Template talk:Centurybox

Can someone fix this template for the 20th century. It should fall in the 2nd millennium. Same for 10th century. Thanks.--211.31.67.209 06:27, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done.Jɪmp 20:47, 4 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• This template can now handle BC as well as AD thus making {{Centurybox BC}} redundant. Hence I've proposed the deletion of the latter. {{CenturyBCbox}} already was redundant, I've proposed the deletionof this too.
• The new version also doesn't need any parameter. I have removed the parameters from the template as it appears on century pages.

Jɪmp 16:45, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• 20th Century

Is there space in this box to have "nth century in" - I've just been working on 1st, 2nd and 3rd century in Roman Britain articles and there's not much that links to them at the moment. -- role^player 21:32, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The new version is based on totally new (hopfully more transparent) subtemplates, although the resulting appearance should be almost unchanged. We now have: the 00s decades correctly linked (following the recent moves); no linking of decades when they just redirect back to the century; and no categories on future centuries. It does, however, require a parameter (e.g. 5 for the 5th century AD, -5 for the 5th century BC).--Kotniski (talk) 13:50, 8 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't the century box have a v d e link like almost every other template? --BozMo talk 20:14, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

requires adding {{tnavbar|C21YearInTopic|mini=1}} without the nowiki I think --BozMo talk 20:16, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I dunno, the century box uses rather complex code and subtemplates; it isn't just fixed text. It's not the sort of template you can just open and edit like ordinary navboxes.--Kotniski (talk) 09:43, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. But the idea of the v d e is to get people involved in the project. If we need to defend it we can do it downstream? This is the argument always used in "the encyclopaedia anyone can edit" bit...--BozMo talk 21:23, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

After various mass renames at WP:CFD, the format for categories is now Category:2nd-century births rather than Category:2nd century births (and the same for deaths etc). Can someone add some "-"s into the template? Bencherlite^Talk 11:09, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have the BC categories been changed?--Kotniski (talk) 12:09, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

By the looks of it, yes. Bencherlite^Talk 12:53, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Those BC categories look strange (shouldn't it be "2nd-century-BC births"?) Anyway, I've changed the template to use the hyphens. (The changes won't show up on pages immediately, only after they've been purged from the cache.)--Kotniski (talk) 13:45, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The MOS provides,

• Integers from zero to nine are spelled out in words
• Integers greater than nine expressible in one or two words may be expressed either in numerals or in words (16 or sixteen, 84 or eighty-four, 200 or two hundred).

This template aids and abets violations of these rules, and propagates them throughout Wikipedia.

I don't understand the functioning of templates, so I'm scared to revise this one myself, but it should definitely be revised to use words in place of figures, at least for the first through the ninth centuries and millennia. J. D. Crutchfield | Talk 21:40, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]