Template talk:Anomaly

two questions:

first off why does this redirect you to The Anomaly? second why does this add the category for bugs instead of using its own?- Zesbeer 09:02, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Fixed the first problem - it kind of explains the difference between bug and anomaly on the bug page. On the second point, I'm not sure why but infinite seems to have "corrected" it to bugs when he was doing the category tree project. --Chieftain Alex 15:23, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Just found Guild_Wars_2_Wiki_talk:Projects/Category_reorganization#Bugs_and_anomalies - which seems to be saying "they're all bugs so who gives a fuck" (imo this template should be deprecated in favor of using text-error (sic) and bug templates. --Chieftain Alex 15:28, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

A bit late, but yes, discussion concluded with the statement "anomalies are inconsistencies that differentiate from intended gameplay, basically like bugs" and we then grouped it all in bugs. My opening post on the matter still had them separated, though. - Infinite - talk 11:35, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Anomaly redirects to The Anomaly because main space has a precedence over template space. From a contributor's perspective I agree we'd sooner redirect "anomaly" to this template for editing help, but since a lot of contributors know of the anomaly template from GWW, it's safe to say this template will not be lost in the infrastructure of edits. - Infinite - talk 11:35, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

I agree with part 2 of the original question. Not all anomalies are actual bugs with the game/wiki page/whatever. Specific reference Pine Saplings, it is an anomaly since in real life (as stated on the page) pine is a soft wood, yet in game you get hard wood logs. 69.182.146.166 21:21, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Icon

Why doesn't this template have the anomaly icon that we use on the GWW (http://wiki.guildwars.com/index.php?title=File:Anomaly.png&redirect=no)? The bug template does, so was this intentional? Imo it would look better. Also I think "Anomaly:" would look better than "Anomaly.", although the . is consistent with GWW. 08Ray 20:32, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Personally I prefer them both without icons. - Infinite - talk 20:40, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Also note that anything done on GWW has zero impact here. But with consensus everything from it can be introduced here. - Infinite - talk 20:44, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

The icon serves as an easy visual identifier. Without the icon on {{bug}}, you'd have Anomaly and Bug that are visually identical. (Unrelated, but why does {{bug}} link to Wikipedia and {{anomaly}} link to bug?) —Dr Ishmael 20:48, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

As Dr Ishmael already stated, it is just easier to see the difference between them with the icons present. Also to keep the format consistent on this wiki I think the format of this template should be the same as Template:Bug so that it uses "Anomaly : " instead of "Anomaly. " and also has the possibility of making a bullet list of anomalies like you can do with bugs now. You were right that consistency with the GWW isn't necessary, but consistency on this wiki itself is.

About the linking, Template:Bug should probably be changed so that it links to Bug aswell instead of to wikipedia. 08Ray 21:09, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

You're correct about the consistency matter (I was just reminding users about the GWW vs GW2W protocol). As to why the links were like that: back then I recall a lack of a bug page, which was not really a priority at that time. Now that we can wiki link bug, though, we should. - Infinite - talk 12:18, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Retire template

The {{bug}} template can be used for all intents and purposes.--Relyk ~ talk > 21:02, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Difference between this template and the bug template is that this is for things which are weird or unusual, but not bugs (which is when something isn't working properly). In other words: Anomaly=oddity; Bug=not working properly. Konig/talk 06:41, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

To put it another way, bugs affect gameplay experience but anomalies do not. 06:44, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

A majority of the time I see anomaly tags used, it's either for a bug or something you could simply put in the Notes section without a fancy tag.--Relyk ~ talk > 08:00, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

The point is to call attention to some notes, but not others. A bug is something in the game that isn't working as the developers intended. An anomaly is something that either the developers did not expect or is intended but inconsistent with other intended effects. Both affect gameplay. I think it's fine to use one template, as long as one can distinguish between the two. I think it's also fine to include them in one category, either category:bugs or category:anomalies, as long as the top of those pages explains why this wiki doesn't categorize them separately.

However, I don't think it's fine to label inconsistencies as bugs and I do like to see them highlighted, because it is helpful in understanding the game. 75.37.20.148 08:44, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

I recommend not retiring this template as Relyk is wrong (see post of mine above about pine saplings). The two are sometimes misidentified as being the same when they are not. A bug is not the same as an anomaly Relyk, people need to be more careful about how they identify it as such, myself included. I have (incorrectly) identified the different icons used in the dialogue box as an anomaly for the *commune* skill challenges, when I should have identified them as bugs, although they do not seem to affect game play, just the visuals. 69.182.146.166 21:21, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

The pine sapling example is not an in-game anomaly. The game never claimed to be true to life anyways.

If we are going to keep the template, at least document what it's used for then.--Relyk ~ talk > 08:13, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Correcting this template

I suggest that this template be corrected to place pages into it's own category, separate and distinct from the bugs category. 69.183.17.93 05:49, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

(update to above) I edited the background text, correctly I hope, so that the anomaly category page was created and so that using this template places those pages into that space as well. 69.183.17.93 05:55, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Rename template

The use of this template is too easily confused with the Bug template. I propose renaming it to Inconsistency to better convey the intended use of this template. --BuffsEverywhere (talk) 10:23, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

Multiple links in a row

On Chrome, putting multiple links in a row will not display a space between the links, see the anomaly here. However it displays fine on Firefox. --BuffsEverywhere (talk) 15:30, 9 July 2021 (UTC)