ᱪᱷᱟᱸᱪ:Election box candidate with party link

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Usage

Party links

A more sophisticated effect can be achieved using Template:Election box candidate with party link. This adds a link to the candidate's party and also adds a color tab to the left of the candidate. For example:

For example:


 {{Election box begin | title=[[United Kingdom general election, 2005|General Election 2005]]: Strangford}}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party      = Labour Party (UK)
   |candidate  = Tony Blair
   |votes      = 9,999
   |percentage = 50.0
   |change     = +10.0
 }}
 {{Election box candidate with party link|
   |party      = Conservative Party (UK)
   |candidate  = Michael Howard
   |votes      = 9,999
   |percentage = 50.0
   |change     = +10.0
 }}
 {{Election box end}}

Will create this:

General Election 2005: Strangford
ᱨᱟᱡᱽ ᱟᱹᱨᱤ ᱫᱚᱞ		ᱠᱮᱱᱰᱤᱰᱮᱴ	ᱵᱷᱚᱴ	%	±%
	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Political party/L' not found.	Tony Blair	9,999	50.0	+10.0
	Conservative	Michael Howard	9,999	50.0	+10.0

However, this does rely on some additional setup for each party. See below for more details.

Party set up

It is necessary to do some a little bit of setup for each party in the election. This involves creating two simple templates for the article that you will be linking to (e.g. Labour Party (UK)). These contain the identifying color of the party and the short name that will be used as the link caption (as the full Wikipedia page name will probably not be suitable).

The two templates that you will need to create are:

Template:ArticleName/meta/color
Template:ArticleName/meta/shortname

The color template will just contain the party's identifying color (e.g. red), and the shortname template will just contain the name of the party as you want it to appear on the link (e.g. Labour).

You should also add something to the main article's talk page to indicate that these two templates exist. There is a template Template:Election box metadata that can be used to do this.

Step by step instructions

Following are some easy step-by-step instructions for adding the two sub-pages:

First, go to the article about the party that you want to set up. E.g. Labour Party (UK).
Click on the discussion tab to get to article's talk page.
Click on the edit this page tab to start editing the page.
Add the text {{Election box metadata}} somewhere on the page. This will create a section on the page that provides links to the meta pages, however they don't exist yet.
Save the page.
Click on the red link to the page ArticleName/meta/color. As this page does not yet exist, this will take you directly to the page creation screen.
Enter just the identifying color of the party. This can be a color name, such as red or an RGB code such as #FF0000. If you use an RGB code you will need to type it as <nowiki>#FF0000</nowiki> otherwise it will be treated as a list element.
Put the text For Template:Election box in the Edit Summary field (otherwise someone will flag it for speedy deletion)!
Save the page.
Repeat the previous four steps for the ArticleName/meta/shortname sub-page.

Example

Microformat

The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia or via a browser tool operated by a reader, to (for example) add the subject to an address book or database. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

Sub-templates

Date-of-birth ("bday") information will only be included in the microformat if {{birth date}}, or {{birth date and age}} are used in the infobox. (Do not use these if the date is before 1583). Be cautious about using these if the person is still living, per WP:DOB.

To include a URL, use {{URL}}.

Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.

Classes

hCard uses HTML classes including:

adr
agent
bday
birthplace
category
country-name
deathdate
deathplace
extended-address
family-name
fn (required)
given-name
honorific-prefix
honorific-suffix
label
locality
n
nickname
note
org
role
url
vcard

Please do not rename or remove these classes nor collapse nested elements which use them.