Template:Election box candidate with party link/doc

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Labour	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.

This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.

TemplateData for Election box candidate with party link

A more sophisticated effect in election results tables can be achieved using this template. This adds a link to the candidate's party and also adds a color tab to the left of the candidate. See Election box begin and Election box end. See this template's page for a new party.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Party	party	The article name of the relevant party Example Labour Party (UK)	Page name	required
Candidate name	candidate	no description	String	required
Number of votes	votes	no description Example 9,999	Number	required
% vote share	percentage	no description Example 50.0	Number	required
Vote share change	change	Number of percentage points more/less than the previous election. Example +10.0	String	required

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:

1. First, go to the article about the party that you want to set up. E.g. Labour Party (UK).
2. Click on the discussion tab to get to article's talk page.
3. Click on the edit this page tab to start editing the page.
4. 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.
5. Save the page.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Put the text For Template:Election box in the Edit Summary field (otherwise someone will flag it for speedy deletion)!
9. Save the page.
10. Repeat the previous four steps for the ArticleName/meta/shortname sub-page.

Example

• Talk:Labour Party (UK)#Election box metadata
• Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color
• Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/shortname

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.

See also

1. REDIRECT Template:List of election box templates

• From a page move: This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.