Template talk:Wikipediainfo

Suggested rewording

We should avoid promoting people to go to another website whenever possible. Links to Wikipedia articles on certain topics within articles isn't a problem, but I feel the wording used for this template makes it seem as if Wikipedia is somehow superior which does this wiki a disservice. I'd like to suggest the following wording. Feel free to suggest others (or to dispute this suggested change altogether).

"Additional information about SUBJECT can be found on Wikipedia."

23skidoo 13:15, December 16, 2009 (UTC)

That seems fine. --Tangerineduel 16:40, December 16, 2009 (UTC)

Just me?

At present this template isn't showing up at all on pages it's embedded on for me in the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Lynx, or Internet Explorer. Rob T Firefly 19:31, April 27, 2011 (UTC)

I'm seeing it fine, but it seems such disappearances are common place. It should reappear shortly.----Skittles the hog--Talk 20:07, April 27, 2011 (UTC)

I discovered the problem; it's not that it wasn't showing, it was that on the 1024px screen width I use the main text column fills the entire usable screen area, leaving the Wikipedia tag outside the screen's left border and unviewable. I've confirmed this on another computer as well as with this screen-width testing tool. It seems the tag in its present form is unviewable to those with smaller screens. Rob T Firefly 03:58, May 14, 2011 (UTC)

Please follow this discussion continued at Forum:Wikipediainfo tag seems to be broken.
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 15:48:48 Mon 27 Jun 2011 

Darwin Update?

Possibly in preparation for the Darwin release, Wikia seems to have change an important aspect of the page layout; the content div now uses "overflow-x:hidden;", which is now causing anything that displays on the side of the page to disappear. I'm not sure how the wiki wishes to fix this (since there is no simple way to say "ignore 'hidden' for this one element"), but I wished to point it out. ☙Fewfre​☎ 🔎 K​✞​16:56 Tue, 08 Oct 2013

Usage when the topic exists both in and out of universe

So, the purpose of {{Wikipediainfo}} is to provide a link to the Wikipedia page from an in-universe Tardis Wiki page, but should {{Wikipediainfo}} be added to an in-universe page if an equivalent out of universe page exists?

For example, take Paul Magrs (Bafflement and Devotion) - does the page require {{Wikipediainfo}}, seeing as there is already an out-of-universe Paul Magrs page?

Epsilon 📯 📂

17:30, November 10, 2020 (UTC)

Good question. I'd argue that it should not be used in that case, as we'd prefer to direct users to our own version of the page. This is consistent with policy, at least implicitly:

It is not a substitute for writing an article of our own. We certainly don't want to link to wikipedia:The Dalek Invasion of Earth or wikipedia:Verity Lambert, and thereby lose our readers to wikipedia just because we haven't yet written our article as completely as we could.

Danochy ☎ 09:13, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

I feel it shouldn't be used but instead a different template be created for this scenario. There are enough of them to make it worth it. Bongo50 (aka Bongolium500) ☎ 16:56, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Doesn't {{you may}} fulfill this purpose however?

Epsilon📯 📂

17:23, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

User:Danochy has the right answer. Shambala108 ☎ 17:39, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

In response to Epsilon the Eternal, I was thinking in the same type of style as {{wikipediainfo}} and {{stub}}. Bongo50 (aka Bongolium500) ☎ 18:12, 12 June 2021 (UTC)