Template talk:Infobox musical artist

Edit request 21 September 2024

Description of suggested change: Add "height" category for music artists

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit template-protected}} template. Height is usually not typically relevant to a musical artist's notability. --Ahecht (TALK
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Counting reunions for years active

Is the current standard inclusion ofany performance during a time when the band is officially broken? That seems... rather uninformative, and prone to bloat, as seen in Simon & Garfunkel. We should have some standard to differentiate one-off (or some other threshold) reunions from time during which the band can be considered to "actually" exist. 2803:4600:1116:4C4:48F4:AEB9:8FCB:12AC (talk) 08:41, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 14 November 2024

Add signature information:

| header44   = {{#if:{{{signature|}}}|{{if empty|{{{signature_type|}}}|Signature}}}}
| data45     = {{#invoke:InfoboxImage|InfoboxImage|image={{{signature|}}}|size={{{signature_size|}}}|class=infobox-signature skin-invert|sizedefault=150px|alt={{{signature alt|{{{signature_alt|}}}}}}}}

as in {{Infobox person}} for functionality of adding a singnature ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 12:20, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

I know this has been referenced in Template_talk:Infobox_musical_artist#Suggestion_for_new_parameter:_signature, but will help if integrated natively. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 12:23, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit template-protected}} template. Embedding another infobox is very easily done as shown in the documentation, so editors will need to know your reasoning behind why you think that this edit "will help if integrated natively". P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^{put'er there} 00:46, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Suggest adding "Children"

Some person infoboxes have sections like "| children =". This one doesn't. Seems like it should? (I don't want to touch something used on 125,000 pages, so if this is approved, I'd prefer someone more experienced with the infobox do it.)--Mike Selinker (talk) 20:25, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Just speaking personally/anecdotally, there seems to be a trend away from having this parameter, mainly because it gets populated with (often unsourced) personal information (usually about minors). I could maybe see adding in a |relatives= parameter for notable relatives who are not a spouse/partner, though. Primefac (talk) 12:45, 22 December 2024 (UTC)

Support - while I understand some editors' reluctance to add this parameter, I personally think it's necessary. Most other infoboxes have it, and there are many musicians who have notable children or even have children mentioned in their "personal life" sections, with citations. I think it should be used only when there is a source, obviously, but I don't see the benefit of preventing the information from being easily accessible. If the children aren't notable, just put the number of how many the subject has, if they are notable, put their names and link to their articles just like other articles do. I don't see why musicians should be different from anyone else in this regard.

It's also more of a pain to have to switch the entire infobox to a different template if someone's child becomes notable in their own right or add a module to the existing infobox just for that piece of information. In my opinion, it should be integrated into the template itself. CybJubal (talk) 17:43, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

background

There needs to be a tracking category for uses without |background=; and ideally that parameter should be mandatory. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:19, 3 January 2025 (UTC)