Template talk:Infobox protected area

map label
label does not seem to work. Dinokeng Game Reserve is one example. ? MB 23:24, 21 May 2019 (UTC)


 * ✅ --- This was interesting. The position of the label has defaulted to "none", but since Location map was converted to Lua in 2014, this means that the label was suppressed. So, for the last 5 years, there have been no labels on protected area maps.


 * This was such a long outstanding bug that I consider this to be the expected default behavior. So, the default is now no label. When an editor specifies a label (as in Dinokeng Game Reserve), it will now show up. You can use label_position to specify the spatial relationship of the label to the mark. —hike395 (talk) 05:55, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

Infobox ecoregion
What is the difference between Template:Infobox ecoregion and this template? When to use? RIMOLA (talk) 10:00, 4 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Ecoregions are not protected --- they are natural regions with consistent ecosystems. Some of them are quite degraded. See linked article. —hike395 (talk) 06:05, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Second map (interactive)
I am adding zoomable interactive maps to articles (like this edit). These maps would be better in infobox. What about adding the option to add a second map to the infobox? In maximum configuration that would be then three items - photo, static map and dynamic map. An option would be to put both maps next to each other.--Kozuch (talk) 15:43, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I think that would be fine. Having the national map as the default with the option to switch to the detailed map like here. Fredlyfish4 (talk) 17:57, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I happened to come across this issue as well. This template's handling of multiple maps is way less friendly to infobox mapframe than the typical infobox. This should be fixed. --Joy (talk) 21:54, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Area conversion units
The usual convention is that acres and hectares are corresponding units of land area, as is the case with square miles and square kilometers. This convention is followed with other Wikipedia templates, such as "convert". This template, however, is converting acres to square kilometers instead of hectares. Can this be fixed? Thanks... Albanaco (talk) 16:54, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

National ID-number and maplink
As a quarantine project, I'm updating/adding the protected areas of Costa Rica, and have a couple of questions about this template (more on the way for sure):
 * The administration office of Costa Rica, SINAC, assigns a unique ID to each protected area, I would like to add this to the infobox, however there isn't such a field (was using 'designated=', just found out it was for something completely different, my bad). Could this 'id=', 'governing_body_id=' or 'serial=' or such be added?
 * I have been working on adding the national roads of Costa Rica too, for those templates I use the maplink template linked with a wikidata item number between Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap, works wonderfully. In the 'Infobox road' template, maplink can be used directly into 'map=' field. In OSM we already have some of the protected areas of Costa Rica properly delineated. I did an experiment with Corredor Fronterizo Wildlife Refuge. and 'image_map=' seems to work fine for this, is this an acceptable usage of that field? Can this behavior be added to 'map='? Oh, and OSM is already making use of the previous point national ID too. Roqz (talk) 16:20, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 8 August 2022
Please add a “disestablished” label and parameter, for parks that no longer exist. This will avoid the awkward wording of Established 1954 – 2014 as is sometimes used. — HTGS (talk) 02:59, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅.  P.I. Ellsworth &thinsp;, ed.  put'r there 02:55, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

Logo inclusion
I believe there should be an option to include a logo in the infobox as many national parks have their own logos. Kj1595 (talk) 16:34, 24 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Agreed, please add this ASAP Mark999 (talk) 17:28, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Park Codes
The National Park Service in the US assigns every national park/monument/etc a four-letter "Park Code." It may be useful to include this somewhere in the infobox. As of now, the easiest place to find these is an Excel file provided by the NPS. Being on Wikipedia provides additional visibility to these codes, and would selfishly assist my partner in working with the NPS API.

I'm not sure how/if other countries do this, so the text should likely be generalized, maybe we call it an identifier. Jaidenstar (talk) 16:44, 31 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Are these codes actually useful for general readers? It sounds like they’re a bit of a niche database reference if they’re so hard to find otherwise. Not outright, but I am leaning opposed to including them. Worth considering WP:NOTDATABASE. — HTGS (talk) 03:26, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Good point, thanks for the feedback. I personally believe it is helpful to have these codes next to the rest of the information but you are likely right about policy here. Jaidenstar (talk) 17:00, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 24 February 2024
I would like a logo section added as UK national Parks and landscapes have logos that would be useful to add. Mark999 (talk) 17:27, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ SWinxy (talk) 03:03, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

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