Template talk:NPC location

What is the default if the disambiguation identifier is (wrongly) not set? Take a look at http://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?title=Shiro_Tagachi&curid=8537&diff=130025&oldid=102160 It seems that the editor has wrongly not set it there, now all entries point to missions. While it can be argued that the old page was wrong in this special case (I'd say he appears in the mission, not the outpost), it would be bad if this happened in cases where the previous info was correct. --Xeeron 14:41, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * If a disambiguation identifier is not set, then the template assumes that there's only one location by that name, and simply links to that page. If there should have been a disambig identifier, then this link will in fact be pointing to the mission by that name (since we've decided that mission locations take priority over explorables and outposts, thus they're the ones without an identifier in their name). If the link should take to the explorable or outpost page, then whoever notices the mistake can just correct it. :) --Dirigible 15:43, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

What's the point to using this?-- §  Eloc   §  02:22, 18 July 2007 (UTC)


 * See Guild Wars Wiki talk:Formatting/NPCs/Archive 1. --Dirigible 01:14, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Eye of the North
Using is miscategorizing pages. Corrran has fixed them all now, but the parameter is a bit weird. - B e X   07:42, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * It's just because there is something else called Eye of the North? What's weird with it? - anja  [[Image:User Anja Astor sig icon.png|talk]] 07:45, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * That it's essentially useless. :P - B e X  [[Image:User BeXoR sig.gif|iawtc]] 07:46, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * It's for linking to the mission outpost/explorable instead of the mission I guess. - anja  [[Image:User Anja Astor sig icon.png|talk]] 07:47, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I thought the idea was that while the link lead to the right place (disambiguated), the NPC category would be the same for all. Not sure if that's even a good idea, but I don't think it's used anyway, so....
 * 08:20, 22 September 2007 (UTC) --The preceding unsigned comment was added by User:Backsword (talk).

MediaWiki bug
There seems to be a bug in MediaWiki affecting this template. To reproduce: Core
 * Battle Isles

Prophecies This shows up as: Core The only work-around I've found so far (even through scanning MediaWiki's parser) would be to put any character after the inclusion of this template. Even a space would do. The question then is; would it be better to put this space after each and every use of this template, or to put it in the template? &mdash; Galil 08:06, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Kryta
 * Battle Isles
 * Great Temple of BalthazarProphecies
 * Kryta
 * Lion's Arch
 * Or just use a bullet point for the word in the first place? Backsword 02:46, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That would work too, though I thought the list without bullet point looked better, and it's how it seems to be done on most NPC pages too. Also, when the fix is so simple as to just add a space in a place it won't even be seen I see no point in changing it. I'll just input a space at the end of the lines whenever I run into broken lists. :) &mdash; Galil [[Image:User Galil sig.png|Talk page]] 03:41, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Disambig Capitalization
Is there any way that this template can avoid automatically putting the disambig. section to lower case? will turn into Lion's Arch (war in kryta) (which works right now due to a redirect). It just doesn't look right with the lower case. This will also let us add other places which have disambigs with quests to the template, without relying on redirects. G R E E N E R 20:26, 25 July 2010 (UTC)