Template talk:Faction Infobox

Template code

In the template there is a lot of unneeded information:

{{#switch: {{{origin}}}
| outcast = {{House Link | Outcasts | long}}
| Outcast = {{House Link | Outcasts | long}}
| outcasts = {{House Link | Outcasts | long}}
| Outcasts = {{House Link | Outcasts | long}}
...
| #default = {{{origin}}}}}
}}

You only need to have the house links in there ONCE, I originally put the extra lines in for people that failed to capitalize or misspelled their entries. All you need is to do is similar to the following example and all cases will work equally:

| outcast
| Outcast
| outcasts
| Outcasts = {{House Link | Outcasts | long}}

In this example, all 4 lines will use the Outcasts House Link without having to put the = and template on each line.

Also, I am currently improving on the Faction Infobox on another wiki, making it more friendly to NPC pages. The only thing is people on GC would need to start using the | type = NPC line. ~RogueCharlie~ ^{(Blabs • Ego)} 07:56, 9 June 2012 (CEST)

Dates

LoTeK posted this edit summary for Kusari Naval Forces (player faction):

"Removed founding date, parameter format not friendly...I would like to put a real date, eventually with a sirius one. Any ideas?"

He tried to put a real date (2007) and the template added "A.S." after it as if it was a Freelancer date.

I see two possible options. Either we add a new field to the Faction Infobox for the real date the player faction was founded or we don't use real dates in the infobox. In my opinion, the latter suits us more. When the player faction was formed is less useful for most people reading about it, the in-game background of the faction should be emphasized. If the faction wants to include the real founding date, it could always be included in an OoRP section in the actual article.

What do the rest of you think?

-- Eyvind (talk • contrib) 01:56, 25 February 2009 (MST)

I wholeheartedly agree. I believe all OORP information should be in a separate section of every article. -Tazuras