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US-AU red link image edit

can this please be fixed up (template produces a redlink to "Image:United States Australia Locator.png"), I don't know how to do it myself. Thanks, Alec -(answering machine) 05:21, 21 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

I uploaded that one the other day, it's not a problem with the template, simply nobody had created the appropriate map for that article. Red links are not an error, many people seem to think they meant the link is broken, but it's not that at all. What it means is the page does not exist for the moment but someone thinks it should. Jackaranga 09:05, 13 June 2007 (UTC)Reply
This template should be updated to have an alternative to accept images with different filenames. E.g. svg maps etc. /Lokal_Profil 18:46, 14 December 2007 (UTC)Reply
Was already done. Have now added a comment about it in the description. /Lokal_Profil 18:52, 14 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Suggestion: photos? edit

User:52 Pickup/Drafts/Template:Bilateral Many articles that use this template contain the current heads of the two governments. So why not include it in the box? By taking these images out of the text, it should free up some space. What do you think? - 52 Pickup (deal) 10:01, 24 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

Not a big fan of the images since state leaders change, also it makes the template to big for my taste. /Lokal_Profil 18:34, 12 February 2008 (UTC)Reply
I happen to agree. Besides these issues, diplomacy is technically conducted between heads of state. So for British-Canadian relations would be have two pictures of Queen Elizabeth, her Canadian portrait and her British one? For Canadian-American relations to we put the Queen next to Mr. Bush, which is technically correct but confusing to some readers, or Mr. Harper? --Kevlar (talkcontribs) 20:17, 21 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Request for Maps edit

Since I don't know how to draw them, is there anywhere to request them? Kevlar67 (talk) 05:50, 12 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Sure, just drop me a line on my talk page or even better on my Commons talk page. /Lokal_Profil 18:33, 12 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Suggestion: Embassies and Ambassadors edit

I think that links to embassies and ambassadors will appear on each page eventually, anyway so why not make it automatic? The problem is that "Embassy" in not the universal title. Someone smaller than me would have to figure out what to do about countries that send "missions", "offices", or "high commissions" (e.g. Tiawan, all Commonwealth countries), rather than embassies. Also why are my flags off centre?

Canada-France relations
   
 
  France
  Canada
Embassy of France in Canada
Ambassador of France to Canada
Embassy of Canada in France
Ambassador of Canada to France

--Kevlar (talkcontribs) 20:45, 21 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

I also have a suggestion you can see it below! Template_talk:Infobox_bilateral_relations#More_discriptive_infobox_proposal --Gimelthedog (talk) 22:16, 1 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Bilateral relations maps edit

Since I've been asked before I figured I should drop a line here about how to make the Bilateral relations maps

All you need is a texteditor which can handle large textfiles (without adding junk code) e.g. Word Pad and the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2-code of the countries. If you then save Image:Germany Japan Locator.svg to your computer (need to save the actual file not the png thumbnail) and open it in your text editor you should see a two lines (84 lines down) which say

  .jp { fill: #e3801c; }      /* Japan */
  .de { fill: #3c9d3c; }      /* Germany */

you then replace then replace "jp" by the isocode of the country you want in orange, and "de" by the iso of the country you want in green. Save the file under the new name and upload using a similar information layout to that on the Image:Germany Japan Locator.svg image page.

Some countries such as the UK and France are slightly tricker since they involve dependent territories (such as Reunion and Isle of Man) with their own ISO codes. For most countries it should be quite straight forward though. If you have any questions just drop a line on my talk page her or on Commons. /Lokal_Profil 15:45, 5 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Colour choice and colour blindness edit

It was just pointed out that the chosen colours (green / orange) are very hard do distinguish for certain colour blind people. I believe we should find two colours that work better, and change.

The next question is how to do this in the most efficient way. Were all the maps svg, it would simply involve changing two lines of text in each image, which could probably be done by a bot. Png's have to be edited manually. This is tedious and would probably lead to a long period of map colours not matching the colours specified in the template. Perhaps for an interim period we can have the box specify both colour possibilities? Or we could first migrate all maps to svg (a lot of this can be automated, so it's not as large a task as it may seem) and then once that's done, have a bot change all the colours.

Thoughts? Let me know, either here or on my commons talk page. Regards, Marmelad (talk) 11:12, 23 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

Adding hCard microformat edit

  Unresolved

this edit (now reverted) broke the template. Can someone tell me how to achieve the wrapping of country-names in spans, please? I want to add the hCard microformat. Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 18:40, 23 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

extra cell? edit

At least my brower, Safari 3.2.1 running on Mac OS 10.5.6, an extra empty cell appears below the cell containing the name of the first country. Can this be fixed, or does this cell serve some purpose that is not obvious to me? Yilloslime TC 04:44, 14 July 2009 (UTC)Reply


Flags edit

Why does the infobox need giant flags on top of it . WP:MOSICON discourages this type of nationalist pride and decoration 86.42.86.114 (talk) 17:38, 3 September 2009 (UTC) {{editprotect}}Reply

The flags should be removed from here . No objections have been raised 86.42.86.114 (talk) 19:39, 7 September 2009 (UTC)Reply
I disagree. A flag is useful for readers to identify the relevant country. I wouldn't mind making them a bit smaller though. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:40, 8 September 2009 (UTC)Reply
How are they more useful than the words just above them? 86.42.86.114 (talk) 17:04, 8 September 2009 (UTC)Reply
Well, they allow the countries to be identified at a glance. Presumably the same reason that flags are used on articles such as 2008 Summer Olympics to identify the nationality of the athletes. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 06:31, 16 September 2009 (UTC)Reply
Simple: They look cool. You could just as easily ask, "Why does the infox need a giant map showing where the two countries are?". It just looks good. Yilloslime TC 06:39, 16 September 2009 (UTC)Reply

Interwiki Turkish language edit

{{editprotected|See above}} Hi there ! Can someone ad a link to the Turkish version ? Thanks:

Eras-mus (talk) 20:44, 16 September 2009 (UTC)Reply

Please add these to the /doc page. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:28, 27 September 2009 (UTC)Reply

Georgia (country) edit

Georgia and the European Union uses this template. In the template, Georgia is referred to as Georgia (country). The country is called "Georgia", but the Wikipedia article is called "Georgia (country)". How can the link be changed so that it says Georgia instead? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.247.11.156 (talkcontribs)

I think I've fixed it. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:27, 27 September 2009 (UTC)Reply

Vandalism? edit

Someone seems to have vandalised this template to add the words 'smoking weed' to the box. I can't work out how this was done - it doesn't show up in the source code, and the template is fully-protected anyway! Can someone work out what is going on here, and revert it? Robofish (talk) 17:04, 2 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

I think this might be something to do with Template:Getalias. That template had been vandalised, but even after reverting it, the damage remains on this one... this is more complex than I know how to fix. Robofish (talk) 17:11, 2 November 2009 (UTC)Reply
Well, whatever it was, it's been fixed now. Thanks to whoever worked it out. Robofish (talk) 23:31, 2 November 2009 (UTC)Reply
Yes, fixed, and I have protected that template per WP:HRT to prevent that again. It takes time to clear the cache for pages to be updated, even after the repair on the transcluded template. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 23:36, 2 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

Look at what French Wikipedia did! edit

Check out fr:Modèle:Infobox Relations bilatérales! It's awesome. We need the same thing. --Kevlar (talkcontribs) 20:57, 18 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Some further thoughts: I esecially like the space for links to the missions from one country to the other, however instead of "Embassies" it needs to be "Missions" since they may be a high-commission or something else. The link for borders is genius. Good additions would be links for human migration and trade, two common topics in bilateral relations articles. Another good bit would be links to Foreign relations of Foo and Foreign relations of Boo. The bit about sports is interesting, but it's a little silly that they limted it to soccer and rugby. --Kevlar (talkcontribs) 21:42, 18 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Change colors? edit

Is there a way to change the green and orange colours in the box? Ahmetyal 19:50, 23 November 2010 (UTC)

Smaller Map edit

I've noticed that some of the maps are zoomed in a particular continent. Those are quite nice. Where do I find the base maps for these? --Kevlar (talkcontribs) 06:07, 9 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

Remove flags per WP:ICONDECORATION edit

Can the flags be remove per WP:MOSICON and the subsection above? Gnevin (talk)

No, they can't. This is the standard format. Fry1989 (talk) 18:46, 26 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
What standard format? Is there are guideline that you think applies to counter my argument? Gnevin (talk) 23:42, 26 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
It's a standard format because this is how it's always been. Fry1989 (talk) 18:19, 27 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
And I'm suggesting changing it, citing a widely accepted guideline. CON can change and if your only argument is this is ow it's always been then the guideline will win out . Gnevin (talk) 09:24, 28 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
No you're not. You're just hunting after every icon no matter the current consensus because you have some sort of childish distaste for it. Fry1989 (talk)
  • RfC Comment. I saw the RfC notice, and have not previously been involved with this template, although I have previously commented on other MOSICON issues. It seems to me that, here, there is a specific, content-based, reason for including the flags: the very subject of the template is the relations between the two nations that the selected flags represent. I do have to admit that I share, to some extent, Fry1989's concern about over-eager efforts to expunge images. But, having said that, I can see some value in making the flags smaller within the template. They seem awfully large in relation to the map, making it seem a bit unbalanced. And I also think it would be reasonable to have options in using the template, such that editors at a particular page could elect to omit the flags from the template as it appears on that page. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:22, 30 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
When you put it like that , I agree. Instead of removing the flags should be made smaller and perhaps moved down? The map is the main focus Gnevin (talk) 21:18, 30 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
  • RfC Comment — Regardless of MOSICON policies, this template is a page decoration. While that may be useful or not, one place where it should almost certainly be excluded on stylistic grounds is on pages with multiple bilateral foreign relations under discussion, like here: Foreign relations of Burma. In terms of content, the repeated image of BurmaMyanmar's flag provides nothing, while the repeated template provides enormous clutter.--Carwil (talk) 21:44, 10 April 2011 (UTC)Reply

RFC For Overhaul Of This Template edit

Seeing as a rfc was submitted for this issue, I am going to submit the issue ontop of some other changes:

I think that the template is fine but that we don't need the flags or the linking to the polities in question.

  1. Flags: The rationale is that the flags are not very useful or informative
  2. Linking to the polities: The polities are likely already linked in the text. cf wp:overlinkCurb Chain (talk) 01:29, 4 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
  • Keep both, move the flags below the map to the country name boxes and reduce their size by 30%. Items should be linked in the infobox for the same reason they appear in the infobox - because it provides a good summary area that a reader can skim over without having to locate the same information in the sea of the main body. It stands to reason that a reader would be equally as inclined to want to click a link while reviewing the summary as they would be to click a link while reading the main body. TechnoSymbiosis (talk) 06:29, 4 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
I guess I stand correct, but I won't pursue the issue, BUT, regarding flags, did you want Foreign relations of Burma with its hedonism of flags? I think we don't need the at all. We would need flags like this when we compare culture articles and the relations of polities of past civilizations, and that is just excessive.Curb Chain (talk) 10:45, 4 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
I wouldn't consider misuse of the template as justification for altering the template itself. I could put something like [citation needed][clarification needed][neutrality is disputed][original research?][according to whom?] after a statement in an article somewhere and it might be considered technically correct, but clearly from aesthetic and informative perspectives that wouldn't really be suitable. And while one argument might be 'well maybe we should change the inline cleanup templates so that this isn't as ugly when it happens', I think a better argument would be to simply apply some common sense to solving the problem in the contexts it appears. TechnoSymbiosis (talk) 00:21, 5 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
What information does it provide that the word above it don't? Gnevin (talk) 08:41, 4 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
Humans tend to process icons and pictographic cues faster than text. Aside from the additional information of the flag image itself, images help the reader interpret presented information in a faster, scan-read fashion. I've noticed in anti-flag arguments you've made elsewhere that you don't personally gain any benefit from flag images for improved transfer of information, but I wouldn't consider that a reason to limit the benefit to those who can in the same way that I don't expect all photos to be balanced for colour-blind people to the detriment of those who can distinguish the full spectrum. The ability to present the flag and country information neatly is certainly an issue to be resolved, but I wouldn't consider it an argument for removal. TechnoSymbiosis (talk) 00:11, 5 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
Reader who scan is simply not proven , I've heard it dozens and dozens of times with very little in the way of proof Gnevin (talk) 17:31, 6 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
It has the same "proof" as the statement that flags make a page "cluttered". Either statement is personal observation projected onto a perceived larger opinion. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 17:45, 6 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
True but MOSICON lists a large number of reasons for avoiding flags apart from clutter Gnevin (talk) 19:20, 6 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
Which of those reasons are relevant here? I think the aesthetics of the current of this template can be improved, but I see no reason to outright exclude any of the elements involved (locator map, names and flags of two countries). — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 19:26, 6 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
I know I opened this discussion but just to be clear per my comments above, I think the flags are ok since being resized Gnevin (talk) 19:34, 6 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
  • I guess I'd still say the same thing that I said before (previous RfC, just above). --Tryptofish (talk) 17:03, 4 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Suggestion for redesign edit

Compare the infobox to the right with the example shown in the template documentation. Would this satisfy the concerns raised above? — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 21:10, 6 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Canada–United States relations
 
 
Canada
 
United States

Yes, I think it's an improvement. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:12, 6 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

I think the flags are too small, can you increase them? And yes this is really Gnevin ! ;) Gnevin (talk) 21:15, 6 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
:-D --Tryptofish (talk) 21:16, 6 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
How about now? (And should I submit an ANI report for a compromised account...? ;) — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 21:18, 6 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
Actually, that is better. And I'm not going to ask to make the map smaller. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:21, 6 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
Agreed much better Gnevin (talk) 11:13, 7 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
Yep, that looks great. I support this change. TechnoSymbiosis (talk) 00:32, 9 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
Should I wait longer for the RFC to run its course, or just go ahead and make these changes? — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 20:43, 9 May 2011 (UTC)Reply
I'd say give it 2 more days just so that it's run its course for at least a week and then make a call. There should be reasonable time for people to voice objections if they want to. TechnoSymbiosis (talk) 23:43, 9 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

It looks like a big improvement to me.--Carwil (talk) 00:13, 12 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Bug edit

The redesign is causing problems on pages that have "Georgia" as one of the template parameters. See example below. The link in the caption below the flag goes to the Georgia disambiguation page, not to the article about Georgia (country); the old template handled this ambiguity correctly, apparently by calling {{getalias}} when generating the links. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:00, 16 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

Georgia-Iran relations
 
 
Georgia
 
Iran
  Done That's not a bug with this template; it's a big with {{flagbig}}, now fixed. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 16:30, 16 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

More discriptive infobox proposal edit

I based it on the current one of the English Wikipedia and parts of the version on the French Wikipedia.

Canada–United States relations
 
Nations
 
Canada
 
United States
LeaderStephen HarperBarack Obama
AmbassadorGary DoerDavid Jacobson
EmbassyWashington, D.C.Ottawa
Consulates
  • Anchorage
  • Atlanta
  • Boston
  • Buffalo
  • Chicago
  • Dallas
  • Denver
  • Detroit
  • Houston
  • Los Angeles
  • Miami
  • Minneapolis
  • New York City
  • Philadelphia
  • Phoenix
  • Raleigh
  • San Diego
  • San Francisco
  • Sacramento
  • Seattle
  • Calgary
  • Halifax
  • Northwest Territories
  • Nunavut
  • Montreal
  • Quebec City
  • Southwestern Ontario
  • Toronto
  • Vancouver
  • Winnipeg
  • Yukon
  • Dual citizenshipAmerican CanadianCanadian American

    I thought that the sports and border length were unnecessary so I left them out. Please support, comment or tweek!

    --Gimelthedog (talk) 06:18, 29 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

    Please could you make your requested changes to Template:Infobox bilateral relations/sandbox then test it and make sure it works properly, then reactivate. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:34, 23 September 2011 (UTC)Reply
    I'm sorry I'm new to making templates, I don't understand what your asking me to do? Do I change the sandbox or do I add this to the talk page. Thanks! --Gimelthedog (talk) 04:25, 11 October 2011 (UTC)Reply

    Caption should be plural edit

    {{editprotected}} Please can the caption on the map be changed from "Map indicating location of..." to "Map indicating locations of...". Two countries are shown, so therefore there are two locations. Bazonka (talk) 21:10, 2 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

      Done Reaper Eternal (talk) 21:17, 2 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

    Edit request from Armbrust, 17 September 2011 edit

    Please change "Afghanistan South Korea Locator.png" to "Afghanistan and South Korea on the world map (crop).png", as the file was moved.

    Sir Armbrust Talk to me Contribs 15:35, 17 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

    There is nothing in the template to edit for this but fixed the issue by creating a redirect on File:Afghanistan South Korea Locator.png -- WOSlinker (talk) 18:48, 18 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

    bug: bilateral relations edit

    The recipt, as outlined in this Infobox-Help, produces a bug - in that


    Code {Infobox Bilateral relations |{subst:PAGENAME} |country1 |country2}


    produces a doublette of relations relations when {subst:PAGENAME} is used, as told in this Help.

    See:

    Infobox bilateral relations relations
    country1 country2

    and

    Holy See – Israel relations

    --95.168.156.237 (talk) 21:25, 4 October 2011 (UTC)Reply

    This is indeed a bug in the template if the page name is Country1 - Country2 relations. I'll modify the template documentation until the bug is fixed. (As an aside, it's not clear why the first parameter is needed. The template could always use {{PAGENAME}}, or build the name from the second and third parameters.) Illia Connell (talk) 21:54, 9 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

    Map requests edit

    The following articles need maps:

    Can anyone create them? Thanks! —danhash (talk) 21:27, 17 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

    United States - Switzerland Map Colors Flipped edit

    {{editprotected}} The map that is rendered for the United States and Switzerland has the colors flipped. It shows orange for Switzerland (yet on the map the United States is colored orange) and the green for the United States. Please fix. Thanks, epicAdam(talk) 16:32, 5 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

    You don't need to edit the template, you need to edit the article, which isn't protected. But in this case the file was the wrong name and needed to be migrated to Commons, so I did that all for ya. Regards, Quintucket (talk) 17:50, 5 February 2012 (UTC)Reply

    Width edit

    Why has the width of the template been increased? It is unneccesarily wider now and looks rather ugly in the articles by taking up so much space. Mar4d (talk) 02:50, 29 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

    Maps - again edit

    There are quite a lot of missing maps that are needed by articles that use this template. It is creating ugly red links and gums up Category:Articles with missing files. Can we alter the template so that if there is no image map for the two countries then no file link is displayed? -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 00:51, 9 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

    I have added a test for existence of the map to {{Infobox bilateral relations/sandbox}} and shown testcases here: {{Infobox bilateral relations/testcases}}. If this change is implemented, I'll update the documentation Illia Connell (talk) 15:20, 9 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
    Updated {{Infobox bilateral relations/sandbox}} to include pages without a map in the tracking category Category:Infobox bilateral relations usage without maps. If this change is implemented, I'll create the category. Illia Connell (talk) 18:11, 10 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
    I made the change to the template. Please do create the tracking category. Let me know if there is a problem. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 05:07, 12 September 2012 (UTC)Reply
    Done. Thanks! Illia Connell (talk) 16:26, 12 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

    New request edit

    Please change

    [[Category:Infobox bilateral relations usage without maps]]
    

    to

    {{main other|[[Category:Infobox bilateral relations usage without maps]]}}
    

    to limit the tracking category to articles only Thanks --Illia Connell (talk) 12:54, 27 September 2012 (UTC)Reply

    Thanks! Illia Connell (talk) 23:02, 6 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

    How do you make a map? edit

    How are these maps of the highlighted countries created? Nicholasemjohnson (talk) 13:02, 5 February 2013 (UTC)Reply

    Updated Infobox Proposal edit

    Hello, I have proposed a new infobox here a while ago, I created it into a proper infobox (link). Any suggestions and would it be possible to update the infobox to this? --Gimelthedog (talk) 19:12, 31 December 2012 (UTC)Reply

      Not done for now: Per WP:TESTCASES, please put your proposed version into this template's sandbox, and set up some testcases demonstrating that your proposal works as intended, and doesn't break existing behaviour. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:50, 19 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

    Edit request on 19 April 2013 edit

    People's Republic of China–Grenada relations
     
    Grenada
     
    China
    People's Republic of China–Grenada relations
     
    Grenada
     
    China

    please change

    <table class="infobox bordered">
    

    to

    <table class="infobox bordered" style="width:{{px|{{{size|}}}|250px}}">
    

    so that I don't have to do this to keep the infobox from looking like this. Frietjes (talk) 20:11, 19 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

    Sorry, but I tried your suggestion and it does not work. -- King of ♠ 09:41, 22 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
    are you sure, see the examples now presented here. Frietjes (talk) 19:54, 22 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
    Huh. Apparently it does work after all. Must be I was seeing a cached version. -- King of ♠ 21:00, 22 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

    New parameters edit

    Inspired by some of the proposals above, I've modified the sandbox version of this template to handle a few extra parameters which allow it to list the ambassadors and embassies of the two countries. Check out the testcases. What do others think of this change? TDL (talk) 01:47, 7 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

    my only concerns are that (1) it does compress the content to add a third column, and (2) the association of the column headings with the data is hard for my screen reader to parse. perhaps these new fields could be formatted in a simple label/data type list used by {{infobox}}? Frietjes (talk) 16:39, 7 October 2013 (UTC)Reply
    @Frietjes: Just getting back to this. Your suggestion is an excellent idea. I've converted the new parameters to header/data format, and it looks much better. TDL (talk) 05:39, 17 October 2013 (UTC)Reply
    @Danlaycock: looks good, I made some minor changes in the sandbox and updated the testcases page to show the results side-by-side. I may make the background a bit lighter, but otherwise, looks good. Frietjes (talk) 15:45, 17 October 2013 (UTC)Reply
    Great. Since no one else has complained over the last week, I've put in an edit request. TDL (talk) 18:22, 17 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

    I've marked the edit request as answered for the moment. Since you're still editing the sandbox I think it'd be better to wait until there is a more stable version. I've also left a comment on the WikiProject's talk page to garner a bit more comment. Callanecc (talkcontribslogs) 12:33, 18 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

    In case I forget ping me on Monday or reactivate the edit request and I'll (or someone) will make the change for you, Regards, Callanecc (talkcontribslogs) 13:04, 18 October 2013 (UTC)Reply
    done. Frietjes (talk) 14:40, 18 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

    Tabular view edit

    @Docu: I'm wondering if this code is actually every used in article space? It seems to have come as a result of the discussion here, but it isn't clear if there was every a consensus to go ahead with using this template in that manner. There is no mention of these parameters in the documentation. Anyone know of a way of check to see which pages transclude this template with the parameters "view=table1" or "view=table2"? (I suspect I'll need to ask someone to create a bot task to check.)

    If it's not being used, it would be nice to clean up the code. Either way, given that the tabular view does not use any of the same code as the infobox view, it would probably make more sense to create a whole new template for this usage, rather than cluttering this template. TDL (talk) 18:22, 17 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

    I will add a tracking category to the sandbox, which will allow us to see any transclusions using that parameter. Frietjes (talk) 18:27, 17 October 2013 (UTC)Reply
    Ah yes, that will do the trick! TDL (talk) 19:49, 17 October 2013 (UTC)Reply
    OK, a week on and still nothing in the category so it's probably safe to assume that this isn't a server queue issue. As such, I suggest implementing the changes suggested above (as implemented in the sandbox) which eliminates the unused code. I've also named the parameters, but set the default values to the unnamed parameters so that it should be backwards compatible. TDL (talk) 22:11, 24 October 2013 (UTC)Reply
    updated the live template with a couple minor changes. Frietjes (talk) 15:17, 27 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

    Using Infobox edit

    I created a version of this template based on the Template:Infobox module. The resulting test cases can be seen here. @Docu:, @Pigsonthewing: (top contributors).--eh bien mon prince (talk) 04:55, 14 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

    Edit: I also made a more radical rewrite which is visible here.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 08:18, 14 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
    sandbox2 seems like the best version. I attempted far too many modifications to both versions to resolve a few issues (1) the orange/green should really only be there if there is a map, since it's basically a caption for the map, (2) there seems to be some spurious broken html being generated, causing some extra rows and/or borders, (3) we probably don't want the labels to be fixed at 50%. I do think that sandbox2 is better since the labels are aligned with the data, rather than using table headers far above the data. there probably could be more improvements made. for example, the current map image system requires (n × (n - 1)/2) images for n countries all with bilateral relations. if we used a blank map with overlays, this could be reduced to approximately (1 + 2 × n) images. you would have an orange and green version of each country, and simply overlay the images. Frietjes (talk) 15:45, 15 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
    I made some more changes on top of your edits, because ideally the map should fall under a different field than legend bars or the flag. About the labels, it's undesirable that they would take so much space, but they remain fixed at 50% even after labelstyle was removed.--eh bien mon prince (talk) 00:43, 16 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
    if you embed the 50% items in their own table, they won't be hooked the width of the labels. might be good to add padding-left:0.2em to the labels. however, aside from the minor quirks, sandbox2 looks like the best option. Frietjes (talk) 23:13, 17 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

    Historical flags edit

    Can someone please edit the template to enable historical flags. Pages such as Republic of Texas–United States relations would benefit from such edit where the United States uses the current 50-star flag when it has not even incorporated the former Republic of Texas as one of its states yet.Hariboneagle927 (talk) 15:54, 27 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

    Hariboneagle927, done. Frietjes (talk) 00:39, 18 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

    European Union is not the same as Europe edit

    When placing European Union as party1 in EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement it gets shortened to Europe which is quite incorrect. Could someone please fix this? --Rabenkind (talk) 06:18, 12 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

    Rabenkind, to change this you will need to modify Template:Country data European Union (see the optional shortname). Frietjes (talk) 13:28, 8 August 2017 (UTC)Reply
    Thanks for pointing this out --Rabenkind (talk) 14:26, 8 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

    Establishment of Formal relations edit

    To add more value to the infobox I suggest adding a parameter for the date of establishment of formal relations (as well as the end date for relations where one of the nations became defunct or the other nation cut diplomatic ties).Hariboneagle927 (talk) 07:30, 20 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

    And what, pray tell, are the colours to be used in the maps? edit

    It's bad that the template documentation doesn't provide any guidance on creating maps at all, but not even proving colour codes? How have people managed to use this template so far? --Paul_012 (talk) 10:18, 14 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

    I've added some instructions to the docs. --Paul_012 (talk) 10:38, 14 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

    "Filetype" parameter deprecated or not? edit

    Currently, using the filetype= parameter with this template puts pages in Category:Pages using Infobox bilateral relations with deprecated parameters (for example, see Iran–Vietnam relations), but the documentation doesn't say this use is discouraged. Is there a problem with using filetype= rather than map=? We should either update the template behavior or the documentation to match. MarginalCost (talk) 17:26, 25 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

    @Zackmann08: I see you added this code. Can you shed some light on why you flagged this parameter as deprecated? MarginalCost (talk) 18:59, 24 July 2018 (UTC)Reply

    I am requesting that the following code added in this edit be removed:

    {{main other|{{#if:{{{filetype|}}}|[[Category:Pages using Infobox bilateral relations with deprecated parameters]]}}}}

    The new code can be verified as functional at Template:Infobox bilateral relations/sandbox2

    The topic has been unresponded to on this talk page since April (see above). I have pinged the editor who added it and notified him on his talk page, but he has not been active since December. As far as I can tell the parameter works fine, and it adds over 1,000 pages to a cleanup category unnecessarily. Alternatively, if someone can explain why this parameter should be considered deprecated, I am happy to withdraw the request and update the documentation. MarginalCost (talk) 15:23, 1 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

      Question: @MarginalCost: I hear your frustration. I'm not especially familiar with this infobox, but here's what I'd like to ask you to do. (If you do this, I'll promise to try to address it quickly.)
    • I don't doubt that your sandboxed version, removing the deprecated parameters category, will work fine. So my question will go back to whether or not it is necessary/appropriate.
    • What I'd like you to do is to give me two examples of pages that you think correctly render using filetype= and two using map=, and let me just see for myself whether I think there is a problem with them. If not, I'll go ahead and make this change. Fair enough? (Remember, I'm new to the page.) StevenJ81 (talk) 21:24, 1 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
    @StevenJ81: Oh no, I hope I don't come across as frustrated! I'm not! I'm just trying to show that I've made a good faith effort to find consensus, and lay out the steps I've taken, knowing that the edit-protected reviewers like you who are new to the page would want all the steps taken laid out in one place, since the best case scenario would be to come to a talk page finding an existing consensus. (In a bureaucratic culture, documentation can sometimes be seen as a form of aggression - that's not my intention here.)
    As to your request, here are two pages with the map= parameter: China–United States relations (using .svg) & Japan–United Kingdom relations (using .png) . Here are two with the filetype= parameter: Iran–Vietnam relations & Bolivia–China relations (both using an svg extension) (bonus: Belgium–Netherlands relations uses a png filetype, even though that's the default param value and isn't necessary.).
    Thanks for your quick response! MarginalCost (talk) 21:55, 1 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

    @StevenJ81: it looks like Zackmann08 came back to Wikipedia and changed it on his own. I don't know if you're still monitoring this request, but you can consider the matter closed. MarginalCost (talk) 00:12, 28 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

    Template-protected edit request on 3 September 2018 edit

    Pursuant to the discussion at Category talk:Articles which use infobox templates with no data rows#Categorisation, I've been looking for templates which are unnecessarily populating the tracking category. It seems quite common for this template to be used with only the map and header parameters. But that case triggers the "no data rows" condition. The other parameters that populate data rows are all explicitly "optional". Since this is a common and accepted use, I want to add |decat=yes to the call to the infobox module. I've already done this at Infobox_cricket_tournament Diff/856345363 and I'm just applying the same approach to other templates as I discover them. Other examples where similar template-protected edit requests have been successfully made are at award and sports competition.

    After line 28, near the bottom, which looks like:

    | data6 = {{{envoytitle2|}}} {{{envoy2|}}}

    please add the following line:

    | decat = yes

    Thanks. — jmcgnh(talk) (contribs) 19:29, 3 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

      Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:51, 4 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

    Template-protected edit request on 29 December 2018 edit

    In header3 change Diplomatic Mission to Diplomatic mission per MOS:HEADCAPS—the headers of infoboxes should use sentence case. Kim Post (talk) 16:49, 29 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

    sure. Frietjes (talk) 17:13, 29 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

    Help edit

    Can anybody help me to improve the Finnish template fi:Malline:Kahdenväliset suhteet?--87.92.119.10 (talk) 06:59, 1 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

    Change the default format of Locator from png to svg edit

    The suggestion is like the title since svg is the recommended format.--owennsonMeeting RoomCertificates) 14:33, 28 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

    I completely agree. PNG is a bit rubbish really in terms of quality. Also, I have recently been updating a set of bilateral relations maps, and that can only be done sensibly in SVG. Hogweard (talk) 11:00, 30 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

    Envoy title wording edit

    There had been some recent changes of the wording for the envoy title to the longer form in many articles. I will put down an example on the top infobox.

    German–Japanese relations
     
     
    Germany
     
    Japan
    Diplomatic mission
    Embassy of Germany, TokyoEmbassy of Japan, Berlin
    Envoy
    German Ambassador to Japan Ina LepelJapanese Ambassador to Germany Hidenao Yanagi
    German–Japanese relations
     
     
    Germany
     
    Japan
    Diplomatic mission
    Embassy of Germany, TokyoEmbassy of Japan, Berlin
    Envoy
    Ambassador Ina LepelAmbassador Hidenao Yanagi

    I am currently reverting them back to the previous standard of just using the shorter term on the bottom example. I think it's unnecessary because the Japanese Ambassador, for example would already be on the Japanese side of the infobox. There's no need for a lengthier title in the infobox for what's already obvious. Thoughts? - Bokmanrocks01 (talk) 19:24, 8 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

    Suggestion: modify color palette on map, party1, and party2 edit

    Green and yellow imply tiers or levels. Green is "good", And yellow is "okay" or "mediocre".

    You wouldn't want to imply one party is greater or better than the other. DogeTheEditor (talk) 05:24, 19 June 2023 (UTC)Reply