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Tidal power shows as "Thermal power station" if fuel is set in WikiData

I spotted that the MeyGen tidal energy project was listed it as a Thermal power station, which is wrong. It had the Primary fuel listed as Tidal power. Andy Mabbett suggested this was being picked up from the WikiData source listing Tidal power as a fuel, but the template should be able to cope with that, see my question on the help page of 27 Jan 2024. The fuel source has been removed from WikiData, so Wikipedia looks correct now. Cheers, Donald. Drnoble (talk) 17:25, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ahem. "Mabbett". ;-) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:33, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Demolition date

Hello. I was working on the article over at Trenton Channel Power Plant (recently demolished), and I noticed there was not a parameter for a demolition date. Often the date when a facility is decommissioned and when it is demolished are quite far apart; would it be possible to add such a parameter? I'm open to doing so myself; I might just need a little guidance. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 01:53, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

default mapframe zoom forced to 5

This seems to have been done as a result of #Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 10 September 2018, where the proposal said it's so that it can more easily be located in the country. The thing is, not all countries are the same size, so this one-size-fits-all default override doesn't work well in many cases. The two examples used there were in California and on the western coast of England, but with smaller countries closer together like in continental Europe, you see a lot of them, whereas the topic of the article might not be supplying power to or having an effect on anywhere near the area shown. --Joy (talk) 21:08, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Carbon footprint

I have added some carbon footprints in wikidata - for example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85967587 but they are not showing up in articles such as Afşin-Elbistan power stations.

I don’t have much template experience. Should I try to add this myself or could someone do it for me? Chidgk1 (talk) 09:37, 7 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please get consensus before making template changes; you are welcome to sandbox the changes as proof-of-concept, but unless there is consensus it will not be added. Primefac (talk) 14:45, 8 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Chidgk1 and Primefac: I started Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Climate change#Carbon footprint infobox parameters to bring attention to this general idea. Definitely sounds good to me, and should be taken seriously for Template talk:Infobox company too, but the work has to be done and proposals made to the groups of editors for the respective templates. I would imagine that there's typically a big range in estimates: the power stations/companies will claim low footprints; researchers will typically estimate a range of (mostly) higher footprints. The dates of the estimates would be needed too, since power stations and companies can expand or shrink over time: WP:RELTIME. Disclaimer: I'm unlikely to be someone contributing to the required work, but I support it in principle. Boud (talk) 16:00, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I too am leaning towards having the parameter, but I would like to see some more consensus before making the decision. While this is a nice piece of information, I believe a really tiny amount of power station articles would actually have it - as this information is not readily available for most. Reh man 12:19, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]