Template talk:Userbox

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We need to look at a way to try and fix the text going over the other box on this template

Was using this template intentional to avoid using Userboxes (those on Wikipedia) here? Shouldn't we be using Template : Infobox person for this template. I'm just citing from Wikipedia's format. I'm not sure whether we use the same semantics as Wikipedia, but I feel that this template belongs to Template : Infobox person than Template : Userbox. I accidentally stumbled across this template as I was trying to port out some userboxes from Wikipedia to use here on my user page. An advanced search for users who use the Template : Userbox was just 5 (excluding my user page). We could move this template to Template : Infobox person and then migrate the few user pages to the new template so that we could accommodate the Userbox template (from Wikipedia). I'm one person who'd like to port some userboxes over from Wikipedia. What do you think?
~ Shine Nelson (talk) 08:21, 1 May 2017 (PDT)

Nevermind. I figured that we don't have the lua or the userbox module enabled. I don't think my above suggestion holds valid anymore. Though we cannot really enable the userbox module, we could still consider moving the template over to Template : Infobox person so that it bears some resemblance with the Wikipedia semantics for those who are already familiar with the semantics of Wikipedia. The first thing I did when I started writing my user page was to look for Template : Infobox or some variant of it. I feel it would make sense to follow the semantics from Wikipedia. (But that's just my opinion)

~ Shine Nelson (talk) 08:41, 1 May 2017 (PDT)