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Introduction

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The purpose of this page is for my use as a personal sandbox, to develop article content without running the risk of either interfering with main space articles in any way, or of causing edit conflicts.

At the moment, I am using it solely to develop a new infobox (no prose) for the article on the Thirteen Colonies, initially by merging selected fields from two existing infoboxes: British America and British North America, and perhaps other infoboxes if necessary.

Current infobox from the 'British America' article

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British America and the British West Indies
1607–1783
Flag of British America
British colonies in North America which were part of British America (red) at its peak, and other dependencies held by the British Crown at the time (pink)
British colonies in North America which were part of British America (red) at its peak, and other dependencies held by the British Crown at the time (pink)
StatusColonies of England (1607–1707)
Colonies of Great Britain (1707–1783)
CapitalAdministered from London, England
Common languagesEnglish, French, many indigenous languages
Religion
Anglicanism, Protestantism, Judaism, Roman Catholic, Native American religion
GovernmentConstitutional monarchy
Monarch 
• 1607–1625
James I & VI (first)
• 1760–1783
George III (last)
History 
1585
1607
1620
1663
1670
1713
1763
1783
CurrencyPound sterling, Spanish dollar, colonial money, bills of credit, commodity money and many local currencies
Preceded by
Succeeded by
New Netherland
New France
Spanish Florida
British North America
British West Indies
United States
Spanish Florida
Today part of Anguilla
 Antigua and Barbuda
 Bahamas
 Barbados
 Belize
 Bermuda
 British Virgin Islands
 Canada
 Cayman Islands
 Dominica
 Grenada
 Guyana
 Honduras
 Jamaica
 Mexico
 Montserrat
 Nicaragua
 Saint Kitts and Nevis
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 Trinidad and Tobago
 Turks and Caicos
 United States

Current infobox from the 'British North America' article

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British North America
1783–1907
Flag of British North America
StatusColonies of Great Britain (1783–1800)
Colonies of the United Kingdom (1801–1907)
CapitalAdministered from London, England
Common languagesEnglish, French
Religion
Anglicanism
Monarch 
• 1783–1820
George III
• 1820–1830
George IV
• 1830–1837
William IV
• 1837–1901
Victoria
• 1901–1907
Edward VII
History 
1783
1818
1867
1868
1871
1873
1907
CurrencyPound sterling, Canadian pound, Canadian dollar
Preceded by
Succeeded by
British America
Canada
Dominion of Newfoundland
Today part of Canada  United States

References

  1. ^ British Columbia Terms of Union The Solon Law Archive
  2. ^ "Prince Edward Island Terms of Union". Solon.org. 8 December 1995. Retrieved 18 April 2013.

Draft infobox to add to the 'Thirteen Colonies' article

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This section is for the development of the new infobox, during the next few days.
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 00:15, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

 DonePdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 12:01, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
Thirteen Colonies
1607–1783
Flag of Thirteen Colonies
Map of present-day USA with the thirteen original colonies highlighted.
Map of present-day USA with the thirteen original colonies highlighted.
StatusColonies of England (1607–1707)
Colonies of Great Britain (1707–1783)
CapitalAdministered from London, England
Common languagesEnglish, French, many indigenous languages
Religion
Anglicanism, Protestantism, Judaism, Roman Catholic, Native American religion
GovernmentConstitutional monarchy
Monarch 
• 1607–1625
James I & VI (first)
• 1760–1783
George III (last)
History 
1585
1607
1620
1663
1670
1713
1763
1783
CurrencyPound sterling,
colonial money,
bills of credit,
commodity money.
Preceded by
New Netherland
Today part of United States

References

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Experiment: Telling a story with userboxes ツ

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Yesterday, I wondered whether it might be possible to use various userbox features as a basic form of storyboard, to tell a short story. Both sideboxes could be used for setting the scene and background, including picture files, while the 'info' tags can be used for the script.
The little story (below, right) shows an experimental example, which was quite fun to do and came together very quickly.
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk) (guestbook) 11:04, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Tag: [[User:Pdebee/My sandbox2#Experiment: Telling a story with userboxes ツ|here]]

Note: See Help:Collapsing for a different solution, for subtitling.