User talk:Auldrick

Hi, can we talk?
Hey, i want to know why you deleted my edit, The Better Together Update... –Preceding unsigned comment was added by Piporgames (talk • contribs) at 21:06, 31 August 2017 (UTC). Please sign your posts with
 * Generally, articles are supposed to have a consistent layout. For more information, see MCW:LAYOUT. The BlobsPaper.png 14:02, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Welcome to the wiki, ! To answer your question more specifically,


 * 1) Articles should not start with a heading. The initial paragraph, called the "lede", should be a brief (1-3 sentences) summary of the topic, and the article title is its heading.
 * 2) Although it's common knowledge that Sony has not accepted the BTU, they have not publicly given the reason you stated as far as I know, so this is speculation. Speculation in main articles is not allowed.
 * 3) The 7/31/2017 update section had potentially useful content, but included your personal commentary ("sadly", "Obsolete") and "" tags that look like HTML but aren't valid. Articles should take a neutral, impersonal point of view per the style guide. I couldn't tell what you intended with the tags, and you didn't cite a source for me to research, so I didn't know how to fix it. If you had cited a valid source, I might have tried to work the information into the article. However...
 * 4) Some of what you said is simply wrong: The Xbox 360 and PS3 are not "Obsolete" as long as they can still play their disc versions. I'm sure there are many people who are only interested in playing the minigames, and to them the BTU is irrelevant. They are not being "forced to migrate to newer consoles in order to continue playing Minecraft". They will have to migrate if they want new features, but that's simply a fact of life. When you buy a game, you're entitled to that game as it is; you can usually expect updates for a period of time, but not in perpetuity because technology becomes (i.e. it is not "made") obsolete. What you were doing was complaining about that fact, which you're free to do on many other forums, but it doesn't belong in an article.
 * With all that said, though, I encourage you to continue editing the wiki, after becoming more familiar with the Layout guide Blobs2 linked above. You might also find the "Editing Help" section on my user page helpful. --– Auldrick (talk &middot; contribs) 15:08, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

Template:Exclusive
Hey Auldrick, could you point me to a page or two where  wasn't being recognized by the  ? There's a couple things I'd like to try to see if the problem can be easily fixed (since it makes absolutely no sense to me why a  would work, but an exactly equivalent   wouldn't), and not having to re-break the template and then hunt down such cases myself would probably be the ideal way to go about it. =) 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 17:30, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I noticed it on Skin/Skin pack, then checked another but I've forgotten which. I think the warning about replacements with a unique string (strip marker) in the #ifeq documentation is causing it. It seems to be saying that because of how MediaWiki works, during the template expansion the #ifeq gets processed at a point in time when its parameters have been temporarily replaced by unique strings, like variable names, and the result is that the #ifeq is comparing the unique strings instead of what they refer to. --– Auldrick (talk &middot; contribs) 17:40, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
 * : I've been investigating myself using a copy of your revision in my sandbox, and I think I might have reverted in panic, though I could swear I saw just "Console Edition" in the Categories: list at the bottom of the pages I checked. I can't seem to reproduce the problem now, though. In part, I got confused because "Console Edition" still appears in the logo and the text beneath it. The logo shouldn't be changed, but the text should, but it hasn't and I didn't think to change it when Goandgoo asked me to change the category. I'm going to try to fix the text now in my sandbox, and I'll restore your #ifeq code when I do (assuming the problem I thought I saw doesn't come back, of course). --– Auldrick (talk &middot; contribs) 18:26, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
 * How did this go, by the way? It doesn't make sense that #ifeq would have problems with strip markers; I've used it for years with no concern whatsoever over when in the parse it gets handled, and have never run into a problem like this. 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 17:06, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I have implemented the completely rewritten Exclusive, using #ifeq where appropriate, and it seems to be working perfectly. I must have been confused by the logo and erroneous (because I neglected to change it) text. The commenting-out-newlines technique works beautifully, letting me format templates much more readably, and I plan to use it from now on. The only concern I have is that people with a programming background might copy the style without realizing that parser functions aren't control-flow keywords. I guess like me they'll learn, though. Thanks again! --– Auldrick (talk &middot; contribs) 17:22, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

User subpages link
In case you're not aware, there's a simpler way to link to your user subpages: Special:PrefixIndex/User:Auldrick/. This page doesn't have the prev/next listings links that Special:AllPages does, and can also be transcluded to include the list directly on another page, which is the method I use to generate the list on my own userpage. 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 17:09, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Or subpages, which uses Special:PrefixIndex too . Use Auldrick :D – Dentedharp90041tce 17:24, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you, both of you. (And I'm flattered that anybody is watching my user talk page!)--– Auldrick (talk &middot; contribs) 18:17, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Aah, Subpages uses DPL... Given that, if all you want is a straight list, and don't care about the formatting, I'd still recommend transcluding the specialpage instead, since that comes with less overhead (and isn't reliant on DPL, which theoretically could end up temporarily disabled or otherwise broken without warning). 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 18:37, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I already decided to keep the SpecialPages link, assuming it had less overhead, but I'm planning to start a personal project that will involve a number of pages which I'll put in my sandbox. I was thinking subpages could be a better way to index those. I couldn't find any information about #dpl, however.--– Auldrick (talk &middot; contribs) 18:43, 5 October 2017 (UTC)