User talk:Town of Cats

Hey there,

I noticed you updated Beokros and Keaghan (Boss) recently (on December 11th). I don't understand why you moved the information out of Template:Enemy and put it separately into the article instead. This has broken transclusions of the templates, for instance here (see 'Monsters found').

I looked at the diff but I don't see what exactly you updated. Could you please tell me the reason for your edit? In any case I suggest that we try to find a solution which incorporates putting everything back into the template (as I already did at Keaghan (Boss)) as lots of this wiki rely on transcluding (information from) pages into other pages.

Thanks for your attention, Andreas Willow 20:53, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
 * He was just following the newest Page Model present on most S2 pages so far. In fact, we noticed this wiki relies too much on page templates and we're moving data out of those templates to have more of a wiki format. I understand this breaks transclusion on the older Battle Page templates so we decided to wait until a better plugin for transcluding which will be added in a few weeks. Until then, current battle pages and monster pages should stay how they are while users are free to upload the newer pages following the new page models. If you want to discuss this feel free to join us on the wiki IRC. --Nedigo 22:41, 15 December 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree that the transclusion-to-everywhere syntax is somewhat difficult to understand (being a relative newcomer myself). The sharing of information, however, appears to be quite useful for including 'parts' of another page automatically.


 * Would it perhaps be an idea to still condense some of the parameters of a page (e.g. item stats) into an onlyinclude template? Or do you prefer that if several pages use identical information, that this is just copy-pasted? The advantage of templates (obviously) is that if Nexon changes a lot of stuff, it's a lot less work to update the wiki. Having the same info being copied all over again and again seems like a heavy price to pay... e.g. when you would have to completely hand-write all item pages because you cannot transclude the set anymore. Am I too late to join in on the discussion on the migration from template transclusion to copy-pasting? Andreas Willow 08:01, 16 December 2012 (UTC)