Template talk:Infobox church

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Template-protected edit request on 23 March 2025

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The following suggestions listed in the talk page for several years and have not had any opposing opinions:

Change the Presbyterian sections to “Reformed” and add the following: Presbyterian Church in Canada United Church of Christ Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Conservative Congregational

Add in the Lutheran Section: Church of the Faroe Islands Church of Ingria Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lithuania Bluealbion (talk) 17:30, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please make your required changes to Template:Infobox church/font color/sandbox — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:14, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Restoration Movement denomination and font color

Hi! Is anyone else here interested in how the Restoration Movement may be implemented as its own category under "Religious Affiliation" with its own denominational background and font color? OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 10:13, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pushpin marker

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Hi, please add these two lines

|mark = {{#if: {{{pushpin_mark|}}} | {{{pushpin_mark}}} | Set01-church.svg }}
|marksize = {{#if: {{{pushpin_marksize|}}} | {{{pushpin_marksize}}} | 22 }}

for "image2" and "Location map" template to show for pushpin map. Sandboxed here and tested successfully for Westminster Abbey. Thanks, Hooman Mallahzadeh (talk) 15:57, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Question: Is there a convention for using custom marks for locations in pushpin maps? I can't find anything about it beyond Wikipedia:Pushpin maps and c:Location markers, the latter of which only gives default color variants and triangles for mountains. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 14:58, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, another example is Template:Infobox airport. In my opinion, using such icons is very helpful because it makes pushpin maps more illustrative. Even though I can't find any guideline, we can add some instructions to encourage using such pushpin-markers for pushpin-maps of all infoboxes. Hooman Mallahzadeh (talk) 15:58, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Chaotic Enby I really think that using such markers makes maps more illustrative, the same as Template:Infobox Airport, and we should gradually apply that for all infoboxes. Hooman Mallahzadeh (talk) 14:47, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! While I'm absolutely not against it, it would probably require a broader level of consensus, as this would be a large-scale visual change. I'll drop a note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Infoboxes. Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 14:53, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]