User talk:Jean inkura
Hey, Jean! Template:CMBSite has existed since long before I became Wiki Manager (or even joined EVE University!). I'm not super fond of it, and I'd like to eventually phase it out because it's massive and unwieldy, but that fact that it's an all-in-one template that is fairly easy to follow means that until I come up with a better alternative, I can't easily get rid of it. I'd like to avoid making it any bigger, so I'm going to say no specifically to making {{Combat Anomalies}} a permanent component of {{CMBSite}} itself, but you are more than welcome to include it in your articles separately.
As far as usage, it appears that you can control the collapsed and visible sections using a faction name as the template's argument, so you wouldn't necessarily be using {{Combat Anomalies|Blood}} in all cases, though you've likely figured that out. I do like {{Combat Anomalies}} as a template very much, so it will definitely be sticking around, and it may even get some additional attention in the future, depending on whether certain plans come to fruition. Thank you again for all your hard work! - Djavin novienta (talk) 14:51, 9 June 2017 (CDT)
- Thanks for the quick answer. I guess I was under the impression that the CMBSite template was created to streamline the display and format of the anomaly pages for consistency and uniformity, which it does well. I'm not sure why you would want to phase it out. While I get that it is massive, it certainly isn't hard to use, quite the opposite in fact. Calling the
{{Combat Anomalies}}template within the{{CMBSite}}template would be default (no user added argument), saving the time consuming manual editing to add it to every single page. Although an optional "faction" argument would be nice, allowing to show by default, within the table, all other anomalies available for that particular page's featured Faction. Isn't this the perfect example of a template's purpose? --Jean inkura (talk) 16:56, 9 June 2017 (CDT)
{{Combat Anomalies|{{{Faction|}}} }}
