Template talk:Infobox scientist

Template-protected edit request on 14 July 2016

209.197.139.178 (talk) 05:04, 14 July 2016 (UTC) need to add his religion.

 Not done That attribute is not directly related to the general profession of "scientist", you would need to establish a consensus amongst editors that it is relevant (by continuing this discussion below) before it can be added. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:03, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Parents

Can someone add the code so "parents" displays. I see the data in about 50 templates, but it is not displaying. We have the odd situation where we link to children, but once there we are not linking back to parents. Every other biographical template includes it. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 02:19, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

H-index

I would like to suggest that the H-index be added to the template, since H-index or i10-index are significantly more important than the personal information for a living or recent died scientist.--Sahehco (talk) 15:12, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Embedding in {{Infobox officeholder}}

When the template is embedded in {{Infobox officeholder}}, the heading ("Scientific career") displays with a different style of heading than those used by the main template (for, e.g, "Personal details"). I've made a correction in the template's sandbox that should resolve this through the use of the parameter embed_officeholder. 207.161.217.209 (talk) 20:04, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

How is this any different than just setting |embed=yes? In other words, why not add the |headerstyle= #if statement to trigger off the embed param? Primefac (talk) 23:33, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

The Honourable Sir Mark Oliphant AC KBE FRS FAA
Oliphant in 1939
27th Governor of South Australia
In office 1 December 1971 – 30 November 1976
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Premier	Don Dunstan
Lieutenant Governor	Sir Mellis Napier Sir Walter Crocker
Preceded by	Sir James Harrison
Succeeded by	Sir Douglas Nicholls
Personal details
Born	(1901-10-08)8 October 1901 Kent Town, Adelaide, Australia
Died	14 July 2000(2000-07-14) (aged 98) Canberra, Australia
Residences	Australia United Kingdom United States
Sir Mark Oliphant AC KBE FRS FAA Alma mater University of Adelaide University of Cambridge Known for Co-discovery of tritium, helium-3 and nuclear fusion Development of microwave radar Awards Fellow of the Royal Society (1937) Hughes Medal (1943) Faraday Medal (1948) Scientific career Institutions Cavendish Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of Birmingham Australian National University Thesis The Neutralization of Positive Ions at Metal Surfaces, and the Emission of Secondary Electrons (1929) Doctoral advisor Ernest Rutherford Doctoral students Ernest Titterton

@Primefac: I'm afraid that I'm not sure what you mean by your second question, could you clarify? But with respect to your first, it's different in that the "Scientific career" header in this infobox is styled differently than the "Personal details" header in {{Infobox officeholder}}. I've transcluded an example using the sandbox to the right. An example of the existing template can be seen at Ernest Rutherford. 207.161.217.209 (talk) 01:59, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

To be honest, I answered my own questions, but your post here and my own digging have prompted some more (so don't worry about the earlier questions):

As near as I can tell {{infobox officeholder}} is rather unusual in colouring their headers. All of the examples found at WP:IEmbed do not colour their headers. This makes me wonder - is IB officeholder the only one that colours their header? If there are more IBs that colour their headers, then we'd have to assign a different colour scheme for every one of them. This is both tedious and bad coding. If it is the only one that colours the headers, then we'd still have to go and change every transclusion of {{infobox scientist}} being used as a child to use this new parameter.

At this point in time I'm not convinced that changing the code simply for the means of affecting one infobox combination is worth it. I'll leave the TPER open, though, in case others want to chime in. Primefac (talk) 02:57, 31 October 2016 (UTC)