Forum:Smasherspace editing template

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Yeah, very descriptive title on my part, but that's mostly because I don't actually know what to call such templates.

Anyways.

One of our admins has a habit of going full-on passive-aggressive when it comes to smasher articles being created without a relevant results table. While I don't much cotton for his lack of tact and rather indirect way of enforcing policy, he does have a point, I feel.

I know some pages will kick up a warning when editors try to edit them, such as how trying to edit while not logged on kicks up a warning, or how editing pages above 32,000 kilobytes kicks up another warning. Would the userbase be down with a similar template that appears when a smasher article is being created that states "bladdy blah blah blah try to include a results table" or nah?

--- Monsieur Crow, Author Extraordinaire, 14:24, 2 July 2017 (EDT)

That would be quite helpful, but there is one potential flaw I see in it: What if it's an already-created smasher article and it already has a results table? Doesn't that kinda defeat the point in those cases? Disaster Flare (talk) 15:22, 2 July 2017 (EDT)

The key phrase being "when a smasher article is being created".

Part of the reason I bring it up is not only because I want to see if there's support for this idea, but also because I don't actually know if MediaWiki could support such a proposal. Wanted to see if people would be on board first before I bug either Toomai or Porple about it.

--- Monsieur Crow, Author Extraordinaire, 15:30, 2 July 2017 (EDT)

I'll mention send this on Discord to get people involved. Disaster Flare (talk) 17:04, 2 July 2017 (EDT)