Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Novels/Harry Potter task force/Templates

message: Colours mentioned first have the highest priority. In other words, people who have allegiance (as noted in their infoboxes) to both the Order of the Phoenix and Hogwarts would have the colours of the Order of the Phoenix. For complex cases like Snape, who is marked as Unknown, we should give him either the "Unknown" colour scheme or the Death Eaters scheme (since the Death Eaters colour has priority over the Order of the Phoenix). These colour schemes would also apply to a character whose allegiance is presumed, sympathiser, or affiliate. Note that priority isn't fixed, it can be changed according to complex cases. However, listing it like this just means that we are more consistent.
bgcolor	fgcolor	(example)	Allegiance
Black  	White  	Sample   	Death Eaters, Lord Voldemort.
Gold   	Black  	Sample   	Order of the Phoenix, Dumbledore's Army.
Red    	Black  	Sample   	Ministry of Magic, Inquisitorial Squad.
Pink   	Black  	Sample   	Hogwarts, unknown affliation, no affiliation, all other affiliations.
:Just for reference, here is the latest updated prototype being developed in a "sandbox" elsewhere. --T-dot 09:18, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Workshop

message: I have a hard time with the "Inquisitorial Squad" colour scheme. On one hand, it was founded by a member of the Ministry of Magic, arguably a complex organisation that has good intentions but sometimes engages in questionable practices. On the other hand, most of the people in the Squad are "not-good" people. I'm really not sure, but it probably helps to point out that those in the Inquisitorial Squad, while not exactly good, certainly aren't as "evil" as the Death Eaters, hence, my concurrance with T-dot's proposal that the Squad has the same colour scheme as the Ministry of Magic. --Deathphoenix ʕ 17:59, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good to me. I see your difficulty mulling over the Inquisitorial Squad, however I can't think of an alternative, so I'm happy to go with your reasoning.  Death Eater Dan    (Muahaha) 18:50, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

text: The order of the color boxes (top to bottom) in the segment above is totally arbitrary and completely meaningless.  These are simply a group of proposed color tile palettes, to be used to color-code highlight the various HP character's and organizations' names, in their respective infobox templates, on their respective Wiki-pages.  That Hogwarts is shown "above" the others is a leftover artifact of the earlier list, that also included the four houses with their own colors shown under Hogwarts, followed by the external "loyalties".  The individual Hogwarts House color codes were eventually abandoned, and Hogwarts may get dropped too as a loyalty affiliation, if it is decided the other categories are sufficient     --T-dot 01:29, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I know the order didn't mean anything- but at some point, I was saying, I would like order to matter, and in my opinion that would be what the order should be. That's all I was saying. I saw the other page- I know what's going on! Emily (Funtrivia Freak) 02:24, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Workshop discussion

message: There is a big problem throughout HP article of not having citations.  I recently nominated Ginny Weasley for GA status, and one of the biggest complaints seemed to be a lack of citations.  The reviewer said that a [book+chapter] reference would be enough since there are so many different versions.  My point here is that we need an inline citation template with both the book and the chapter cited.  I don't know how to do this, but hopefully someone that does can help.  Maybe this can help us get more articles up to GA status, and eventually FA status.   John Reaves 19:26, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, we already have those templates. For example, the template  using the parameter ch (as in ) will yield . It doesn't put anything in the references section, but it can be manually placed in a Works cited section or something. I believe a template like that exists for every book. --Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || 21:58, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, thanks.  Now all we have to do is find the cite everything. John Reaves 22:06, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chapter citations 

message: I tried to change Template:WPHP to say "Non-Article" instead of "NA" so that it made sense to anyone that saw it, but I couldn't quite figure out how to do it.  So is there anybody that knows how to edit templates?  I also wondered if anyone thinks a navigation template for the subpages within the project would be useful.  John Reaves 02:33, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NA to Non-Article 

message: I think there should be a "status" section in the infobox so people know whether or not the character is still alive. For example, on Sirius Black's page, it is quite difficult to find this important information. Supertigerman 15:59, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: No "Status" in infobox

message: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Harry_Potter/Templates#Book_references Might be updated to these.        using > ? Chandlertalk 14:08, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book  references