Template talk:Infobox eruption

Start date or date?

Noticed this at 1257 Samalas eruption where Volcanoguy added a "start date" parameter. I don't think it's appropriate to have such a parameter unless we know quite exactly when the eruption lasted; in most cases such as at Samalas we only know when an eruption took place and calling that "start date" is nonsensical. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 21:23, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

@Jo-Jo Eumerus: Good point; I have readded the date parameter for that reason. In most cases only historically recorded eruptions have articles on Wikipedia so I didn't think it would have been a big issue. Volcanoguy 21:49, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Deprecation of parameters

As part of a larger effort to eliminate conflicting parameters, I will be refactoring multiple aspects of this template and deprecating a number of parameter aliases. This is also part of an effort to make things consistent across Infoboxes. As part of this cleanup, I am also going to fix 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
|photo=	|image=
|photo-size=	|image_size=
|location-map=	|map=
|map-size=	|map_size=
|map-caption=	|map_caption=

Please chime in below with any questions, comments or concerns about this cleanup. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 04:56, 7 September 2026 (UTC)