Template talk:National football squad player (goals)

Related alternative templates

This is just a short note, to list all the other related alternative templates for showing a current/specific squad:

• {{National football squad player (goals)}}, or {{Nat fs g player}} in short:
  With a Goals column, and still show the players "Date of Birth" in the Age column.
  Previously used by this article at Oct.16-2010.
  And expanded to also include the optional "other" info in a small parenthesis at Nov.6-2010.

• {{National football squad player (goals, version 2)}}, or {{Nat fs g2 player}} in short:
  With a Goals column, and showing Age by "Year" instead of "Date of Birth".
  Previously used by this article at Nov.18-2010.

• {{National football squad player (goals, version 3)}}, or {{Nat fs g3 player}} in short:
  Same as version 2, but expanded with a specified Position column.
  Currently used by this article at Nov.19-2010.

The 3 versions above, currently also exist in a parallel variant called "recent", to show the "recent squad" of a national team with inclusion of a special extra coloumn to also note the "latest match". If you visit the links listed above, you will also find the related examples of the 3 different "recent squad" versions. As a general rule of thumb, the goal should be only to have as few templates in use as possible. However, there was a need to create the newest version 2 and version 3 of the template, for those Nations where the national FA also have chosen to post the exact field position the selected player is supposed to play (because when this info is included by the box, there was a "layout" call, to convert the long "Date of Birth" coloumn into a much shorter "Age" column). In example, version 3 of the template has now been implemented by the Denmark national football team article, to also show the exact field position of each player. Danish Expert (talk) 12:23, 19 November 2010 (UTC)