Template talk:Infobox academic

Adding ORCID numbers
Hi, I was wondering what people would think about adding ORCID numbers to this infobox? They are standarised unique numbers for individual authors and might help readers identify work better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jamzze (talk • contribs) 19:14, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Code formatting problems for thesis link
Not sure why the thesis link inside the Infobox academic template is not displaying correctly for Ty Seidule but seems to work when the Infobox academic template is embedded inside another template when used in Carol T. Christ. -- 64.202.138.67 (talk) 02:08, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
 * The title and url were reversed. Fixed now. MB 03:44, 19 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for finding my stupid error (which I should have spotted in the first place if I weren't tired at that time of the edit) and for also fixing the problem. -- 64.202.138.67 (talk) 21:25, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

Request to remove unsupported parameters
When editing an article containing Infobox academic such as Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, we see errors stating Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox person with unknown empty parameter "denomination", "salary", "weight" even if those parameters are not used in the article. Could someone please remove these unsupported parameters from Infobox academic to remove these errors? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 15:01, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Thank you for removing these (and many more) parameters! GoingBatty (talk) 15:28, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Other advisors
The contents of the  field normally appear alongside the label "Academic advisors"; however, when the field is used alongside the   field, it uses the label "Other academic advisors" with a non-breaking space after the word "Other". In most use cases, this has the unfortunate side effect of substantially increasing the width of the label column and decreasing the width of the content column. While the effect of this may seem minor in theory, in practice this frequently results in numerous additional line breaks in the infobox, substantially increasing the infobox's length.

To avoid this, I would suggest that rather than using the label "Other[ ]academic advisors" when the field is used alongside, we instead use the label "Other advisors" in such cases. As the field normally appears under the heading "Academic background", this label would be no less precise than the existing one. And the fact that we are referring specifically to academic advisors is further reinforced by the fact that the label would only appear when immediately followed by the  field. 207.161.86.162 (talk) 04:12, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Can you show some examples of this problem? I finally found Thomas Nagel, where the two parameters are used together, but my browser does not show this problem in that case.  P.I. Ellsworth &numsp;- ed.  put'r there 04:38, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Thomas Nagel was what prompted me to suggest this. It's far from the most extreme example I've seen, but I count the addition of seven line breaks and the loss of one line break (as the doctoral advisor label never needs to wrap when the academic advisors field is present) for a net addition of six line breaks. I've posted the infobox with and without the academic advisors field in the collapsed boxes below.
 * Infobox academic already has a tendency to be on the long side, so the addition of six lines makes a difference (and, in this case, amounts to a 16% increase in the number of lines in the infobox, excluding headings and the image). And the effect has been even more pronounced in articles I have come across in the past, particularly articles with a significant number of names in the influences and influenced fields.


 * 207.161.86.162 (talk) 05:44, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅: yes, I see that does make a difference. I made the change in the sandbox and then added Nagel's ibox to the testcases page. Made it easier to see the benefit in your edit.  P.I. Ellsworth &numsp;- ed.  put'r there 07:59, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks, ! 207.161.86.162 (talk) 08:04, 30 September 2021 (UTC)
 * It's my pleasure!  Paine  08:17, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

burial_place
I have almost emptied Pages using infobox academic with unknown parameters. The few remaining articles need burial_place and/or resting_place. Since this is a standard parameter of, it should be available for academics just like most other bios. or (or anyone else), could you please add this. MB 03:44, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * okay, added. Frietjes (talk) 15:14, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

Award parameter
Relevant and related discussion at Template talk:Infobox scientist. Skjoldbro (talk) 16:32, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Adding a parameter for "Published books"
It is better to added a parameter for the published books of an academician. Thanks, Hooman Mallahzadeh (talk) 16:10, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Fully wrap Infobox person?
In the sandbox, I have a version of the template that uses Module:Template wrapper, which allows any parameter in Infobox person to also be accepted here, while also accepting all existing parameters to this template. The downside is that all error checking is now handled by Infobox person, so parameter errors will show up in Category:Pages using infobox person with unknown parameters.

What do editors think? Should I make the sandbox template go live? — hike395 (talk) 05:27, 27 February 2023 (UTC)


 * ✅ --- I fixed it so that errors will show up in Category:Pages using infobox academic with unknown parameters. — hike395 (talk) 13:09, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

H-index and Citations
Can H-index and Citation (as in citation count) parameters be added to this Infobox? KD HU (talk) 15:13, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Removing the Academic background divider
The Academic background divider is often a bit obstructive for the many articles which have no other info that fits under that section besides education/alma mater, so it ends up pushing the infobox downward and overall looks awkward. Some of the parameters are also confusing and appear contradictory — i.e., Thesis goes under academic background but is thus excluded from Academic work, which sort of implies that a person's thesis is not a part of their academic work.

I think it would be great to have the infobox take on a similar formatting as Template:Infobox scientist, and it will provide the additional benefit of providing some consistency to readers. For example, Template:Infobox scientist actually puts Thesis under Scientific career, which is appropriate, and doesn't have any sort of divider at all; it would be less of an eyesore/confusion if Template:Infobox academic did the same.

I've attempted to replicate an example of what an article would look like without that large infobox divider in the GA John Hart Ely. GuardianH (talk) 19:58, 23 June 2024 (UTC)