Plantilla discusión:Infobox company

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Move "fate" field down a bit?

Although possibly caused by the infobox in question not using some of the earlier fields, this seems a bit odd. Surely "Fate" out to come after "Founded" and "Founder" (not necessarily directly after). FDW777 (talk) 08:10, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

The field has been as high up since it was added in 2008, though I agree its position overall makes little sense. Would you say that just below the defunct date would be a good position? IceWelder [✉] 10:42, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

I'd say that's definitely more sensible than the current location. Looking at the infobox I mentioned "Successor" might need to be moved as well. FDW777 (talk) 12:52, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

New implementation

Not sure about the initial discussion where this was "decided", but I would like to discuss the recent update of this template by IceWelder; nearly every changed parameter has been given priority to WikiData, ignoring any manually-input values in articles. While I have no serious opposition to using WD for some fields, I find it problematic that manually-input values are being ignored/overruled by WD calls. Primefac (talk) 12:03, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Primefac, are you sure that's the case? All instances of Module:WikidataIB use the second unnamed parameter, which is defined as:

A locally supplied value that, if it is not empty, will be returned in preference to the value on Wikidata.

Could you given an example where the new infobox behaviour has produced the issue you are describing? The changes were previously tested and discussed above at "Driggs-Seabury and Wikidata auto-population". IceWelder [✉] 12:22, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

The added content should be sourced; currently the default is for it not to be sourced. Nikkimaria (talk) 12:47, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Nikkimaria, that should be fixed now. Regards, IceWelder [✉] 13:01, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

My apologies, I completely misread the piping on the invocation and thought it was taking WikiData then the supplied parameter if it didn't exist. Primefac (talk) 16:02, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Currency should match the location/language of the user, not the hq of the company

Can we please set the currencies of financial values in Infobox_Company to reflect the location of the user, rather than the location of the headquarters of the company?

For example, a user logged on with an IP address in France viewing the page of a company headquartered in the US should see that company's financials listed in Euros, while a viewer with an IP address in the US should see the financials of a company with headquarters in France listed in $USD.

If that's not possible, then a single click (or hover) currency-converter option is needed.

The current format is highly inaccessible, and of very limited value, except where the user happens to be in the same country as the headquarters of the company they're looking up, or just happens to be very familiar with that currency.

Listing all financials in the currency of the business's host country makes zero sense if the goal of this infobox is to make the most important and accurate info most accessible to the greatest number of people. It also makes it very difficult for users to compare companies across the globe.

Forcing users to copy paste individual values into a currency converter for each value and for each company they might be looking up is such a cumbersome obstacle, most users will simply ignore all of this info and seek it elsewhere.

Multiple Headquarters Locations

How should a defunct company with multiple headquarters be listed? Should it be the most prominent or notable location? Should it be the last location before the company shut down? Or is there a way to list multiple headquarters locations?

For example, the Helio Aircraft Company was apparently founded in Canton, Massachusetts, then moved to Pittsburg, Kansas, and later to Tucson, Arizona. The first location would be covered by noting it in the founded parameter, but that would still leave two other locations. –Noha307 (talk) 02:45, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Listing just the last is the most common variant, since the first location is listed alongside the founding date. If you feel like adding all headquarters, use just |hq_location= and list them and their timespans using {{Unbulleted list}}. IceWelder [✉] 11:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Trade union

Trade union field could be added.

For example infobox company for Alphabet Inc. would have a labor union field that links to Alphabet Workers Union. 83.57.9.197 (talk) 01:07, 15 January 2021 (UTC)