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Weapon Lists

Not just to complain, but if you could be sure to have unit weapons (in the infobox) laid out as #x Weapon when you add them, that would be great. This would make life much easier for me, as I'm currently going through every unit to make sure they're consistent. Regardless, thanks for all the ground units you add to Sarna; I really appreciate it! -BobTheZombie (talk) 10:23, 19 January 2014 (PST)

Can you show me an example of what your talking about. I'm not seen the #x Weapon thing before. Some of the infoboxes are not fully coded right. Sometimes I need to do short cuts to make work or make it look half way descent. -- Wrangler (talk) 10:34, 19 January 2014 (PST)

I don't mean it that literally, I'm talking about the weapons in the infoboxes of units (see example).

Instead of

• 1 x Modular Weapon Mount
• 1 x Anti-Personnel Weapon Mount
• 1 x One-Shot SRM-2

You'd have

• 1x Modular Weapon Mount
• 1x Anti-Personnel Weapon Mount
• 1x One-Shot SRM-2

I know that it doesn't seem to matter all that much, but it does when there are so many different variations, some of which are very confusing or smushed together. Do you understand now? -BobTheZombie (talk) 11:09, 19 January 2014 (PST)

I will do my best to abide to your request, BobTheZombie. I don't do this all the time. Remember, some those units were added years ago. It takes me good couple hours sometimes to do one article adding all the information there on the unit. Specially the ones that have alot background info from older sources. I'm trying not to dublicate things and devalue the original source so someone will keep buying the things. So i maybe not quite seeing things straight when the article is completed. -- Wrangler (talk) 11:13, 19 January 2014 (PST)

I don't mean to accuse you of anything, I'm just stating that there is variation; I had been changing them to the way you have it, until I found out recently how it is supposed to look. Don't worry yourself with it. I'm just really OCD sometimes. And, yes, I understand that not all of them are you, I was just pointing something out. I meant only for you to watch for that when adding them; I'm currently going through and fixing them at my own pace, so don't think that you have to do this on existing articles. -BobTheZombie (talk) 11:22, 19 January 2014 (PST)

No Worries, i'm just sometimes not always on the ball on doing some of these things. I'll try give you less to do. Just becareful of some of the info boxes. For some reasons, some of the newer ones act funny if you remove something from them. There reason why i have like "Weapon Systems" on top of the infobox line for weapon section. It sudden goes haywire shows them in weird order. -- Wrangler (talk) 05:38, 24 January 2014 (PST)

Security Robot

Hi, can i upload the pic or you do this?--Doneve (talk) 11:33, 15 February 2014 (PST)

No worries, i got it. Problem is, the picture doesn't match the stats for the machine. - Wrangler (talk) 11:39, 15 February 2014 (PST)

Production Years

Hi Wrangler,
I've had a look at the InfoBoxCombatVehicle template, and it looks like it's functioning correctly. So, I had a look at the edits that were causing problems, and I think I've worked out what's going on.
There are three fields associated with dates in the template; introduced, production year and year reference. The "introduced" field is the date that the vehicles first started appearing - so 3087 for the Shandra. The "production year" is the year the MUL says the vehicles entered production, so that would be 3089. The "year reference" field is just for a reference, not a date - it's where the reference goes that will be displayed against the production year. So, for the Shandra, it would just be <ref>''[http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/6654/ MUL online date for the ''{{PAGENAME}}'']''</ref>. That means for the fields to work correctly, they'd need to look like this:

| introduced      = [[3087]]
| production year = 3089
| year reference  = <ref>''[http://www.masterunitlist.info/Unit/Details/6654/ MUL online date for the ''{{PAGENAME}}'']''</ref>

Does that make sense? Some of the formatting is a bit odd in the way the template is set up. BrokenMnemonic (talk) 00:26, 17 February 2014 (PST)

My only issue with the Production year and year of reference is when it shows up on my screen when i enter it, the two years appear side by side instead of down the listed seperately like all the other entries. -- Wrangler (talk) 17:47, 17 February 2014 (PST)