Template talk:Infobox Webcomic

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Latest comment: 18 years ago by Someguy0830 in topic The new format

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{{Infobox Webcomic <!-- Part of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Webcomics]] -->
| title = 
| image = 
| caption = 
| author = 
| url = 
| rss = 
| atom = 
| status = 
| began = 
| ended = 
| genre = 
| ratings = 
| preceded by = 
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You can also find this box on the VG Cats article I put it in as a demo. CyberSkull 23:39, 2005 Jun 19 (UTC)

Code Example

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{{Infobox Webcomic| <!-- Part of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Webcomics]] -->
| title = VG Cats
| image = [[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg|300px|Link Finally Snaps]]
| caption = The ''VG Cats'' strip "Link Finally Snaps" parodies the video game, ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]''.
| author = [[Scott Ramsoomair]]
| url = http://www.vgcats.com/
| rss = http://www.vgcats.com/vgcats.rdf.xml
| atom = 
| status = Weekly updates, usually on Monday
| began = [[2001-09-09]] [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=0]
| ended =
| genre = [[Video game|Video game]], [[Parody]], [[Gag-a-day]]
| ratings =
| preceded by =
| followed by =
}}

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VG Cats
Link Finally Snaps
The VG Cats strip "Link Finally Snaps" parodies the video game, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Author(s)Scott Ramsoomair
Websitehttp://www.vgcats.com/
Current status/scheduleWeekly updates, usually on Monday
Launch date2001-09-09 [1]
Genre(s)Video game, Parody, Gag-a-day

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History

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This template was made by CyberSkull based off of code from {{Infobox VG}} (great job guys!).

Discussion

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Would it be possible to add an optional alternate URL for sites that may use one more address (see Talk:Ctrl_Alt_Del_(webcomic))? Guinness 16:46, 13 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

Just put a line break in. See Venus Envy for an example. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:49, 14 October 2005 (UTC)Reply
Excellent, thanks for the help. Guinness 07:49, 14 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

Why I've never liked article categories in templates

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I'm taking Category:webcomics out of this template and inserting it independently into the articles that use this template. There are various subcategories of Category:Webcomics that many of these articles should be segregated into now and it's impossible to take them out of the root category otherwise. Just letting everyone know that the absence of the category from some of these templated articles is only temporary. Bryan 00:47, 2 November 2005 (UTC)Reply

Anyone who works on WP:CFD can say the same thing. Categories fed by a template are the hardest to manage. You can change or delete the template, but until the article is touched next, it stays in the category. -- Netoholic @ 10:09, 24 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
That seems to have been changed lately. Changes to categories in templates now propagate to all articles including it. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 13:59, 17 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

The new format

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I don't really know much about templates, so I can't comment much about the technical aspects, but I do like the way it looks, now. However, I'd like to point out the url field is now kinda fragile. That field has to have a bare URL and nothing else or it won't look right. For example, if a comic has two primary addresses or there's a parenthetical comment. I haven't the foggiest idea how you'd go about fixing that. For now, I've just been removing anything but bare URLs from that field and adding comments in the article's text if necessary. For sites with more than one URL, well, I guess choose one for the infobox and put the other(s) in an External links section. –Abe Dashiell (t/c) 13:30, 2 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

I've reverted it. Someguy's edits to other infobox were reverted by others as well. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:51, 2 April 2006 (UTC)Reply
  • I liked that all-blue version, actually, and having the URL in the middle down at the bottom looked pretty cool, too. The only problem was it required a bare URL or it broke. –Abe Dashiell (t/c) 02:27, 3 April 2006 (UTC)Reply
It can always be at the bottom with a bare URL. - Someguy0830 (Talk | contribs) 04:11, 3 April 2006 (UTC)Reply