Talk:Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.2 No.1

Cover Scans

Zak,

My work schedule is a bit frantic right now. Scans-on-request are way down on my very long priority list. Feel free to scan the covers yourself or for now take the best scan you can find from comics.org. Also feel free to build an issue-template. That will make future look'n'feel changes to these entries a lot easier to do. --Infobroker (talk) 07:10, 6 November 2013 (PST)

Gotcha, was holding off on cover scans, til I got an okay. And I'll see what I can do template wise. (aka if I can figure out how to do it right.) --Astrozac (talk) 14:23, 6 November 2013 (PST)

Sorry about the covers, I know I said I would like higher quality stuff and would work to scan them myself, but other stuff is taking priority. I am fine with comics.org, they are better than nothing.

Template making can be a bit tricky, I am only mentioning it if you are interested. If you are, I would suggest using the character page template as a model. It is very basic and it is close to what is needed here. Just simple parameters that you pass content to. For now you can ignore all that "noinclude" stuff at the bottom. --Infobroker (talk) 18:06, 6 November 2013 (PST)

I'll try on it when I get a few days off and the time. I've wanted to try, but just figured I wouldn't get very far. Thanks for the help there.

--Astrozac (talk) 05:48, 7 November 2013 (PST)

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I created a basic template for publication, with all of the basic info. Not totally sure, the only thing that threw me was the character page had all the 'ifs' and brackets. I tried playing with it, but couldn't get anything.

ADD: I think it's back to what Yiding talked about, how on the old site, when you'd call for your template and hit the preview button, it would show the parameters in the preview and in editing box, where you knew where to put them.
What I don't get, is we have the template, but its like you have to know what all the parameters are to fill it out, so you're back to having multiple windows open, instead of just being able to call for it and it lays them out for you. Does that make sense? --Astrozac (talk) 00:45, 11 November 2013 (PST)

Publication Template

The template you've made is what would be called a text substitution template. Several of those still running here like "stub"... You type in the template name, and it replaces what you typed with a bunch of text. You need to take it to the next level and have it accept parameters. That where all the "if" stuff comes into play.

Let's start simpler. Don't worry about any formatting. I will build a test template, that takes in one parameter and brings in that text. You take a peek at it and see if you can break down it's mechanics. --Infobroker (talk) 15:57, 11 November 2013 (PST)