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# Lucy's apartment
 
# Lucy's apartment
 
# Gemma's flat
 
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# [[On The Run]] locations
 
# [[On The Run]] locations
 
# First Motel
 
# First Motel

Revision as of 19:16, 1 March 2007

Simplifying

If you're intending to always have the same image and caption, it seems like it shouldn't be part of the template in that way. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it seems you should replace

{{#if: {{{image|}}} | [[Image:{{{image}}}|220px| ]]<br>{{{caption}}} |
 Image not available.<br />Please [[Special:Upload | add]] one. }}

with

[[Image:Loc.jpg]]<br>
Where the loction was used:|

Is this what you're trying to do?--Brucker 13:54, 21 November 2006 (CST)

You are totally correct. This is my first try with templates and I am just glad that I got something thats functional......but its clumsy. I just did the best I could do and figured that it works for now and i can fix it up a little once its implemented. But first I wanted to make sure that I got a positive reaction to adding it to the pages. The index part could also use some improvement because I dont want to update every page when a new location is added........so that would be my number one area for improvement. The reason its the way it is at the moment is because i reverse engineered it from the videos template but now I am getting a better idea of how they work.--modelmotion 14:04, 21 November 2006 (CST)
Well, that's the thing with a these wikis, the site as a whole is a work in progress, isn't it. I like what you're doing here. --Brucker 14:46, 21 November 2006 (CST)
Okay, I've got the template smaller and more standardized. From now on, when a new location is added to the list, instead of adding it to every location page, just add it to the template. This will also cut down on issues with errors. PLease do make sure you're careful with your spelling on page titles, at the very least. --Brucker 13:50, 27 November 2006 (CST)
I think you're missing what I'm saying; you don't have to add the locations to every location page anymore, just to the template, and it cascades down to all the location pages. All you have to do is edit in all the appearances of the location. (In fact, I think it's possible to not need to put in the "name" parameter if you have the right code for taking the page title, but I don't know what it is.--Brucker 14:38, 27 November 2006 (CST)

Revamp

I'm trying to overhaul this template, but I've hit a couple of roadblocks...

  1. I can't seem to shrink the bar on top
  2. Some of these locations defy categorization
  3. There's just a lot of them at this point. There not all included because we don't have articles on the parking garage where Bree's dad got shot, the cafe where he met Bree, etc.
  4. Anyone out there with template or table skills, it'd be great if you pitched in.

Is it just me... or would we be better of nixing this in favor of just having a Category:Locations?

    Location: {{{name}}}
LOCATIONS
Appearances

{{{appearances}}}

Location Index

Homes | Bree's bedroom | Daniel's bedroom | Gemma's flat | Jonas's house

Outdoors | The swimming hole | The park | The Ceremony | Thanksgiving hike

Motels | The first motel | The second motel | The third motel

Other locations | Lucy's apartment | The office park | The chain-link fence | The road trip | The movie theater | The warehouse


I'm going to completely agree with this. We really need to revamp the location pages, and while attempting to do so, the template just plain gets in the way.--Killthesmiley 12:30, 3 February 2007 (CST)

For the Bree's Religion template, Brucker had suggested "orphaning it" (that is, not including it in any page) until we were done revamping the religion pages and the template itself. That would be a good idea here too. However, if we do that, we should make sure all the pages are categorized so we don't lose them... they have really awkward names so it's hard to search for them. OwenIsCool 13:30, 3 February 2007 (CST)
I shrunk the bar, the problem was the <br> tags. They were making it so the bar was three lines. But yeah, location pages, i dunno. It makes sense to me to have pages on important locations like Daniel's house, Bree's house, etc... but "The Third Motel"? or "The Thanksgiving Hike"?. I don't see the point in having a page for every single place they ever go to. Maybe we should have some criteria of when a place gets a location page?--JayHenry 14:29, 3 February 2007 (CST)

Usage

{{Locations
| name     =
| appearances     = 
}}


Some thoughts on locations

Okay, if we're going to do locations, they need to be consistent. We either need a page for all locations, or need a specifically defined criteria of what gets a location page. Here are all the locations thus far in the series. In roughly chronological order.

  1. Bree's house
  2. Daniel's house
  3. First hike
  4. Swimming Hole
  5. Daniel's car - or, on-the-way to the swimming hole?
  6. The "In The Park" Park
  7. The "Learning To Drive" loading dock, fence row and streets
  8. The streets stalking Lucy, the hill where they do exercises, the medical complex.
  9. Lucy's apartment
  10. Gemma's flat
  11. The chain-link fence/Daniel's friends house
  12. On The Run locations
  13. First Motel
  14. Second Motel
  15. Jonas's house
  16. Thanksgiving hike
  17. Movie Theater
  18. The Grocery Store from Breakfast In Bed
  19. The park in Jonas?
  20. Side of the Highway in Homeless
  21. The park in Homeless -- possibly the same park?
  22. The place where Gemma was on the run herself
  23. The abandoned building
  24. The streets in Warwalking
  25. The parking garage/alley from Your Decision
  26. The "Undisclosed Location"
  27. The EPOGEN warehouse
  28. Jonas's SUV/roadtrip locations
  29. The cafe/parking garage where Bree's dad got shot
  30. The beach
  31. Pins & Pints
  32. Into the mountains after the Cowboy
  33. Third Motel
  34. Cowboy's Ranch
  35. Random rest area where Jonas explores the van
  36. The Order's HQ
  37. The snowy mountains on the way to the Cabin
  38. Jonas's cabin

A lot of those are pretty trivial locations. We could condense by using Daniel's Car and Jonas's SUV as a catch-all for a lot of those on-the-road type locations, Random Parks could be a catch-all. I dunno, what do people think? How do we manage this sprawling category? --JayHenry 13:15, 1 March 2007 (CST)