Template talk:Infobox academic conference

"country" field
Could we change this template so that the "country" field is not shown if none is given? Or, even better, remove the field altogether? I'm not even sure what it is supposed to mean (especially as it is displayed right after the name of the publisher). Currently, it seems that people just put something like "country=international", which just adds clutter and provides no useful information to the reader. — Miym (talk) 13:48, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks like this was based on the academic journals infobox. I would indeed remove that field. If a meeting is geogrphically-restricted, then its name will usually say so (European Conference of Foo; World Congress on Foo, Albanian Conference on Foo). --Randykitty (talk) 15:02, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thats not machine readable. 84.106.26.81 (talk) 01:13, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

"webcite"?
Is there any reason why the parameter is called webcite and not website? Is it maybe a typo (it was added here)? It even says "website" when using that parameter. Going to change it myself, however it's probably going to break a few articles using that parameter and I don't know how to fix all of them the easiest way. --Fixuture (talk) 23:46, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I was also bugged by this, so I changed it, and I went over the transclusion list manually to check all articles and rename the parameter when it was used (= not very often). It seems to work fine with "website" instead of "webcite". --a3nm (talk) 07:43, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Italicized title?
I see in one of the comments above that this was derived from a journal infobox. I don't believe that conference titles are commonly italicized (unlike journal titles), and from a quick riffle through the articles using this infobox, it doesn't look like any of them italicize the conference title.

I suggest that italics be removed from the formatting of the title in this template.--NapoliRoma (talk) 00:08, 16 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I've removed the italics.--NapoliRoma (talk) 22:46, 21 February 2018 (UTC)