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Outdated documentation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)
Whether or not to italicize AKA parenthesis symbols
This navbox's previous contributors happened to not italicize "also known as" parenthesis symbols, such as "kholo (gnoll)". However, can we poll PFWiki contributors' opinions to see if anyone would prefer changing this navbox to start italicizing parenthesis symbols, as in "kholo (gnoll)"? PathfinderWiki:Manual of style and Help:Navboxes don't explicitly define whether it's correct to italicize or to not italicize. I assume we can conduct discussion about conventions for PFWiki's navboxes over at Help talk:Navboxes. Let me know if another Talk page is more appropriate. --Descriptivist (talk) 10:27, 28 September 2024 (UTC)