Template talk:Infobox poem

What else is needed?

I saw this was already started. I think keeping it simple is the way to go... Definitely name, author, year of publication, but how about also throwing in "type" and/or "movement"? (i.e. Narrative poem, Romanticism, etc). Maybe # of lines? --Midnightdreary 03:11, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Given being read-aloud is a big part of poetry, directly supporting audio (from wikicommons) could be a good idea Back ache (talk) 08:25, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

COinS

I've added COinS metadata - please test it! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:30, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Updates

I've added an |original_title_lang= parameter; use the relevant ISO639-2 code e.g. "fr" for French, "de" for German.

I've also added an hCalendar microformat, so please use {{Start date}} for the first publication date. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:56, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Lines

The documentation has

|lines = Number of lines in the poem

but there is no parameter in the template. I think it would be useful as an option, to show a difference between Trees (poem) (12) and Der Busant (1074). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:23, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

There is now ;-) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:39, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Additional parameters and design issue

Two questions:

1. Can the template be modified to place the name and author information inside the infobox like most other infoboxes do? Perhaps one like {{Infobox musical composition}} Example 2.
2. Can we get parameters in the template for the following data:

• Written: (date or year range)
• Form: (i.e. Sonnet, Quatrain, Ode...etc)
• Meter: (i.e. iambic pentameter)
• Rhyme scheme: (i.e. abba cddc effe gg)

Thanks for your attention to this request.--ColonelHenry (talk) 12:45, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

That should all now be working; the new parameters are |subtitle=, |written=, |form=, |meter=, |rhyme=. Do you have an example, where these can be applied? What explanatory articles, if any, should the labels link to? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:25, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

• • User:Gerda Arendt and I have been debating the possibility of adding the infobox at Trees (poem) when I mentioned (at the time leaning toward opposing an infobox) that I would prefer to see these parameters to make the infobox more informative. I'll keep you posted how that turns out. Thanks for your help. --ColonelHenry (talk) 12:48, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

error

Guys, there is a wikicode formatting error on this template's page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smuckola (talk • contribs) 01:21, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

Help me

Could someone with knowledge of template documentation formatting please help repair this page which is currently unreadable in my laptop view because of the width of the right-hand box. Thanks! Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 08:07, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

@Shhhnotsoloud: Looking at {{parameter names example}} and adding a value to |isbn= got rid of the long error message. I don't know if it is quite by the book, but I hope this solved your display problems. Sam Sailor 12:06, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Wikisource parameter

Does the Wikisource parameter require the name parameter in order to work? If so, can this be explained more clearly in the template documentation? I just spent quite a while trying to fix the link in The Wild Swans at Coole (poem) before realising what it needed. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 20:43, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Oral poetry

Thinking about using this for Homeric Hymns, but doesn't quite fit at the moment. Any chance of:

• An option to change "written" to "composed" (this would be useful for e.g. Iliad too)
• Perhaps an option to change "by" to "attributed to"...?

Thanks, UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 16:41, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

• I have gone ahead and done this. Tested in several pages and I can't see that I've broken anything (in theory, if the new parameters are not used, the template behaves exactly as it did before: if they are used, as now in Homeric Hymns, it seems to work well), but please ping me if anything strange starts happening. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 15:57, 5 June 2024 (UTC)