User blog:Deleca7755/Changes of April 2022

 I'm announcing and logging some Important changes that will be made shortly after this blog post Is published, mostly with Item pages.

The Item pages will be locked to administrators/mods temporarily. These changes were prepared and will be pushed by me manually and by using Wiki Barry through AutoWikiBrowser. They've gone through the approval of the rest of the wiki team and some trusted people In the community.



Why? Usually changes just happen at whatever pace and no announcement Is made, but given Item pages are some of the most used pages, I Imagine the new formatting has the potential to be off-putting to people at first. The Item pages have been as they currently are for many many years, but they were long overdue for a better appearance. And It feels necessary to make It clear why these changes are being made.



What's new?

First, some Item pages will now have sub categories/tables of the original category. For example, the "Held Items" page will have a header and table for "Weather Rocks".

This makes the original tables less large, gives a cleaner and more organized look, and lets us link specifically to those headers when the Items of the sub categories are mentioned on pages. However, dungeon pages will also need to be updated to accommodate this change, rearranging the Item and Kecleon Shop tables, box and boss drop lists, etc. This Is the only change that will need attention by other editors.

The following pages will have these headers on them, represented by the bullet points under the linked page name:
 * Items/Held Items
 * General
 * Experience-affecting Items
 * Recruitment Items
 * Status Orbs
 * Status Relics
 * Weather Rocks
 * Items/Scarves
 * Bows
 * Items/Consumable Items
 * Edibles
 * Common Food
 * Ethers
 * Miscellaneous Food
 * Consumables
 * Medicine
 * Revival Items
 * Stat Boosters
 * Items/Miscellaneous Items
 * General
 * Item Pieces
 * Fragments
 * Petals
 * Shoal items
 * Bag Items
 * Ribbons
 * Plushies
 * Form-changing Items
 * Legendary Formes
 * Branches
 * Nectar
 * Items/Throwing Items ( "Range" column Is being replaced by "Effect" )
 * Line of Sight
 * Arc

Items/Plushies and Items/Bows will be merging with Miscellaneous Items and Scarves respectively. Their pages will be redirects to their sections of the pages.

There will also be a new page: Items/Ability Items. Any Ability Items on the Held Items page will be moved to there. They were originally going to be their own section In Held Items, but the Spore Sac is an Ability Item that only has to be In the bag, and there's already a lot of Ability Items, warranting their own page.

Much like the Type-enhancing Items way of separating the Items. Sorting In tables on some Item pages will also account more for Item sets than alphabetical order for more pleasing Item tables on dungeon pages. For example, all Apples will be listed, then all the Big Apples, and the Huge Apples—rather than going Apple → Big Apples → Green Apple → Huge Apples → Yellow Apple. Much like how the Berries page sorts the table. Please keep this In mind when resorting lists on pages and making future ones.

Some Items are being moved or removed from pages: Second, Item pages will have reworked location formatting, with use of Template:Ss and removal of multiple list lines.
 * Spore Sac, Miscellaneous Items → Ability Items
 * Sweetland Employee Pass, Miscellaneous Items → Keys
 * Labyrinth Pass, Miscellaneous Items → Keys
 * Beginner Band, Scarves → Held Items
 * Muscle Band, Scarves → Held Items
 * Munch Belt, Held Items → Scarves
 * Tight Belt, Held Items → Scarves
 * Meowth's Charm, Held Items → Pokémon specific Items
 * Escape Rope, Consumable Items → Miscellaneous Items
 * Honey, Consumable Items → Miscellaneous Items
 * Snow Confetti, Consumable Items → Miscellaneous Items
 * Smoke Ball, Consumable Items → Miscellaneous Items
 * Sparkle Token, Consumable Items → Miscellaneous Items
 * Light Ball, × Held Items
 * Thick Club, × Held Items
 * Leek, × Held Items

For example, rather than putting "Secret Room boxes" or "End room boxes", one should use  SS srbox/erbox , which puts a box sprite that gives a tooltip of which when hovered over. If something Is hidden, use  SS h . If an Item Is found directly on the foor in a dungeon's end room, use  SS er . If an Item Is found In a dungeon's Kecleon Shop, use  SS ks . Boss drops will use  SS b (foo) , where "foo" Is the boss name ( like usual, the boss only needs to be specified If there's multiple bosses In the dungeon ). This makes the locations on Item pages much less large, and gives us less to type. These tooltips work on mobile when tapped as well.

Rather than having each dungeon/location on a separate line of a list, locations will be one list separated by commas on one line of a list. "Miscellaneous" locations or obtainment methods will be on a new list line, such as a list of overworld shops In a comma separated list on another line.

Third, Item pages will be getting their own navbox to go at the end of their pages. Since there are several Item pages, It makes It easier to go from one to another.

Finally, a minor and unrelated change, Ability pages will now use Template:Abilimg to display Images. Ability Images needed a workaround to display In readable quality. The downside was that they were registered as unused Images that way, which was troublesome when trying to look for actual unused Images. A JS script has been added to the wiki that fixes the bad quality, allowing them to be placed on pages normally again.  That should be everything, excluding any small fixes like typos or errors found while doing the edits. The manual of style, workflow guidlines, the Items page Itself and other necessary pages will also be updated accordingly for these changes If I remember. I'll be posting a comment once the changes are finished and the pages are unlocked. It's possible there could be more subcategories on pages In the future after this, but what's Important Is that It's known It's being made a thing.

Happy suffering reading and editing!

 I'm with stu   pid  02:12, 7 April 2022 (UTC)