Template talk:Infobox NBA Player
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[edit] Example
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| Position | Shooting guard |
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| Nickname | "Air Jordan", "His Airness" |
| Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
| Weight | 216 lb (98 kg) |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Born | February 17, 1963 (age 44) Brooklyn, New York City |
| College | North Carolina |
| Draft | 3rd overall, 1984 Chicago Bulls |
| Pro career | 1984–1993, 1995–1998, 2001–2003 |
| Former teams | Chicago Bulls 1984–1993, 1995-1998 Washington Wizards 2001–2003 |
| Awards | ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year (1984) USBWA College Player of the Year(1984) Naismith College Player of the Year (1984) |
{{infobox NBA Player
| image = Michael Jordan.jpg
| name = Michael Jordan
| position = [[Shooting guard]]
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 6
| weight_lbs = 216
| nickname = "Air Jordan", "His Airness"
| nationality = USA
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|2|17}}
| birth_place = [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]]
| college = [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|North Carolina]]
| draft = 3rd overall
| draft_year = 1984
| draft_team = [[Chicago Bulls]]
| career_start = 1984–1993, 1995–1998, 2001
| career_end = 2003
| former_teams = [[Chicago Bulls]] 1984–1993, 1995-1998<br>[[Washington Wizards]] 2001–2003
| awards = [[ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year]] (1984)<br/>[[USBWA College Player of the Year]](1984)<br>
[[Naismith College Player of the Year]] (1984)<br/> [[John R. Wooden Award]] (1984)<br/>
[[Adolph Rupp Trophy]] (1984)<br/> [[NBA Rookie of the Year Award|NBA Rookie of the Year]] (1985)<br/>
[[NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award|NBA Defensive Player of the Year]] (1988)<br/> [[NBA MVP]] (1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, 1998)<br/>
[[NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award|NBA Finals MVP]] (1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998)<br/>
[[NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team]] (1997)<br/>
2000 [[ESPY]] Athlete of the Century<br/>
2000 ESPY Male Athlete Decade Award (1990's)<br/>
2000 ESPY Pro Basketballer Decade Award (1990's)<br/>
2000 ESPY Play of the Decade (for his right to left-handed scoop shot against Lakers in the 1991 Finals)
}}
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[edit] Overview
This template in intended to create an infobox suitable for all NBA players. It is similar in style to Template:Infobox University2 and Template:Infobox Company on purpose. I believe that previous infoboxes were either too cluttered with too much information or were not aesthetically pleasing. I also believe that WP will benefit from having minimal structural and stylistic uniformity across articles of the same subject and across all articles in general. --gurulegend 02:53, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pages that link here
Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Infobox_NBA_Player
[edit] Height and Weight
Downwards, please stop reverting the template back to old style height and weight. We're trying to use template:height and template:weight to bring nice automated unit conversion to the infobox.
- To accomodate pages that have simple heights and weights, I've made the template accept either {{height}} and {{weight}} or {{height_ft}}, {{height_in}}, and {{weight_lb}}. --gurulegend 02:00, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Former teams
Hello. Currently, when the "Former teams" parameter is set, a label of "Teams" appears on the displayed Infobox, instead of "Former teams." It seems that this should be changed so that "Former teams" is displayed in the Infobox. I wanted to discuss here, first, though, to see if others objected, find out what would break if this was changed, etc. Lbbzman 23:06, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
- Lbbzman, I had it as "Former teams", but changed it because I was really thinking about retired players. "Former teams" will work for them (e.g. Jordan's former teams were the bulls and wizards, they are not his teams now). I don't really know what I was thinking, but I'm down for "Former teams." --gurulegend 01:53, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image Sizes
This conversation is from my talk page. I've added it here because I think it is pertinent. --gurulegend 01:52, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
I see you've added the unit calculators to the template. I've given it a bit of an overhaul, including converting to m:ParserFunctions, which have obsoleted both {{qif}} and HiddenStructure. Unfortunately, attempting to mix wikitable code and parser functions gets rather confusing due to unintended interpretation of the pipe character "|" so I converted it to straight html, and it should work exactly the same as before, with one non-trivial change to the image syntax. This is partly to prevent certain different articles from having drastically different image sizes. The image on the LeBron article was previously 364 pixels tall, but I changed it so that the sizing of all the images is controlled within the template itself. If necessary though, it would still be possible to create a parameter for overriding the default size specification, by changing:
- ...|200x250px|...]] to
- ...|{{{image_size|200x250px}}}|...]]
But I don't see any immediate need to add that feature. Let me know if you disagree. By the way, in case you didn't know, specifying two dimensions (instead of just the width) for an image's size will force it to scale down to fit within an imaginary box. This is helpful to prevent disproportionately tall infobox images from dominating the entire right side of the screen. — Jun. 5, '06 [09:56] <freak|talk>
- Nice. I think as long as all images seem to appear with decent dimensions and proportions, the template will be great. --gurulegend 20:14, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Multiple Nationalities
This conversation is from my talk page. I've added it here because I think it is pertinent. --gurulegend 01:52, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Another question regarding the infobox, since the nationality/flag template has been added, is how best to handle cases like Shawn Bradley, who has dual citizenship in both Germany and the United States, perhaps an optional nationality_2 parameter and show two flags on separate rows? Which do you think looks better:
| Nationality |  Germany United States |
|---|---|
| or... | |
| Nationality | / Germany/United States |
— Jun. 5, '06 [22:14] <freak|talk>
- I think two rows looks better. Don't want those boxes getting too wide. --gurulegend 01:44, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org../../../s/h/a/Shawn_Bradley_8b58.html Not bad, then? — Jun. 6, '06 [02:32] <freak|talk>
[edit] Can I rip this off?
To Template:Infobox PBA player? (PBA=Philippine Basketball Association)
Nice work, btw. --Howard the Duck 07:28, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
- Yes.
- --gurulegend 01:41, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pro career
(Almost) all foreign players were already professional before arriving to the NBA, what is the Pro career intended for? NBA or overall? I've seen it used mostly for NBA carerr, but if so, the caption should be changed to reflect that. See for instance Carlos Delfino Mariano(t/c) 07:30, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- I read it to be the latter, so I have changed the information in Tony Parker to reflect that. ¿ςפקιДИτς! ☺ ☻ 03:29, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] NBA Records
Several other pro sports infoboxes have a spot for records. Thoughts? - Raetzsch 14:19, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
- We could add records, but we can't let the box get too large. I think adding an optional parameter for records would be ok. --gurulegend 01:44, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Template flagcountry2 instead of flagcountry
I've changed the template to use the new template:flagcountry2. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Flag Template/January 2007 rework. --Ligulem 13:11, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
- And switched back to Template:Flagcountry again now that they are identical and flagcountry2 will be deprecated. Andrwsc 16:46, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
