Template talk:Infobox football tournament season

Documentation
Can we expand the documentation, with field definitions and example usage? Thanks. --Jameboy (talk) 20:11, 13 June 2009 (UTC)


 * If you'd like to have a go then be my guest: I think most of the fields are self-explanatory. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 10:48, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I've added a description for matches. If this turns out to be too specific or contentious, I could make it more generic and encourage users to explain what is included/excluded by means of a footnote in each article. --Jameboy (talk) 12:22, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Attendance
Any chance that an attendance parameter can be added? As used in the international football competition infobox. Maybe a date parameter as well. Cheers. Argyle 4 Life talk  17:23, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Proposal to add "semi-finalists" parameter to override "third" and "fourth"
There are football tournaments, such as in Major League Soccer, that do not have third place playoff/bronze medal games to determine which clubs would be credited as third and fourth places. Instead, the losers of the semi-final matches are immediately credited as something like "semi-finalists" (particular in North American sports with the "Final four" concept). Thus, I propose the addition of  parameters, similar to what is coded on Template:Infobox college basketball tournament (see   and   on that template. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (talk) 23:52, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Since there has been no comment/objection, I have added this. Zzyzx11 (talk) 02:34, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 26 August 2018
Pursuant to the discussion at Category talk:Articles which use infobox templates with no data rows, I've been looking for templates which are unnecessarily populating the tracking category. It seems quite common for this template to be used with only the parameters "prevseason" or "nextseason" (usually both) and that case triggers the "no data rows" condition. Since this is a common and accepted use, for instance at 1941 Estonian Football Championship, I want to add yes to the call to the infobox module. I've already done this successfully on a number of templates, for example, Infobox_cricket_tournament Diff/856345363 and I'm just applying the same approach to other templates as I discover them.

After line 53, near the bottom, whose first part looks like:

please add the following line:

Thanks.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 02:38, 26 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Enterprisey (talk!) 08:11, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

Updated parameter not showing
The updated parameter does not show at the bottom of the infobox, e.g. 2018–19 Scottish Cup, unlike the template for league seasons: Template:Infobox football league season.

Use of small text
Per MOS:SMALLTEXT, we should be using small text elements sparingly. I don't believe that the current use in the goals/attendance parameters are necessary at all, and in fact cause accessibility issues for those using large resolution devices. They can easily be removed.  Sounder Bruce  03:22, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
 * We need to stay above 85% and ideally, 100% in most cases. Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:43, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

We need to remove all of the small formatting per the guideline above. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:55, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:22, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:59, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Defending champions?
What is the need for this parameter? If people want to know who won the previous season's competition, they should look at the article for the previous season. The infobox should summarise the content of an article, not content that belongs in other articles, so can we please remove that parameter? It becomes totally irrelevant once the current season finishes anyway! – PeeJay 15:17, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Can we please remove the "defending champions" parameter? It serves literally no purpose. – PeeJay 20:51, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:05, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 28 September 2021
Change  into , per WP:SDFORMAT. Thank you, Sdrqaz (talk) 16:54, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅ – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:48, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Parameter 'count' is not self-explaining
The meaning of the parameter 'count' is not obvious. Now I learned that it means the number of championship that the current champion accomplished including this tournament. But for the novice it is not self explaining. I hope the maintainers add explanation and examples of the parameter 'count.' Regpath (talk) 04:48, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 8 May 2023
Could a third continental cup be added? RedBlueGreen93 (talk) 08:07, 8 May 2023 (UTC)


 * .  P.I. Ellsworth &thinsp;, ed.  put'er there 13:12, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

Edit request 28 October 2023
Description of suggested change: The country parameter needs a modifier to pluralize the label when more than one country is involved (e.g. the 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs) and neither can be labeled primary/secondary.

Diff:  Sounder Bruce  09:57, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ * Pppery * it has begun... 15:22, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

Errors
Something was broken in recent edits, in the edit preview it now shows stuff like:
 * Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox football tournament season with unknown parameter "champions"
 * Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox football tournament season with unknown parameter "top goal scorer"
 * Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox football tournament season with unknown parameter "continentalcup1"
 * Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox football tournament season with unknown parameter "runner-up"
 * Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox football tournament season with unknown parameter "continentalcup1 qualifier..."
 * Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox football tournament season with unknown parameter "nextseason"
 * Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox football tournament season with unknown parameter "prevseason"

Apparently, you need to add those parameters to "invoke:Check for unknown parameters" in code. Snowflake91 (talk) 15:30, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Edit request 25 December 2023
Description of suggested change: At Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football we were advised to use winners instead of champions as that was part of a standard set of parameter names. However, the code to accept that parameter name is missing, so the champions field doesn't display. Change tested at sandbox, see Template:Infobox football tournament season/testcases for results.

Diff: Struway2 (talk) 09:28, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅, on the good-faith assumption that there is consensus for this addition of an alias. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:04, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Not sure which one you're referring to as an alias. "champions" is used on probably thousands of pages which have used this template before this month. "winners" was added recently (if I understand correctly) by to encourage using a standard set of parameter names. --SuperJew (talk) 18:21, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Semifinalist Parameter Error
There seems to be an error with parameters as seen here, in an old revision. When using the semifina1 and semifinal2 parameters, the page only displays one semifinalist. Swimmer33 (talk) 14:20, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

champ_match_score
There are apparently 108 pages that use a "champ_match_score" parameter, but it throws an unknown parameter warning when populated. Was this included in the template and later removed at some point? I'm having trouble searching the history, and it doesn't look like there are any archives of this Talk page. It seems like a potentially useful parameter for tournaments that might not create separate articles for the final match. Does anyone have knowledge of this, or should the parameter be removed from the articles calling it to eliminate warnings? -2pou (talk) 00:24, 25 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Looks like it was removed as part of a wider change to this template here by on 2 December 2023. As it looks to be being used (for the score of the final of a tournament/championship), it should probably be re-added. Joseph2302 (talk) 14:46, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I'd argue that parameter is over-information that can be found in the article (and should be in the lead). I don't think many people are looking for the score of the final in the infobox. If they were interested in the scores of the final, they'd go to the tournament (all seasons) page and find the table of past finals. This template is for the tournament season not the final. The uses should just be removed in my opinion from MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:17, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 25 January 2024
Current state:

Change to:

Wrong parameter is inserted to template. CLalgo (talk) 09:29, 25 January 2024 (UTC)


 * @Aidan721: I think this was your edit in December &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:18, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:33, 25 January 2024 (UTC)