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Template-protected edit request on 22 July 2023

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Could language fields be supported in some form? An editor (Nederlandse Leeuw) attempted to document official languages of Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo but used a workaround (entered it in a deputy field) that doesn't look or work great. Thank you! –Vipz (talk) 01:59, 22 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, please! I tried all sorts of things, and eventually I had to come up with this imperfect workaround in order to state languages in the infobox. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 06:11, 22 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please make your requested changes to the template's sandbox first; see WP:TESTCASES. Izno (talk) 01:02, 26 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request 23 December 2023

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Description of suggested change: The "History" section of this template seems to sometimes appear twice - see Province of Catania and Template:Infobox former subdivision/testcases. Could someone please fix the template so it doesn't do this? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 04:48, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done The duplicate (or alternate) History section appears to be present in a couple hundred pages. The parameters that create it do not appear to be documented. I suppressed it with an #if statement if none of the parameters are populated, and it worked on the testcases page and in a couple of pages that I checked. Please ping me with any error reports. – Jonesey95 (talk) 01:38, 24 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Populations and missing thousands separator

Due to this edit, there are at least 233 articles without thousands separators. 89.166.104.253 (talk) 12:36, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Should be sorted now. Thanks. Primefac (talk) 12:49, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Date formatting issue

This (via parameters like |year_start=1741 |year_end=1867 |date_start=July 15 |date_end=October 18) is outputting dates in non-standard (not-MOS:DATE-permissible) format, as July 15 1741 and October 18 1867 – as seen at Russian colonization of North America.

By default, it should be doing 18 October 1867 (dmy being the more common format, site-wide). With some parameter switch like |date_format=mdy or |mdy=yes, it should output US-format dates as October 18, 1867. But October 18 1867 isn't a thing. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 21:44, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done, and added a |dmy= param to match. Primefac (talk) 12:42, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]