Thread:Vandraedha/@comment-4011511-20120825184717/@comment-3474542-20120826040418

Greenny wrote: What is going on with animal preload? Few days ago I saw that it started to add 1st time available and Last time available and it adding Present in one of that 2 fields. Why? Also adding explanations next to every line in animal preload makes it hard to handle. Maybe you should add it to top and make it clear that it relate to every field. And why id Animal Nav remove as default? This new Animal preload looks more to guide then preload. Since in 99% of cases edits do editors that know how to fill correct fields it's unnecessarily. If some new editor do not know how or make errors again and again them you can gave him a link to this kind of guilde, maybe with more detail explanations on some fields if it needed.

I added the availability to the infobox to encourage people to add the availability information to articles. If no information is added, the tempalte defaults to "unknown" and "present" (meaning "today" or "currently available"). Many people have added comments under the articles saying "how can I get this", or "I can't find this in the market". The availability field should help with these comments at the bottom of the article. It will also make the data available in DPL tables (e.g. the tables on Aviary).

You can't really add links in preloads. Preload is meant to be a sort of outline for the page. As 98% of templates were being filled out incorrectly, or had people asking questions about how to fill them out, the explanation notes were added to the template page (and hence copied to the outline). If you're viewing the template in visual mode, the notes show up in the field that needs to be filled out (even after the page has been created with the initial preload).

It's not only about the editors that create the articles, it's also about the people who edit the article at a later date. Most of the new (and several existing) editors don't look at the template's home page for instructions. Therefore, if I want to correct less templates, the added explanations on the preload (outline) page are necessary.

The Animal Nav template was causing pages to be added to this category, which indicates pages have a problem that needs to be fixed.

Greenny wrote: Also Husbandry field was used for breeding cows, horses, pigs and sheep but since dairy farm, horse stable, pig pen and sheep pen are out of market I think that field should be removed.

If the animal doesn't currently use the Husbandry field (or any other field, for that matter), just leave it blank. If the field is deleted from the template page itself, then it will be removed from ALL pages that use that part of the template...

Greenny wrote: About some new added fields like rarity and other new... I think that since users do not filling them up they should be removed and maybe added in text info part of article, between It's an animal in FarmVille and Mastery table, like all cows had little text guide that when you place them with bull you will get calf. Something similar for mystery babies would look better. What do you think?

Don't forget that the wiki is a constant work in progress. Yes, the mystery babies are currently messed up. This will probably sort itself out as the information for the new Baby Nursery is added.

Yes, a section about what rarity of mystery babies an animal produces should be a section in that animal's article. However, if people are not adding that information now, removing fields from the infobox is unlikely to cause them to add it in the future.