Template talk:Infobox Monarch

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Contents 1 Usage 2 British monarchs 3 Colourisation & WikiProject British Royalty 4 Edit 5 Length of Reign 6 Requested change 7 Place of burial 8 Edit-sections 9 Children 10 Queen, consort, spouses 11 change colour

[edit] Usage

{{Infobox Monarch
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| title           =
| image           =
| caption         =
| reign           =
| coronation      =
| othertitles     =
| full name       =
| predecessor     =
| successor       =
| suc-type        =
| heir            =
| queen           =
| consort         =
| spouse 1        =
| spouse 2        =
| spouse 3        =
| spouse 4        =
| spouse 5        =
| spouse 6        =
| issue           =
| royal house     =
| dynasty         =
| royal anthem    =
| father          =
| mother          =
| date of birth   =
| place of birth  =
| date of death   =
| place of death  =
| date of burial  =
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|}}

[edit] British monarchs

I would like to see this template used on all the British monarch pages. Currently, the House of Tutor and afterwards have those "British Royalty" templates which are about the House rather than the specific monarch. --JW1805 17:54, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Colourisation & WikiProject British Royalty

I've added some colour to the template - mostly to fall in with WP:BRoy. However, this template will slowly be replaced by Template:Infobox British Royalty -- DBD 23:21, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

The colourisations have been reverted as they made the box difficult to read and the langauge used in the template was overly complex. Also, we don't need different colour schemes for different people. Nor do we need a different template specifically for members of the British royal family. --Bob 01:57, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit

Hello,
Could you please add an interwiki-link to the Dutch version of this template? This is a link: Sjabloon:Monarch.
Kind regards, Kameraad Pjotr 16:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Y Done. Cheers! – Luna Santin (talk) 21:13, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Length of Reign

I wonder if it might be helpful to have the template automatically insert the length of the monarch's reign next to the dates of his or her reign (just as some of the other templates for people automatically insert the person's age).--Tabun1015 02:04, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requested change

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Could it be made so that "Birthplace" appears if a place of birth is specified but a date of birth isn't, for monarchs where the date of birth is unknown? Currently the contents of the "place of birth" field are preceded by a blank space, with the expectation that "Born" and the date of birth will be above it. --Ptcamn 08:49, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Y Done. --ais523 11:19, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Place of burial

I'm trying to generate a list of places of burial for all English monarchs. Is there a way to manipulate the data contained in the articles using this infobox to generate such a list? At the moment, I don't see a parameter for country, so I'm not sure how different countries can be separated out. Carcharoth 15:11, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit-sections

I've got a question concerning the edit-sections using this template. On nl.Wikipedia.org we've got a similar template but the edit-sections in an article next to the template are apearing under the template (example: nl:Constantijn de Grote). How did you solve this problem? Evil berry 11:49, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Children

{{editprotected}} A section should be included for children of the monarch too (See Abdullah of Saudi Arabia). thestick 00:01, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 19:20, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Queen, consort, spouses

I have a problem with these entries. First, the title of "queen". It is not needed, consort alone suffices as this is a monarch infobox, for use by monarchs and there spouses. Also, for the section of spouses, it shows up as "wives". It should be gender neutral and just say "Spouse(s)". Thirdly, the section for consort should have more entries in it. Holy Roman Emperor Francis II had four wives, three of whom were consorts to him as emperor. In summary, we only need "consort" and "spouse" entries, with some more spaces for consorts and get rid of the queen entry since it really is not needed. Charles 19:34, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Or, my solution at Template:Infobox British Royalty, one field, whose manifestation changes according to an initial property... ^† DBD 17:17, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

That looks good, but would there be a possibility of compacting both into an template called Template:Royal or something like that? Charles 21:11, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

I seem to recall there being objections to that when IBR was first created, but your suggestion makes a boatload of sense (although prob Template:Infobox Royalty might be better), so please do look into it and, if possible, get the ball rolling! ^† DBD 11:26, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Have you a suggestion as to where I should initialize this? Charles 17:01, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

One would suppose Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Royalty and Wikipedia:WikiProject British Royalty would be the 'interested parties', so a discussion at the former, with a note to the latter? ^† DBD 11:42, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Well, I've made some additions to my copy of T:IBR, which would add functionality suiting any merger ^† DBD 18:42, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

See here. Charles 22:21, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] change colour

I was going to change the colour from the generic light blue to "plum", to symbolise the royal "purple". However I found the purple to be a bit too dark. But I thought it better to ask here first how the reception is. I tried it once, it looks pretty good, I hope I can get your support...? Gryffindor 00:00, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I like the idea to change colour, but I don't think this shade of purple suits the Roman imperial style very well. Tyrian purple was really more of a dark red. I suggest a change to this colour: _________ Regards. --Steerpike 22:40, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

EDIT: Sorry, I was under the impression the box applied only to Roman emperors, but it seems to be a general 'monarch' box. Still, I prefer my suggested colour over the current purple. --Steerpike 14:28, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

I support Steerpike's proposal. /Slarre 09:50, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I am not happy about this colour red because to me it looks almost Communist, see Communist_party. What is wrong with the imperial purple? Or can we have a more "royal" red? Gryffindor 11:11, 21 November 2007 (UTC)