Template:Locationbox/doc

A general geographical infobox for continents, kingdoms, regions, settlements, structures, ruins, and natural features. Every field is optional. Empty fields produce no row. There are no MMO level ranges or PvP flags.

Usage

{{Locationbox
| name =
| image =
| caption =
| faction =
| fname =
| type =
| parent =
| location =
| affiliation =
| faffiliation =
| government =
| ruler =
| fruler =
| capital =
| fcapital =
| major =
| minor =
| population =
| fpopulation =
| races =
| languages =
| faiths =
| terrain =
| climate =
| waterways =
| resources =
| garrison =
| access =
| status =
| source =
}}

Parameters

Use plain text or manually written Page / label links in descriptive fields. Only parent is automatically linked. To display multiple entries, use commas or
. If a value needs a literal pipe outside a link or template, use |.

Parameter	Cargo field	Meaning
name	Name	Display name; omitted or empty values fall back to the page name.
image	Image	Uploaded filename only, without File: or image markup; displayed at 200px.
caption	Caption	Optional image caption; shown only when an image is supplied.
faction	Faction	Header icon key for Template:FactionIcon: alliance, horde, ashen, guardians, neutral, combat, scourge, burning. This is separate from political affiliation.
fname	Former_name	Earlier names; qualify names with dates where useful.
type	Type	Type.
parent	Parent	One exact wiki page title, without [[ ]] or a display label. Automatically linked in the infobox and stored as a Cargo Page. This is the immediate geographical parent, not a full ancestry chain.
location	Location	Free-form geographical description with manually written links; may mention several surrounding areas.
affiliation	Affiliation	Affiliation(s).
faffiliation	Former_affiliation	Former affiliation(s).
government	Government	Government.
ruler	Ruler	Ruler(s).
fruler	Former_ruler	Former ruler(s).
capital	Capital	Capital(s).
fcapital	Former_capital	Former capital(s).
major	Major_settlements	Major settlements contained within the location.
minor	Minor_settlements	Minor settlements contained within the location.
population	Population	Text, not an integer: supports estimates, dates, ranges, or uncertainty.
fpopulation	Former_population	Earlier population estimates with their associated dates.
races	Races	Race(s).
languages	Languages	Language(s).
faiths	Faiths	Faith(s).
terrain	Terrain	Terrain.
climate	Climate	Climate.
waterways	Waterways	Waterway(s).
resources	Resources	Resources.
garrison	Garrison	Forces stationed locally, including numbers and commanders where known.
access	Access	Roads, passes, sea routes, gates, or other means of reaching the location.
status	Status	Status.
source	Source	Source references; use <ref> tags or concise citations as appropriate. Add to the article when needed.
nocargo	—	Set to yes on demonstrations or tests to suppress Cargo storage and automatic Locations categorisation. Not an article data field.

Hierarchy

Use an immediate geographical parent consistently. A village can have a forest as its parent, and that forest can have a kingdom as its parent. Administrative allegiance belongs in affiliation. Cargo stores the parent as a page title, allowing queries to find directly contained locations; recursive descendants are not automatically calculated.

Cargo

The template declares and stores data in Locations. Fields use underscores where their labels contain spaces. Linked descriptive fields use Wikitext string; longer source, access, garrison, historical-population, and caption fields use Wikitext. Wikitext string fields default to 300 characters in Cargo; keep these infobox summaries short. The Parent field is Page and Image is File.

Storage and automatic Locations categorisation occur only in the main namespace. Use one Locationbox per location article. Documentation, user sandboxes, and template test pages do not add records. The declaration is included in Template:Locationbox itself; do not install it as a second declaring template.

Styling

Template:Locationbox/styles.css controls the 20em table. It follows Template:npcbox: a right-floated continuous HTML table with conditional rows, a faction icon beside the name, and optional image.