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:A blank party could be either (a) the party is not known, or (b) he wasn't a member of a party. So showing "none" but not linking it would appear to be a desirable option.
:A blank party could be either (a) the party is not known, or (b) he wasn't a member of a party. So showing "none" but not linking it would appear to be a desirable option.
:[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 02:46, 7 July 2007 (EDT)
:[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 02:46, 7 July 2007 (EDT)
Hm. I hadn't considered that some of the infoboxes haven't had the party field filled in yet. Okay, new, somewhat hackier way of doing the same thing:
<code>
<!---------Party---------->
{{#if:{{{party|}}} | <!--then:-->
{{!}} '''Political party '''
{{#ifeq:{{{party|}}} | "None" | <!-- These two lines dewikilink "None". -->
{{!}} None |
{{!}} [[{{{party|}}}]] | <!--else-->
}} }}
{{!-}}</code>
This way, if the variable is passed the word "None", it just says "None" without wikilinking it. Pass the variable anything else, and it wikilinks it.
That said, how married is everyone to automatically wikilinking whatever is put here? A lot of these entries have "Democratic" (which in my mind really should redirect to [[democracy]]) which, in this context, should probably be linked like this: [[Democratic Party|Democratic]]. Maybe that's just me; if this were Conservapedia.ca, I'd hope [[conservative]] linked that article, not [[Conservative Party of Canada]]. [[User:AManInBlack|AManInBlack]] 12:55, 7 July 2007 (EDT)