Template talk:Infobox single

Formatting error

I notice a few articles that carry full album track listings inside the infobox now have this feature appearing either unformatted above the lead section (e.g. My Sweet Lord), or with a similarly strange cluster of codes inside the infobox (Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)). Because I happened to notice it today, I'm wondering if this change by Jc86035 might have inadvertently triggered it – but perhaps not. Does anyone know how to sort out the issue? (The articles in question look awful, obviously.) Thanks, JG66 (talk) 12:48, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

JG66, I have reverted the change for now. we could create a separate parameter for tracklistings. or, we could change all of them. but, it looks like any change needs more testing. Frietjes (talk) 13:22, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

(edit conflict)@JG66: Sorry, didn't realize there were some things used in the parameter which weren't child infoboxes.

@Frietjes: Should {{Extra track listing}} be modified to use {{Infobox}}? It could be better for accessibility to avoid nesting tables, although the edit was mostly for the headers to have the same width and that could be fixed with a padding: 0. Jc86035 (talk) Use {{re|Jc86035}}
to reply to me 13:28, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Frietjes, and no worries Jc86035. All looks good now. JG66 (talk) 13:41, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

• And another one … After this, I guess, B-side parameters containing more than just a song title carry a second set of quotation marks/inverted commas. For example: Imagine (John Lennon song), Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, Jet (song). Sorry to always be the bearer of bad news … JG66 (talk) 13:43, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
  • @JG66: I think it's fixed now, sorry about that. Jc86035 (talk) Use {{re|Jc86035}}
    to reply to me 13:56, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
    • @Jc86035: Thanks, those look good. Unfortunately, there are also examples like What Is Life … JG66 (talk) 14:12, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
      • @JG66: Not sure what the issue was, it should look fine now. If there are any others try appending ?action=purge to the URL and reloading first to see if it goes away. Jc86035 (talk) Use {{re|Jc86035}}
        to reply to me 14:33, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
        • @Jc86035: Thanks, I did that at My Sweet Lord (yes, that one again) and it solved the problem. I also noticed in some other articles that the inclusion of <br /> rather than <br> created the second set of quote marks (or allowed them to be created). Then I found that having <br> appear in the Album parameter, to knock over a long album title, also created the issue. If you follow my contribs, you'll see a couple of examples. Cheers, JG66 (talk) 15:25, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
          • • @JG66: now this edit completely screwed the template causing a massive amount of red link and texts to appear beneath the infoboxes. —IB ^{[ Poke ]} 09:03, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
              • Update: Jc86035 fixed it now. —IB ^{[ Poke ]} 09:16, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
                • Okay. I wasn't sure how it concerned me, though …?

Next/previous string errors

It looks like right now a lot of the current population of Category:Errors reported by Module String is from unusual usage of next/previous single parameter not being handled robustly. 108.56.246.15 (talk) 02:38, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

A bug

On "Love Will Tear Us Apart", which had two B-sides, quotation marks aren't appearing before the first one or after the second one; get rid of the comma between them, however, and it's fine. Esszet (talk) 20:19, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

@Jc86035: Thanks, it's fine now. Esszet (talk) 20:58, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

deprecated params

@Jc86035: can you add proper tracking to this template to track the pages that are using the deprecated parameters. I tried to but I can't figure out how to work with the subst stuff you've got going on. --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 20:38, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

@Zackmann08: If the template is being used on a page then it needs to be substituted anyway, so I don't understand why you would need to track this – all of the parameters are deprecated. Tracking could be done without leaving the category in the page, but you would have to use {{issubst}}. Jc86035 (talk) 05:04, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

@Jc86035: well that certainly simplifies matters! Lol. I didn't realize that the entire template was deprecated. You can disregard the request. :-) From the looks of it here there are just of 43,000 of them. I'll get started on converting these this weekend. Confirming they are just being replaced with {{Infobox song}}? --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 05:40, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

@Zackmann08: Yes, although TheSandDoctor's bot is supposed to be handling that (though it is currently inactive). Jc86035 (talk) 05:52, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

@TheSandDoctor: care to chime in? I don't want to duplicate your efforts. --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 05:53, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

@Zackmann08: Ah, yes. It was underway but I had deactivated it over concerns it was orphaning some song bytes. Jc86035 that was resolved as not being an issue for the bot to worry about, right? --TheSandDoctor ^Talk 06:10, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

@TheSandDoctor: I'm not sure. The table category has no more articles in it, so substitution of the remaining infoboxes should be fine, but there might be a couple of edits where child templates were unintentionally removed from {{Infobox single}}. Jc86035 (talk) 07:36, 17 November 2018 (UTC)