Thread:Justvisitin/@comment-1536121-20120825184607/@comment-5222017-20120825200524

Hey!

I’m a little hesitant to add to the Category namespace, because I don’t want to have my work deleted again without discussion – as happened before. For now, I’m trying to keep most of my work in my private namespace. If others like it, I’m all for moving it to the general namespaces.

The template that might be most useful should be User:Justvisitin/ad. It does very little, but I think it could be highly effective. All it does is replace “biome|tier” with the approrpiate name of the currently active dino.

Let‘s say people like this idea and we change the name of the template to Template:AD (for “active dino”). We would then go through our pages and templates and replace all places where we mention dinos based on wether they are active with a parameterized template invokation, e.g., we’d replace Giant Sloth with  , Ingridia with    etc.

Once the active dino changes, we’d only have to make one change in one place (Template:AD) instead of all over the place.

Personally, I think we should factor out many more of the values we reuse all over the place. E.g., in how many places do we use color to indicate the biome? We should have a template Template:AirColor (or, if you’re concerned about cluttering the namespace, ) where the value of the color we use for the Air biome is saved, kind of like a global variable.

There are many other instances where we could and in my opinion should do similar templating, basically everywhere where information is duplicated.