User talk:Roy

Templates

Umm... what are you doing with all these templates? You've obviously copied them all from somewhere else. Wikipedia? Please stop doing this until we get a chance to discuss it. --Indirik (talk), Editor (talk) 12:55, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Wanted to add a NavBox which I found on wikipedia, but it seemed to require a lot of templates. If it's illegal what I'm doing please say so, then I will stop. Roy 12:58, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

With something that requires this much effort and templates, please don't make such a major change without discussing it first. BattleMaster wiki does not need anywhere near the complexity and flexibility that WikiPedia does. Also, this wiki may not have all the extensions and code modifications that wikipedia does, so some of their complex templates just won't work. Perhaps if we knew why you wanted this, or what you were trying to accomplish, we could do the same thing, but much easier. --Indirik (talk), Editor (talk) 13:01, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Just wanted to add a navbox for my own page, like one [1], only then different. But I'll list the templates I added down on my user page, to have a quick overview of what I've been doing. -- Roy 13:06, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

It is a nice looking template, but there are much simpler ways to do that than to add all those templates. Also there are a couple problems: First, if you're only going to use it on your page, i.e. in one place, then don't use a template. Templates are for things that will appear on several pages. Second, that particular template includes quite a lot of extra features and capabilities that we won't ever use. There's absolutely no reason to be adding 40 or 50 templates to this wiki just to get a nice looking table. For an application like this, you should just either code the table manually on your page, or develop a simplified template that is more appropriate to this wiki. Third, if you bring something over from Wikipedia, make sure you comply with the Wikipedia licensing terms, and that those terms are compatible with this wiki's licensing terms. Feel free to come to IRC and discuss this. Just look for "Indirik", I'm usually in the main channel. --Indirik (talk), Editor (talk) 13:26, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Well, I listed everything down, I guess, or almost. But here you don't really have pages which explains how to make such tables, that's why I copied them from wikipedia. But I'll come on IRC, lets continue there - Roy 13:32, 23 October 2009 (UTC)