Template talk:Infobox NCAA athlete

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== Comments ==
I've created an NCAA Athlete infobox template based on the NBA Player infobox. I have a spurious pipe '|' which I cannot resolve. Any help would be appeciated.Pepto gecko 17:10, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I found the little bastard. All fixed now. --MECU≈talk 13:50, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Could you be more specific in the lines you would like added?↔NMajdan•talk 18:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Bowl Game Year/Bowl Game Name.  I'd guess that the best way to do this would be similar to the coaches infobox where they list years/coaching positions in separate attributes.  Fuhreeus 18:38, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Added additional lines. Enjoy! Pepto gecko 04:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well done.  Thanks.  Fuhreeus 12:00, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

text: You're trying to do two different things there. You're telling it not to provide an image unless the user specifies one, but then you're giving it a placeholder image instead. Which do you want? -Amark moo! 15:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

text: It's working with the placeholder image now. I assume that is what you want? -Amark moo! 15:53, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Actually, no it isn't, and I don't know why. Sorry. -Amark moo! 15:57, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This version seems to work, but is the problem that the images don't show up in an article page then? --MECU≈talk 16:05, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The desired code is from the NFL Player template. It appears, the code adds the placeholder image only in the template page view to demonstrate how a image would look IF a user adds an image to their infobox usage. The existing code will work but doesn't offer the optimal usage display on the template page. Pepto gecko 16:11, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

text: So, all you want is to add an "example" image to the template page, and leave the rest of the image code alone? --MECU≈talk 16:19, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, sir! Pepto gecko 16:44, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How's that? --MECU≈talk 16:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Beautiful! Many thanks and Semper Fi! Pepto gecko 17:02, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

message: What do I need to use this template when I do not have the information for Height and/or Weight? —Wordbuilder 15:26, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you not look up the height and/or weight online?  If they are an NCAA Athlete, chances are that there is information out thereFuhreeus 11:31, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Yes, this should be easy to attain for a current NCAA athlete.↔NMajdan•talk 13:26, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You would think it would be easy but I've crapped out so far. I've got the article ready to go except that portion. The athlete is Sally Kipyego, a runner for the Texas Tech Red Raiders. If anyone can help me, I will be grateful. —Wordbuilder 13:47, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that you can put her in without height and weight.  I do however, have a side question for you.  Does she merit her own wiki bio entry instead of a blurb on the TT page? If so, why?Fuhreeus 14:23, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Take a look at what happens when I leave those fields blank. Is she notable? I would say so. She has won multiple NCAA championships (1 of only 7 in history to win four individual track titles during a single season) and is the first Kenyan woman to win an NCAA cross country individual championship. —Wordbuilder 14:30, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Although I agree to a certain extent that she is the best at what she does, the fact remains that there isn't a single place anywhere to find her height and weight, I assume, even including TT's pages.  That's why I question her notability.  Most notable athletes have this sort of pertinent data readily available.  That being said, it is only my opinion.  Have you tried using something like "unknown"? Best of luck.Fuhreeus 15:04, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: With "unknown", it returns "Expression error: Unrecognised word 'unknown' ft Expression error: Unrecognised word 'unknown' in (Expression error: Unrecognised word 'uknown' m)". While I agree that height and weight are a nice fact to have, I don't think their absence automatically makes someone non-notable any more than their presence automatically makes someone notable. Thanks for your help. Sadly, it looks like this article may have to go ahead without an infobox until I can fill in the blanks for those fields. —Wordbuilder 15:59, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

text: I slightly edited the template. Now, when the field is blank, the "Height" still appears, but instead of it saying , it is blank. Take a look at your sandbox. Is this a sufficient temporary fix?↔NMajdan•talk 16:15, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Beautiful! Thanks, NMajdan. Hopefully I'll soon be able to get the data in there; but in the meantime, this will work just fine. —Wordbuilder 16:28, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Empty fields

message: Can we change the template to work for former NCAA athletes?  Currently the career field always says "YYYY - present".
BuffaloChip97 (talk) 04:19, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it would be a great idea to expand the template to include former NCAA athletes; this would be especially helpful for athletes that never played professional and thus don't have any info box attached to their page. --Djrun (talk) 22:37, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears somebody already added the "career_end" parameter. I have added it to the example and documentation. What other change would be necessary?↔NMajdan•talk 15:00, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Former student-athletes

message: I am having trouble resizing the main image at Evan Turner  to the full width of the infobox.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR)  19:31, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have been able to make the proper changes, but I had to have someone from the help desk clarify the documentation.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR)  13:17, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image size 

message: Hi.  There is an extra line under championships, for example, on the Jon Scheyer page.  I mentioned this to TonytheTiger, who directed me to the template people -- can someone address?  Many thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 23:46, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem also exists under honors. See Sherron Collins.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR)  18:15, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: extra line

message: Would it be possible to find a template coding whiz to automatically update the class year (e.g. Freshman to Sophomore, etc.)? Gerardw (talk) 16:40, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  class year