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The template gives the following sections by default, which you can expand, delete, or modify as needed: Lead: introduce event; Infobox: structured summary of event details, including when/where and social media; Event details: when, where, who, what you will need; Schedule of events: add schedule; Acknowledgements: add acknowledgements
The Manual of Style (Games summary – Events) sets out the style guidelines recommended by the WikiProject Olympics to achieve a consistent format for articles describing the results of specific events at an edition of the Olympic Games or Paralympic Games (e.g. Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race, Skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's).
The purpose of this template is to provide an infobox summary for articles on specific events of a championship or games, for example Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres. This template is designed for usage on any grouping of articles which describe individual competitions within a broader sports event.
{{Infobox event}} should be used to specify one-off events, usually at the top of an article. For recurring events, use {{Infobox recurring event}}. For other type of events, check: [[Wikipedia:List of infoboxes]] Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers block formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Title title event name Event_Name Name of the event ...
The HTML mark-up produced by this template includes an hCalendar microformat that makes event details readily parsable by computer programs. This aids tasks such as the cataloguing of articles and maintenance of databases. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please visit the Microformat WikiProject.
|event=: text summary of the event. Can include wikilinks. Optional if |location= entered |location=: location of the event, if not included in the summary. Can include wikilinks. Optional if |event= entered; Place references outside the template where possible.
Note that many templates can appear in more than one subcategory: e.g. Template:Infobox squash player is in both Category:Sports infobox templates and Category:Sportsperson infobox templates. To facilitate finding infoboxes of interest, many WikiProjects will list infoboxes that are often used for their areas of interest on their main Project ...
Note that the template opens two nested tables and closes only the inner one. Therefore, after the template call and optional extra table rows, a closing tag is required. Without extra rows we have a header in a double box, while with text in the extra row(s) we get that text in the outer box below the boxed header.