Template talk:Infobox anatomy

Reason for default italics?

Is there a reason why italics are automatically applied to this infobox's above field? This results in italics for terms/topics that aren't rendered with italics in prose, like Nervous system and Bone and Latissimus dorsi muscle. I plan on removing this if there isn't a reason. — Goszei (talk) 03:31, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

I have removed this feature. Please ping me if a revert is needed. — Goszei (talk) 06:51, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. I never even noticed these were italicised and don’t know any reason why they need to be. Tom (LT) (talk) 09:30, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Add Cell Ontology IDs from Wikidata?

Hello! I currently cannot edit the template. It would be great to have the Cell Ontology IDs showing up in the "cell" subtemplate. The Wikidata property is https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7963 and it has a few thousand uses on Wikidata. CL is the most prominent source of cell type IDs currently; Wikipedia would benefit from having it in pages like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_blood_cell.

I'd be happy to do anything needed, just let me know. All the best, TiagoLubiana (talk) 21:00, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Template-protected edit request on 31 October 2025

Add image_class and image2_class parameters to the image and image2 rows, each populating the class= argument to the respective `InfoboxImage` invocation if the fields are provided. I am not fluent enough in Wikipedia template spec language to describe this in more detail, although it seems to involve a lot of curly brackets.

Currently, images in the Anatomy infobox cannot be flagged with the notpageimage class because the template cannot specify an image class. [Human penis]] uses this infobox, specifying a photograph suitable for the topic of the article as the image property. Currently, this image shows up in the search autocomplete popup; presumably due to the popularity of the subject, you need type only "Hum" for autocomplete to guess Human penis within its top six, causing the photograph to appear. Other articles exclude photographic depictions of genitalia from page image selection specifically to avoid this, but this infobox template does not provide a way to set the necessary CSS class. Thus, I propose providing it; I suspect many anatomical photos might not be suitable as thumbnails from search autocomplete, so I think it is a reasonable permanent feature for this template. Kistaro Windrider (talk) 03:44, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

 Done. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:41, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Add SNOMED CT IDs from Wikidata?

Could this template, please, automatically fill (import/transclude) the SNOMED CT anatomical values from Wikidata?

Could its daughter templates, such as {{Infobox nerve}} inherit this functionality?

For example, Wikidata item "vestibular nerve" has SNOMED CT identifier value 81686004 that links to:
https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/?perspective=full&conceptId1=81686004&languages=en

It would be nice if that ID (with the link underneath) showed up in Wikipedia article "Vestibular nerve", in the infobox.

Thanks,

Ion Soggo (talk) 01:38, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

• Disagree thanks for your suggestion but I don't think these terms contribute to the encyclopedic utility of this infobox. SNOWMED are basically a corpus of terms that are used mostly for billing & are not helpful from an access, gold standard term or ontological perspective in my mind. Previously we did a bit of a cleanup of the intoboxes so although I think it's great that you have come up with this idea, my opinion would be to keep them leaner rather than with links to Wikidata terms just because we have some. Tom (LT) (talk) 02:05, 27 November 2025 (UTC)