Template talk:Infobox Officeholder

Duplicate template -- Chuckhoffmann 14:51, 24 March 2012 (EDT)
This template duplicates the functionality of the Infobox officeholder template but is not a drop-in replacement for that template. I tried to swap this template to the latter on the Gerry Connolly article, but it messed up the formatting of the information. I propose we discontinue using this template and fix the formatting on the other template. How should we proceed? --Chuckhoffmann 14:51, 24 March 2012 (EDT)

Re: Duplicate template -- Joshdoe 12:46, 26 March 2012 (EDT)

 * I would agree, this template should be deprecated, as the latter is derived from Wikipedia's template and is more robust. I just updated Gerry Connolly, Sharon Bulova and John Cook to use the new template. To switch, photo becomes image, officeN becomes boardN (just name of board, no links or member/supervisor), and add chairN=yes for those that are chairs of the board. Notably the new template doesn't support different parties per office, but rather assumes a single political party (should be true in most cases).