Guild Wars 2 Wiki talk:Item formatting

Involvements

A fine start here. We need a section for Event and Heart involvement yet. I don't encounter many that needing documented nowadays, but they seem to be the ones that still pop up. SarielV 15:30, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

I added event involvement, but I think we decided to omit 'heart involvement' in an earlier discussion. —Ventriloquist 18:51, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Vendors subsection

Current:

== Vendors ==
<!-- for items that are used as a currency for vendors -->
{{vendor table|currency={{subst:PAGENAME}}}}

I find the name of this section quite irritating and would suggest to change it to "Used to buy" or something similiar. —Kvothe (talk) 13:20, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

The section used to be merge with Used in, so the name was more relevant. As it stands now, yeah, it might seem awkward. We could either use your suggestion for the name, or Currency for, which was one of the older ways we referred to the 'mechanic'. —Ventriloquist 15:45, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Yeah agreed, saw this being used the other day and was scratching my head. "Currency for" would be my preference. -Chieftain Alex 17:19, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Recommended achievement template

What's the recommended template to be used in the section achievement? The formatting guide says

<!-- for items that can be acquired through achievements; always use plural for these sections -->
=== Achievements ===
{{Achievement list|reward={{subst:PAGENAME}}}}

but both templates, {{achievement list}} and {{achievement box}}, are equally used, ~300~400 times each. E.g. "/Shiverplus" Emote Tome (using list) and "/Shiver" Emote Tome (used box). -Tolkyria (talk) 13:59, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Only {{achievement list}} should be used. —Kvothe (talk) 16:01, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Okay. Sorry, forgot one "*" to take also subsubcategories into account, e.g. service items. --Tolkyria (talk) 19:48, 15 January 2021 (UTC)

Removing query, ~800 items are using {{achievement list}}. --Tolkyria (talk) 20:08, 15 January 2021 (UTC)