Template talk:Familiar

• I would like to suggest quite strongly that we remove the 'Combat Messages' section from the template. The reason for this is because if you try to go to any wiki page and click 'edit' on the combat messages section, you get an error about it being locked. I do not believe that this is what the desired intention is. --Shagie 20:30, 3 December 2005 (Central Standard Time)
• ...why is this template locked? none of the others are, plus the lack of section header editing and like is disorientating compared to when I'm on/editing other pages.--Dehstil 16:18, 6 May 2006 (CDT)
• People would hit "edit section" on a familiar page and would edit the template, and most of the time would never even notice they screwed up every familiar page, so the template was locked. I guess the 'combat messages' section could be removed, it was just added in the first place because all pages had it, so it was faactored out into the template, but that's 51 pages that need to be changed along with it ;-) --JRSiebz (☎|§|‡) 17:03, 6 May 2006 (CDT)

It would be nice if we could add the Familiars category to the template itself, so as to not require manually adding the category to the bottom of every page which uses it. Unfortunately, 4 pages (Sandbox, Established Standards: Familiar Pages, User:Phelyan, and User:Stik guy) which are unrelated to familiars also include this template, making the idea useless. Is there any way to block the inclusion of categories on specific pages to get around this problem (and possibly do the same for other templates as well, such as Adventures)? --Quietust 20:33, 7 June 2006 (CDT)

We could use {{head}} to fix the section header issue now.--Dehstil (t|c) 19:48, 23 June 2006 (CDT)

• Also, not sure if it's supposed to be this way, but it says "Return to Main Page" at the bottom of the View Source page. Is that the way locked pages are supposed to be or should is it possible to say "Return to Template:Familiar"?--Dehstil (t|c) 20:53, 23 June 2006 (CDT)
  • That's a problem with the entire wiki. I figure we could go ahead and report that to the section for things that are broken....if Mag even checked it anymore =/.--SomeStranger ^(t|c) 22:04, 23 June 2006 (CDT)

Equipment

The code for the equipment field assumes that it will receive exactly one item. This breaks slightly on the Pet Rock page and others of it's ilk, as mentioned at Talk:Bulky Buddy Box (familiar). --Starwed 16:26, 13 December 2007 (CST)

• It used to work with {{!!}} which acts acts as ]], [[ so when [[{{{variable}}}]] was given equip1{{!!}}equip2 it would render as [[equip1]], [[equip 2]], but this template was just changed to take the variable and lookup its data page to get it's item name, so using {{!!}} no longer works. --JRSiebz (☎|§|‡) 21:59, 13 December 2007 (CST)
  • Dare wuz a prawblum, but I eats it! I mean. I fixed it, using {{!!}} in this case was an old-school, pre-parser function, pre default/optional parameter wiki way of faking it with a template to be included in another template, i made {{!!}} over a year and a half ago! Remember using {{p1}}, anyone? You people are so spoiled with being able to use these things called "if"s and "ifeq" on the wiki, ;-) heh --JRSiebz (☎|§|‡) 22:29, 13 December 2007 (CST)

Arena specs

I'd like to see this template edited in some way so as to completely list a familiar's arena specs. "Strength" and "Weakness" omit the other two possibilities, which are good to know if (for some strange reason) you are trying to level your familiar without using some sort of script to do it for you (or at least tell you what choices to make at what weight). It's also just a little strange that all of this information is out there and fairly easily obtainable, yet the wiki does not contain it except when it happens to appear on chat pages. I could certainly do the editing myself, but I'm not sure what would be a good format. --Flargen 09:55, 9 December 2008 (UTC)