Template talk:Infobox VG

GameIDs Link
The links we currently provide for GameIDs are just to our internal redirect pages, and thus just loop back to the page one is currently on. Should we revise them to link out to GameTDB or someplace else that provides region specific info on titles? Kolano (talk) 03:10, 20 November 2016 (CET)


 * I like the idea. Redirecting to GameTDB seems doable as well since it's just a matter of passing the Game ID (e.g. http://www.gametdb.com/Wii/)... - Jhonn (talk) 04:20, 20 November 2016 (CET)


 * In the meantime it might be more useful to at least make all the GameID links in the infobox not redirect. I filled in a lot of the pages for weird IDs with some information when I was going through awhile ago (Target/Best Buy special editions, regions of release, game languages etc), and currently there's no way for someone to even know that exists without going out of their way to the ID page with a redirect=no. Those notes were mostly for future editors scratching their heads at the IDs (like I did), but it could give them additional marginal benefits. - Xerxes (talk) 11:22, 30 May 2017 (CEST)

Uhh
This template is spewing Category:Pages with template loops on all most pages those have parentheses in their page names, this happens recently after new Wiki update. There's got to be something up with codes behind the 'See also' section in this template. Also, BuildBot responsible for Template:CurrentGitRevision seems to be dead. Lucario (talk) 10:48, 20 July 2017 (CEST)
 * Not all, apparently, WiiWare titles and some others were excluded. For non-WiiWare title, take this for example, Genesis version of Dai Makaimura (TurboGrafx-16) will take you to Ghouls'n Ghosts (Genesis), notice that latter one magically doesn't have template loop category. Lucario (talk) 11:24, 20 July 2017 (CEST)


 * The Genesis version there isn't linking back to the TurboGrafx-16 one, so that's why it's not adding the category (weird it goes one way and not the other). According to Template:Exist's documentation (which is used for the alternate console links), that template actually transcludes the other page in order to see if that page exists or not. So I think it's including wikitext from the other game page with its own infobox, which is being detected as a recursive loop (infobox call inside infobox call) and triggering the warning. You could try replacing them all with #ifexist instead to see if that fixes it, but there's a cap on those and it might max out, plus the exist template says there's a bug with Wanted pages when using it. - Xerxes (talk) 12:19, 20 July 2017 (CEST)


 * Oh, good catch, I've mistaken "Exist" as other #if's in the ParserFunctions extension. Also, thanks for updating the codes so it doesn't spew that category anymore. Lucario (talk) 03:34, 22 July 2017 (CEST)