Template talk:Pathfinder contributors navbox

Further Modifications?

The second section of this template is rather full. I was thinking of separating it into further divisions, such as RPG Superstar finalists, Open Call Winners, and Werecabbages. Are these divisions worthwhile? Also, Phillip Larwood has not contributed to Pathfinder itself, but did official PF content in KQ. Should he be listed among the others? And what should we do of the authors of OGL material used in PF books? They have pages, but aren't listed as Authors in categories or this template. -- Yoda8myhead 21:42, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Overwhelming & unwieldy

This template is getting huge. At some point it stops being helpful. Anyone have any ideas on how to make it less clunky? I'd also like to look into making these footer templates standardized with a single parent template they can all use so we can change them across the board without needing to alter each one individually.—yoda8myhead 04:55, February 18, 2010 (UTC)

With the release of the GameMastery Guide and the dozens of new names credited as authors in it, this template will officially overload. I was thinking of hiding the contents (as I started to do with other navboxes) and divide them up into the current "Paizo Staff" and two new categories, "Fiction Contributors," and "Major Contributors" for people like Greg A. Vaughan, Tim Hitchcock, and Jason Nelson, who have all contributed to a large number of articles and books. The other option is to make a different expandable section for different letter ranges, so that "Freelance Contributors" would have an A-I, J-R, and S-Z section. Anyone have any other ideas before I tackle these changes on the flight to Seattle Thursday afternoon? —yoda8myhead 06:40, June 15, 2010 (UTC)

I think breaking them down into alphabetical groups is a better idea. That way they'll be easier to find. --brandingopportunity 11:47, June 15, 2010 (UTC)

I agree, breaking it down into groups is prolly best, and separating out fiction authors, paizo staff, and freelance authors is a good thing. There will be some with both fiction and freelance credit though, especially with the journals in the AP for Eando Kline and the current series having a different author for each part. Cpt kirstov 16:06, June 15, 2010 (UTC)

Three years later it seemed unwieldy to me again. I pulled out a special section just for the comic and separated the fiction into three categories. I'm not sure if I'm sold on the fiction changes yet. Some authors have written for all three types, so they appear multiple times close to each other. Thoughts? Also, the sourcebook contributors list could still be tackled, but needs some thought first. Separating by AP, setting, companion, module, other, etc. would lead to gross overlap, probably even worse than the fiction authors. I thought about creating a separate section by year, only listing the author by the first year they contributed. While that would keep the list manageable, that probably dampens the list's usefulness. I'm open to other ideas. -- FoiledAgain (talk) 10:58, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

If you take a look at my sandbox, you can see that I was in the process of revamping this myself. I think one way to manage it is to treat each individual list as a unique template the same way we do with the various product line lists. I also think we may just need to set a threshold of credited titles for each genre that warrants an author or artist's inclusion in the list. For Sourcebooks, maybe we make it a cover or solo credit or 5 individual credits. For artists maybe we automatically include anyone with a cover under their belt and anyone else with artwork we can show on the wiki under the CUP. For fiction, I'd say writing a novel or 3 other titles is probably a good threshold given the size of the line at this time.— Yoda8myhead (talk) 19:06, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Further, I think we need to break the entire template in two, one for authors and one for artists. We're not going to have any overlap between them anyway, and this will keep the whole thing from bulging more than it already will. — Yoda8myhead (talk) 19:08, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

New templates made for comics and contributing artists. Applying the comics template should be easy enough. Applying the contributing artists may be a job for a bot. I could do it in an hour, but the recent changes list would get bloated. I'm holding off editing the main navbox in case others want to chime in. -- FoiledAgain (talk) 21:59, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

Replacing the templates is an easy task for YodaBot. I just need to know the category of pages or list of articles that need to have the change made on them and I can get it done really quickly. You can post those direction on YodaBot's talk page.— Yoda8myhead (talk) 22:09, 10 May 2013 (UTC)