Forum:Help with copying Wikipedia's ship infobox template

I'm an administrator at the Last Exile Wiki and I'm trying to make an infobox for the ships that appear in the show. I'm not good with templates and infoboxes, but Wikipedia's ship infobox is perfect for what I need. It's got all of the necessary parameters.

Now, I've copy/pasted Wikipedia's four ship infobox templates: Infobox ship begin, Infobox ship image, Infobox ship career, and Infobox ship characteristics to the wiki without changing their names.

Links to them on the wiki: Infobox ship begin, Infobox ship image, Infobox ship career, and Infobox ship characteristics.

The problem starts with Infobox ship career template. As soon as I start entering in information to go into the fields, the infobox freaks out. Infobox ship characteristics does this too. It starts displaying " " and "   " stuff.

Any help for figuring out why this freaks out is appreciated.

--TheBelgianGuy 19:24, November 1, 2011 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia's templates are hidiously complex, and it's probably better to design your own with the default Wikia one --  Random Time  19:26, November 1, 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, I need to learn how to make these things sometime. I'm just bummed because I got another template of theirs to work just fine.TheBelgianGuy 03:46, November 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * Do you have an example of the error? ForestMonthZero 04:31, November 2, 2011 (UTC)


 * Did you import all the relevant templates, CSS classes, etc? I notice that you're missing str find, str len , str left , str ≤ len , italics after . ForestMonthZero 04:43, November 2, 2011 (UTC)