Template talk:Infobox artwork

Deprecate & clean up conflicting parameters

This template currently has a number of conflicting parameters which can cause issues. As part of an ongoing effort to reduce these conflicts and reduce the overhead maintenance required on these templates, I am suggesting deprecating and ultimately removing a number of these params, particularly those 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
|italic title=	|italic_title=
|image_file=	|image=
|map_dot_label=	|pushpin_label=
|map_size=	|pushpin_map_size=
|material=	|medium=
|url=	|website=

Please chime in below with any questions, comments or concerns about this cleanup. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 04:07, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

Hi Zackmann08, the location label used to display the Museum and City separated by a comma, in your edit here you changed it to display them as an unbulleted list. Is there a reason for this? I think the former looks better. Thanks, Surajr7 (talk) 03:34, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

Honestly, personal preference. NOT a hill I want to die on though. If you object to the change I'm happy to revert it and will do so now! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 03:52, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, the comma just seems standard to me for location info Surajr7 (talk) 04:44, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

All good. I reverted that part of my change, but I kept the coordinates appearing on a new line. Just think it will be cleaner... Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 04:46, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

Artist name autolink

Can something be done to stop autolinking the artist's name? This creates links to disambiguation pages or to the wrong person entirely. Two examples:

• Statue of Jackie Robinson (Wichita, Kansas) links to the John Parsons disambiguation page where the non-notable artist isn't listed.
• Statue of Jackie Robinson (Jersey City) links to Susan Wagner, a completely unrelated financial executive.

Previous discussions:

• Template talk:Infobox artwork/Archive 1#Artist: inappropriate autolinking (2014)
• Template talk:Infobox artwork/Archive 2#Automatic linking of artist name harmful (2018)
• Template talk:Infobox artwork/Archive 2#Autolink artist (2020)
• Template talk:Infobox artwork/Archive 3#Pages using infobox artwork with unlinked artist field (2020)
• Template talk:Infobox artwork/Archive 3#Artist name hidden autolink (2024)

Can this autolinking be removed once and for all? -- Pemilligan (talk) 22:29, 27 June 2026 (UTC)

Came here with the same issue after stumbling across it on multiple articles in the wild. This is just creating a WP:V nightmare & inserting incorrect information into articles.

Description of suggested change: Remove the autolink part of "{{autolink|{{{artist|}}}}}" from the artist section, I think? GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 23:38, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 23:38, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

 Done Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 03:35, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you -- Pemilligan (talk) 04:55, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

Edit request 12 July 2026

Description of suggested change: Wrap the #switch statement controlling the application of {{Italic title}} with <includeonly> tags, as the template itself shouldn't have its title italicized due to not containing an artwork's title.

Diff:

−

{{#switch:{{lc:{{if empty|{{{italic_title|}}}|¬}}}} |no = <!-- no italic title --> ||¬|all|yes = {{italic title|all={{#ifeq:{{lc:{{{italic_title|}}}}}|all|true}}}} }}

+

<includeonly>{{#switch:{{lc:{{if empty|{{{italic_title|}}}|¬}}}} |no = <!-- no italic title --> ||¬|all|yes = {{italic title|all={{#ifeq:{{lc:{{{italic_title|}}}}}|all|true}}}} }}</includeonly>

IdiosyncraticLawyer (talk) 16:23, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

 Completed. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. – welcome! – 05:48, 14 July 2026 (UTC)