Template talk:Common armor art gallery

Glacial Gauntlets
The main Female section header ("Female Glacial Gauntlets gallery") and 2 more lower level headers do not show up in the Contents, it goes from Acquisition straight to the third lower level header. The three missing headers are in the /Female page inclusion. RoseOfKali 17:20, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * That's not a bug, that's how I designed - those headers aren't true wiki headers, they're just formatted to look like them.  I did this to prevent readers clicking the [edit] links on those headers and accidentally editing the template (which did happen to the Deldrimor gallery template).  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 18:17, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * If that is not desired, the headers have to move out of the template onto the page - and if this wiki's tradion for kludgy hacks is honored, the template gets a "noheader" parameter and doesn't display them when that is set. ;-) --◄mendel► 22:09, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * We can move the primary header out of the template, yes - the one that says "Female Glacial Gauntlets gallery" - but the subheaders can't be moved out without requiring that we also break the template into pieces.
 * For a long time, the main template had  in it for the same reason - users couldn't accidentally click [edit] on a section that was part of the template.  The only drawback to this was that it removed edit links for all sections on any page that transcluded the template, which wasn't a huge problem (it lasted over a year like that).  On June 24, however, our illustrious Beerocrat decided that it was "foolish to have it here", and in just over a month since then we have had two accidental edits to the template.
 * I'm in favor of putting back into all the armor gallery templates, as I see very little drawback to losing the other section edit links.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 23:04, 11 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Agreed. I's not that hard to figure out how to edit the /Male or /Female section alone, or just edit the whole page for the other stuff.  This is not a problem for those who edit armor pages regularly, and would be a deterrent to occasional vandals, too.  This is better than having half-complete Contents...  Besides, once the template is in place, why would the Male/Female pages need editing anyway? RoseOfKali [[Image:RoseOfKaliSIG.jpg]] 05:10, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Someone bug me to read this tomorrow cause i just tried to read this now and I couldn't comprehend any of it.&mdash;♥ Jedi ♥ Rogue ♥ 05:54, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll wait another day or so for JR or anyone else to comment on this, then I'll implement NOEDITSECTION in all the armor galleries. &mdash;Dr Ishmael [[Image:Diablo_the_chicken.gif]] 05:36, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Comprehension aid --◄mendel► 06:09, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The armor art gallery template creates section and subsection headers.
 * If these headers have "edit" links, clicking on them lets you edit the template.
 * We don't want people to edit the template.
 * It has happened.
 * It breaks things.
 * It is not what people want, but they don't know better.
 * So we have two options:
 * using __NOEDITSECTIONLINKS__ to remove the "edit" links from every page that has this template on it
 * using fake section headers in the armor gallery that don't create edit links, but don't show up in the table of contents either.
 * Currently we are using option 2, but Rose and Ishy want to switch back to option 1.