Template talk:Exclusive

A question
Nixinova, Do I need a template variants showing "Console Edition only" and one showing "Education Edition only" in this template?--Beans1512 (talk) 09:34, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by that? – Nixinova • Grid_Book_and_Quill.png Grid_Diamond_Pickaxe.png Grid_Map.png • 04:09, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Such a thing.--Beans1512 (talk) 07:43, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Okay for some reason the template is broken at the moment... I will try to fix. – Nixinova • Grid_Book_and_Quill.png Grid_Diamond_Pickaxe.png Grid_Map.png • 19:25, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I'm sorry that I increased your work.-- Beans1512 Talk/Contribs 23:50, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Why is this 7 different templates
Why is this template currently 7 different templates? The whole point of parameters is so you don't need to recreate the same thing many different times, just pass along the two versions as parameters and have the template automatically add the text and images like all the other templates currently do. – KnightMiner  t/c 19:32, 29 June 2017 (UTC)


 * I did that because I didn't know how to make java launch a preset I am storing currently at exclusive/java. – Nixinova • Grid_Book_and_Quill.png Grid_Diamond_Pickaxe.png Grid_Map.png • 20:27, 30 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Preferably I would have  – Nixinova • Grid_Book_and_Quill.png Grid_Diamond_Pickaxe.png Grid_Map.png •  03:17, 1 July 2017 (UTC)


 * You just set it to build dynamically from the names you give it. In this case, java needed a different image, but all edition pages are Edition. I switched the template to support calling it like that, and remove the color properties as there is no reason one page should need a different color than the rest of the usages of this template. – KnightMiner  t/c 22:59, 2 July 2017 (UTC)


 * OK, still slightly confused, had the parameter in case you wanted the msgbox to be the usual yellow – Nixinova Grid_Book_and_Quill.png Grid_Diamond_Pickaxe.png Grid_Map.png 04:25, 4 July 2017 (UTC)


 * But why would one page want it yellow when the rest have it blue? I cannot think of a single reason one page should have it yellow unless we change it to have all be yellow. All our other message boxes are one color consistently, an individual article does not need to color it differently. – KnightMiner  t/c 17:05, 4 July 2017 (UTC)


 * There was some talk about associating different colors with different versions, see the Renaming project talk page. --Pepijn (talk) 17:40, 4 July 2017 (UTC)


 * In that case, the color should probably be predetermined based on the version and not provided by editors. --Hubry(talk) 17:52, 4 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Yeah. I was just trying to explain why we might want different colors, not advocating for having color as a parameter (just to make things clear). --Pepijn (talk) 18:31, 4 July 2017 (UTC)


 * I was just having a setting that could load the usual yellow msgbox template; I didn't know if we would be using the blue or not. – Nixinova Grid_Book_and_Quill.png Grid_Diamond_Pickaxe.png Grid_Map.png 05:23, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Repopulate categories
Could someone edit the template so categories like Category:Java Edition only, Category:Pocket Edition only, Category:Console Edition only and Category:Education Edition only are repopulated when their respective exclusive templates are used? Perhaps ? –Goandgoo ᐸ Talk Contribs 03:12, 5 July 2017 (UTC)


 * . To keep these categories and the ones related to information rather than whole features, I added a category for all of them called Category:Edition specific categories. – KnightMiner  t/c 03:50, 5 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Many thanks for doing this, looking at Category:Edition specific categories I'm wondering why all the specific information categories have "edition" in lowercase - for consistency shouldn't these all be upper case, i.e. Category:Pocket Edition specific information instead of Category:Pocket edition specific information? –Goandgoo ᐸ Talk Contribs 04:32, 5 July 2017 (UTC)


 * That was me who did that, and I don't have a good reason why I made them lowercase. Looking at the history of only, I seem to have been having a bad day all around. : P – Sealbudsman talk/contr 05:04, 5 July 2017 (UTC)


 * – Nixinova Grid_Book_and_Quill.png Grid_Diamond_Pickaxe.png Grid_Map.png 05:14, 5 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Can someone figure out why pages are still populating the lower case categories, i.e. Category:Pocket edition specific information etc? –Goandgoo ᐸ Talk Contribs 06:49, 5 July 2017 (UTC)


 * It was Drop, I fixed it. Now it's just gonna be a matter of either waiting until MediaWiki decides to refresh the categories, someone edits the pages, or someone makes null edits to the pages. I think I'll just null edit all of them. --Hubry(talk) 10:39, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
 * . Most of them just needed a null edit, the dye pages needed a null edit on a template I think, Breaking and Trading have the categories manually assigned, so I changed that too. -Hubry(talk) 10:53, 5 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Many thanks for fixing it, I couldn't quite figure out what the problem was! –Goandgoo ᐸ Talk Contribs 11:53, 5 July 2017 (UTC)