Template:Country Infobox

...More articles here

To write, edit, start or view other articles on, see the Portal

This is a meta-template for infoboxes. In particular its good for Country infoboxes, but could be used for subject infoboxes as well. See the source of New Jersey infobox to see an example of this template.

Instructions on use
If you want to make a new infobox, lets say for the imaginary province Atok, of some country.
 * 1) Make sure a category and portal for that region exists. It is also recommended, but not required that at last five articles have been written about that place
 * 2) Start a new template page - Template:_infobox
 * 3) On that template page, put
 * 4) if you don't use a map for the image, follow instructions below to change the title of the image.
 * 5) Optionally follow the instructions below to put a flag, or the portal logo at the bottom.
 * 6) Follow instructions on Template messages/Infoboxes/Countries or Template messages/Infoboxes, and add it to the appropriate place.

Advanced usage
The template also supports some other optional parameters. None of these are required.
 * addDate= True or false. (controls if it adds date before news articles in DPL. defaults to true)
 * dplcount= number of articles to list (default 5)
 * portalLogo= File name of the portal logo. Needed for the bottom image link to portal. Don't include file: prefix. Often a flag instead of a portal logo. (This is really the only advanced thing that is useful)
 * portalLogo_width= width of logo. defaults to 60x45px. Probably best to leave alone unless you have a reason
 * image_title= Title for the main image. If you don't use a map, use this. defaults to: A map showing the location of [place name].

Note: If you want to do something more complicated, its probably best to subst: this template to your new template page, and go from there.