Forum:CT Archive/Appearances revamp project

This is just a page to help keep track of some things in our site-wide revamp of the "Appearances" sections on OOU articles. See Forum:CT Archive/Appearances lists for more info. In short, we are wrapping current "Appearances" in App in order to cut down on TOC length and allow users to show/hide appearances at will.

Adding
I have written a script that Whistler will run in an attempt to convert most of our articles to the new layout. Articles that the bot cannot completely convert for one reason or another (typically sections named incorrectly, or additional sections) will be tagged with Appearances need work directly under the  header. See Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Appearances need work for a list of tagged articles. If you have manually fixed an article, please remove the "need work" template.

There have also been several points raised regarding the template that can be discussed/voted upon further down the page. I didn't feel these warranted a full-fledged CT, however.

Pages to work on
Feel free to add any appropriate pages or categories that need work to this list:


 * Category:Star Wars media
 * Category:Books (real-world)
 * Category:Games

Show by default

 * 1) —Xwing328 (Talk) 02:19, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Displayed text
Currently, the template reads. That seems rather non-descriptive to me, whereas "Appearances sections" was rather redundant. Small detail, but any suggestions?

Appearances TOC
Finally, a point was raised that if the table for the "Appearances" TOC was shown while the appearances themselves were hidden, clicking on the section links for the appearances would appear to do nothing. If I can find a fix for this, this section will become irrelevant, but until then, should the "Appearances" TOC table be shown/hidden along with the appearances or not?

Always show

 * 1) —Xwing328 (Talk) 02:19, 7 July 2009 (UTC)