Template talk:Infobox climber

Additional fields

This template could be improved by including two additional fields in the Personal information section: spouse and children. These are included in the Infobox person template. Bede735 (talk) 12:15, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

|spouse= was added at some point, but there is still no |children= (needed in Alison Hargreaves - I tried embedding into {{infobox person}}, but that is not supported either). |children= in not in {{infobox sportsperson}} (or I would have added it here myself as I can edit this template). So, can either this be made embed-able, and/or |children= be added in sportsperson and here? I found this old discussion that added "generic biography fields" ti IB sportsperson, but children was not included. I think is certainly is another generic biography field (and maybe parents & relatives too). Frietjes or Jonesey95? MB (talk • contribs) 15:51, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

I sort of fixed the embedding, but has a double header. you could do the reverse embedding, or we could add more infobox person parameters to {{infobox sportsperson}}, but that should be discussed at {{infobox sportsperson}}. Frietjes (talk) 20:30, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

Could we add a "highestfreesolo" to the list of highestgrades (e.g. free solo climbing)? is that hard to do? Aszx5000 (talk) 13:26, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

It's easy to do, but I'd like to understand the issue (below) first. — hike395 (talk) 14:30, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Reason behind having highestgrade conflict with other highest fields?

Was there a reason behind having |highestgrade= get suppressed by |highestredpoint=, |highestonsight=, and |highestboulder=? The infobox can easily be changed to display all of them. — hike395 (talk) 14:27, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi hike395, I think "highestgrade=" is redundant as it always needs to be qualified by whether it was a redpoint, onsight or bouldering. 'highestfreesolo=' is another possible class (per the free solo climbing article. I you check out some "benchmark" climbing BLPs of the biggest climbers (e.g. Chris Sharma, Alexander Huber, Wolfgang Gullich), some have famous free soloing benchmarks.

I have been doing a lot of work on WP:Climbing in the last year, and would love make some other infoboxes.

• I think that "| namedroutes=" should be re-labelled as "|routesnamedafterclimber". In most countries, the person making the "|first ascent=" gets to name the route, which is why the description of the template for these items is potentially overlapping. If it was clarified that the "| named route=" was for routes named after the climber (e.g. Catherine Destivelle in Voie Destivelle), then that would make sense.
• It would be great to re-label "| majorascents=" as "| other non-first ascents=". The template description does clarify it, but I don't think all editors read the description and therefore confuse major ascents with first ascents (find that a lot).
• If we could re-label "medal record" as "competition climbing record", that would also be helpful (and a link to the competition climbing article (which has been overhauled).

Thanks for your help and attention here. Aszx5000 (talk) 21:46, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi hike365, do you have any interest in the above? thanks. Aszx5000 (talk) 16:37, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Merge with Template:Infobox mountaineer

I think that Template:Infobox mountaineer could be handled by Template:Infobox climber? A lot of mountaineers do climbing and visa versa. Infobox climber is the most important infobox (and the most detailed) and has the richest level of detail on their climbing/mountaineering career (I think infobox climber capture all of mountaineers career data. The mountaineers infobox items of "famous partnerships", "final ascent" and "retirement age" are very subjective items). The main differences are around the non-climbing data items, which could be just merged? thanks. Aszx5000 (talk) 21:52, 24 November 2023 (UTC)

Template:Infobox person has an RfC

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 the discussion page. Thank you. — Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 18:30, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Highest grade: Free solo

Under the "highest grade" section, would it be possible to add free solo to this (e.g. the highest grade they have free soloed)?

Or, could someone show me how to do it? thanks in advance. Aszx5000 (talk) 18:10, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

I think I was able to do this (with @Zackmann08 encouragement) ! It all looks fine, and have used it on a few bios (Wolfgang Gullich and Dean Potter) with no issues. One thing I notice is that the new field of |highestfreesolo= does not appear under the |{{{name}}}= template in infobox climber (maybe this is updated less frequently)? Thanks Zackmann for your support ! Aszx5000 (talk) 16:00, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

@Aszx5000: bravo! Sorry I haven't gotten to it yet... Can you clarify what you mean about the new field not appearing under the name template? Happy to help but not clear what the issue is.... Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 00:39, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Actually, it seems like it is fixed now. It was the box that appears on the right hand-side of the infobox climber page that wasn't showing |highestfreesolo=, but now it is? Thanks again for your support on this !! Aszx5000 (talk) 08:17, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Notice of relevant discussion

There is currently a discussion at Template talk:Infobox sportsperson § Removal of Nationality regarding the removal of |nationality=, the outcome of which will affect this template. You are invited to participate. --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 02:47, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Discussion notice

There is currently a discussion at Template talk:Infobox sportsperson#Deprecate & clean up conflicting parameters regarding cleaning up parameters in {{Infobox sportsperson}}. As this template is a wrapper for Infobox sportsperson, the outcome of the discussion will affect uses of this template. Please chime in with any questions or concerns. --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 02:21, 16 June 2026 (UTC)