Talk:Battle of Endor

In Wikipedia when they discuss a movie, strategy game, battle, etc, there's a box in the top-right corner which has a brief run down of the statistics - force dispositions on both sides, and a one/two sentence synopsis. How do you do that? I think it would be very useful for us to adopt a similar convention. --BountyHunterSAx (ForgotToSign)

All it needs is someone to figure out how to set up a template. --Ted C 11:50, 16 November 2007 (EST)

I try my hand at doing a template if someone can list the parameters we'd pass to it. Mad 12:31, 16 November 2007 (EST)

Wikipedia uses...

• Name of battle
• Date
• Location
• Result
• Combatants
• Commanders
• Forces
• Casualties

Combatants, Commanders, and Forces rows are split into two columns. --Ted C 13:11, 16 November 2007 (EST)

Heroes Wiki has an article on designing templates that might be helpful. --Ted C 13:27, 16 November 2007 (EST)

I don't know what you mean exactly by parameters we'd pass to it; can you clarify that? Also - if we do adopt this idea it might also be useful to do the same for the DeathStar page, and to effectively turn the specifications heading into the stat-box. --BountyHunterSAx 12:50, 16 November 2007 (EST)

Templates have parameters passed to them, like functions in programming. For example, a simple template could be {{HelloWorldTemplate|firstName=Bob}} and then the template would create a centered box with lots of fancy markup that says "Hello World! Meet Bob." Then I could call the template again, and get the same fancy box but with a different name.

So, basically, I'd need the various entries we'd enter in. Like you said, force dispositions, synopsis, etc. Except with the "etc" defined... - Mad 13:01, 16 November 2007 (EST)