Forum:Infobox Template

I am going nuts over this. For the past week, I have been trying to figure out how to make a simple infobox template on this wiki. I have been to help site after help site, and all I have been able to get out of them is that I have to create a page titled Template:Infobox, which I have, and from here, I have tried inputing various codes, but to no success. If anyone can shine a little light on my problem, I'd be very, VERY grateful. All I want to do is insert a character infobox...Mad Dog 03:10, April 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * There's a very nice and easy example at Wikia Templates. Just copy the entire template (go to the edit view, copy all the text) and follow the instructions there. The 888th Avatar   (talk)  06:27, April 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * I may be wrong, but I suspect you may have confused the actual template with the template paramenters. You have keyed in only template parameters INSIDE your template, there is no formating or layout to dictate how the template should be displayed. This is how a template should look like, e.g. w:c:gintama:Template:Birthday and this is where you would deploy the template, e.g. w:c:gintama:Shimura_Shinpachi's_Birthday. Click on 'Edit' to see the internal contents of each item. Gin-san (Talk) 08:59, April 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Try using the existing infobox template before deciding on a custom template. Here is an example of using the existing template: w:c:ghostrecon:Scott_Mitchell/Infobox_example.
 * If that doesn't fit your needs, then give some detail here about what kind of things you would specifically like to see added and then we can help more. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 3:48 PM PST 21 Apr 2010


 * Fixed it - added the wikia basic version from template wiki for you. (real world held up reply - I see Fandyllic has now added another example using Infobox for you in the mean time).


 * Mad Dog the wikia help - Help:Infobox links to several pages with template infobox on & other related Help pages. (but on looking at the page the documentation is not clear that the 'real' code is hidden (as with any wiki page) till you click edit - so a update may be in order of the documentation)


 * Comment - Have they (Wikia) stopped adding the basic templates now to new wikis, even template:! was missing, as I,m sure some had several of the common ones at one stage, as I replaced that version with the WP one for infobox. The wikia version of Documentation and a basic navbox should all be included in new wikis as the RTE hides too much codeing from editors and then most dont have a clue about templates, as Gin San said above, most people confuse the input parameters (seen on other pages) with the actual template code.


 * - BulldozerD11 16:34, April 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for adding the guts of the template BulldozerD11. You must have done that right before I made my example, so I assumed it was already in the wiki. I thought the infobox template was a basic default also. Looking at the history, -Mad Dog- tried to add the template, but ended up only adding the usage info and not the actual underlying code. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 4:44 PM PST 21 Apr 2010


 * Thanks Fandyllic you examples a bit better than the one I knocked up ob the template page - yes I added the real code to Mad dogs parametrs list that he had blanked. the wiki is missing a load of templates but most are from one imported page by the look. I dident bother adding a proper doc page as the doc suit is missing i thnk. - 18:48, April 21, 2010 (UTC)

WOW!!! Thank you a TON for this! You have no idea how confused I was about this. Thank you so, so much. I am bookmarking this thread for whenever I get confused about this again...you guys really helped. And thanks for even going out of your way to put the infobox in there for me...man, you guys are lifesavers. Mad Dog 22:53, April 21, 2010 (UTC)