Template talk:Infobox First Nation

FN template redesign

As I write this, this seems to be a little-used template: only 14 legitimate transclusions. In order to make it more suitable for every First Nation across Canada (because I, for one, have some plans to include it in more articles), I've made some changes.

• Instead of automatically displaying "Ethnicity First Nation band" in bold at the top of every box, I've turned the ethnic "group" parameter into a "people" parameter and relegated it to the body. Most First Nations' official names already include some variant of "First Nation", so it was redundant.
• Band number has been moved to a subtitle.
• There seemed to be some confusion about how briefly to fill out the "location" parameter across the 14 existing transclusions, so I've replaced it with a hopefully more clear "headquarters" and "province" parameter.
  • The confusion: currently used locations include "Alberta", "Bruce Peninsula, Ontario", and "Vancouver Island, Discovery Islands, mainland British Columbia".
  • The label automatically switches to "Territory" if a territory's name is used.
• Added "map" parameter, freeing up the main image slot for official insignia.
• Added "treaty" parameter, important in most of the West, at least.
• Replaced "council_size" with more versatile "council" parameter.
• Added "website" parameter.

I'll be cleaning up the 14 articles these changes will break. With any luck, this template will have many more transclusions a year from now.

Awmcphee (talk) 02:49, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Language

Just discovered this infobox. Would it be possible to add a "language" parameter? Yuchitown (talk) 15:00, 4 September 2022 (UTC)Yuchitown

Maps

It would be nicer if we could use push pin maps or Open Street Maps. These map functions are quite outdated. Words in the Wind(talk) 20:47, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Pushpin map cleanup

As part of a larger refactor of Module:Location map, I will be refactoring the way that this Infobox calls the location map code. The only noticeable change for most will be that the parameter names related to the pushpin maps will now all start with |pushpin_...=. This is part of a larger effort to make things consistent across Infoboxes. When this is done, ALL infoboxes using pushpin maps will use the same parameters. For more information about this, please see this post. As part of this cleanup, I am also going to resolving any conflicting parameters that I can find and cleaning up parameter names that fail to conform to MOS:INFOBOXNAME. Note that this follows a long list of similar clean ups that I have done on countless other Infoboxes. The parameters I plan to replace are the following:

Deprecate	Replace with
|map_type=	|pushpin_map=
|relief=	|pushpin_relief=
|map_alt=	|pushpin_alt=
|pushpin_map_alt=	|pushpin_alt=
|Coordinates=	|coordinates=
|map_caption=	|pushpin_caption=
|pushpin_map_caption=	|pushpin_caption=
|map_size=	|pushpin_map_size=
|pushpin_mapsize=	|pushpin_map_size=

Please chime in below with any questions, comments or concerns about this cleanup. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 02:00, 10 August 2026 (UTC)