User talk:Dekkappai

(Archive 1)

Filmographies

Ok mate.

• Show me two or three pages that contain filmographies with all the columns you need. I know you did before, but it's kind of difficult to retrieve the scattered data in our talk pages. Would be nice if you wrote a short summary.
• Colour: What do you think the colour of a filmography table should be?
  • The same green as the infobox (wold turn normal articles quite colourful, but readers could see at once that this is a filmography)
  • The same blue as the navigational headers on category pages (compare Category:Months for example)
  • The less colour possible. Clean and straight, simply with grey headers (maybe we get a problem there because we cannot display all the lines we'd like too, but it will work somehow).
  • Oh, I just got the idea I personally like best: Headers (and perhaps left column if there is one) in the green of the biobox, rest as straight and white as the category navigational headers. This would be less offensive to the eye, but the green header marks the table as filmography.

Looking forward to your input.

Prophecy 17:58, 1 August 2008 (EDT)

Ok, please have a look at {{Supervixens}} for a start. We will have the problem that the filmography overlaps with the biobox if the screen width is less than 1024 px and if the filmography has all columns and long actress names in it. But you already know that... In "normal" cases (i. e. not all columns or average actress names), it evens fits on the page together with the biobox. Like it should do on {{Supervixens}}. I contracted some data in one column (Technical and stuff). I also moved the distributor to "Technical" which more sense to me. This would solve my little problem that a company is not a staff person. I think I'll move this field to "Technical" in the infobox too. Prophecy 19:29, 1 August 2008 (EDT)

• Quote: "I think all the info in the "Technical" column should have its own column: "Release date/distributor/ID#"" I don't understand that. It already has its own column. Or do you mean that the header title should be changed? I'd prefer "Technical", because it's short. Every other title would lengthen the header which causes collision problems with the biobox later.
• Colour: As this is a template, it'll be very easy to change to colour later. One change and all tables have the new style.
• Joy of Big Tits on Supervixen page: It's all manually coded for testing purposes. At the moment, {{Filmography start}} contains a few sample entries to test how it looks like. I added two Lucy Love films from her page too, to see if this also works with other filmographies. We shouldn't have too many lines if there's no cover photo for example. Lucy Love's page would become 2 kms long. :-)
• Quote: "And this all means that each video in a list/filmography will have its own separate template file, right?" Yes and no. We can't force people to write templates for all films if they just want to write a filmography. There'll be a how-to guide. Short summary: You start every filmography with {{filmography start}} and finish it with {{filmography end}}. This creates the predefined filmography table. For every line in this filmography, you use the {{Film}} template. But (ha, and there's my new idea!) you don't have to create templates for all entries. Imagine the pain if you had templates for four films, but there are six more films to add to the filmography. You'd either have to create the other six (*sigh*), even if you wouldn't like to at that moment, or you wouldn't have any filmography at all. The film template will allow both: If there's an existing template for the film, it will use the data from this template and display it. If there's no template for the film so far, you can add the data manually, roughly like: {{film|list=1|title="Dekkappai's Adventues in Japanese Glubber Wobbers|released=[[2008]]|notes=Released only in Kasakhstan}}. So every filmography entry has a line with {{film|...}}, regardless if the corresponding template exists or not. As soon as a template for this film is created, all manual data will be overridden. No more table syntax anymore. No more formatting. Just {{Filmography start}}, {{Film}} and {{Filmography end}}. Roughly. If it works. :-) Prophecy 20:15, 1 August 2008 (EDT)