Forum:Few templates help

Morning,

I am working on an infobox television template, located here, and I am having serious trouble. I want a simple yet workable television template that overviews that show(s) series, like The Real Housewives of Orange County. Also, I am having trouble with cite related templates (found here). Would someone please help me by taking a look at them and see what needs to be changes or modified. I am still new at this from what DOES work on Wikipedia sometimes does NOT work on Wikia. Thanks a bunch! Sundogs American Law Wiki • Apple Wiki 13:42, September 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * The Infobox television template You created (copied) from wikipedia was calling its self as the first line was {{Infobox television which is a self reference. It should call template {{infobox but that then is the start of a whole new problem as the wiki has a non compatible version of infobox to wikipedias version of template infobox !! To create your own version create one with a new name and modify the code to contain lables to match your usage and the data elements so {{{datan}}} then has a item in the input list | datan= using easier to understand items such as |charactername= instead of datan in the infobox.


 * That Character page (linked above) is also calling 11 other wikipedia templates which are missing, some of which are simple messages and others are more complex. Cite templates are better removed from wikipedia pages and the simpler tages used were source of information is replace by a basic text description or a web page address to the source is used in stead. Message box type templates like {{refimprove}} are beter replaced by a simple message box of you own etc (if you copy the Wikipedia one and its doc you end up wanting dozens of similar templates that are linked to by the doc page).


 * Also the navbox suite you have copied is missing its styling info to create the border & other elements of the boxes.


 * Copied wikipedia pages should have the {{t|Wikipedia}} template added for author attribution of the original material sourced from wikipedia under the CC by SA license to redistribute it. The template creates a back link to the wikipedia version of the article.


 * Note A lot of the morecomplex wikipedia templates suites (groups) use extra code that is in other templates or that is in the Mediawikia:common.css or .js files to perform functions or style the output with colours, borders, and positioning information to create the look. - Some infobox used on wikipedia are created entirely within that infobox but most use the 'core' Infobox template to reduce the amount of code and simplify individual infobes construction (and make them easier to update, as just simple heading, label and date need items need addinding or changing in most cases withe the style info added by a few simple lines if different from a default boxes look instead of to every line of the box). - BulldozerD11 18:24, September 8, 2010 (UTC)