Template talk:NPCnavbox

So, this template is messed up. Looks like it needs manual editing, rather than be able to simply tag stuff in the relevant pages (like the Infopet template). I'm a wiki noob though so I got no clue how to do that.

Well, this wasn't helpful:

All the examples I looked at had each list entry link to manually written entries - e.g. look at Template:Navbox_Pets. We can't link to Categories directly? Why the hell not? Sure, it does reduce the burden of editing in new items to only updating the navbox, but Categories themselves already automatically update whenever you add a new page that mentions the category itself.

Say for example Monsters, I add a new page for "Boogaloo". All I have to do is make sure the Boogaloo page mentions - wa-la, automatically Category:Monsters gets Boogaloo added to it without me having to edit it. Same goes for deletion: remove any mention of the category from the Boogaloo page, it disappears from the category automatically. However with Navboxes you gotta add and delete the entry manually. Great, broken link potential.

Ugh. I'm probably missing something. However, all the examples I could dig up on freaking Wikipedia itself all use manually edited lists. I guess there's no helping it then, time to do a bunch more manual edits. Sigh.

- Senrigan (talk) 07:46, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

...aaand not even 5 minutes later I remember what the hell lead me here in the first place (DynamicPageLists), turns out it's the god damn < DPL> tag. And pretty simple too (like I figured this thing should be):

[X] Knights of the Told Republic.

I sure told myself there! /s It's not perfect, seems like some blanks (I suspect the inclusion of Templates or other funky pages in the category), but eh, it works.

- Senrigan (talk) 08:05, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

I had to kill the code in this discussion because it was showing up in weird places, wtf. If anyone needs a working version simply remove the extra whitespace after the opening brackets and delete the uppercase 'NO' prefixes.

- Senrigan (talk) 01:02, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Updated with pre tags, wheee. - Senrigan (talk) 13:29, 29 January 2014 (UTC)