Template talk:Infobox Smasher/Archive 1

Old stuff

I think it would be better to discuss the smasher template rather than creating new ones. – Smiddle ( Talk • Conts ) 19:00, February 7, 2007 (GMT)

This is why nothing's getting done on SmashWiki--everyone's so hung up on discussing things before implementing them that nothing is getting done. Everyone's been "discussing" ideas for policies and standardization across the whole wiki for a long time now. I've decided to skip the bureaucracy and take action for a change. --Randall00 17:56, February 8, 2007 (GMT)

In an infobox there should only be facts related to the subject as a smasher. Age, nationality, and other stuff doesn't quite define that. Also, I think that not all the info should be in a box, some can be in the article. – Smiddle ( Talk • Conts ) 20:18, February 8, 2007 (GMT)

I'm not sure how that became the standard criteria. This is the Community section of SmashWiki after all. The demographics of the community and geographical locations of the various hubs that keep it alive are both pieces of information that people will want to know (and need to know if they want to participate as well). As with most stylistic elements of articles, the info can be presented both in the infobox and then, in greater detail, in the body of the article itself without too much community dissent. -- Randall00 17:50, February 12, 2007 (GMT)

PNG > GIF

I think we should have PNGs rather than GIFs because PNGs hav ethe possibility to carry more colours, and it's a lot easier to convert GIFs/JPGs to PNGs than converting PNGs/JPGs to GIFs for people without the correct software. – Smiddle ( Talk • Conts ) 18:26, February 12, 2007 (GMT)

You're referring to the flags? Hmm, it might be a good idea, I just figured that GIFs were fairly standardized across the board now and for such a small incidental graphic, I just picked the first flags I could find regardless of format or colour compatibility. I'll do a bit of hunting for flags in PNG format and maybe come up with the initiative to convert the existing ones, et al. :^) -- Randall00 20:53, February 12, 2007 (GMT)

There are a lot of flag PNGs at Wikipedia – Smiddle ( Talk • Conts ) 15:53, February 13, 2007 (GMT)

Appearance

I don't know how it appears on other browsers, but on Firefox at least, the background on which the name appears has very little contrast with the font color itself. I have a lot of trouble reading Jeff "Sgt. Saturn" without highlighting the text. I'm not sure where to change the colors to fix this problem. – MaskedMarth ^{(t c)} 18:11, February 15, 2007 (GMT)

The font color works just fine in IE, but remains dark in Firefox. I'll reverse the bg and the font colors (if I can find which ones work). – MaskedMarth ^{(t c)} 18:13, February 15, 2007 (GMT)

That is bizarre. I noticed that when I got home from work and opened up FireFox to find the colours a little wonky. hrmm...I guess I'll toy with that at home. --Randall00 18:50, February 15, 2007 (GMT)

Text recolouring doesn't seem to work well in FireFox. My sig, for example, is ugly in MFF but looks great in IE. – Smiddle ( Talk • Conts ) 15:31, February 16, 2007 (GMT)

A small problem

Is there any way that a second alias box could be created which would add another box to the template, in addition to the one that would add them to the title? -- Bean 00:18, February 19, 2007 (GMT)

I'm not quite sure what you mean. You mean moving the alias field into a new box or copying it into a new box? -- Randall00 15:15, February 22, 2007 (GMT)

Suggestion

Might I suggest a Past Crews box? Many notable players and others who have been in the community a long time have been in several crews. This would help people get a glimpse of someone's crew history. -- Bean 01:15, February 27, 2007 (GMT)

Consider this a bump ^_^. I would really like to see this implemented. Also, what is the general trend on editing templates which aren't your own? -- Bean 22:10, April 4, 2007 (GMT)

Naturally, if I couldn't take my editing (or my templates) being edited mercilessly, I wouldn't submit them here. :^) Please, by all means make that improvement if you like. I don't think it's not a good idea, I just don't have the time these days. -- Randall00 ^Talk 03:39, April 5, 2007 (GMT)

Ah ok. I'll probably get around to it tomorrow, provided I remember. ^_^ -- Bean 05:51, April 5, 2007 (GMT)

Characters

Could you unlink the main characters? They often link to disambig pages (like Captain Falcon instead of Captain Falcon (SSBM)) and it's troublesome to say "miscellaneous" or "every other character" (in Azen Zagenite's case). – MaskedMarth ^{(t c)} 14:44, March 2, 2007 (GMT)

Why not just leave the field blank? – Smiddle ( Talk • Conts ) 14:12, April 5, 2007 (GMT)

Former crews

Why can't this just go into the 'crews' field? – Smiddle ( Talk • Conts ) 22:00, April 5, 2007 (GMT)

It can, and I don't really see a problem with it. That's why it says "crew(s)". -- Randall00 ^Talk 00:13, April 6, 2007 (GMT)

This things cool

Just wanted to give you props for making this. It's really nice how it makes all the pages look neat and professional. -ToXn- 17:02, May 6, 2007 (GMT)

Haha, it's not much, but you're right, I think the flag really sells it. :^) -- Randall00 ^Talk 17:06, May 6, 2007 (GMT)

Unordered Lists...not working?

When I first built this template, I did a bunch of tests and came up with a bunch of results. Typically an asterisk (*) will produce an unordered list in the marked-up final product. Previously, I had it set up so that smashers that were in multiple crews would be able to place an asterisk before the crew name and have each crew listed with its own bullet vertically down the table. Now it doesn't work anymore....does anybody know why? Or was I dreaming when I did my initial tests? I'm pretty sure I even HAVE an article that I wrote in this database somewhere that has two crews displayed in that way, but I couldn't find it just speed-reading the contributions page. -- Randall00 ^Talk 17:41, June 18, 2007 (EDT)

3rd Main

I've been trying to add a third man, but template 3rdmain doesn't work. Is there a way to get it to work=??? [Johnknight1] 11:33 7 October (PCT)

Now supports Brawl chars

Infobox Smasher/Archive 1
Character info
Brawl mains	Fox, Falco

With the parameters of

mainssbb, 2ndmainssbb, otherssbb, 2ndotherssbb.

Also removed the "third other" from the template. I saw little use for people to be able to add 5 characters (might as well add them all, 10 with brawl included).

Sample code: {{Smasherbeta|mainssbb=Fox|main=Fox}} shows the box to the right.

I don't really want to add documentation on this atm, so if someone could see to that? --Sky (t | c | w) 00:33, February 20, 2008 (EST)

Tempting, though there is some more advanced coding in the works to help curb this issue. --RJM ^Talk 23:37, February 20, 2008 (EST)

The issue of using template:if? If so, I'm the one that poked KK about it. :P --Sky (t | c | w) 23:41, February 20, 2008 (EST)

I don't think so, no, but it will feed off of multiple templates and I wouldn't rule that one out. --RJM ^Talk 23:49, February 20, 2008 (EST)

Well, that was ambiguous. Send me a PM about it or something. :) --Sky (t | c | w) 00:25, February 21, 2008 (EST)

Huh. Obviously the skin was changed, but how did this specific template change colors? :o --Sky (t | c | w) 03:04, February 21, 2008 (EST)

The wiki pulls style elements from the back end CSS code that can occasionally "out-prioritize" those found in user-submitted modifications when using certain browsers. While I'm at work, Internet Explorer has surprisingly inconsistent colour schemes, but I have never had a problem with Firefox at home. --RJM ^Talk 16:18, February 21, 2008 (EST)

Once again, I understand. Template:If does have strange behaviour when comparing IE vs FF. I'll peak into the code of this template, see if I can fix coloring issues. --Sky (t | c | w) 18:16, February 23, 2008 (EST)

Categories

can we use #ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}} to place all smasher pages in the main namespace to be in "Category:Smasher pages in wrong namespace" or something? Logan - (Talk · Contributions) 01:06, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

We can indeed! I'll do that tonight in about an hour and a half. --Sky (t · c · w) 02:03, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Hmm... there's going to be a few smashers in the main space, such as Ken. What then? I can use a #switch, but I'm hesitant with certain parsers, and that's one of them. --Sky (t · c · w) 04:55, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

What if we add a notable pram along with checking the namespace? If notable=yes then "Category: Notable Smashers, if notable=no or nothing then "Category:Non-notable Smasher pages in wrong namespace", would that work? Then the bot only needs to move the non-notable pages. Logan - (Talk · Contributions) 12:32, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Then we have the same issue we have currently with people telling others they're better than they really are. Hrm. --Sky (t · c · w) 22:03, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Proposed removal of Brawl code

Due to SW:UTPG and SW:NOT, I think it would be beneficial to remove the brawl code section, because less people will approach with "Hey wanna brawl? I already have you in."Smoreking^(T) _(c) 00:01, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Why is this fully protected?

I was about to put in some new code as discussed on my talk page before discovering that the page is fully protected. The protection reason is given as "saving the job queue". What's that mean? Toomai Glittershine eXemplary Logic 21:10, 2 August 2009 (UTC)