మూస: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.

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 (eg 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 (eg red), and the shortname template will just contain the name of the party as you want it to appear on the link (eg 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. Eg 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

Election box begin

• {{Election box begin}}
• {{Election box begin no change}}
• {{Election box begin no party}}
• {{Election box begin no party no change}}
• {{Election box inline begin}}
• {{Election box inline begin no change}}
• {{Election box open primary begin no change}}
• {{Election box open primary begin no party no change}}

Election box candidate

Standard

• {{Election box candidate}}
• {{Election box candidate for alliance}}
• {{Election box candidate minor party}}
• {{Election box candidate no party link no change}}
• {{Election box candidate with party link}}
• {{Election box candidate with party link coalition 1918}} - for coalition coupon candidates in 1918 UK general election.
• {{Election box candidate with party link no change}}

Winning

• {{Election box winning candidate no change}}
• {{Election box winning candidate with party link}}
• {{Election box winning candidate with party link no change}}
• {{Election box unopposed candidate with party link}} - for races where no votes are tallied

Inline

• {{Election box inline candidate}}
• {{Election box inline candidate no change}}
• {{Election box inline candidate with party link}}
• {{Election box inline candidate with party link no change}}
• {{Election box inline incumbent}}

Election summary

For parties without an article on Wikipedia.

• {{Election summary}}
• {{Election summary begin}}
• {{Election summary party}}

Election box gain/hold/loss etc

• {{Election box gain}}
• {{Election box gain with party link}}
• {{Election box hold with party link}}
• {{Election box hold with party link no change}}
• {{Election box hold with party link no swing}}
• {{Election box void}}
• {{Election box new seat win}}
• {{Election box new boundary win}}

Election box majority

• {{Election box majority}}
• {{Election box majority no change}}
• {{Election box majority no party}}
• {{Election box majority no party no change}}
• {{Election box margin of victory}}

Election box turnout

• {{Election box turnout}}
• {{Election box turnout no change}}
• {{Election box turnout no change with votes}}
• {{Election box turnout no party}}

Election box total and related

• {{Election box total}}
• {{Election box total ballots}}
• {{Election box total no change}}
• {{Election box total no change with delegates}}
• {{Election box total no party}}
• {{Election box total no party no change}}
• {{Election box total valid}}
• {{Election box total valid no change}}
• {{Election box formal}}
• {{Election box informal}}
• {{Election box necessary no change}}
• {{Election box necessary no party no change}}
• {{Election box registered electors}}
• {{Election box rejected}}

Election box end

• {{Election box inline end}}
• {{Election box end}}
• {{Election box end 1918}} - if using {{Election box candidate with party link coalition 1918}} this is needed.
• {{End}}