Talk:Battle of Endor

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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
Combatans, Commanders, and Forces rows are split into two columns. --Ted C 13:11, 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)