Template talk:ItemInfo

In the process of building this, I did refer to GWW's version for inspiration. Obviously I didn't copy everything directly, not just because of licensing, but because there are some things that I just feel should be done differently. These are my notes about the various things I considered:


 * Style : There are significant differences in style, mostly because our infobox styles are relics from 2005. We're probably due for a style overhaul, but that would be a huge job, and I'm not very good at graphic design.
 * Bundles : GWW uses the same template for both bundles and inventory items, but I think it would be better to have separate templates.
 * Auto-rarity : Their template goes to great lengths to set an item's rarity, if not specified, based on the item's type. I didn't see much value in doing this, especially since most of their cases ended up being "Common" anyway.
 * Auto-type : Their template does a little bit of auto-typing based on the presence of other parameters, but it doesn't seem very robust (it includes typing of alcohols but not sweets or party favors). We could include this and make it more robust, or we could simply require the type parameter to be specified.
 * Value : GWW displays "Can't be sold" if an item has a value of 0g. While it is true that you can't sell items worth 0g, displaying a string instead of the numeric value seems like a waste of text.
 * Runes/Insignia : GWW has properties in their box for runes and insignia, but we don't have individual articles for those. Maybe we should?
 * Collectors : GWW lists the collectors for trophies in the box. I couldn't decide whether this was a good idea or not, so I've left it out for now.
 * Profitability : We include a property for trophies that indicates when it is more profitable to trade the item to a collector and sell the reward than to sell the trophy itself.
 * Common/rare salvage : GWW's box does not couple these properties, such that an item with only a common salvage will not display a rare salvage property, and vice versa. I think it's important to always display both together, even when one of them is "None", so that readers know this is not simply an omission.

&mdash;Dr Ishmael 19:09, August 3, 2010 (UTC)