Talk:Emotes

If somebody who understands ask queries better than me could change the first column from page names to canonical names that'd be great. Freedom4556 (talk) 20:59, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

• By "canonical name", do you mean a plain text string instead of a link? If so, adding the line

| ?=#

at the beginning of the column list seems to work. But are you sure this is desirable? Screenshots of characters showing the emotes could be added to the pages.

Ref: https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_information#Plain_.28unformatted.29_printouts Glotos (talk) 23:26, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Nah, I'm looking for it to display the value of Template:Emote infobox's name = field. So that Backflip (Emote) becomes Backflip like how Template:action icon does it (  Backflip). Freedom4556 (talk) 01:46, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

I have discovered that adding

| mainlabel=-
| ?Has canonical name = Name

does most of what I want, but it would like the ?Has canonical name to be a link, and can't seem to figure that one out. Freedom4556 (talk) 02:07, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

You can get the name AND the link, of course, with

| ?Has canonical name = Name
| ?

But I'm not seeing a way to make something other than the page name be a link. Glotos (talk) 02:24, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

Hey, I saw all of the above and found the same issue with canonical name - I think there is a way around it but too messy. I've created Template:Emote list and added them to pages - let me know if okay? They are pretty basic ones. JohnnySolas (talk)

Just to add - there are a few redirects for some commands that were created that refer back to the name - so for example where you'd expect to see /beckon - you see Beckon because the /beckon redirects to Beckon - I'll remove these redirects and put them in for deletion - I don't think we need all the commands created if honest. JohnnySolas (talk)

Do we want to take the descriptions in the last tables and put them in the emote pages, then add those desriptions to the first tables as a new column? Glotos (talk) 00:46, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Do you mean the description of the emote (so for example - aback is “act taken aback”) and add it to the new table I just did? If so then that is pretty easy as they are all there JohnnySolas (talk)

Right, but at the moment they're hardcoded in the tables at the end. I'm wondering if they should be moved to the emotes' pages Glotos (talk) 01:31, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Sorry it’s late here and maybe I’m just being dumb but you’ve confused me. Which tables are you talking about? Do you have a link? All the descriptions are on each emote page already under “description=“ field. Are you meaning make the descriptions show up on the page with all the emotes in the tables together? I’ll change it now let me know if that’s what you mean? JohnnySolas (talk)

I was looking at the table under https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Emotes#Additional_Information and seeing the descriptions there hardcoded instead of using the fields from the emotes pages. I didn't realize those were already duplicates. Sorry for the confusion. So is the table under Additional Information redundant? And by the way, the column you added looks good. Glotos (talk) 02:20, 19 March 2023 (UTC)