Template talk:Infobox micronation

message: I've made use of this template in Lovely (micronation) to demo it out. The template has been copied about to many micronation articles, so this is an attempt to unify them to one place. Comments? --Billpg 22:49, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It didn't work as expected with legacy browsers. This caused some troubles on Sealand with the similar , where I was finally able to fix it by adding width="300" align="right". Also added here: Omniplex  05:41, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use this template? 

message: The fields in the documentation list don't match the actual fields. For example, the documentation has "Headofstate" and "HeadofGovenment", while the template itself has "Leadership".   Will Beback  talk   06:06, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Documentation

message: I added this template to the Republic of Wallace article. That article may or may not last more than a few days, but I thought I would mention a couple of problems I had with the template.
#The template had a stray char in it, which I removed. This was causing a display problem when neither flagImage nor secondImage was supplied.
#The doc for the location' parameter says, "Location. Use  if applicable".  says, "To add coordinates to articles, use ." The template as it stands is apparently not compatible with .
Wtmitchell  (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:00, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems 

message: We should have date of disbandment of nations, as most of them are non existent now, and we don't have option to add that in infobox. Can someone do that? --WhiteWriter speaks 21:00, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Foundation and disband 

message: As best I can tell, the deprecated template "location" is to blame for the problems with Location. It should be replaced with its successor, "coord", as well as replacing "Image:" with "File:".--Auric (talk) 13:39, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs update 

message: IMO the unrecognized part should definitely be removed because it is an oxymoron, only uses the American and Oxford spelling variant (but perhaps there is a template that can fix this?), and might actually have the adverse effect of making readers think that micronations are equal to states with limited recognition. Re: it is an oxymoron (and thus not grammatically-correct) because there is no such thing as a "recognised micronation". Also, an unrecognised state is a real concept in international law studies that refers to states like Taiwan, Kosovo, Somaliland etc.: thus, using the word 'unrecognised' could actually have the opposite effect of making readers think that micronations are of equal status to the aforementioned states, when, in reality, micronations are obviously not held in the same regard within academia or the political sciences. If the RfC was for the infobox to include an indicator to readers what a "micronation" is (as it seems having read it), then this is not a good way to do it. ❧ LunaEatsTuna (talk), writing bad articles since 2017 – posted at 10:09, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: What would you suggest? "Micronation (unrecognized entity)"?--Trystan (talk) 12:37, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think that actually clears all of my concerns if you wanna add it! I reckon "unrecognised entity" distinguishes it enough from "unrecognised state" as I discussed above, but do you know if there is a way to make it toggle between using unrecognised/unrecognized on articles that have a certain use X English template for spelling consistency per individual article? ❧ LunaEatsTuna (talk), spreading misinformation since 1906 – posted at 16:51, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not great with templates. Perhaps Ahecht can implement that?--Trystan (talk) 13:52, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  any idea? :3 ❧ LunaEatsTuna (talk), editing without thinking since 2017 – posted at 02:03, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

text: @LunaEatsTuna, Trystan: I added the  template so that you can add the  parameter to the template call to switch the spelling. The template doesn't currently look for  or  on the page, so you'd have to switch it manually, but if I have time I may either look for or code up a lua module that does exactly that. --Ahecht (TALKPAGE) 15:10, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

text: @LunaEatsTuna see Template talk:Engvar#Automatically detect engvar based on "Use XXX English" templates. --Ahecht (TALKPAGE) 20:22, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, that is perfect – thanks! ❧ LunaEatsTuna (talk), correcting bad (sometimes good) edits since 2017 – posted at 20:24, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

text: If anything the term would be redundant, but not an oxymoron ("recognized micronation" would be an oxymoron). --Ahecht (TALKPAGE) 20:19, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, I see – it appears I have been the oxymoron the whole time. But yeah, it is best to rephrase IMO to avoid any redundancy and the current awkward wording. I have never seen this wording used outside of Wikipedia, and instances of "X is an unrecognised micronation ..." in the leads of WP articles have been regularly removed for the unnecessary redundancy. ❧ LunaEatsTuna (talk), making splash text since 2024 – posted at 20:30, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: "Unrecognized micronation"