Tɛmplet:Election box candidate with party link/doc
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Usage
[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]Party links
[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]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:
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.
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.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Party | party | The article name of the relevant party
| Page name | required |
Candidate name | candidate | no description | String | required |
Number of votes | votes | no description
| Number | required |
% vote share | percentage | no description
| Number | required |
Vote share change | change | Number of percentage points more/less than the previous election.
| String | required |
Party set up
[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]It is necessary to do some a little bit of setup for each party in the election. This involves creating an entry in Module:Political party. See the documentation for Module:Political party for details.
Microformat
[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]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
[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]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
[mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]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.