Template talk:Infobox poem
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What else is needed?
[edit]I saw this was already started. I think keeping it simple is the way to go... Definitely name, author, year of publication, but how about also throwing in "type" and/or "movement"? (i.e. Narrative poem, Romanticism, etc). Maybe # of lines? --Midnightdreary 03:11, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
Given being read-aloud is a big part of poetry, directly supporting audio (from wikicommons) could be a good idea Back ache (talk) 08:25, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
COinS
[edit]I've added COinS metadata - please test it! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:30, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Updates
[edit]I've added an |original_title_lang=
parameter; use the relevant ISO639-2 code e.g. "fr" for French, "de" for German.
I've also added an hCalendar microformat, so please use {{Start date}} for the first publication date. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:56, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
Lines
[edit]The documentation has
- |lines = Number of lines in the poem
but there is no parameter in the template. I think it would be useful as an option, to show a difference between Trees (poem) (12) and Der Busant (1074). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:23, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
- There is now ;-) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:39, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
Additional parameters and design issue
[edit]Two questions:
- Can the template be modified to place the name and author information inside the infobox like most other infoboxes do? Perhaps one like {{Infobox musical composition}} Example 2.
- Can we get parameters in the template for the following data:
- Written: (date or year range)
- Form: (i.e. Sonnet, Quatrain, Ode...etc)
- Meter: (i.e. iambic pentameter)
- Rhyme scheme: (i.e. abba cddc effe gg)
Thanks for your attention to this request.--ColonelHenry (talk) 12:45, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
- That should all now be working; the new parameters are
|subtitle=
,|written=
,|form=
,|meter=
,|rhyme=
. Do you have an example, where these can be applied? What explanatory articles, if any, should the labels link to? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:25, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
- User:Gerda Arendt and I have been debating the possibility of adding the infobox at Trees (poem) when I mentioned (at the time leaning toward opposing an infobox) that I would prefer to see these parameters to make the infobox more informative. I'll keep you posted how that turns out. Thanks for your help. --ColonelHenry (talk) 12:48, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
error
[edit]Guys, there is a wikicode formatting error on this template's page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smuckola (talk • contribs) 01:21, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
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Could someone with knowledge of template documentation formatting please help repair this page which is currently unreadable in my laptop view because of the width of the right-hand box. Thanks! Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 08:07, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Shhhnotsoloud: Looking at {{parameter names example}} and adding a value to
|isbn=
got rid of the long error message. I don't know if it is quite by the book, but I hope this solved your display problems. Sam Sailor 12:06, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
Wikisource parameter
[edit]Does the Wikisource parameter require the name parameter in order to work? If so, can this be explained more clearly in the template documentation? I just spent quite a while trying to fix the link in The Wild Swans at Coole (poem) before realising what it needed. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 20:43, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
Oral poetry
[edit]Thinking about using this for Homeric Hymns, but doesn't quite fit at the moment. Any chance of:
An option to change "written" to "composed" (this would be useful for e.g. Iliad too)Perhaps an option to change "by" to "attributed to"...?
Thanks, UndercoverClassicist T·C 16:41, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- I have gone ahead and done this. Tested in several pages and I can't see that I've broken anything (in theory, if the new parameters are not used, the template behaves exactly as it did before: if they are used, as now in Homeric Hymns, it seems to work well), but please ping me if anything strange starts happening. UndercoverClassicist T·C 15:57, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
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