Template talk:Infobox Town

message: === Mayor ===
It's been discussed many times before, but the name of the current mayor has really no place in this infobox,. Infoboxes generally should only give a basic data on the topic to give the reader quick overview, but name of current mayor has no relevance for an international reader. — Caroig 20:06, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Are there many towns with flags (in addition to coats of arms)?--GrafZahl 09:22, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't think there should be a field for a banner/flag. First, while every town everywhere in Europe has a coat-of-arms, which can thus be considered the logo/symbol of the town, banners are rather used in large towns only. And second, I guess the Infobox in the Brno article is very bad, because chaotic. The infoboxes should be used to give the reader a general overview of the town, before they start reding the article itself, and not list a load of statistical, administrative and other data. One pattern should be used for all articles within one category, good example are the Taxoboxes used for species, it always gives the rteader a quick information on the placement of the life form, allways in the same way. — Caroig 11:28, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

text: "image_coat_of_arms" and "image_location" can now be empty too, information text is printed then --Caroig 15:56, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

text: How about adding more info to the box? I mean something towards the direction of Template:Infobox Poland, for instance (in content, not in looks) Halibutt 05:34, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't think this is a good idea. The Infobox should provide just basic information about the topic. And then the article should extend it. A lot of contributors tend to fill the infobox with a lot of "crap" (data which is rather a curiosity of little information value, such as number plate prefix in Template:Infobox Poland], yet they fail to work more on the article itself. --Caroig 22:55, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes 

message: It's been discussed many times before, but the name of the current mayor has really no place in this infobox,. Infoboxes generally should only give a basic data on the topic to give the reader quick overview, but name of current mayor has no relevance for an international reader. — Caroig 20:06, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mayor 

message: Could we display the town's flag next to its coat of arms (like in the Brno article)?
John 07:28, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Are there many towns with flags (in addition to coats of arms)?--GrafZahl 09:22, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't think there should be a field for a banner/flag. First, while every town everywhere in Europe has a coat-of-arms, which can thus be considered the logo/symbol of the town, banners are rather used in large towns only. And second, I guess the Infobox in the Brno article is very bad, because chaotic. The infoboxes should be used to give the reader a general overview of the town, before they start reding the article itself, and not list a load of statistical, administrative and other data. One pattern should be used for all articles within one category, good example are the Taxoboxes used for species, it always gives the rteader a quick information on the placement of the life form, allways in the same way. — Caroig 11:28, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flags 

message: I've made the infobox more flexible with regard to local names: if a local name is empty it will not be printed (useful if name is equal to local_name). I've also added a new named parameter "first_documented", if a founding date is unknown and the city simply starts to appear in some records. It is ignored if "founded" is nonempty. Hope this works well. --GrafZahl 12:07, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: "image_coat_of_arms" and "image_location" can now be empty too, information text is printed then --Caroig 15:56, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conditional syntax 

message: I reverted the template to my previous version, it would be nice to have all the table formating done in CSS, pure CSS ... but version suggested by User:Ed_g2s doesn't follow this either, and although it simplifies the markup, the resulting layout is not nice and doesn't correspond with other Wikipedia's infoboxes. The use of cellpading and cellspacing for table layouts is generally discouraged if favor of CSS.
: How about adding more info to the box? I mean something towards the direction of Template:Infobox Poland, for instance (in content, not in looks) Halibutt 05:34, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't think this is a good idea. The Infobox should provide just basic information about the topic. And then the article should extend it. A lot of contributors tend to fill the infobox with a lot of "crap" (data which is rather a curiosity of little information value, such as number plate prefix in Template:Infobox Poland], yet they fail to work more on the article itself. --Caroig 22:55, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turned down 

message: Could a parameter be added to the template that allows for the entry of coordinate seconds? I'd do it myself but it appears that a change would have to be made to Template:Coor dm NA, a protected template, as well. --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 12:10, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, I once created this infobox but no longer use it myself as Template:Infobox City has evolved since then and I believe it is much better now. I'm a bit surprised this infobox is still used. Anyway, it is still on my watchlist and I saw this request. So lat_dec, lon_dec can optionaly be used too. I also corrected the bug in alternating colors which someone introduced with the mayor field which, as had been agreed then, was not part of this template. If there is a problem with my fix, feel free to post it here or on my userpage. – Caroig 14:55, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the fix. I also added a bracket and a "|" character that was missing in the code. As for the use of Template:Infobox City, I'm not against it, but the article that I am using this template on is about a town, not a city. Perhaps this infobox can be upgraded to the level of Infobox City, a task that should be fairly easy considering the relatively low number of transclusions for this template. --TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 21:19, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Welcome. Despite its name, the Infobox City can be used and is used for villages/towns/cities. It's just a box about a municipality. There's nothing in particluar that would connect it just with cities, safe the name. – Caroig 22:09, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate precision 

message: Template is not used on any article. Please add . NVanMinh (talk) 02:46, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Done — Mr. Stradivarius (have a chat) 09:21, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: RFD