Wikipedia:Requested templates/Other/2006/July
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[edit] Tales of Symphonia
I'd like to request a template that would link together articles related to the videogame Tales of Symphonia. There are a number of articles built around the subject, but they are scattered haphazardly in links. One trying to find information on various subjects would be forced to either search individually or search for links within independent articles.
Here are some of the articles that would be linked together: Lloyd Irving Mithos Yggdrasill Cruxis Kratos Aurion Eternal Sword Desians Kharlan War Martel Sylvarant Tethe'alla And there are more still. Having one common template to link these together would be, I feel, very beneficial.
- Is Category:Tales of Symphonia characters not sufficient somehow? If you make sure all of the characters in in the category (by adding
[[Category:Tales of Symphonia characters]]) at the bottom, they will all be in this category. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:02, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Be aware of talk page
I would like to have a template which read more or less the following:
- This article has been the subject of extensive discussions concerning its wording. Please consult the talk page before performing any substantial changes to this article.
The rationale is the article Euro which has had a longer discussion of wether one should write 5 euro or 5 euros. A consensus seems to have been established, but every so often someone comes in and changes all occurences of euro into euros. I would like a template to warn them not to be too bold about editing an article which has had extensive discussions before reaching consensus. The templates Template:Disputed* could be used, but they are meant for talk pages, and this template should go on the main page. The article is not really in any factual dispute, as a consensus seems to have been reached. The template should not discourage boldness either, just make sure that no substantial changes are made before the talk page is consulted. Bfg 16:51, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
- In general, people add statements like yours as comments, so that they are only visible when editing the article. You could add the following to the beginning of the article:
<!--XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX--> <!--XXX XXX--> <!--XXX This article has been the subject of XXX--> <!--XXX extensive discussions concerning its XXX--> <!--XXX wording. Please consult the talk page XXX--> <!--XXX before performing any substantial XXX--> <!--XXX changes to this article. Thank you. XXX--> <!--XXX XXX--> <!--XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-->
- and that text would only show up when someone goes to edit the page. — Reinyday, 01:26, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
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- I think that such a warning simply would not be enough, given most edits in such a big article is done on the subheading level.
- What we could need might be a template that was only visible on the edit page, but would be visible for all editing. Would that be feasible? Bfg 14:46, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Trademark template
I was looking for a treademark template to add to a page BitTorrent to indicate that the name BitTorrent is a trademark. It seems to me that a template that puts a small box indicating that the word/phrase given as a paramater is a trademark (or registered trademark) would be usefull on many pages. Trapper 18:06, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
- Does the trademark symbol (®) not suffice? You can copy and paste the unicode character, or input it using the HTML code
®. -- Rick Block (talk) 04:36, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Evolving technology??
Or something similar. See Blu-ray Disc which at the moment is using the "current event" template at Template:Current; however this is not the purpose of that template, and there does not seem to be an appropriate one available. The purpose of a new template would be to replace Template:Future product once the product was released, but still rapidly evoloving. --Notmicro 02:14, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
- You might want to bring this up at Portal:Technology (or its talk page). There doesn't seem to be a category for emerging technologies (although there is an article Emerging technologies). The template itself is a fairly trivial matter (copy and paste the current events template). -- Rick Block (talk) 04:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Template:As of
Given that the use of As of is considered a violation of standards (but is used due to lack of a good alternative), I was fiddling with using a template. However, I keep running into dead-ends. My current solution is workable, but has the cost of a blank space. Please see my page for the sample, see Template:As of for what I have so far, and Wikipedia_talk:As_of to see the discussion about As of. --Scott McNay 06:30, 30 July 2006 (UTC).
Update: I made a category, which seems to be the best solution so far. Changing the category name to something like "To be reviewed in" or "Needs review in" might be a good idea also, as in "To be reviewed in 2007" or "Needs review in 2007". --Scott McNay 07:12, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
- I suggest discussion about this continue at Wikipedia_talk:As_of, rather than here. -- Rick Block (talk) 15:33, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
