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New format

For consistency, I would prefer the layout to be consistent with the box scores listed on the NFL, college football and other American football articles – and use this for those articles as well. The articles on this sport evolved independently than, for example, the ice hockey and association football articles. Zzyzx11 (talk) 02:19, 3 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Now that I have changed the formatting to be similar to what is currently on those American football articles, I'm now implementing them on the other articles. And like any other template, this allows us to have a standard layout that can be changed from a central location in the future. Zzyzx11 (talk) 05:58, 19 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, my long term goal would be to have this template be a cross between the Template:Football box/Template:IceHockeybox-style and the first version of Template:Infobox NCAA football single game [1] before a TFD forced it to be redesigned into a proper infobox. Zzyzx11 (talk) 22:24, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Recent feedback

Due to discussions on Talk:2010 Jacksonville Jaguars season, I have made some changes accordingly, including the addition of a border around the entire template. As I previously said, this is still not a final version and I might make some more changes in March. Zzyzx11 (talk) 22:35, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

- Though it appears to have been a year since any discussions have gone on about this template, i think it's worth revisiting. Particularly the horizontal "bars" that divide the template box into two. They are very hard on the eyes, and create quite a bit of clutter as you scroll through the 16 game summaries. It makes it hard to tell where each box begins and ends. Depending upon the team's colors, it can also be overly-contrasting and "loud." I suggest leaving the top "bar" in the team color. But I suggest the bar which contains the words "Game information [show]" be changed back to plain white. Doctorindy (talk) 18:16, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  Since nobody really has commented about this template in almost a year I'm going to be bold and implement the changes as a test for now. Zzyzx11 (talk) 04:18, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Radio?

How about adding parameters for radio networks and announcers? Mdumas43073 (talk) 00:54, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have been hesitant to do that because it will require three lines: the local commentators for the two respective teams, and then the national broadcast (if any). At least with TV, there is primary only one broadcaster, a national network, that is televising the game. Zzyzx11 (talk) 07:55, 9 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Bullet list and box score margins

I'm adding game notes for the 2014 Virginia Cavaliers football team. I'm noticing that many of the college schools that use this template list all officials, not just the referee, and I have followed suit. Unfortunately, I'm noticing a slight alignment problem. When the referee line goes underneath the box score, the entire bullet-pointed list (date, time, etc.) gets pushed below the box score, creating ugly excess white space (see the above link for examples of this). It appears to be because of the margins on the box score wikitable (this table specifically has a defined margin-left of 3em, and all wikitables have a default margin-bottom of 1em). I would almost consider getting an account just to make this one change to the template, but I know that it's used on a lot of pages, and I don't want to accidentally break something. Does anyone have any objection or concerns about changing the margin, or recommend any other possibilities? 70.208.154.231 (talk) 13:42, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is the first season I've heard that this was being done. What other pages are affected? It was only designed to list the referee because that is usually the only name that gets mentioned in reliable sources, and all the other officials do not. (also well as being loosely modeled by Template:Football box ,which also only lists the referee and not the other officials) Zzyzx11 (talk) 03:58, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I changed it to 3em to 1em, but apparently it was not the cause. I then removed the <div style="float:left"> tag that was enclosing the bullet-list, and that seemed to work. I'm not sure why that was even needed because most web browsers left-align text anyway. Zzyzx11 (talk) 04:17, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I think I got the idea from the FSU page. I do know that at least for Virginia's box scores/stats pages (the reference I use for that team), all officials are listed (for example, last week's game). 70.208.154.231 (talk) 20:59, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Image support

Could this template have built-in image support like an infobox? ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 21:02, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Titlestyles

Is there a list of different titlestyles? I've seen both primaries and alts. -- NazaSuzuki ● talk ● contribs 14:04, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]