Need help with military template.

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I need help please understanding the Military template.  My father was in the Philippines during WWII and I get this on the profile.

Country of Service not entered / not in table 
John Rollet served in the US Army in World War II 

Enlisted: Nov 10, 1944 
Regiment/Unit: 143rd FA BN Philippines 
Discharged: Oct 30, 1946 

I have the template shown as:
{{ World War II  |  US Army | Nov 10, 1944 | 143rd FA BN Philippines | Oct 30, 1946 }}

What am I doing wrong?

WikiTree profile: John Rollet
in Policy and Style by Karen Lorenz G2G6 Pilot (132k points)
His profile is green locked so no one can look at the edits page to see what you're missing.
I displayed both what shows up and what the template is in the question above.  I will fix the privacy level as well.

3 Answers

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Best answer

Karen,

The template will properly be dispayed just by replacing "US Army" with "United States Army".

Try and see how it looks.

by Rubén Hernández G2G6 Pilot (827k points)
selected by Keith McDonald

Rubén is correct, the template has known countries/branches that were involved, if you spell it differently, to include using a different case, the template code cannot match the country/branch data to the appropriate flag.

if you look at the template, it has a chart of the countries and the branches of service in each  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:World_War_II

we try to have the flag, and names, match what was used for that war.  if you see something wrong, such as a different flag image for that period, or needs to be added, a country or branch not listed, let us (Project Leaders, or me) know and we can update the template code to accept the corrected data.

Karen, with the profile now open... I see that you have several biography information lines above the ==Biography== header, you should move those below it.

Also, you have {{WW II}} which is a project box as well as {{World War II}} which is the sticker.  A profile box should only be on profiles that are managed and/or project protected by that project, which does not appear to be the case for this profile.

+3 votes
You are not doing anything wrong. The template has been changed to a project box so now the data doesn't show. Admin is working on changing templates again to stickers so there will be another change very soon. As soon as the new change is in place, we will see if we can get them to make it so that the information shows again.
by Paula J G2G6 Pilot (280k points)
Just to be clear, the way it looks on your profile is how is supposed to look for now.
I promise to keep on top of this.  We have a lot of military templates and the WWII and Civil War ones are always the ones that don't work right after a change.
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