Thread:Project:Support desk/Templates (4)/reply (4)

It looks like your Template:Infobox person page actually contains the template invocation, not the template code itself. What you really want in that page is the source you see from the "View Source" tab on the wikipedia template page you linked. Note, however, that that template relies on other templates, so you'd also need to replicate the entire chain of dependencies if you want it to work the same way.

But a simply infobox is not really all that difficult to make yourself. All you need is a regular table, with  in the style to move it to the right and let text flow around it, and then rows with the information you want, styled however you like. Start by trying to generate an example of exactly what you want, just as a page, using normal wikitext. Once you're happy with it you can convert it into a template by copying it into the template namespace and changing pieces that should be replaceable/generic into template parameters. For example:

A corresponding Template with parameters for the name, image, born, and died fields might be: