Talk:Game Record (boilerplate)

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Template

I was thinking .. this page serves as a good example of the style we're aiming for (or will, when we finish deciding what that style is ;)), but it's a little cumbersome to use as a template. I'm thinking about creating a stripped down boilerplate template. It would have every section and template that you should need for a game, but only once with the intention that the user can copy and paste to suit their needs. The person creating a game page could subst the page in to where it's going, and then go in and fill in the details. --YYCguy 08:14, 21 August 2007 (MDT)

'boilerplate' is a better word for what i'm trying to create, so yeah, i'm not actually thinking of creating an actual 'template' for games, just a guide for styling & such...-- LyingBrian 15:56, 21 August 2007 (MDT)

Moved it to a title that seemed a little more descriptive. I admit I was confused at first, and daunted with the idea of trying to use everything in this in one table. -- Mr. Flay 17:41, 21 August 2007 (MDT)

Adding text

I strongly feel that we should have more text describing what's going on.

BillyBob (Townie) - blue

is overly concise. It should say something like:

• BillyBob, a Psychotic Townsperson, was killed by the Mafia.

This provides the same information in a much better manner. Conciseness is nice, but why is everyone so vehemently opposed including details and spelling things out clearly? Everyone seems fixated on abbreviations and shorthand notation. I'm trying to look at this OBJECTIVELY! Stop concentrating on how the "in crowd" does things and make this place accessible to everyone. SigmaEpsilon (talk) 21:15, 21 August 2007 (MDT)

I agree that we can make some of the game info more user friendly. Especially with the compressed timeline section, it's a little non-sensical. --YYCguy 17:55, 22 August 2007 (MDT)

actually i think a table would be great here too... hmmm, i think i'm going to experiment w/ a table-only page, see how it looks...
-- LyingBrian 18:27, 22 August 2007 (MDT)

Now that I've got {{vtable}} up, I could start working on {{tlx|ntable}}. The only issue is that I don't know how many player to make it for... SigmaEpsilon (talk) 12:57, 23 August 2007 (MDT)

I'm not really seeing the point of putting votes into a template. A boilerplate, yes, but since games vary in size from 5-50, how many parameters are we really going to try to account for?? Also, what does ntable propose to do? -- Mr. Flay 14:26, 23 August 2007 (MDT)

ntable would be a table for the "night choices". I'm trying to make these as easy as possible for mods to input, and as easy as possible for people to read. As far as the number of parameters go, MediaWiki has no limit. It's just up to me to make them all. Input will be very easy, and similar to the whole "separate everything by pipes" style that already seems prevalent.

Table only version

ok i made a table only version... let me know what you think... the tables need a little bit of work, i'm sure... here's the link: Newbie 1/Tables
-- LyingBrian 16:20, 23 August 2007 (MDT)

dead players' night choices

Why do we list the night choices of dead players? If the "result" is always "n/a", why bother listing that person at all? SigmaEpsilon (talk) 16:50, 26 August 2007 (MDT)

I don't know either. I wouldn't list them myself. Their presence there makes no sense. Somestrangeflea 16:52, 26 August 2007 (MDT)

Gamebox & TOCRight

I do not like having the combination of TOCRight and Gamebox. Both are meant to be floated right, and having one beside the other looks a bit weird... Somestrangeflea 12:20, 27 August 2007 (MDT)

is that better?... i have a couple problems w/ this setup, though i'll admit, they're probably minor... 1st problem... the right edges of the Gamebox & TOCright don't line up... don't ask me why, i'm not sure, but they don't... 2nd problem, if you have a bigger game say w/ 10 days & nights, the 'Table of Contents' is too long, and doesn't fit on the screen for those of us w/ smaller screens... plus i like the way the Gamebox & TOCright create a frame for the page... meh, it's not a big deal to me, but i do prefer it the other way...
-- LyingBrian 16:42, 27 August 2007 (MDT)

I was the one who originally changed it. right now, the lines under the headings collide with the Gamebox and TOC. This is a bug in MediaWiki, so there is not much we can do about it. I tried to rearrange things so that the lines didn't hit anything, but apparently it didn't look very good. SigmaEpsilon (talk)

vote counts2

so why do we need vote counts on the wiki pages of a game? we could easily condense the information to include just the players on the lynchee's wagon...
-- LyingBrian 02:37, 5 September 2007 (MDT)