Template talk:Archived-Build

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 * Assassin
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 * Mesmer
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 * Necromancer
 * Paragon
 * Ranger
 * Ritualist
 * Team
 * Warrior

&mdash; Rapta   (talk|contribs) 18:41, 28 December 2008 (EST)
 * Ranger's Done.  ~ PheNaxKian Sysop   19:01, 28 December 2008 (EST)
 * I'm doing some mesmer [[Image:Zefirsig.jpg|19px]] God Zefir  19:06, 28 December 2008 (EST)
 * And a lot of them don't have any votes. Hell, one of them was trashed, so I'll let someone else take care of the rest. [[Image:Zefirsig.jpg|19px]] God Zefir  19:12, 28 December 2008 (EST)
 * Use build history. &mdash; Rapta  [[image:Rapta_Icon1.gif|19px]] (talk|contribs) 19:13, 28 December 2008 (EST)
 * ^like Rapta said. Most of them are probably from GWiki, which i've just put as "Good"  ~ PheNaxKian Sysop   19:14, 28 December 2008 (EST)

Is there a valid reason not to shorten this template? It's miserable. Karate  Jesus  22:04, 19 November 2009
 * what do you mean shorten? Shorten what?  ~ PheNaxKian talk  22:34, November 19, 2009 (UTC)
 * If you mean make it like the Great/Good tags, then that would be pretty bad since we'd have to go update the template on every single archived build. Might be feasible once we get the bot up and running, but no chance until then. Toraen TheJanitor [[image:ToraenSig2.png]] 23:43, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm thoroughly confused here >.>. It's already like the great/good tags with the exception you have to put a reason, a date and a couple of words extra :/. In fact, precisely because it uses multiple types of information we can't just put .  ~ PheNaxKian  talk  00:02, November 20, 2009 (UTC)
 * Couldn't we remove all the date= shit and just make it necessary on category? so... ?
 * If we didn't have the date people would see them and not even know when the build was used or stopped seeing play. Date is fine stop being lazy. --Frosty  [[Image:Frostcharge.jpg|19px]] 01:29, November 20, 2009 (UTC)
 * We have date=, reason=, type=, category. I'm saying we should remove all those nonsense words that ONLY appear on the archive tag, and organize it like all the other tags. Life   Guardian  01:47, November 20, 2009 (UTC)
 * again, we need those words because otherwise you hvae to put it in a specific order. you can't have half and half either. It's jsut infinatly easier to take 2 seconds to type a bit more than have to spend minuets getting everything in the right order. Not to mention if we did change it we'd have to go through and change all the archived tags :/  ~ PheNaxKian talk  12:00, November 20, 2009 (UTC)

Forget I ever said anything, tbh. I forgot that if we changed this, we'd have to re-tag every single archived build....which....I just don't want to do. <font color="Black" face="cambria">Karate  <font color="Black" face="cambria">Jesus  <font face="Arial" color="gray" size="1">15:51, 20 November 2009

category to highlight badly tagged archived builds
Could someone add the text inside the parameter "  ", e.g. This way we could set a bot to retag the builds? (usually when someone fucks up the date bit they haven't typed "date=" <font face="Calibri" color=black>Chieftain Alex  18:42, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
 * given your end objective is to have a bot retag these builds, that addition is redundant because you could just make the bot figure out if it needs adding. <font color="#4169E1"> ~ PheNaxKian <font color="#8A2BE2">talk  18:58, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Since I know fuckall about bots, I guess they could check the string for date format? <font face="Calibri" color=black>Chieftain Alex  19:40, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
 * They basicaly run through all pages with the tag and check to see if each one had a date attribute, and if not add one. That said if I were to be working on a bot it wouldn't be for this (I have another project in mind, but it's just getting round to it). I can add the code but only because I'm too lazy to write the bot and I imagine nobody else will either. <font color="#4169E1"> ~ PheNaxKian <font color="#8A2BE2">talk  20:11, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

Link update
the line This build was in the category ' before being archived.''' Links to an empty category for the majority of archived pages - I suggest this is just simplified to:

This build was in the category ' before being archived.''' - Chieftain Alex (talk) 12:48, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Meta/Good/Great used to redirect to appropriate "All working X builds" categories, but I changed those redirects in preparation for a project that never got off the ground. We could just restore those redirects since I'm probably not ever going to get that project going. -Toraen (talk) 12:55, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Er, actually it looks like how I set up the real vetting template left the target base categories empty too. Oops. -Toraen (talk) 12:58, 12 January 2020 (UTC)


 * I'm happy to have a go at debugging templates but not being able to personally edit any of the live (protected) templates makes tinkering slightly harder.
 * I've also had a look at which categories we've got sitting around empty - User:Chieftainalex/categories. - Chieftain Alex (talk) 20:24, 12 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Full set of proposed template rewrites in this sandbox. - Chieftain Alex (talk) 00:16, 13 January 2020 (UTC)