Template talk:Infobox basketball biography

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Discussion at WT:NBA § Player article style changes

 You are invited to join the discussion at WT:NBA § Player article style changes. Left guide (talk) 21:45, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Some changes I'd like to see here:

• High school: This is currently hardcoded as High school name <linebreak> Location. I'd rather see this embedded as template parameters.
• College: I'd rather see this as pro teams having listed in sequence. In the era of NIL and the transfer portal, you'd see more players transfer colleges.
• National teams: Unless a player won a medal with a national team, the infobox skips this part. As per WP:INFOBOXPURPOSE, "The purpose of an infobox is to summarize, but not supplant, the key facts that appear in an article." National team participation is often a separate section altogether on biographies. This should be treated as pro teams, with participation from under-x teams up to the senior ones, just like soccer infoboxes.

Howard the Duck (talk) 11:39, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Citizenship parameter missing

Per MOS:INFONAT, we should not be using "nationality" in biographical infoboxes, and this template even states that the nationality parameter is deprecated. However, there's not yet a citizenship parameter, which needs to be added for pages like Hakeem Olajuwon, because right now it violates MOS:INFONAT with no remedy. AG202 (talk) 16:24, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The soccer infobox doesn't have a natioanlity/citizenship parameter. It has place of birth, and if the player played in national team, that's how you'd know... Howard the Duck (talk) 18:34, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn’t violate WP:INFONAT since one of the provisions at that guideline is “ Citizenship or nationality can be noted if dual, naturalized, or an exception to the typical case.” Olajuwon has dual nationality Rikster2 (talk) 01:20, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Rikster2: It does say that, but it lists that under "A |citizenship= field can be used, with the following guidelines:" (emphasis mine) right after saying, "In biographies, a |nationality= field should not be used." (emphasis mine). So yes, this template is violating MOS:INFONAT considering that it forces a nationality param without a citizenship param. AG202 (talk) 18:23, 8 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Image size parameter depreciation

Fixed image sizes are discouraged per Module:InfoboxImage, citing WP:IMAGESIZE as the policy. Images will now be automatically displayed at the same width as the infobox; if they must be resized (ideally they should be cropped) then |upright= can be used with values less than 1 (such as .75) like other image templates. — Dissident93 ^(talk) 21:41, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

PBA draft

Can this be edited so that it appears like the NBA draft? Howard the Duck (talk) 13:52, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

How do the appearances differ? —Bagumba (talk) 14:36, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Like the PBA draft has the old version of the NBA draft where the team is on separate row center aligned. The NBA draft has the label to the left. Howard the Duck (talk) 14:55, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Its implemented now. Should there only be one draft parameter? — Dissident93 ^(talk) 19:33, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In theory, one could set |draft_league=PBA and use the general draft parameters, but any PBA specific logic from the legacy PBA parameters would need to be merged. —Bagumba (talk) 20:09, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. The PBA draft articles have had a change in name since the pandemic. I dunno if that is reflected here. Howard the Duck (talk) 20:57, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at Justine Baltazar, which uses the PBA-specific parameters, even that goes to 2024 PBA draft, which is a redirect to the actual draft page title. —Bagumba (talk) 21:23, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose it being a redirect should not be an issue? Howard the Duck (talk) 11:42, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Dissident93: The change will need adjusting as {{{draft_team_pba}}} presently appears by default in all basketball infoboxes. CalDoesIt (talk) 21:32, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reverted It was showing up at Template:Infobox basketball biography/testcases too. —Bagumba (talk) 23:17, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]