Template talk:Infobox brain

Created
The anatomy infobox "Template:Infobox_Brain" was created back on 8 February 2006, by the long-term User:Arcadian, as a right-side green box, with 2 columns coded internally by using wikitable keyword colspan=3. -Wikid77 (talk) 20:30, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Eyestrain from lime-green box
This template hurts my eyes; see and  how it looks for me, something is totally wrong :/ → A z  a  Toth 23:11, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * LOL. Carl, do not make jokes that other people don't understand. Fixed. --Ligulem 23:34, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

System field
There appears to be a reference in a few article to a "system" field, but it does not appear to be part of the template. I think it should be added so that "IsPartOf" can be used for anatomical inclusion, and "System" can be used for functional inclusion. For example, inferior colliculus can have  and. Right now they are both under IsPartOf. --Selket Talk 18:29, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Sounds good -- I have added the field. A view of it in action is now at Inferior colliculus. --Arcadian 20:32, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Usage
Can anyone offer guidance on how to use this template? Kaldari 01:25, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Beware colspan bugs: fixed image area
02-Feb-2008: After several months, I noticed problems with Infobox_Brain expanding wide across the page, so I changed the original coding (from 2 years back) to use "colspan=3" now (had been "2") 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" 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=2 or such. Since the problem had existed in Infobox_Brain for nearly 2 years, there are probably many other templates that still have colspan bugs (as of February 2008). -Wikid77 (talk) 20:30, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Doc subpage
02-Feb-2008: I have created a typical "/doc" subpage to describe the parameters and show an example for "Template:Infobox_Brain" as standard documentation. The doc is displayed only when the full template page is displayed, not included, by using "{ {template doc}}" 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. -Wikid77 (talk) 21:28, 2 February 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_Brain&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) 16:04, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Removal of BAMS
I've proposed removing the BAMS field on the talk page of WikiProject Anatomy here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Anatomy - please comment if interested. Tom (LT) (talk) 14:48, 30 January 2018 (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) 10:25, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Removing the unused "Map" parameters - redundant to the normal "Image" parameters
 * Removing FMA - 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.