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Line 28: ::I wonder what I need to do to get this to work: ::{{Country populations\|hide_years=true\|ARG\|BOL\|BRA\|COL\|PER\|VEN\|CHL\|ECU\|PRY\|URY\|GUY\|GUF\|SUR\|FLK}} :::Yeah, well, I know it works like that{{--}}{{tlx\|Country populations\|hide_years=true\|ARG\|BOL\|BRA\|COL\|PER\|VEN\|CHL\|ECU\|PRY\|URY\|GUY\|GUF\|SUR\|FLK}}{{--}}but what I really wanted was: :::<code><nowiki>{{Country populations\|{{List of countries in South America\|ISO=y}}}}</nowiki></code> :::<nowiki>{{Country populations\|{{List of countries in South America\|ISO=y}}}}</nowiki> :::The motive here is replicating the good work you did with {{tl\|Country populations}} to, say, {{tl\|Country areas}}, {{tl\|Country densities}}, etc, so that the list of countries in each region could be centrally maintained in a single template for each. — [[User:Guarapiranga\|𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚]] [[User talk:Guarapiranga\|☎]] 21:59, 13 June 2021 (UTC) :::: The problem there is that the result of that is to set parameter <nowiki>{{para\|1\|{{List of countries in South America\|ISO=y}}}}</nowiki>. :::: I don't think you can use a template to supply a series of parameters. The solutions is to get the module to handle a list (e.g. comma delimited). If the module is handling it, then the lists may as well be stored in a subpage and be provided a via a parameter, e.g. {{para\|list=South America}}. — <span style="font-family:Arial;background:#d6ffe6;border:solid 1px;border-radius:5px;box-shadow:darkcyan 0px 1px 1px;"> [[User:Jts1882\|Jts1882]] \|[[User talk:Jts1882\| talk]] </span> 08:24, 14 June 2021 (UTC) {{Country populations\|list=North America}} The above table is generated with <code><nowiki>{{Country populations\|list=North America}}</nowiki></code>. The list of countries is stored in a table as follows: {{smalldiv\|1= <pre> local country_lists = { ['South America'] = { "ARG","BOL","BRA","CHL","COL","ECU","GUY","PRY","PER","SUR","URY","VEN","BVT","FLK","SGS","GUF" }, ['North America'] = { "ATG","BHS","BLZ","BRB","CAN","CRI","CUB","DMA","DOM","GRD","GTM","HND","HTI","JAM","KNA","LCA","MEX","NIC","PAN","SLV","TTO","USA","VCT" }, ['Arab countries'] = { "EGY","DZA","SDN","IRQ","MAR","SAU","YEM","SYR","TUN","JOR","ARE","LBN","LBY","PSE","OMN","KWT","MRT","QAT","BHR","DJI","COM" } } </pre>}} At the moment it is just a local variable in the function, but I suggest putting them in a subpage of the module. Then the subpage can be used by other modules. — <span style="font-family:Arial;background:#d6ffe6;border:solid 1px;border-radius:5px;box-shadow:darkcyan 0px 1px 1px;"> [[User:Jts1882\|Jts1882]] \|[[User talk:Jts1882\| talk]] </span> 16:26, 14 June 2021 (UTC) :Yep, that's useful. Unfortunately, the other aim I had in mind [[User:Guarapiranga/sandbox/4\|''no worky'']] — [[User:Guarapiranga\|𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚]] [[User talk:Guarapiranga\|☎]] 06:05, 15 June 2021 (UTC) == Bug == Something's gone awry with the module, {{u\|Jts1882}}. Look at the missing 2nd figures column heading, and that the projected populations are lower than the latest (2019) estimate: [[List of African countries by population]]. Cheers. — [[User:Guarapiranga\|Guarapiranga]] [[User talk:Guarapiranga\|☎]] 03:20, 29 July 2021 (UTC) : The module gets the dates and data from [[List of countries by population (United Nations)]]. You changed the section labels with [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations)&diff=prev&oldid=1028473924 this edit], so the date calculations no longer work correctly. You can also see that the first date column header is missing in [[List of African countries by population]]. — <span style="font-family:Arial;background:#d6ffe6;border:solid 1px;border-radius:5px;box-shadow:darkcyan 0px 1px 1px;"> [[User:Jts1882\|Jts1882]] \|[[User talk:Jts1882\| talk]] </span> 07:09, 29 July 2021 (UTC) : Yes, and additionally in [[List of African countries by population]], [[Guinea-Bissau]] is missing. Does anyone know what is causing this bug? I wasn't able to follow the explanation above. I can't see anything problematic in the UN source list. [[User:Cstanford.math\|Cstanford.math]] ([[User talk:Cstanford.math\|talk]]) 19:19, 2 September 2021 (UTC) :: {{ping\|Cstanford.math}}. The section labels weren't set properly in the page with the population data ([[List of countries by population (United Nations)]]). I've set them now (with [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations)&diff=1042107588&oldid=1040221976 this edit]) and the previous module version of [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_African_countries_by_population&action=submit List of African countries by population] seems to work (you may need to display it in edit preview due to caching). — <span style="font-family:Arial;background:#d6ffe6;border:solid 1px;border-radius:5px;box-shadow:darkcyan 0px 1px 1px;"> [[User:Jts1882\|Jts1882]] \|[[User talk:Jts1882\| talk]] </span> 07:22, 3 September 2021 (UTC)