Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-3406131-20150911144716

Hi!

I am currently trying to fix the templates, but due to a lack of knowledge, it's basically looking for patterns and try to reproduce them.

But to be honest, the templates are kind of a mess. They aren't written the same way. For examples, I've modified the item template (who doesn't exist on the edit bar, btw) by adding a thing on quotation part (in order to implement the quotation system existing on character' pages) from character template, but I had to left most part I didn't really knew where to put. Result: Kymel_(Beverage)

Other problems exist:
 * All templates do not treat the information equally:
 * The second fields on infobox doesn't always exist
 * The races templates left blank automatically add stuff like "None known". The answer I had last time I talk about it was "well editors who see that may edit". But if there is none, why talk about it. That's kind of a point in other points: "Talking about what is known, not speculate". In character, except for history text, no other field has that effect.

I was thinking we should work on the templates this way:
 * Elaborate generic replacement with similar options
 * Add hidden non-code text to explain on the top of the page the different settings to respect regarding punctuation, etc., and the same to each part of the template
 * Personalize them (regarding how we deal with those currently)
 * Replace the old ones.

Anyone interested ? Are there main coders among us (I already know Warblade and Mrkermit have more skills than most of the people here). 