Talk:List of members of the Swiss Federal Council
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Form of link to successor/predecessor on biographies
| Predecessor: Ruth Metzler-Arnold | one of seven members of the Swiss Federal Council (2004-) | Successor: - (in office) |
Following the point raised by Adam Carr about the "Predecessor" link here and by Jiang about the one at Joseph Deiss, I added a sample version of the those ugly boxes. Before we add them to all 100 members, we might want to be sure, that that's the way we want them to be. -- User:Docu
| Preceded by: Ruth Metzler-Arnold |
Federal councillors of Switzerland |
I have copied the layout they use for the Presidents of the United States as a suggestion. I have also done it for Ruth Metzler-Arnold, so we see how it looks for someone who is already out of office. What do you think?
I might write a bot to do this. But I remember having seen some guidelines on when and how to do this, so I'll check the guidelines first. -- Patrice Neff 13:35, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
| Preceded by Arnold Koller | Federal councillors of Switzerland | Succeeded by Christoph Blocher |
For easier comparison, I inserted some of the samples above, further a more compact version of the one used on Ruth Metzler. BTW Eamon_de_Valera has a lot of them .. for another sample: Ásgeir Ásgeirsson.
The difference with most of them is that there are part of seven-member council, not just the sole incumbent of an office. "member of the Swiss Federal Council" might express this better. I'd add the years in office as well. If there is a way to do it by bot, all the better. -- User:Docu
| Preceded by Arnold Koller | member of the Swiss Federal Council 1999-2003 | Succeeded by Christoph Blocher |
I added to above to Ruth Metzler. I'd use this version. -- User:Docu
I like your suggestion. I would only change the capitalization. -- Patrice Neff
| Preceded by Arnold Koller | Member of the Swiss Federal Council 1999-2003 | Succeeded by Christoph Blocher |
Good idea. Shall we add it by hand or will you be able to do it by bot? -- User:Docu
- Seems that a bot is okay, if I run is slow enough. So I might try writing a bot based on pywikipediabot (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywikipediabot/). I'll keep you informed. Patrice Neff 00:46, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)
- Ok. For now I added the box the ones still in office by hand. BTW check Wikipedia:Bot -- User:Docu
- I suppose I will have to do it by hand .. User:Docu
- The first one is done, I also improved the terminology for the presidency. -- User:Docu