image that should be replaced with a better quality one. --TheTruthiness 05:00, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Call the "image_size" variable, default size is 220px. Example:
 * image_size = 150px
 * thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 07:29, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Alias
Is there a way that someone could add the fields "Birth_name" and "Alias" to the Celebrity Infobox Template, as seen in other Infobox Templates such as "Infobox musical artist"? Thank you for your time, Smeelgova 20:44, 3 October 2006 (UTC).

Infobox cruft
Why is this template being used on historical persons like Benjamin Franklin. Why is this template needed instead of a common Infobox Person? Why is this infobox needed at all? —Centrx→talk &bull; 20:45, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

name field necessary?
Given that the page name gives the individual's name, and then it is usually in the first line of the text in bold, is it really necessary to have a name field in the infobox also? The Gomm 23:48, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

Age: Should it be used?
There is a template pertaining to age of the person. Template:Age is very useful. What are your thoughts on this?  Ali Karbassi View my contribs and talk pages. 01:32, 9 January 2007 (UTC) 

Children
Some biographies name their children in this template (e.g., Brit Hume and Bill O'Reilly), while others (like Mary Sue Hubbard and John Edward) simply give the number of children the person has. I recommend that we standardize this in one of three ways: I prefer 1 and 3. Suggestions? &mdash; Elembis 16:49, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) List the names of all children whose names are known (and avoid listing children with unknown names)
 * 2) List the names of all children who have their own articles (and avoid listing other children)
 * 3) Give the number of children, but leave names to the article itself

documentation
Please transclude the documentation. In addition, please place tags around the code. --PhantomS 21:55, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Heh, figures the page I was checking to make sure I didn't fuss it up was itself bugged. ;) All done, although the doc page looks like it needs some work. Luna Santin 23:31, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Flags in the places of birth/death?
Is there consensus about placing flags in the fields for places of birth and death? There's a minor cycle of reversion going on in Steve Irwin, and I'd like to find out what people think about using them: not at all, at the front, before the country, or at the end? —C.Fred (talk) 14:01, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * There is no consensus, no, someone just added a flag to an article one day and it seems to have duplicated all over the Wiki like a swarm of locusts. thanks/Fenton, Matthew Lexic Dark 52278 Alpha 771 14:10, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Birth date
How do we get rid of the year of birth thing? I'm trying to get rid of it entirely from one, but it won't let me. Even when all the birth date etc headers are removed, it still says "born" when saved. SlimVirgin (talk) 06:13, 1 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Does anyone know how to get rid of this? There are BLP issues on some articles, where people don't want their date of birth to be posted. But because we can't remove "date of birth =" on the infobox, people keep adding it. SlimVirgin (talk) 07:08, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It might be practical just to post the year of birth. Birth date being a required field is common among people infoboxes. --PhantomS 07:12, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

hCard microformat
Please add the hCard microformat (See WP:UF for background) by adding two HTML classes, thus:


 * class="infobox" => class="infobox vcard"

Once done, I'll update the documentation. Thank you. Andy Mabbett 16:06, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
 * ✅ Done --ais523 16:44, 20 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I've updated the doc, too. Andy Mabbett 16:59, 20 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Please also add class="role" to "occupation" and class="note" to "footnotes". Thank you. Andy Mabbett 18:57, 21 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Edits made. Not being particularly familiar with the template or the class, is all the inline style information for the footnotes section now redundant? EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 22:07, 21 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you, and no; the class "note" has no styles applied to it, it's purely for labelling data. Andy Mabbett 22:40, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Alrighty; that's what I thought, but wanted to at least raise the question in case I was wrong and we could trim a bit of code. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 23:22, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Infobox code for WikiMedia 1.10?
I'm trying to get the Infobox template to get to work in my personal wiki, created with WikiMedia, but I can's find the extension php-script and demanded edits for LocalSettings.php. Can anyone tell me where to find those? All I can come up with is the use of the template inside WikiPedia, but that doesn't work with WikiMedia 1.10.--Bjrndlw 11:12, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Wrong Grammer in Death date and age
There is wrong grammer used in the death date and age of this template. It displays as "aged #" after the date. Shouldn't it be "age #"? INFORM A  TION CENT  E  R©  ( T  •  C ) 05:38, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Add "known for" field
There's a dispute as to whether what a person does, and is known for, is necessarily an occupation. Perhaps not, but if "known for" were added, it would resolve the problem, even if this isn't merged with Infobox Person. &mdash; Arthur Rubin | (talk) 23:29, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Alternative text for images
editprotected Please make this change. This reuses the caption as the alternative text for the image. This will allow this template comply with Alternative text for images -- Thanks, Patleahy 04:36, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * done. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 05:31, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Patleahy 05:42, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Name line
The "Name" of the subject is listed above and outside the infobox. Can that be moved into the infobox to be more consistent with other infoboxes such as Template:Infobox Biography, Template:Infobox actor, Template:Infobox company (upon which this is supposed to be based)? I find it disconcerting to have the name floating above the box. Zue Jay (talk)  14:47, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

How to add this template
How to add this Tony590 (talk) 11:47, 18 May 2020 (UTC)