Template talk:Infobox fraternity

data for Flower

For Phi Kappa Psi, the value for flower is | flower = [[File:Rosa 'General Jacqueminot'.jpg|left|50px|[[Jacqueminot Rose]]]] . Should we allow images here?Naraht (talk) 18:24, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

FWIW, my suggestion would be to allow it only if there is a specific official representation of the flower that is designated as the organization's flower. The purpose of an infobox is to provide a quick overview of basic information, and employing an image simply adds to clutter, especially as the fraternity flower has probably never been one of its primary identifying marks. It would be like placing an image of a plaque with the fraternity motto inscribed on it, rather than just the text of the motto itself,-- choster (talk) 18:58, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

I don't see value of generic flower images, especially in the Infobox. Rublamb (talk) 19:23, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

I agree with Choster and Rublamb. FWIW. Jax MN (talk) 19:34, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Third'ed, links in the infobox, images in the body text. Primefac (talk) 13:06, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Motto format

What is the proper format for the Motto? I sort of like the way that infobox University does it where the motto, the language of the motto and its english version are all separate data fields, but if we don't have that, we should probably come to an agreement on what standard examples are.Naraht (talk) 12:56, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Maybe I'm missing something, but we have separate data fields for all of our parameters as well; I'm not seeing anything different (or unusual) about the formatting at {{Infobox university}}. Primefac (talk) 13:57, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

PrimefacFor {{Infobox university}}:motto, motto_lang, mottoeng are separate parameters with the mottolang added to the template surrounding the motto.

| label4 = Motto | data4 = {{#if:{{both|{{{motto|}}}|{{{motto_lang|}}}}}|<div lang="{{{motto_lang}}}">{{{motto}}}</div>|{{{motto|}}}}}Naraht (talk) 16:46, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Alt name

I prefer Alternate Name to Alternative Name for the free_label, but it appears that right now things are tipped the other way (about 5 to 2). Feelings one way or the other?Naraht (talk) 21:31, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

"Other name" is shorter and doesn't have the spelling ambiguity. Primefac (talk) 12:38, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Other name is fine with me. Rublamb (talk) 12:54, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

All changed to Other name (or names). This time around (when september gets generated), I think I'll start actually look at the free_label entries. Naraht (talk) 13:57, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Okay. I have gone through all Free labels, Free labels 1, and Free labels 2. There are now none of the latter. The majority of free labels are now alternative names. When we get the November report, we can review and decide if we want to create a field for Other names. Rublamb (talk) 15:17, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Proposal Motto Format

We have quite a few mottos here. As far as I can tell, they are either in Greek, Latin or English. I'd like to propose that the format used in the infobox be the same as the US Coast Guard. (US Marine Corps there is an article for their motto, so that's done oddly). US Coast Guard is {{unbulleted list|{{lang|la|Semper Paratus}}|Always ready}}. That puts the latin on one line, the english on the other and *NO* quote marks. Similarly if it is in greek then grc|greek words here in greek instead of the la|semper. English would simply be with no quotes.Naraht (talk) 20:40, 12 September 2024 (UTC),mlpo0l

Does tis also puts foreign language n quotes and English without quotes? Rublamb (talk) 21:59, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

(think you are missing a few characters here). United States Coast Guard Latin is italics (no quotes), English is no italics no quotes.Naraht (talk) 23:17, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

That format (italics for foreign language and no italics for English) matches MOS. Thus, I agree that should be our style. I am unsure about dropping quotation marks for mottos in English, as this is technically a quote. However, I agree it looks cleaner without quotation marks. Infobox University uses quotation marks for the English version. Of course, it has fields for Motto and Motto in English. That might be a good option for Infobox Fraternity because editors using VE would more easily be able to match the layout. Since we have a lot of overlap with UNI, it makes sense to follow their lead. I doubt we have much overlap with Infobox Military Units. As a side note, I wonder if we should order our colors to match Infobox UNI as well. Rublamb (talk) 00:07, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Logo

We currrently have fields for Coat of Arms and Crest that fill the main image of the infobox. However, we also use logos, badges, and buildings as the main photo if a crest/coat of arms is lacking. I suggest adding a varients for Logo and Other OR just Other. This would be more accurate and would make it easier to identify articles that have a badge or house photo but still need a crest/coat of arms. Right now, I am going through the list manually but in future would like to use something like Access to compare the monthly report's list against our Watchlist. Or the techologically brilliant ones may know a way to do with within Wikipedia. Either way, we cannot easily identify articles lacking a coat of arms/crest when another type of photo is using that field. Thoughts? Rublamb (talk) 15:28, 2 November 2024 (UTC)