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This template was considered for deletion on 26 June 2022. The result of the discussion was "no consensus".
Wikidata version?
Is there a Wikidata version for this template? this would allow us to replace the bare infoboxes in:
Could the template be modified to pull info from Wikidata when available? This could be useful for things like websites, ISSNs, etc. Trivialist (talk) 15:03, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It's technically quite easy now, the tricky thing is community consensus. I'd encourage you to look at Template:Infobox telescope as a good example, which uses Module:WikidataIB to fetch Wikidata values, and to provide various controls such as only fetching referenced values, maximum number of values, suppression of fields, etc. I can help if you have specific questions about how to do this, but I don't have the time to do the coding myself now, sorry. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:24, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This might also help with the notability of some params as discussed in the archives of this talk page, if only statements at WD with refs would be imported. Arlo James Barnes20:24, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It might also be worth mentioning that versions of this template in other languages, such as French and Arabic, already make use of Wikidata. OpenArabicPE (talk) 21:29, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Website screenshot
With newspapers now being increasingly web-based, I think there should be an additional set of parameters for the homepage of a newspaper's online equivalent, which at this point likely receive much more traction than in-print versions. Crusader1096 (message) 04:07, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi, I'd like to request that the LCCN parameter at least be added as an optional inclusion, please. It's always good to have backups. And I think the Library of Congress has a significant database, where I can fill in a variety of missing identifiers in infoboxes. Thank you. --Cinemaniac86Dane_Cook_Hater_Extraordinaire22:58, 2 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies. I didn't realize we had to request for a change before I edited either, and should have undid my own revision. So should I open up a proposal about LCCN for discussion on the talk page for now and see if anyone else thinks it's worthwhile to include as an option before I request again? --Cinemaniac86Dane_Cook_Hater_Extraordinaire10:54, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Continuing discussion here is alright. I think of ISSNs as the standard identifier for newspapers, so my initial thought is that I'm not particularly keen to add others. There's always {{authority control}} for when it's really needed. If the parameter was designed so that it only shows up if the ISSN isn't present, that might be somewhat better, but it still might lead to people adding it rather than ISSNs. How many notable newspapers are we talking about that have a LCCN but not an ISSN? {{u|Sdkb}}talk14:00, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Creative director field?
Should there be a field for creative director? I'm looking specifically at the article on The Concordian. The person listed as "associate editor" is actually, according to this webpage, creative director. Maybe there's a way around this that I don't know about for the infobox? BobbyWatson42 (talk) 22:52, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No. In that use case, even if it was called associate editor, the only person you should list is the editor-in-chief. And if the creative director were equal in stature to the EIC, you'd just use the custom field option. {{u|Sdkb}}talk01:14, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Template-protected edit request on 11 March 2024
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add parameter Deputy Managing Editor below Managing Editor. No need to include plural variant.
Context: This request is inspired by the fact that The Chicago Maroon's new executive leadership includes a deputy managing editor, who appears on the paper's masthead directly below the managing editor. They fulfill similar functions. There are also deputy managing editors at the Washington Square News and several other local and regional news outlets.
Not done There are already far too many positions listed in this infobox, violating WP:LEADWEIGHT. We should be removing most of them, not adding more. From what you've said, the fact that the deputy managing editor is below the managing editor in the hierarchy means that it is not a top postition (even if listed on the masthead), and should not be listed. (If it were appropriate to list, you would be able to use |custom_label= for a niche case, but again, it is not.) Sdkbtalk10:28, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Template-protected edit request on 13 May 2024
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Please add a parameter trove-id, which links to https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/title/XXXX where XXXX is the value passed in the parameter. This would be similar to the fields for OCLC ID in the US and RNI in India. Trove is an online newspaper archive service provided by the National Library of Australia. There are 1806 local, regional and national newspapers archived on Trove, and I think this would be a useful link to include in the Infobox and a timesaver for editors over using free.
I'd also like to propose the successors, successor, predecessors and predecessor parameters, or just two parameters instead of four with the labels Successor(s) and Predecessor(s) for newspapers which have amalgamated, split up and spun off. Sister newspapers works for spin-offs, but not so much for amalgamations and splits. Adam Blacktalk • contributions03:47, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Both seem like good ideas. For the second, though, I think it'd be more useful to readers to be more specific with the label, e.g. Merged into X rather than Successor X. Perhaps Infobox organization or others have a model we could use. Sdkbtalk13:46, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Sdkb, I think that would be ideal. Maybe something like merged-into, absorbed, split-into and spin-offs could be used alongside predecessor and successor tags for situations where the specific tags don't quite fit. I can't think of any specific examples but there's always the possibility something crops up where the more specific tags don't make sense. The template documentation could be used to ask editors to use the more specific parameters wherever possible. I've had a look through the Infobox organization parameters to see what parameters they use and it seems the only relevant ones are predecessor, merged, successor and merger. Adam Blacktalk • contributions20:00, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Deactivating edit request as this is still being discussed and not ready to go live. Feel free to reactivate if you still need an uninvolved template editor (rather than Sdkb or SWinxy implementing themselves) when you have agreed on what code to use, put it in the sandbox, and tested it. * Pppery *it has begun...16:53, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Template-protected edit request on 30 May 2025
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Add ability to embed other templates at the bottom of this infobox. Think this will be relatively uncontroversial; it's a standard feature in I'd say the majority of other major infoboxes. The reason I want it is because {{Infobox Korean name/auto}} is often embedded in other infoboxes.
In line that begins with | below, ctrl+f to locate the below statement:
}} }}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check
change the above line to this:
}} {{{module|}}} }}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check
I tested this out in the sandbox and confirmed that it works. Note that this places the embedded template right below the "Media of x" and "List of newspapers in x" messages at the bottom of the infobox. grapesurgeon (seefooddiet) (talk) 19:22, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Many of the parameters for this template do not conform to MOS:INFOBOXNAME. For example params should use snake case. So |generalmanager= should be |general_manager= and |sister newspapers= should be |sister newspapers=. I’m going to start the process of converting the template to follow the MOS. This should NOT break any existing transclusions but I reserve the right to be trouted for mistakes… — Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 05:04, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Done, ish. You missed a few but I'm not going to make a fourth pass to get the last of them. Partially my fault for not seeing the second list on the cat before I started, but even that was missing a few. Primefac (talk) 21:23, 14 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I mean, as long as I'm not hitting any page more than once, it doesn't really matter if the cat is fully populated yet; I can just run another bot run if there are some missing. That being said, with 4k+ already done and 3k more to go, we're getting pretty close to all 10k transclusions... Primefac (talk) 00:45, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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