Template:Birth date and age/doc

Default to smaller font size for age in parentheses
As Template:Marriage just smaller-sized contents within parentheses, I feel this template could also take the same approach for consistency and better visual. Timmyshin (talk) 13:45, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Birth: December 20, 1962
 * Marriage Dave (m. 11 April 1995-December 7, 2002)
 * I think I agree the smaller size looks better> Just needs someone to do a sample across all the birth/death templates Periglio (talk) 19:53, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Allow optional parameters, making the "age" indication more useful
A number of pages present an incomplete birth date (e.g. only the year is specified). In these cases, this template can't be used. Wouldn't it be better to let these pages use the template anyway and show an "age" estimate instead of the exact age? For example, if the birth date is 1950, one could use 1950 and the page would show 1950 (age 64-65) instead of just 1950. In fact, since today it's almost 2016, the age must be either 64 (e.g. if born on Dec 31) or 65 (e.g. if born on Jan 1). I think it's better to show two "possible ages" instead of showing nothing at all --William Di Luigi (talk) 02:24, 22 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Nevermind, I realized there is which does exactly that. But still, why are there two templates to do the same thing?--William Di Luigi (talk) 02:35, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Extra space
I'm seeing an unwanted space after age, i.e. (age--100). See also Template talk:Spanish name. SLBedit (talk) 02:12, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Let's try it: February 4, 1993


 * Only one space there.


 * Let's try it for age 100: February 4, 1915


 * Only one space there too. Can you provide an example of this double-spacing? It may have been a temporary problem with WP. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:00, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I see two spaces instead of one. There are spaces also before m(etres). SLBedit (talk) 03:15, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I see one space. Perhaps this is a browser issue? Could you tell us what browser you're using? — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 05:36, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
 * It's probably other issue on my side. SLBedit (talk) 16:42, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

No birth date
Corbin Braxton (Virginian), has an unknown birth date. The parameter in the info box for date of birth does not allow for "unknown", but it does allow "0000" for a birth year without generating an error message.

But at age of death, the infobox does not allow for 0000, nor unknown, nor unk, so an “Expression error: missing operand” is generated.

Is there a convention to use here? TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 08:42, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
 * For the death date you need death date instead of death date and age. (death-date would work as well.) I've made the change in the article for you. For the birth date, I'm not sure there is a way to specify "unknown" in machine-readable format, so I just removed the birth date template altogether. Best — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 09:31, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks. The situation doesn't come up often, and will less so as I advance in the Charts of Virginia Conventions delegates. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 14:47, 3 January 2017 (UTC)