Template talk:Infobox company/Archive 3

message: See Autodesk. Some industry names are too long for the infobox.
*Do we cut the names down to specifics and provide an external link to a site like Hoover's?
*Or do we extend the width of the infobox to include the complete industry name? Adraeus 19:16, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Industry name length 

message: So I've been thinking of ways to make the revenue field easier to manipulate and accept changes. I am proposing the use of a special template I'm using to facilitate and streamline entering the data in a format proposed by Feco as well as make small changes easy to implement by just changing the Revenue template.  See this for usage. I propose that the information be always entered as M for Million B for billion, who knows maybe one day Tr for Trillion. This way, if we one day decide we want the "illion" in there, we can just change the revenue template. What do you all think? — oo64eva (Alex) (U | T | C) @  05:09, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
:Unfortunately nested templates cause significant load on the servers, so this probably isn't an option. I agree that parameterized revenue would be best. The only way I can think of integrating this with the infobox is to add parameters to the infobox again. Which is only feasible if we can figure out a way to get them to be blank by default. edit: hmm, now that I think about it more this isn't really a nested template. It's just passing a template as a parameter to another template. We should still ask on the village pump tech section, but this may be feasible. Rhobite 05:21, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
::Sounds good, I'm not going to make any new changes to company infoboxes until we all agree on something. Thing is... who is all? This doesn't seem as organized as say a project. I just came here to fill in the missing industry and revenue data but that is turning out to be more work than I thought. — oo64eva (Alex) (U | T | C) @  05:32, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
:::Template changes are always work, because they affect a large number of articles. A disproportionate amount of disputes on Wikipedia seem to arise from changes to templates. I think your changes have improved Wikipedia's coverage of companies, you should be glad. Work on this infobox isn't really organized, and I wish we had more opinions here. Guess there are sexier topics to work on. Rhobite 05:37, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
::::There's so much to do on Wikipedia... which is why I love it. I'll definately continue working on this template, no doubt about it, but it's just annoying when I get through 1/4 of them and a change is made. Oh well, I'll get used to it. — oo64eva (Alex) (U | T | C) @  06:08, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
:::::I've found that it's sometimes best (for sanity's sake) to ignore formatting inconsistency across related articles. Trying to harmonize the presentation of revenue across hundreds of individual company articles will likely drive you batty. When I've forced myself to do similar things in the past, I found some of the bot owners to be a great resource. They can write a bot to do the grunt work for almost any task imaginable. Feco 15:24, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revenue template 

message: With the help of Plunkett's Advertising & Branding Almanac, I've compiled a list of advertising and marketing companies which need articles. Many do not exist. Enjoy. :) Adraeus 22:13, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need a company article to work on? 

message: Changed to use , as used by Template:Radio Station, Template:Infobox Country etc. — Marknew 11:19, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, I don't like it but I never like any of the changes to this template.  I think the caption floating above the infobox looks quite untidy. Crosbiesmith 09:54, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I like using correct markup, but this is ugly. — Bcat (talk | email) 02:31, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  <nowiki><caption></nowiki> 

message: What are thoughts on wikilinking titles in the Key People section?  For instance, given the example syntax, there are two main options for present discussion:
:* John Walker, FounderCarol Bartz, Chairwoman & CEO
:vs.
:* John Walker, FounderCarol Bartz, Chairwoman & CEO
Regards, Courtland 04:07, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikilinking titles