Template:STOCharBox

Age 35, 2267
T'Pring
Personal Data
Species:	Vulcan
Gender:	Female
Height:	5' 4"
Weight:	123lbs
Eye Color:	Brown
Hair Color:	Chestnut
Biographical Data
Faction:	United Federation of Planets
Place of Birth:	Raal, Vulcan
Marital Status:	Bonded to Stonn following Kal-if-fee just prior to Koon-ut-kal-if-fee (bonding ceremony) with Spock, with whom she had shared a childhood betrothal.
Professional/Military Data
Occupation:	Housewife and political dissident

Attribution

This template was derived from the STO Geekipedia (currently defunct).

How to use the Character Infobox

The long and involved process works thusly. If you just want the Box, go directly to the Cheat Sheet.

Trigger the use of the Character Infobox on your page if you plan to include it. At the top of your edit window, enter:

{{STOCharBox

Below that, you'll want to fill out all the parameters that you can or care to fill out. For this, you'll need the name of the parameter that corresponds to the field you'll want to fill; in most cases, the parameter names are the same as the name of the field, but they differ in some. A complete list can be found below. The format for filling in a parameter is as follows:

| parameter = value
eg.
| name = James T. Kirk

This will replace the {{{name}}} placeholder in the original Character Infobox with 'James T. Kirk'. Each parameter should be put in a new line for ease of parsing and debugging in case something goes wrong.

For easiest readability, you'll want to offer single terms that summarize some or all of your character's applicable information. The main body of the page allows sufficient room to expand on things, the Character Infobox is mostly meant for an at-a-glance summary of the most important character data.

Close the Template. This is done by appending the following at the end of your list:

|}}

And with this, you're set.

List of Parameters

Unless otherwise noted, parameters will simply not appear in the box if the value is left blank (eg. | image = ). This versatility will allow us to add new parameters to the box in the future without removing the existing ones, and letting you pick and choose which ones to fill out.

• image - Character image. Should not be wider than 300 pixels. If it's too wide (or too small) it will be automatically reduced (or expanded) to the appropriate size (but clicking on the image will display the actual image rather than the adjusted version). If you have no image, don't include this parameter and it will default to a placeholder image instead. It is suggested you upload your image files rather than try to link to them.
• caption - Text that goes right beneath the image, if you think the image requires further commentary. If not, don't include this parameter and there will be no blank space between picture and name.
• name - Your character's common name, the one he or she is best known by. This will appear in big bold letters.
• player - However you'd like to identify yourself as opposed to your character. Ideally, you'll want to make this a link to your user topic (User:Yourname, eg. User:JadeEnigma).

• fullname - Should this differ from the name entered under the image.
• species - Your character's Species (Human, Vulcan, Human/vulcan etc.)
• gender - If applicable. It is entirely possible that your species has none.

• age - Don't be shy!
• height - Your character's height (specify if imperial or metric).
• weight - Your character's weight (specify if imperial or metric).
• eyes - Your character's eye color.
• hair - Your character's hair color.

• faction - The Star Trek group you are aligned with. This would be presently the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, or the Romulan Republic.
• birthplace - Where your character was born.
• baseofoperations - Your character's current residence and stomping ground.
• marital - Whether your character is single, engaged, married, widowed or whatever other forms of voluntary slavery there are between two people.
• relatives - What kind of (relevant) relatives your character has or had. Most likely you'll want to limit this to any important characters that appear in stories or RP.

• occupation - What is your character's job title? Different from rank.
• rank - If applicable, since I can't see everyone being part of the military.
• currentassignment - Assuming you are military, what ship or base are currently assigned to?

• footnotes - Room for any notes you want available at a glance that aren't covered by the above categories.

The Character Infobox Cheat Sheet

Just copy/paste the below list into your character's Edit box and fill in any categories that you might care to fill in. Leave all other lines blank, but do not delete them (parameters with no value will not be displayed in the final infobox, but blank parameters still appear - very annoying, we're working on it).

{{STOCharBox
| image             = 
| caption           = 
| name              = 
| player            = 
| fullname          = 
| species           = 
| gender            = 
| age               = 
| height            = 
| weight            = 
| eyes              = 
| hair              = 
| faction           = 
| birthplace        = 
| baseofoperations  = 
| marital           = 
| relatives         = 
| occupation        = 
| rank              = 
| currentassignment = 
| footnotes         = 
|}}

As an example, the Character Infobox on this page for T'Pring uses the following:

{{STOCharBox
| image = Tpring.jpg
| caption = Age 35, 2267
| name = T'Pring
| player = 
| fullname = 
| species = Vulcan
| gender = Female
| age = 
| height = 5' 4"
| weight = 123lbs
| eyes = Brown
| hair = Chestnut
| faction = United Federation of Planets
| birthplace = Raal, Vulcan
| baseofoperations = 
| marital = Bonded to Stonn following Kal-if-fee just prior to Koon-ut-kal-if-fee (bonding ceremony) with  Spock, with whom she had shared a childhood betrothal.
| relatives = 
| occupation = Housewife and political dissident
| rank =
| currentassignment = 
| footnotes = 
|}}