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== Parameter  ==

I think it would make more sense if {{Para|Country}} was replaced with {{para|Federation}} as there are other players who play (or played) under the FIDE flag especially after the commencement of [[Russia–Ukraine War]], [[Ian Nepo]] for an example. {{Background colour|pink|FIDE is not a country}} and for it to be displayed on the country parameter is kind of sus. Some played under the FIDE flag when they were switching federations, [[Alireza Firouzja]] for an example. Thoughts{{?}} '''<span style="color:Purple">dxneo</span>''' ([[User talk:dxneo|talk]]) 10:47, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

:Readers who are unfamiliar with the chess milieu, as most Wikipedia readers are, will not know what to make of "Federation".
:Note that there are hundreds if not thousands of chess biography articles, so any change to this infobox template must be made in a compatible way. [[User:Bruce leverett|Bruce leverett]] ([[User talk:Bruce leverett|talk]]) 13:37, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
::I have came across BOTs with the ability to perform such changes and it wouldn't be first time such a change has been made. I am also not that much of a chess fan but I just read about Carlsen—Niemann fued few hours ago. I heard Magnus talking about Nepo then I quickly looked him up and how the SCC is going, and that's how I noticed this thing on Alireza's profile and other chess players. There's {{Para|Born}} for their birth countries, but using {{Para|Country}} for a FIDE flag is definitely not the way to go. '''<span style="color:Purple">dxneo</span>''' ([[User talk:dxneo|talk]]) 14:01, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

== [[:Template:Infobox person]] has an [[WP:RFC|RfC]]==

<div class="floatleft" style="margin-bottom:0">[[File:Information.svg|48px|alt=|link=]]</div>'''[[:Template:Infobox person]]''' has an RfC for possible consensus regarding the removal of color from person infoboxes. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on '''[[Template talk:Infobox person#Should color headings be removed from all person infoboxes|the discussion page]]'''.<!-- Template:Rfc notice--> Thank you. — '''[[User:Zackmann08|<span style="color:#00ced1">Zack</span><span style="color:#007F94">mann</span>]]''' (<sup>[[User_talk:Zackmann08|Talk to me]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Zackmann08|<span style="color:orange;">What I been doing</span>]]</sub>) 18:30, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

== Something has gone wrong recently ==

Something has changed fairly recently, I think with this infobox, and now the [[Garry Kasparov]] and [[Anatoly Karpov]] infoboxes (and maybe others) are not displaying correctly - quite a bit of info missing. When the "module" field is removed, these infoboxes seem to display correctly. The change was after 17-August this year, because on that date, I made a comment about the "years active" in the Kasparov infobox; and now that is not displaying at all. [[User:Adpete|Adpete]] ([[User talk:Adpete|talk]]) 04:50, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

:{{ping|Adpete}} {{fixed}} that was my error. fixed it! should all be good now. - '''[[User:Zackmann08|<span style="color:#00ced1">Zack</span><span style="color:#007F94">mann</span>]]''' (<sup>[[User_talk:Zackmann08|Talk to me]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Zackmann08|<span style="color:orange;">What I been doing</span>]]</sub>) 06:13, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
::Thanks! [[User:Adpete|Adpete]] ([[User talk:Adpete|talk]]) 07:10, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

== Embedding problem ==

{{re|Zackmann08|Jonesey95}} When this infobox is embedded within [[Template:Infobox person]] two subheadings appear: '''Sports career''' and '''Chess career'''. [[User:Khiikiat|Khiikiat]] ([[User talk:Khiikiat|talk]]) 15:18, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
:Fixed in the sandbox, I think, by copying the format from {{tl|Infobox gymnast}}. {{U|Zackmann08}}? See the testcases page. – [[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] ([[User talk:Jonesey95|talk]]) 15:36, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
::Hmmm... {{ping|Jonesey95}} I'm stumped. You definitely seem to have the right approach but now the first testcase is broken... The ''Chess Career'' golden header is missing. I need to do some other stuff at the moment but will get into it later if you don't fix it before I get a chance.
::{{ping|Khiikiat|Adpete}} thanks for catching my errors here. I should have done more thorough testing when I converted this. Definitely a lesson learned. If we can't suss out the problem in the next few hours I will revert the changes until the sandbox fixes it. We will make this right today! '''[[User:Zackmann08|<span style="color:#00ced1">Zack</span><span style="color:#007F94">mann</span>]]''' (<sup>[[User_talk:Zackmann08|Talk to me]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Zackmann08|<span style="color:orange;">What I been doing</span>]]</sub>) 18:51, 7 October 2025 (UTC)
:::Ok should be fixed now! @[[User:Jonesey95|Jonesey95]] there was actually an issue with {{tl|Infobox sportsperson}} (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AInfobox_sportsperson&diff=1315632836&oldid=1314258966 diff]). The if statement wasn't accounting for {{para|module2}}. Didn't show up on {{tl|Infobox gymnast}} because that sets other params that were included in the if statement. '''[[User:Zackmann08|<span style="color:#00ced1">Zack</span><span style="color:#007F94">mann</span>]]''' (<sup>[[User_talk:Zackmann08|Talk to me]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Zackmann08|<span style="color:orange;">What I been doing</span>]]</sub>) 19:36, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

== Fix double newline issue ==

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This is necessary (and is done by all other templates) since otherwise all articles that include a blank line between the template and the article's text show up with extra spacing at the top of the article, see for example the article [[Mikhail Tal]] where this is causing an extra &lt;br> to be rendered. 

--[[User:Marboxil|Marboxil]] ([[User talk:Marboxil|talk]]) 07:29, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
:{{ping|Marboxil}} {{fixed}} good catch. --'''[[User:Zackmann08|<span style="color:#00ced1">Zack</span><span style="color:#007F94">mann</span>]]''' (<sup>[[User_talk:Zackmann08|Talk to me]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:Contributions/Zackmann08|<span style="color:orange;">What I been doing</span>]]</sub>) 08:40, 8 October 2025 (UTC)