Template talk:LocationInfo

Initial RFC
Awright, I'm finally getting back to SMW stuff. Here's my first draft for the location infobox. Mostly, I just took the old {location box} and added properties where they would be useful. Which, as it turns out, is basically what PanSola did with {location box2}.

However, I deliberately left out the "Services" section he had included, because that could get extremely cluttered for larger outposts and towns (case in point, The Kodash Bazaar). I almost want to cut out "Neighbors" as well, but since that's been in the box since the beginning, I figured it would be bad form to drop it without having a discussion on it. My reasoning on this is that these two data sets are multi-valued lists that can be given in a more appropriate layout, and with additional information (direction of exit to neighbor, name/location of service NPC, etc.), as sections within the article. Which we already do anyway.

Also, I left out a good bit of the extra coding that PanSola had included. The recursive PropertizePartOf stuff that he was using is unnecessary, since that can be handled more efficiently on the other end, when performing a query.

Finally, I set this up specifically for sub-region-level locations. Regions and continents could be stuffed into this template (I actually had that coded at one point), so that's open for discussion. Landmarks, however, should definitely have their own infobox. &mdash;Dr Ishmael 03:55, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Assuming the services section was represented using an icon grid and not a text list, wouldn't it possibly fit? It would still be very cluttered on the variable end, granted... but depending on the image size, it wouldn't break the rest of the box or drag on forever. — ı  z  ǝ  Ⅎ  05:22, 29 December 2010 (UTC)


 * What icons would we use? There aren't any, AFAIK.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 14:47, 29 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Here's a few. The rest could probably be filled in using inventory or UI icons. — ı  z  ǝ  Ⅎ  02:10, 30 December 2010 (UTC)