Template talk:Infobox Webcomic

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{{Infobox Webcomic <!-- Part of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Webcomics]] -->
| title = 
| image = 
| caption = 
| author = 
| url = 
| rss = 
| atom = 
| status = 
| began = 
| ended = 
| genre = 
| ratings = 
| preceded by = 
| followed by = 
}}

Instantiated

You can also find this box on the VG Cats article I put it in as a demo. CyberSkull 23:39, 2005 Jun 19 (UTC)

Code Example

{{Infobox Webcomic| <!-- Part of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Webcomics]] -->
| title = VG Cats
| image = [[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg|300px|Link Finally Snaps]]
| caption = The ''VG Cats'' strip "Link Finally Snaps" parodies the video game, ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]''.
| author = [[Scott Ramsoomair]]
| url = http://www.vgcats.com/
| rss = http://www.vgcats.com/vgcats.rdf.xml
| atom = 
| status = Weekly updates, usually on Monday
| began = [[2001-09-09]] [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=0]
| ended =
| genre = [[Video game|Video game]], [[Parody]], [[Gag-a-day]]
| ratings =
| preceded by =
| followed by =
}}

Instantiated example

VG Cats
The VG Cats strip "Link Finally Snaps" parodies the video game, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Author(s)	Scott Ramsoomair
Website	http://www.vgcats.com/
Current status/schedule	Weekly updates, usually on Monday
Launch date	2001-09-09 [1]
Genre(s)	Video game, Parody, Gag-a-day

To Do

• Get it approved for use in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Webcomics.
• Make image and caption variables display only if image is defined (I don't know how to do that for 2 variables CyberSkull 01:35, 2005 Jun 19 (UTC)) Done Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 21:25, 2005 Jun 22 (UTC)
• Change the colors?

History

This template was made by CyberSkull based off of code from {{Infobox VG}} (great job guys!).

Discussion

Would it be possible to add an optional alternate URL for sites that may use one more address (see Talk:Ctrl_Alt_Del_(webcomic))? Guinness 16:46, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Just put a line break in. See Venus Envy for an example. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 02:49, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Excellent, thanks for the help. Guinness 07:49, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Why I've never liked article categories in templates

I'm taking Category:webcomics out of this template and inserting it independently into the articles that use this template. There are various subcategories of Category:Webcomics that many of these articles should be segregated into now and it's impossible to take them out of the root category otherwise. Just letting everyone know that the absence of the category from some of these templated articles is only temporary. Bryan 00:47, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Anyone who works on WP:CFD can say the same thing. Categories fed by a template are the hardest to manage. You can change or delete the template, but until the article is touched next, it stays in the category. -- Netoholic @ 10:09, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

That seems to have been changed lately. Changes to categories in templates now propagate to all articles including it. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 13:59, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

The new format

I don't really know much about templates, so I can't comment much about the technical aspects, but I do like the way it looks, now. However, I'd like to point out the url field is now kinda fragile. That field has to have a bare URL and nothing else or it won't look right. For example, if a comic has two primary addresses or there's a parenthetical comment. I haven't the foggiest idea how you'd go about fixing that. For now, I've just been removing anything but bare URLs from that field and adding comments in the article's text if necessary. For sites with more than one URL, well, I guess choose one for the infobox and put the other(s) in an External links section. –Abe Dashiell ^(t/c) 13:30, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

I've reverted it. Someguy's edits to other infobox were reverted by others as well. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 22:51, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

• I liked that all-blue version, actually, and having the URL in the middle down at the bottom looked pretty cool, too. The only problem was it required a bare URL or it broke. –Abe Dashiell ^(t/c) 02:27, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

It can always be at the bottom with a bare URL. - Someguy0830 (Talk | contribs) 04:11, 3 April 2006 (UTC)