Thread:RR3 Michael P/@comment-30967537-20180925131443/@comment-30967537-20180929090749

I believe in making things clear and easy to understand, which is why I suggested adding this link (which could lead to the Availability section being streamlined), I think that Michael’s text is cumbersome AND it is irrelevant or even confusing that it’s a project page, I’ve been on the Wiki for long enough but including that text just confuses me! That said, I’m tired of fighting pointless battles (here) so I leave it to you to decide.

Knowing that you might not like my text was why I edited only a few cars (i.e. Atom and Aston Martin cars ... and was going to do the rest one manufacturer at a time or ask Michael to write a bot routine to do it) but somebody else has now done a few more cars in a rather haphazard fashion so I guess they’ll all need amending ... I’m really not interested in the editing credits (my aim here is to help, not to get further up the Wiki Rankings!) so you guys can decide who makes those changes.

Whilst writing the above (specifically the bit about streamlining the Availability section) it occurred to me that what might be better is to create templates for each make (it would be too onerous to do separate ones for each car!) which could be invoked from a car’s page (or, for that matter, any page) and a common template to display the events ... to list all events for a make to list all events for a car and make-specific templates The current project pages could just specify the |Make= parameter and the car pages could specify the |Make= and |Car= parameters ... as is currently the case you’ll need the full |Car= parameter for cars like the MERCEDES-AMG A 45 where the Make is different ... RR3_Wiki:Events_MERCEDES-BENZ.

Each separate Make’s template e.g. would be called from the common template.

Instead of updating the project pages I just update the make-specific template pages.

The common template strips out the SPACE characters in the |Make= parameter so that the make-specific templates follow similar (i.e. SPACEless) naming conventions as image files.

In this way we could add a proper Events section somewhere on each car page which shows all events for a car.

Have a think about it ...