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This template was considered for deletion on 21 February 2014. The result of the discussion was "keep".

There is a field for melting point, but not boiling point. This would be a valuable field, can someone add it? Hadron137 (talk) 21:42, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Also useful would be electrical conductivity, and density at various temperatures. Hadron137 (talk) 22:10, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There is a discussion at WT:CHEMISTRY # Creating_a_template? about expanding this infobox, to be more useful for alloys. -DePiep (talk) 02:56, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Labeltext for |type= into "Material type"
• |synonym, synonyms=
• technically: use |ayutoheader=y (no empty sercioheaders, automated; renumber data entries for edit space

-DePiep (talk) 04:21, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I've noticed that {{

1. Is it really useful to redirect one type of material to a more general infobox? Alloy is a pretty specific type of material, I'm not sure if it is really useful to redirect people looking for an infobox for an alloy to a general infobox.
2. This infobox is listed in very few wikis, most wikis probably have multiple infoboxes dedicated to specific types of materials, including alloys. An example could be an infobox of alloy on Czech Wikipedia, which I wanted to translate and transfer here to English Wikipedia (you can find it in my sandbox → template sandbox 1). So my question is if I should continue with my effort or scrap it.

— Polda18 (talk • contribs) 12:00, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Being a single infobox for multiple types is helpful imo. Many properties are common over the types. In case of alloys, it's just OK to use one of the extra, alloy-specific parameters: |UNS=, SAE=, alloy type=, alloy composition==. The 30+ other parameters are more generic (and so are 'reuseable' with other material types!). What issues did you meet? The TPU lists usage. DePiep (talk) 12:10, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well, what I intended is to translate something from my home wiki. I guess I'll simply scrap the effort and move my effort to something else. I didn't initially know that this general infobox does exist. I mostly edit my home wiki, translating from English to Czech, I started to do some edits here just recently. where I'd like to translate the other way around. Thank you for this simple tool tho, it seems really useful. — Polda18 (talk • contribs) 12:22, 8 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The material infobox of Polycarbonate lists |uv_resistance= and |radiation_resistance= as "fair". However, both link to Radiation resistance which has nothing to do with materials. I suggest that |radiation_resistance= should be clarified or removed and |uv_resistance= should link to Photodegradation instead. (As I am new to editing Wikipedia, I am not comfortable yet to edit templates myself) BertTheDragon (talk) 13:15, 15 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and implemented by suggestions. I thought about redirecting |radiation_resistance= to Radiation damage but since it is not used and a complex topic for an infobox entry I removed it instead. BertTheDragon (talk) 19:38, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]