Template talk:Infobox sportsperson/Wikidata

Date problem
edited Henri Aldebert (diff) to use Infobox sportsperson/Wikidata instead of Infobox sportsperson and to add. The article is displaying errors for both the birth and death dates. The reason is that the article infobox includes: Because these assign values to birth_date and death_date, those values are passed to Birth-date and Death-date. However, the values include date metadata and that causes the latter two templates to give the error message.
 * birth_date = August 8, 1880
 * death_date = April 24, 1961

A second problem is that editing the article and previewing the edit (with no changes) shows:
 * Warning: Page using Template:Infobox sportsperson with unknown parameter "fetchwikidata"

I cannot see where that parameter is used so it should not be added?

One fix to the article would be to revert the recent edit to make it independent of Wikidata—that would suit some discussions I've seen and would fix the problem. Another fix would be to remove the fields from the infobox in the article to make it fully dependent on Wikidata—that would be bold. Regardless of that, I thought I would document the date problem in case a fix is ever needed. Johnuniq (talk) 05:35, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks : I am only adding it where there is a clear opportunity for improving the page: I must have not fully processed that part of the infobox display (I am mostly focused on calling images into biographies). do you have a sense of what is not working here? Sadads (talk) 12:31, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I just noticed this. This infobox was using rather old code for the Wikidata integration, so I've upgraded it. It now supports fetchwikidata, and the problems above should be resolved. It also now only shows referenced information from Wikidata, which may have led to changes in how it displays in some articles. Please let me know if you spot any more problems. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 12:57, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

Country
Hello! I'm testing with migrating infoboxes to Wikidata and have noticed that this template uses, but there's also which may be more applicable. I don't know what the best solution here is, but I think to align it with the main infobox, the best way would be to have "citizenship" and "country" (under "Sport") be separate. Tol &#124; talk &#124; contribs 19:44, 16 June 2021 (UTC)