Template talk:Battalion

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Further context and discussion for this template is in a commentable doc at towards modelling information about World War One Battalions --Mia (talk) 11:27, 4 November 2014 (PST)

Are Date mobilised, Date demobilisation started, Date demobilisation ended too much detail for these infoboxes, even as very, very optional fields? It's not already in Wikipedia so it's not duplicating anything, but the gist of 'where someone's unit' was may be conveyed by 'theatres' over time, but does that assume too much knowledge about what not being in a theatre meant? --Mia (talk) 11:22, 4 November 2014 (PST)

I've got infoboxes imported from Wikipedia but Lua (used for the extension that serves them) is throwing errors. Once that's sorted I need to tweak the format of the infoboxes e.g. http://collaborativecollections.org/WorldWarOne/index.php?title=Template:Infobox_military_unit --Mia (talk) 02:36, 5 November 2014 (PST)

Similarly, does adding a 'Source' or 'evidence' field for e.g. theatre, hierarchy changes just clutter up the infobox? Or is there an advantage to having that as structured data? --Mia (talk) 11:27, 4 November 2014 (PST)

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