Template talk:Infobox bone

Created
The anatomical Template:Infobox_Bone was created back on 14-January-2006 by long-term Wikipedia user User:Arcadian. -Wikid77 (talk) 13:28, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Overwide anatomy infoboxes
29-March-2008: There have been several infoboxes that auto-format into very wide layouts, wider than needed to display the images and text. The Template:Infobox_Bone is another overwide template that has expanded when MeSH name is omitted, due to a spacing issue in the template coding. However, infobox entries are still widely separated between label and value for each item in the table. The template coding can be changed to narrow the infobox to have merely the width needed to fit the images, also bringing the labels and values closer together in the table. -Wikid77 (talk) 13:28, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * See colspan bug, below. -Wikid77 (talk) 14:10, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Beware colspan bugs: fixed image area
29-March-2008: After several hours, I noticed problems with Infobox_Bone expanding wide across the page, so I changed the original coding (from 2 years back) to use "colspan=2" now (had been "3") for images or captions, and the problem is fixed now: the infobox no longer expands wide across an article page. I also added parameter "boxwidth=20em" (or "BoxWidth") to allow customizing width of the infobox. Beware mismatches in the use of "colspan=2" (or 3) in other infoboxes: many wikitables have had bizarre formatting caused by incorrectly spanning multiple columns by colspan=3 or such. Since the problem had existed in Infobox_Bone and Infobox_Brain for nearly 2 years, there are probably many other templates that still have colspan bugs (as of March 2008). -Wikid77 (talk) 14:10, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Blurry images in most anatomy articles
29-March-2008: The typical anatomy images are PNG-format images that are "faithful reproduction" page copies from Gray's Anatomy; however, they usually appear blurry in almost all articles, due to small lettering in labels or captions. JPEG images will produce slighty sharper, darker labels due to JPEG-contrast enhancement, but when converting a PNG image to the sharper JPEG format, I have also narrowed the image to magnify 10%-20% when displayed in an article: the narrowing of an image typically involves moving the Gray's captions closer to the center, thus no longer an exact "faithful reproduction" of the page, but more readable in each article. -Wikid77 (talk) 13:28, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Doc subpage
29-March-2008: I have created a typical "/doc" subpage to describe the parameters and show an example for "Template:Infobox_Bone" as standard documentation. The doc is displayed only when the full template page is displayed stand-alone, not included, by using " " which boxes a doc subpage in that narrow institutional-green documentation box. The example text had to be narrowed by 2 characters to fit within the green doc box without wrapping. The doc is in draft form, and more parameters should be described or elaborated. Remember the green-doc width complication: wide text in examples must be narrowed by 2 extra characters to fit during the green-doc display mode. -Wikid77 (talk) 15:44, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Purging template cache to see updates
29-March-2008: This is another reminder about viewing after making changes. When modifying the template or documentation ("/doc" subpage), it is often necessary to purge the template cache (by using keyword "action=purge"), such as to display modified documentation:


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_Bone&action=purge

Running the older version of the template can be very confusing and frustrating when trying to install and verify improvements copied from test-versions of the template (so remember to use URL address keyword "action=purge"). -Wikid77 (talk) 16:00, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

"Bone:" text prepended to name can be wrong
The text "Bone:" is prepended to whatever name is given to this template. However this template is frequently used for bone features and not bones themselves. This introduces potential confusion and loss of precision. Not sure how to handle the situation. Just pointing it out. Jason Quinn (talk) 04:48, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Removed the word "Bone". As a statistics, currently this template is transcluded at 448 articles. Among these, independent bone articles (for example, femur) is about 100 or so. Remaining articles (300 or so) is about "part of a bone" (condyloid process) or "set of bones" (cervical vertebrae) and so on. This would make readers confusion. Thank you for pointing out. --Was a bee (talk) 09:46, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Added TA code and FMA ID sections
I added two sections for TA code (Terminologia Anatomica) and FMA identifier (Foundational Model of Anatomy). These two terminology or ontologies would be very well known one in the field of anatomy. Currently FMA official web site is down, so external links for FMA is toward another (non official) website ("Ontobee"). But we can change the destinations of these links very easily through editing these templates (Template:TA98 and Template:FMA). Thank you. --Was a bee (talk) 16:24, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

New parameter for pronunciation
I would like to add a new parameter for pronunciation, such as Template:Infobox medical condition has. I have never added a parameter to a template before, but I will see if I can copy exactly how it is done there. Quercus solaris (talk) 02:33, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Parameter update
I have updated the template parameters per discussions at WT:ANAT and Infobox anatomy. Edits have included: Please direct questions to WT:ANAT or the talk page of Infobox anatomy. Cheers --Tom (LT) (talk) 10:06, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Removing the unused "Map" parameters - redundant to the normal "Image" parameters
 * Removing FMA and TA - autofilled from Wikidata in the parent Infobox anatomy template
 * Removing Grays - moved to Wikidata and no longer displayed in templates per consensus
 * Removing Dorlands - consensus to strip all templates of references to this proprietary, nonmaintained dictionary link.