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 ==Borderline libel==
 Come on, Mbc07. I '''''did''''' test the template. I did. I made detailed test changes to https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=User:DandelionSprout/Infobox_VG_HTTPS_Wikipedia, tried it on pages I didn't save, and made sure 100.00% that I got a working result. When I get told "That's the last time I'm fixing your mistakes" when it wasn't a mistake in the first place, I feel very insulted. [[User:DandelionSprout|DandelionSprout]] ([[User talk:DandelionSprout|talk]]) 10:20, 19 March 2024 (CET)
+: Let's recap, you just joined the wiki and started doing massive edits with AutoWikiBrowser, without actually describing what you're changing (making reviewing recent changes a chore, as people now have to look at the diffs to see what was changed), then starts brute-forcing changes to templates used nearly everywhere without actually taking time to understand how they work or to properly test the changes. I catch most of those and edit them so they still do what you wanted but without breaking previous existing functionality and you're the one that feels very insulted when called out? Please.
+: In regards to {{tl|Infobox VG}}, you only started testing your changes on a separate page after breaking (and reverting) the main template twice, a high-traffic one which is included in about 90% of all pages currently hosted in the wiki. Also, the "100.00% working result" you added to the main template '''''was borked'''''. It just fed <nowiki>{{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}</nowiki> to the Wikipedia URL, completely ignoring the pre-processing done to the page title (explained in the comment blocks at the beginning of the template code) in order to strip the platform postfix of Virtual Console titles and other special cases, which just shows that (once again) you just brute-froce what you wanted to accomplish without taking time to understand how the template works. Go test your "working result" with any of the [[Virtual Console]] pages and see it fail, which wasn't the case before.
+: I agree some of the templates we use are overly complex and a few are lacking on documentation about their inner workings, but you could've simply asked. Same with the AutoWikiBrowser edits, we do have extensions specifically for making mass changes like you're doing, but in more appropriate ways (edits marked as bot, with meaningful descriptions, and so on). In the end, despite the suddenly added burden (for me at least), nearly all of your edits were kept one way or another, and that's all I can do for you. Don't want to contribute anymore? Fine, it's your call. - [[User:mbc07|mbc07]] ([[User talk:mbc07|talk]]) 02:48, 20 March 2024 (CET)