Template talk:Infobox engineering career

Infobox engineering career
Infobox engineering career
Alma mater	Note 1.
Occupation	Engineer

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This template was considered for deletion on 2020 March 24. The result of the discussion was "no consensus".

Suggestion[edit]

I would like to suggest that some more data be added to this infobox, to look like this(apart from my notes added):

Note 1. From Infobox scientist (A note there says that Infobox scientist can also be used for an engineer, but I think that for engineer this template ought to be used)

Note 2. Here one could specify the work activity, for instance Research and development, Education, Management, Organisation, or other(?) LouisBB (talk) 07:05, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to see a field included for religion,per {{infobox person}}. Mjroots (talk) 08:50, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestion 2[edit]

What about "residence" field, like in Infobox person template? --BiH (talk) 18:04, 22 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

|practice_name[edit]

What is "|practice_name" for? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 21:58, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): it given a microformat of "org", so I am assuming it's the organization under which the individual "practices engineering". it's been in the infobox since it's inception, but should probably be migrated to a less opaque term. Frietjes (talk) 23:50, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

RfC on Template:Infobox person[edit]

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Bugs[edit]

Hi, I noticed that when you put an entry into Institution, once saved it is changing to Membership. Is this normal behaviour or a wee bug. Scope creep (talk) 01:01, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Scope creep, fixed. Frietjes (talk) 15:34, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Customized wrapper[edit]

Ihe customized wrapper aspect of {{Infobox engineer}} does not work. paramaters such as |family= and |home_town= cause errors. Please fix.--Auric talk 22:09, 24 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

added to {{Infobox engineer}}. Frietjes (talk) 13:05, 23 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It also fails for |occupation=. Unfortunately at least one editor (Ahwiv (talk · contribs)) has been going through and removing this correct parameter from this broken template wrapper (which neither fixes the problem, but also makes it hard to recover in the future). Yet again, a simplistic response about avoiding an error message, even if it breaks articles.

Note that the parameter is still needed in the articles. Most of these were civil engineers - there are sub-disciplines within "engineer", and these need to be preserved. Andy Dingley (talk) 01:07, 31 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

|relatives=
|net_worth=
|residence= too. Did anyone look at maintaining this properly? Why are we even having to hand-wrap params in each sub-classed template? Isn't that the whole point of using Lua? Andy Dingley (talk) 01:11, 31 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Add known_for field[edit]

Please add a field for known_for, as the Infobox_scientist template has. As in Adrian Hooke, known for "cofounder of CCSDS". (I've used the field there, but it's flagged as unsupported, and doesn't display.) Thanks! James A Hinnant (talk) 06:00, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

parameters[edit]

|relatives= from infobox person would be useful (used in Auguste Lumière) and |known_for= as requested above. Frietjes? MB 17:31, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User:MB, it looks like Auguste Lumière already has |relatives= or that wouldn't appear in the infobox. Frietjes (talk) 17:37, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Frietjes, earlier today it was not displayed in the infobox, the article was in Category:Pages using infobox engineer with unknown parameters, which is how I found this, and there was the "unknown parameter" warning when editing. But all that is gone now. The other article in the category, Louis Lumière, is also gone now. I'm not sure what happened. I did edit both articles for other changes - did that do something? MB 18:09, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User:MB, I used a script to regenerate the list of known parameters. people occasionally add parameters but don't add them to the tracking module. Frietjes (talk) 18:33, 17 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]