Template talk:National football squad start

message: I've noticed that the squads tables don't seem to keep the same width.  This is noticeable in articles in the :Category:Football World Cup squads, where several squad lists are shown on each page.  It seems to always occur using Internet Explorer and sometimes occurs using Firefox.  When the width isn't full, the DOB field spans two lines and looks messy.  
Refreshing the page results in it changing appearance. For example; one time the Switzerland squad was the only one not full width, I pressed reset and it was okay, but I found that the England squad was not full width. This happens not just on my computer, but at a friend's house too, and on more than one World Cup squad article. Anyone know why? I don't.
Slumgum | yap | stalk | 19:17, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have fixed the column widths of the whole table.  Hopefully it has fixed the problem.  --Pkchan 11:21, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Width problem

message: This is just a short note, to list all the other related alternative templates for showing a current/specific squad:
*, or  in short: With a Goals column, and still show the players "Date of Birth" in the Age column. Previously used by this article at Oct.16-2010. And expanded to also include the optional "other" info in a small parenthesis at Nov.6-2010.
*, or  in short: With a Goals column, and showing Age by "Year" instead of "Date of Birth". Previously used by this article at Nov.18-2010.
*, or  in short:  Same as version 2, but expanded with a specified Position column. Currently used by this article at Nov.19-2010.
The 3 versions above, currently also exist in a parallel variant called "recent", to show the "recent squad" of a national team with inclusion of a special extra coloumn to also note the "latest match". If you visit the links listed above, you will also find the related examples of the 3 different "recent squad" versions. As a general rule of thumb, the goal should be only to have as few templates in use as possible. However, there was a need to create the newest version 2 and version 3 of the template, for those Nations where the national FA also have chosen to post the exact field position the selected player is supposed to play (because when this info is included by the box, there was a "layout" call, to convert the long "Date of Birth" coloumn into a much shorter "Age" column). In example, version 3 of the template has now been implemented by the Denmark national football team article, to also show the exact field position of each player. Danish Expert (talk) 11:27, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Related alternative templates 

message: I would like to propose change the background colour of this template from
 
to
 
the reason is to avoid confusion with the team colours, since  could be considered a team colour, but  is a typical colour for a table heading.  this change would also need to be applied to the other "nat fs" heading templates. any objections? Frietjes (talk) 15:27, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Propose a change, yet implement it anyways... Eh, how about letting the discussion run it's course first. I, for one, don't see a need to change the color. Digirami (talk) 07:59, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  great, I was wondering what it would take to generate a comment here.  There are some articles which won't use this template due to the colouring, see Indonesia national football team. Frietjes (talk) 14:46, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  I guess not a lot of people ever visit these talk pages. I, in fact, agree that it's weird this template, contrary to all others (?), uses blue instead of grey. In any case, I'm in the process of changing all these template to make the background color an optional parameter. It defaults to , so nobody gets hurt, but it can be set differently for those that want to. Everybody happy! Sygmoral (talk) 00:34, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

text:  Oh whoops, just realized I can't edit this exact template! Oh well, it's not used in the page I want to use it for anyway. So I just made the changes in ,  and . Sygmoral (talk) 01:16, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm fine if the color customizability is removed, but then the colour should be the Wikipedia's default grey, not light-blue. There's no reason it should be light-blue. –Sygmoral (talk) 04:57, 1 January 2016 (UTC)

text: Another possibility for the color options is to limit the color option to 'black' or 'white', but keep the background option open. This should address most concerns about accessibility. —Sygmoral (talk) 00:01, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  colour