Template talk:Infobox locomotive
Template:Infobox locomotive is permanently protected from editing because it is a heavily used or highly visible template. Substantial changes should first be proposed and discussed here on this page. If the proposal is uncontroversial or has been discussed and is supported by consensus, editors may use {{edit template-protected}} to notify an administrator or template editor to make the requested edit. Usually, any contributor may edit the template's documentation to add usage notes or categories.
Any contributor may edit the template's sandbox. Functionality of the template can be checked using test cases. |
This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Infobox locomotive template. |
|
Archives: 1, 2, 3Auto-archiving period: 365 days |
This template does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
This template was considered for merging with Template:Infobox German railway vehicle on 8 March 2015. The result of the discussion was "no consensus". |
|
|||
This page has archives. Sections older than 365 days may be automatically archived by Lowercase sigmabot III when more than 4 sections are present. |
Edit request 30 November 2023
[edit]This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Description of suggested change:The page at Tractive force was moved to Tractive effort and Tractive force was redirected to Traction force. This template needs to change to remove the piping from the link to Tractive effort
Diff:
− | {{Tractive | + | {{Tractive effort}} |
Bensci54 (talk) 17:43, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
- Done Primefac (talk) 17:47, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
- It needs to be fixed on Label19 as well. Thanks. Bensci54 (talk) 17:58, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
- Done. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:55, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
- It needs to be fixed on Label19 as well. Thanks. Bensci54 (talk) 17:58, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Fix formatting issues for bulleted lists
[edit]This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
There's currently an issue with the formatting of bulleted lists when the title of the list also has a data value. For example, if fireboxtype does not have a value, but firearea does, the value of firearea is inline with the Firebox: label. This can be seen in the John Bull example in the template. The same issue can be seen in the Heating surface entry in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LNER_Thompson_Class_A2/2&oldid=1185099660
I have already made the required changes in the sandbox, it just needs to be reviewed and merged. Pikmia (talk) 16:12, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:08, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
UPDATE: Need to fix an incorrect label number that was preventing the Tubes label from showing up. Change is in the sandbox Pikmia (talk) 23:30, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
- Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:12, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Request two extra parameters
[edit]This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
When Template:Infobox German railway vehicle was consolidated into this infobox, there were a few errors made. I have fixed the mapping for most of them, but I need one extra parameter – over buffers – in order to correct the last outstading mapping error. I have also added over headstocks as an alternative/replacement for over bufferbeams in order to prevent future confusion.
I have made the changes in the sandbox; it just needs to be reviewed and merged.
Thanks in advance. – Iain Bell (talk) 14:55, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
- Done I'm assuming that there is consensus for this edit. Thank you for the clear request and good sandbox edit. Please adjust the documentation as needed – it is not protected. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:30, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Update boiler heating area and other bug fixes
[edit]This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
I have made a suggested refactoring of the boiler heating section to put totalsurface at the bottom where it belongs (and once was, once upon time...). I have also moved some of the parameters around within their sections – historically related values were in ascending order and I have attempted to revive this. I have also found and fixed a couple of errors.
I have made the changes in the sandbox; and added testcases for the heating area changes. They just needs to be reviewed and merged.
Thanks in advance. – Iain Bell (talk) 15:02, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
- Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:21, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
Request for an extra parameter
[edit]This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
At present, there are several end-of-service options available in this template:
- retiredate - the date the locomotive was retired from regular service
- withdrawndate - Commonwealth English equivalent of retiredate above
- restoredate - the date the locomotive was restored to operating condition
- scrapdate - the date the locomotive(s) was scrapped.
I would like to see provision for a further factor: condemneddate – the date the locomotive was officially condemned. It was common practice in Australia to record this accounting action (taking the loco "off the books" in effect) and not the dates on which they were withdrawn or scrapped. Without a condemned date in the template there is no means of giving end-of-service information. Cheers, Simon – SCHolar44 🇦🇺 💬 at 12:15, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- If no one objects in the next few days I'll see about doing it this weekend. Primefac (talk) 20:39, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- Done. Primefac (talk) 11:38, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
- Many thanks, Primefac! SCHolar44 (talk) 02:36, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- Done. Primefac (talk) 11:38, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
Template-protected edit request on 22 September 2024
[edit]This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Broken template fix: Should data24 be called data23 to correlate with label23? The "disposition" text is currently displayed as a hatnote in the infobox transcluded into more than 500 pages. EditorGirlAL07 (talk) 02:32, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- Completed; good catch, thank you! P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 05:41, 22 September 2024 (UTC)