Introduction
The purpose of this page is for my use as a personal sandbox, to develop article content without running the risk of either interfering with main space articles in any way, or of causing edit conflicts.
At the moment, I am using it solely to develop a new infobox (no prose) for the article on the Thirteen Colonies, initially by merging selected fields from two existing infoboxes: British America and British North America, and perhaps other infoboxes if necessary.
Current infobox from the 'British America' article
British America and the British West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||
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1607–1783 | |||||||||||||||||||
Status | Colonies of England (1607–1707) Colonies of Great Britain (1707–1783) | ||||||||||||||||||
Capital | Administered from London, England | ||||||||||||||||||
Common languages | English, French, many indigenous languages | ||||||||||||||||||
Religion | Anglicanism, Protestantism, Judaism, Roman Catholic, Native American religion | ||||||||||||||||||
Government | Constitutional monarchy | ||||||||||||||||||
Monarch | |||||||||||||||||||
• 1607–1625 | James I & VI (first) | ||||||||||||||||||
• 1760–1783 | George III (last) | ||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||
1585 | |||||||||||||||||||
1607 | |||||||||||||||||||
1620 | |||||||||||||||||||
1663 | |||||||||||||||||||
1670 | |||||||||||||||||||
1713 | |||||||||||||||||||
1763 | |||||||||||||||||||
1783 | |||||||||||||||||||
Currency | Pound sterling, Spanish dollar, colonial money, bills of credit, commodity money and many local currencies | ||||||||||||||||||
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Today part of | Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Dominica Grenada Guyana Honduras Jamaica Mexico Montserrat Nicaragua Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos United States |
Current infobox from the 'British North America' article
British North America | |||||||||||
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1783–1907 | |||||||||||
Status | Colonies of Great Britain (1783–1800) Colonies of the United Kingdom (1801–1907) | ||||||||||
Capital | Administered from London, England | ||||||||||
Common languages | English, French | ||||||||||
Religion | Anglicanism | ||||||||||
Monarch | |||||||||||
• 1783–1820 | George III | ||||||||||
• 1820–1830 | George IV | ||||||||||
• 1830–1837 | William IV | ||||||||||
• 1837–1901 | Victoria | ||||||||||
• 1901–1907 | Edward VII | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
1783 | |||||||||||
1818 | |||||||||||
1867 | |||||||||||
1868 | |||||||||||
1871 | |||||||||||
1873 | |||||||||||
1907 | |||||||||||
Currency | Pound sterling, Canadian pound, Canadian dollar | ||||||||||
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Today part of | Canada United States |
Draft infobox to add to the 'Thirteen Colonies' article
This section is for the development of the new infobox, during the next few days.
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 00:15, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
Thirteen Colonies | |||||||
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1607–1783 | |||||||
Status | Colonies of England (1607–1707) Colonies of Great Britain (1707–1783) | ||||||
Capital | Administered from London, England | ||||||
Common languages | English, French, many indigenous languages | ||||||
Religion | Anglicanism, Protestantism, Judaism, Roman Catholic, Native American religion | ||||||
Government | Constitutional monarchy | ||||||
Monarch | |||||||
• 1607–1625 | James I & VI (first) | ||||||
• 1760–1783 | George III (last) | ||||||
History | |||||||
1585 | |||||||
1607 | |||||||
1620 | |||||||
1663 | |||||||
1670 | |||||||
1713 | |||||||
1763 | |||||||
1783 | |||||||
Currency | Pound sterling, colonial money, bills of credit, commodity money. | ||||||
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Today part of | United States |
References
Experiment: Telling a story with userboxes ツ
Yesterday, I wondered whether it might be possible to use various userbox features as a basic form of storyboard, to tell a short story. Both sideboxes could be used for setting the scene and background, including picture files, while the 'info' tags can be used for the script.
The little story (below, right) shows an experimental example, which was quite fun to do and came together very quickly.
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 11:04, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
Tag: [[User:Pdebee/My sandbox2#Experiment: Telling a story with userboxes ツ|here]]
Note: See Help:Collapsing for a different solution, for subtitling.