Forum:Unable to create infoboxes

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I'm trying to create an infobox template. Working with ShoutWiki's help pages and this forum post, I came out with this code and I only end up with a header and this:

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Can someone please tell me where I'm going wrong or if there's an easier way to create a template now? Fujimoto (talk) 05:22, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

There are a couple problems I see right away.

{| align="right" style="background:#dd3333; border: 2px solid #333333; width:280px;"
| style="text-align: center;" |
 <p style="font-size: larger;">'''{{{name|{{PAGENAME}}}}}'''</p>
 <div style="background-color: #fff; margin: 0 25px;"></div>
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| align="center" style="background:#333333; color:#FFFFFF;"| '''Basic Profile'''
{| style="margin: 0 auto; text-align: left;"
{{#if:{{{nameJp|}}}|
! align="right" width="80px" {{!}} {{{NameJp}}}:
{{!}} {{{NameJp}}} }}
|-
{{#if:{{{nameEn|}}}|
! align="right" width="80px" {{!}} {{{nameEn}}}:
{{!}} {{{nameEn}}} }}
|-
{{#if:{{{alias|}}}|
! align="right" width="80px" {{!}} {{{Alias}}}:
{{!}} {{{alias}}} }}
|}
{{#if:{{{epithet|}}}|
! align="right" width="80px" {{!}} {{{Epithet}}}:
{{!}} {{{epithet}}} }}
|}
{{#if:{{{affiliation|}}}|
! align="right" width="80px" {{!}} {{{Affiliation}}}:
{{!}} {{{affiliation}}} }}
|}
{{#if:{{{gender|}}}|
! align="right" width="80px" {{!}} {{{Gender}}}:
{{!}} {{{gender}}} }}
|-
{{#if:{{{birthdate|}}}|
! align="right" width="80px"{{!}} {{{Birthdate}}}:
{{!}} {{{birthdate}}} }}
|-
{{#if:{{{birthplace|}}}|
! align="right" width="80px" {{!}} {{{Birthplace}}}:
{{!}} {{{birthplace}}} }}
|-
{{#if:{{{height|}}}|
! align="right" width="80px" {{!}} {{{Height}}}:
{{!}} {{{height}}} }}
|}
{{#if:{{{weight|}}}|
! align="right" width="80px" {{!}} {{{Weight}}}:
{{!}} {{{weight}}} }}
|}
{{#if:{{{eyes|}}}|
! align="right" width="80px" {{!}} {{{Eyes}}}:
{{!}} {{{eyes}}} }}
|}
{{#if:{{{hair|}}}|
! align="right" width="80px" {{!}} {{{Hair}}}:
{{!}} {{{hair}}} }}
|}
|}

The syntax {{{word}}} is for parameter substitution and is case-sensitive, so (for example) {{{NameJp}}} and {{{nameJp}}} refer to different parameters. I suspect you intend for {{{NameJp}}} to be some static text, like '''Basic Profile''' is. Whether you intend that or not, you need to pass the values of the parameters into the template, which I suspect you are not. As a minor point, the <div> in the first row has no content, so it doesn't do anything. I didn't read your code closely enough to check that every table start markup matches a table end markup, etc., but you have a lot of table end markup (|}) that looks extraneous. We also have Help:Templates on this wiki to help editors learn about templates and Help:Tables for tables. --Saftzie (talk) 18:33, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick look. I'm trying to create infoboxes without portraits like most of the example code I've looked at has and I deleted some the code for that while accidentally leaving other parts pertaininging to portraits in. For NameJp I'm trying to do something similar to this infobox. Anyway, I just haven't found Help:Templates and Help:Infoboxes helpful because the former I couldn't understand and the later I tried to copy but would just make a mess of things. Fujimoto (talk) 19:11, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

If you're having difficulty understanding templates even with the Help: pages, maybe it would be a good idea to learn with a simpler template. I seem to recall seeing a (somewhat splashy) tutorial on wiki markup on a WikiMedia site somewhere, although I can't find now. --Saftzie (talk) 16:37, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. I'll look into that. Fujimoto (talk) 21:22, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

@Fujimoto and Saftzie: I know more about infoboxes. Export Template:Infobox, Module:Infobox, Module:Navbar, Module:Arguments and MediaWiki:Common.css from Wikipedia using Special:Export (it should be saved into a file) and import the file on you target wiki using s:w:lenen:Special:Import. Note that file is not a real “file” and it is instead an XML dump. —Znotch190713 (talk) 19:21, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. I might try that then. Fujimoto (talk) 19:42, 14 July 2019 (UTC)