Template talk:Infobox website

"Type of business" link is a redirect

to List of legal entity types by country. Please revise the link! Gibranalnn (talk) 14:12, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

 Done. IceWelder [✉] 14:38, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 17 July 2023

Remove "on" from label46;

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[[Computing platform|Native client(s) on]]

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[[Computing platform|Native client(s)]]

I noticed a case on Threads_(social_network) where "on" is actually below "native client(s)" due to the infobox size, and it was rather jarring to me. Deauthorized. ^(talk) 05:08, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

 Not done. The infobox on that page wraps "client(s)" to the next line for me. Text wrapping depends on your browser font size preference and font choices, Wikipedia skin preference, and other factors. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:26, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

Add date-closed parameter

I'm going to do a repeat of @Verbcatcher's seemingly overlooked 2019 request for a parameter to complement launch_date (aka. date_of_launch), to represent the end date of a website. That is, the point in time at which the website stopped being online, or otherwise available to use, if this is known. This is not the same as the date of dissolution of the company – though they may be the same.

The main issue right now is that it isn't clear to a writer where in the infobox to put this information. Here are some examples picked at random:

• Justin.tv, Snip.it, Nupedia, Server.com use dissolved (which actually pairs founded, and refers to the company behind the website);
• MyDaughter, Pathfinder (website), Adequacy.org, Fabchannel.com use current_status (which, from my understanding, shouldn't contain a date);
• Google Lively, TwitPic, goatse.cx, Broadcast.com, MyCoke don't even have the information in the infobox.

There should be a clear-cut, single-purpose parameter – just like launch_date – representing this information. The name itself could be bikeshed. I personally like discontinued (maybe + _date), but there's lots of options: date_closed, close_date, date_of_closure, defunct (+ _date), [...]. I'm not super knowledgeable on this, but there's likely other templates with similar concepts whose parameter names Infobox Webiste could mimick.

"Doesn't current_status cover this use case?", you might ask. In my opinion, not exactly. Take Google Answers, for example. It has been read-only since 2006, but it's still online. The infobox currently reads "Current status: Online, and read only since December 2006". It could instead read something like: "Discontinued: December 2006 (N years ago)" and "Current status: Read-only". That is, instead of relying on current_status for both closure date and status, leave it communicating only the actual status of the website (closed, but still readable), and separate the date to a field of its own.

Hopefully this gets some traction this time! Cheers — Avelludo (Talk / Contribs / Log) 19:50, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Had a need for this just now for Elephind, which shut down recently. I opted to use dissolved, but it's not quite correct, because Elephind was a project by Veridian Software, and that company hasn't dissolved. The parameter itself wikilinks to "Dissolution (law)", which specifies it refers to a legal process – and there was no legal process, the website was just shut down. Am I being too nitpicky? Is this unreasonable or controversial? — Avelludo (Talk / Contribs / Log) 04:14, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Kinda surprised at the lack of attention this has gotten, but yeah I agree, having only a legal dissolution option and not just a regular date closed/shut down option is way too limiting. Ringtail Raider (talk) 05:59, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

• Support. For the reasons cited above. Came across the Yahoo Photos article and had to go into the body of the article to find out when it was shut down and, from there, calculate for how long it was active.

Dennis C. Abrams (talk) 17:30, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 16 November 2023

I am trying to merge the two infoboxes on Twitch (service) by making the {{Infobox network service provider}} a child of the {{Infobox website}} per WP:IEmbed. Many infobox templates support this via the "module" parameter, but {{Infobox website}} does not. I propose the following change:

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| data99 = {{{module|}}}

(as well as adding "module" to the unknown parameter check) DefaultFree (talk) 04:54, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

To provide an example of what I'm asking for - Special:Diff/1185356326 is me making the equivalent change to {{Infobox telecommunications network}}, which wasn't template-protected. Special:Diff/1185356386 is an example of how I would use the new "module" parameter after such a change. DefaultFree (talk) 21:49, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Added to the template. Kind regards, IceWelder [✉] 21:58, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 14 February 2024

Could the |former_name= parameter be added to this template? When I used the footnote to update the infobox at Comic Book Resources (to highlight the name change that occurred in 2016), another editor flagged it as "highly unconventional" and suggested that the addition of "former name" to the template would be better. Sariel Xilo (talk) 19:03, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

In progress: An editor is implementing the requested edit. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:40, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

@Sariel Xilo  Done, although that example is a weird one because the former name is the current article title. --Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 21:58, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Yeah. It has been through a few rounds of "no consensus" discussion on move/rename (most recently a few months ago & then a new discussion started today). I wanted the infobox to be clearer since the infobox name didn't match article title name. Thanks for your help! Sariel Xilo (talk) 22:04, 14 February 2024 (UTC)