Template talk:Infobox NCAA basketball conference tournament

MVP
It seems like most conferences use the MVP terminology. Therefore, I changed MOP to MVP. Fbdave (talk) 20:35, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Previous/Current/Next calculation
There is a problem when you are creating an article for the very first tournament, or if there is a gap between tournaments (PAC 10), when a conference merges into another, or when a conference dissolves completely. Is there a possible way to override the previous next year links? Thanks, Group29 (talk) 14:51, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * To address your concern (and those that I had as well), I added 4 variables to the chart for special circumstances, based upon the Yearly football game infobox template that I have been working on. It is fairly straightforward, but I will attempt to describe how each variable will affect a tournament infobox, and I hope I do not confuse anyone.

Here are the 4 relevant variables:
 * FirstTournamentEver=
 * LastTournamentEver=
 * Different Previous=
 * Different Next=

....and here is how you use each one:

blanked. You should use this if this is the very first year in a string of tournaments. blanked. You should use this if this is the very last year in a string of tournaments. For instance, typing 2004 would point the preceding tournament to the 2004 ACC Tournament. It is important that you use the year after a | sign so that only the year shows up. typing 2007 would point the next tournament to the 2007 ACC Tournament. It is important that you use the year after a | sign so that only the year shows up.
 * FirstTournamentEver= Simply type "Yes" (or anything really) and the backwards pointing year will be
 * LastTournamentEver= Simply type "Yes" (or anything really) and the forwards pointing year will be
 * Different Previous= In this one, you must type in a different link to send the previous year to.
 * Different Next=In this one, you must type in a different link to send the next year to. For instance,

Here is an example of what would happen if you wanted to have this as the first ever tournament in a series. (I removed most of the other variables so it is easier to see):

.....as you can see, there is no previous link, but there is an after link. (to the next one) Now, let's see what happens if I want to link to a different subsequent tournament (this time without turning off the previous one):

Untitled
...as you can see, the template links to the 2008 ACC tournament as the next tournament. (If nothing had been typed in there, it would have linked to the 2003 SEC tournament instead). I hope that this is clear and easy to follow. If you still have questions on how to do it, leave a comment below and I will try to help. Cardsplayer4life (talk) 01:11, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Attendance and post tournaments
There is a discussion on the current listing of "Attendance" and "Post- Tournaments" at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_College_Basketball.—Bagumba (talk) 21:52, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

I think that this discussion has been archived. Fbdave (talk) 19:09, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

1999–00 issues
For the template, if you set 2000 as the year, it sets the season to "1999–00" instead of "1999–2000" leaving a redirect to 1999–2000 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, with the season set as 1999–00. I have little to no experience with infobox templates like these, but if anyone could figure out how to fix it, that would be great. Obviously, the reason why "1999–00" is unused is that it implies an event that went from 1999 to 1900, instead of 2000. KingSkyLord (talk &#124; contribs) 02:12, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

"Different Previous / Next" parameter documentation
Ex, the 2011 Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament article correctly uses:

| Different Next = 2012

which creates a differentiated link (Pacific-10 vs Pac-12) to 2012 Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Tournament.

Request is to add documentation for these 2 optional parameters which modify the default behavior of the previous and next links, like:
 * | Different Previous =
 * | Different Next =

Cheers, UW Dawgs (talk) 16:32, 1 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Template:Infobox college sports team season has the same feature, but uses a different parameter naming convention. More editors are familiar with that template than this template. So the best outcome in my view would be to adopt that convention into this template, document it, and preserve the existing parameter support as a historical undocumented feature. UW Dawgs (talk) 18:00, 1 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Template:Infobox NCAA football yearly game also has the feature and with this convention:
 * * | Different Previous =
 * * | Different Next =
 * So perhaps this is the more standard parameter naming convention. UW Dawgs (talk) 15:28, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

Gender/case issues
When the RM at Talk:ACC_Men's_Basketball_Tournament finishes, it seems clear that we'll want "men's basketball tournament" and "women's basketball tournament" to be lowercase in the infoxes like in the titles. Who can help fix? Dicklyon (talk) 04:51, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Changing the ibx title at the top is straightforward. The navigation links are more tricky if not all the pages are moved to lowercase—there will be a red link unless there is a redirect in the interim to the uppercase title.—Bagumba (talk) 16:09, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
 * After the moves, there will be redirects; so let's hold off until then. Dicklyon (talk) 19:44, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Except the RM doesn't cover all the pages that transclude this template. —Bagumba (talk) 06:18, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
 * So maybe we should expand to that. Got some good examples to throw into the discussion?  Dicklyon (talk) 06:21, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm not objecting to the potential move to lowercase. I'm just saying the RM close alone will not redirect all of them. —Bagumba (talk) 06:24, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
 * And I'm not objecting to help fixing, I just don't know what use cases you're referring to. Is there a pattern I can help work on? Dicklyon (talk) 17:58, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
 * You can take a look at Category:NCAA Division I men's basketball conference competitions‎ and Category:NCAA Division I women's basketball conference competitions.—Bagumba (talk) 22:05, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Maybe I'm just being dense, but I look there and all I see are subcategories and a couple of not-relevant articles. Dicklyon (talk) 02:15, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Drill down to the subcats and you eventually get to a cat with pages, like Category:ACC Women's Basketball Tournament.—Bagumba (talk) 06:25, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
 * But all the articles there follow the pattern XXX Women's Basketball Tournament, so would all get moved. Is there something I'm missing in what you're trying to say? Dicklyon (talk) 18:46, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Maybe I'm being too pedantic. That RM only formally nominated a small number of pages. It seems reasonable that its closure now might lead to bold moves of other similar pages not explicitly listed in the RM. So I guess I was literally folowing your OP wording of "When the RM...finishes", and I was merely stating that the RM along with a lot of other related moves—outside of that RM—needed to take place first. I suspect we're both on the same page here, but just wording it differently.—Bagumba (talk) 05:07, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, I see. In the RM, it says "The ones listed here represent the longer list at the discussion at WT:WikiProject College Basketball ...".  I think/hope respondents and closer understood that.  There's now a bot request for approval to move the rest:  Bots/Requests for approval/TolBot 13C. Dicklyon (talk) 05:53, 2 September 2022 (UTC)

Can the men's/women's and such in the infobox be lowercased now? Let me know if it looks like we still need to work on redirects or something to make it all work out. Dicklyon (talk) 02:55, 18 October 2022 (UTC)


 * I updated the template. —Bagumba (talk) 05:07, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
 * You're a champ. Dicklyon (talk) 05:05, 20 October 2022 (UTC)