The template Died in Military Service does not display, can this be fixed?

Question

The template for Died in Military Service use to work - but now it does not.

Can it be repaired?

It was introduced here: There is now a template for Died in Military Service.

The template page is here Template:Died in Military

It is in use on many profiles including Robert Floyd Graham.

 

Answer 1

It took me a few minutes, but I found the problem! On that profile, you're calling Template:Died In Military Service instead of Template:Died in Military Service (note the capitalisation of "in"). Apparently the one you called has previously been used, but is now "retired" according to the template page. That's why you got a broken version of the one you were trying to call.

I'll edit the broken one now to be a redirect to the current one; that way both template calls will work correctly.

Comments

Thank you.

Unfortunately the template has been modified from its original purpose.  It now adds the category KIA, but that is not correct.

This template was developed to cover those that died in military service from all causes not just KIA.  It includes disease, accident - any death while in service.

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The Died in Military Service Template always added KIA who ever made the template added the wrong category I did ask ages ago about this that is one reason I never used it

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OK,

Maybe we can get it fixed now.

Phil

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Thank you Phil it really does need fixing

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I have person per his pension record who was suppose to died at Andersonville Prision I added tried to add template but it red. Could someone check this out. 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Callahan-2244#

Billie

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long after the fact....  but....  you had [[Died In Military Service]] using [[ ]] which is a category, and not formatted correctly, not the template {{Died in Military Service }}

that template was merged with other and is now {{Roll of Honor}}... and we have added a couple new categories to include Died while Prisoner of War

I updated profile to use that.