Template talk:Ancestries navbox
Ancestries?
Should this be renamed to Ancestry? Similarly, should we address this in the category structure and in infoboxes?–
Yoda8myhead (talk) 01:21, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
- What exactly does 'addressing this in infoboxes' encompass? - HTD (talk) 08:42, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
- Changing the bolded "Race" in the template to "Ancestry" and perhaps sending a bot to change the name of the parameter from race to ancestry as well.—
Yoda8myhead (talk) 19:01, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
- While I think that the word ancestry could work for this particular navbox (as it only lists PC-appropriate races), it does not seem appropriate to implement it in an infobox that all (non-unique) creatures use, especially those that do not have a line of descent (constructs, outsiders and undead, among others). Saying this particular individual's ancestry is mannequin robot (or in other words, it is descended from a mannequin robot) makes no sense; race is a more generic term and sounds more appropriate for the infobox. - HTD (talk) 23:41, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
- Changing the bolded "Race" in the template to "Ancestry" and perhaps sending a bot to change the name of the parameter from race to ancestry as well.—
- Made a formal request to rename per User:Descriptivist's work renaming race to ancestry where appropriate. Renaming this navbox has no effect on infoboxes, which ultimately should be handled separately by PathfinderWiki:Semantic Data Initiative anyway. -Oznogon (talk) 05:46, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
Outdated documentation
Does anyone know why this template's '/doc' read as follows?
{{Ancestries navbox}} should contain races prominent on Golarion. See Ancestries of Golarion. This navbox is not meant to be an exhaustive list of all races present on Golarion; it links to Category:Races for that purpose.
What metric was/is used to determine whether or not a given race/ancestry/heritage is "prominent"? Did there exist some set of "un-prominent playable races" that were not meant to be included? Like, could I have said that the kuru is an un-prominent playable race and shouldn't be included in the navbox? (And if the navbox used to have a link to Category:Races, this link has no longer existed for some time.) --Descriptivist (talk) 04:17, 10 September 2024 (UTC)