Template talk:Infobox bodybuilder

Units for weight
Remind and check that everybody remembers to put kilograms or pounds on "weight", or perhaps use a magic template to kill two birds with one stone. Jidanni (talk) 20:02, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

New parameter alias
Way back when the world was young, before TemplateData and template documentation pages, User:Glen created this template with yesorretiredyear as the name of the parameter for the "Active" data row, hoping for it to be self-documenting. (Actually, it was originally called yesorno, but was quickly extended to accept a year of retirement.)

In the decade and a half since that time, what's happened is that the details of the parameter name have been largely ignored, but the terrible name has stuck around. A quick, informal survey of the transclusions of this template showed that a few contain either "Yes" or "No" for the yesorretiredyear value, more contain a "Retired YYYY" value, but many, many more follow other conventions. For example, a date range, "Since YYYY", or more complex details.

Many other articles contain no Active data at all, even for fairly well-covered subjects, which I have to think may come down to the editors of those pages having no idea how to fill in a parameter named yesorretiredyear and just ignoring it.

So, in the spirit of WP:BOLD, I've added a parameter active to the infobox as the preferred alias for yesorretiredyear, though the legacy name is still accepted. active will take priority, though, and I've updated the documentation examples to reflect this fact, and to mention that yesorretiredyear is now a legacy alias. -- FeRDNYC (talk) 02:21, 26 December 2020 (UTC)