Thread:RR3 Michael P/@comment-27006659-20170319151020/@comment-30967537-20170517213929

Hi Michael,

I’ve been a busy boy!

First, to respond to your car name comments …

Car Names. Now I feel bad! I’d never actually considered Power Query and other people extracting data from my pages, which is rather amusing (and stupid of me) given that all of this has come about because I’ve used Power Query to extract data! I’m not sure that adding to the car name is actually a good thing, the NASCAR car names are already too long. What effect might it have elsewhere? If it’s also to be added in Navboxes then it will make the names cumbersomely (is that an adjective?) long. I think if you’re going to add the driver details then “we” need to think about this a bit more … you can definitely drop the year as it will no longer be necessary, you could maybe shorten the team/driver details   e.g. Chevrolet SS (Hendrick (88). This leads onto another question … at the moment, FM haven’t done anything about older NASCARs and liveries but what if (given that they seem to want to be in bed with NASCAR) they do decide to make them current, will that have a huge effect on car names? Hmmm. I think I’m causing more trouble than good, maybe we should re-think this.

Ok, on to what I want to say …

Mercedes-AMG. This (that FM have decided to give them a different manufacturer name but lump them in with Mercdes-Benz) has caused no end of problems! Initially I went against the Wiki flow and decided to display the car name as Mercdes-Benz AMG A 45 but I now realise that will cause issues, so I’ve changed it. But what about where the make isn’t displayed   e.g. in Navboxes and on the make page? In those situations, whatever we do it will not match up with the game, so I’ve decided to lump them under the Mercedes-Benz make but prefix the model name with AMG … AMG A 45.

Loops. Still waiting to hear back. Rather amusingly, if you edit my Manufacturers page it works ok, I'm guessing that when you edit a page the site limits are ignored and it uses global/Wiki limits, which would be rather frustrating, you could get a page working in edit mode and then it might not work when published!

User Page Deletion: Unfortunately it won’t let me delete my own pages! There was no option to delete. I customized the bottom-of-page toolbar to include a few extra commands including DELETE but it wasn’t displayed! I then took matters into my own hands (!) and entered http://rr3.wikia.com/wiki/User:QuickNick/Sandbox03?action=delete in the address bar and was informed that there were “Permission errors … You do not have permission to delete this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Administrators, Fandom Staff, Fandom Helpers, VSTF, Content Moderators.” which I would understand if I were trying to delete Wiki pages but surely I should be able to delete any pages in my User area!?! I wanted to tidy up (remove, rename) my pages. Likewise, I can’t delete Blog posts. HELP!

Profile. I’ve edited my profile page, tidied it up. Please check the Sandbox pages and let me know if you’re happy with the (not to be deleted) pages. If you want to see an example of the Manufacturers page for Porsche (23 cars!) then go to http://rr3.wikia.com/wiki/User:QuickNick/R/Manufacturers2 which includes some test rows. Having done all of this, I would really like to (as mentioned in the previous section) tidy up my other pages.

As you will see if you look at my Profile page, I’ve been rather busy … please let me know what you think.

Best Races. Using Fame for the Best Races gives different/more results than using R$. I noticed that the CRB value is not actually passed to the template AND that the R$ value is passed to the FormatCRB template AND that the CRB value is always 25% of the R$ value ... is this correct? For now I have created my own template (based on the original) and used the extracted CRB value. I've also included the Tier.Event number and the additional race info (which I spent a lot of time adding to my extract and formatting nicely). Let me know what you think.

Thanks,

Nick