Template talk:Infobox clergy

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Merge with Template:Infobox religious biography

Template:Infobox clergy and Template:Infobox religious biography are redundant with each other, since they serve the same purpose (technical clergy would be a subset of religious biography). The latter has probably more parameters than it needs, the former probably too few. The latter needs conversion to infobox person which the latter provides, while the latter needs more parameter documentation which the former has.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  07:17, 16 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Support - Though nothing is currently tagged for merging. I'm trying to figure out which one to use in article, and it makes sense to combine/merge them. - BilCat (talk) 23:07, 24 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong support - WP:INFOCOL Capankajsmilyo^{(Talk | Infobox assistance)} 09:16, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• I also support this merge, though I'm mostly curious why, four years later, they haven't been merged. I don't imagine we need a formal merge discussion. Jonesey95 or Paine Ellsworth, would you mind weighing in (or simply merging)? — HTGS (talk) 02:10, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  See the 2017 TFD exploring the above suggestion (result: do not merge) and the 2020 TFD exploring a merge with {{Infobox Christian leader}} (result: no consensus). This template has 1,170 transclusions. Christian leader has 16,287 transclusions. Religious biography has 4,589 transclusions. AFAICT, the primary objection is that the templates were too different for a merge to be feasible. In order for a merge to be successful, someone needs to modify the sandbox of at least one of these templates to show that it could work for a variety of articles in which each of these templates is used. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:00, 26 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• support how do we nominate this page for merging? איתן קרסנטי (talk) 12:25, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Citizenship

I tried to use this category, which is given in the template, but the system did not recognize it. Has it been removed? Daniel the Monk (talk)

Ecclesiastical career

I may be mistaken, but there appears to be something going on with the first line of the source that is causing certain pages (e.g. Girolamo Savonarola) to display the text "Ecclesiastical career" at the very beginning. Being unversed in all things template-wise, I was wondering if there might be some way to amend this? GalacticShoe (talk) 01:33, 11 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Infobox person has an RfC

Template:Infobox person has an RfC for possible consensus regarding the removal of color from person infoboxes. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. — Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 18:30, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]