Template talk:GW feedback infobox

You might need to have nested switch statements to get the categorization correct. Like, so something doesn't get categorized under both PvP and Consumables. --JonTheMon 22:01, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

How would I do that? My original plan was to either allow ideas to be under multiple categories (Satanael is proposing that, for example) or to use notcategories on the DPL lists so ideas under multiple categories would simply not appear, forcing people to either do it properly or be shut out of the lists.

Do you happen to know some place I could read about the formatting in this thing? I have found a wiki about DPL, but this is different. I'm trying to find a way to add hidden content (as in, "if" clauses which creates results that cannot be seen on the article, but would be used later for the DPL lists) so we could, for example, replace the profession names on the categories for the profession icons. Erasculio 13:27, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

With some of the categories agreed upon before, I made User:JonTheMon/Templates/SuggestionInfobox3. In there it uses #if: which will be true if the value is not empty, #ifeq: that compares 2 values, and #switch: which compresses many consecutive if-elseif's. Mine doesn't really add content, it just categorizes the idea based on what's given. --JonTheMon 13:40, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Oh, the manual you want is Parser Functions. --JonTheMon 13:41, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Resolved suggestions

This template doesn't make many allowances for noting a suggestion as resolved. In fact, there's just one:

• resolved = yes takes the page out of other categories and puts it into category:GW resolved suggestions

However, we should encourage people to remove suggestions from consideration for all sorts of reasons:

• Withdrawn: the author no longer supports the idea
• Implemented: the idea (or something close to it) is in the game.
• Won't fix: ANet has said (somewhere) they aren't interested
• Alternative: an alternative idea was implemented (making it unlikely they would use this one)

We should also distinguish between former GW1 suggestions and former GW2 ones.

The last bit is easy to implement (just requires a few more nested if-statements), while the first idea would be more complicated. I'd also advocate adding some sort of button or link on the page that would make it easier for the author to mark the suggestion as resolved.

I think it might be worth doing this because we otherwise have no way to reduce the list of suggestions, making it hard for anyone to look at older suggestions without having to wade through tons of stale ideas. – Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 05:20, 23 June 2012 (UTC)