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::{{c|comment}}: It's not bad. The original template was sort of designed assuming the classes would have a fairly equal number of hats, and that Valve wasn't going to add several hundred thousand hats in the future. My only suggestion for this right now is to split the '''All''' column into two parts, which I decided to just edit into your suggestion if you don't mind. [[User:MK|MK]] 03:52, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 
::{{c|comment}}: It's not bad. The original template was sort of designed assuming the classes would have a fairly equal number of hats, and that Valve wasn't going to add several hundred thousand hats in the future. My only suggestion for this right now is to split the '''All''' column into two parts, which I decided to just edit into your suggestion if you don't mind. [[User:MK|MK]] 03:52, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 
:::Seems like a good idea. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] 13:41, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
 
:::Seems like a good idea. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] 13:41, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
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::::{{c|support}} We should do it right now. [[User:Daff|Daff]] 18:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

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Demoman's Fro

Should this be considered hatless or not? --Jordan 22:57, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Capitalization

Needs proper capitalization for names of hats. They're proper nouns. Words after the first one deserve a capital letter.

--Mhmm 03:40, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

No. -- Smashman... (ts) 03:47, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
I have a copy of the HatNav with capitalisation. All that's needed is the capitalised versions of all the hats to be moved to the non-capitalised ones before I implement it. I see you're getting on with some of that now, I'll help you. --RJackson 03:56, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
It seems consensus has been reach to change to proper capitalisation. Previously the policy was different to keep consistency. Feel free to update this template. -- Pilk (talk) 04:01, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Category: Hats

Currently the template includes Category:Hats on every page it is transcluded in. While this is, for the most part, a good thing, there are a number of miscellaneous items where including Cat:Hats is probably a bad thing, as they are not hats. It's been a while since I've used parserfunctions, and I'm a little rusty with them, but I believe something like the below would not include Cat:Hats if the parameter category was passed to the template args, and was not blank? I guess it could be expanded so that if the category parameter is passed then the value of the category parameter is the name of the category included, but I cant remember how the switch statements worked either.

{{#if:{{{category|}}}|<includeonly>{{lang cat|Hats}}</includeonly>|}}

In other words, could someone a little more experienced check it over before I go causing havok? Cheers. Lamb 22:08, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Your syntax would work perfectly, however, it'd probably be better if we just remove {{lang cat}} from the hat nav altogether, considering that pages are placed in Hat and Misc categories automatically by the infobox. Thanks for the suggestion, though. seb26 [talk] 22:12, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
Fair enough, I had not noticed that the infobox also included the categories. Lamb 22:15, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Splitting badges from misc. items

Just like hatless and polycount are separated from hats. Looks like crap here but you'll get the point.

Misc. Items - Gentle Manne's Service Medal Whiskered Gentleman - - - Physician's Procedure Mask - Camera Beard Earbuds Polycount Pin
Badges - - - - - - - - - Primeval
Warrior
Platinum
Dueling badge
- - - - - - - - - Grizzled
Veteran
Gold
Dueling badge
- - - - - - - - - Soldier
of Fortune
Silver
Dueling badge
- - - - - - - - - Mercenary Bronze
Dueling badge

--Kid Of The Century 16:34, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Consider changing? This template is getting huge

Should we consider splitting this into several class-specific templates or similar? After the Polycount update, this has mutated out of control. It often takes up more space than the content of the actual pages now. ~ lhavelund (tc) 19:14, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

At the very least, I think the template should have a separate section for hatless items, like there's a category at the bottom for Misc. items. What bothers me most about this template isn't its size so much as it is flatout unorganized and just looks messy. I feel like just shifting things around and organizing the template would make it much more manageable in terms of size, but honestly I don't know much about editing templates so I'm afraid to mess with it myself. Evang7 17:57, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Change from vertical table to horizontal list

I'm thinking that with the number of stuff there is now (and it'll only get bigger), it may be a good idea to lose the table format and put this tempalte into more of a row-list format like this:

Looking at the current template, this idea takes up three-fifths the space (approximately) and doesn't have large blank chunks in the middle of nowhere. Maybe we could even use small icons, although that would look pretty cluttered. Toomai Glittershine 17:54, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Uh, shall I bump this? (Large recent edit numbers have probably hidden this suggestion.) Toomai Glittershine 20:40, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

(Maybe Template:Allweapons Nav could also benefit from this idea, although since weapons need to be organized a bit more than just a bunch of rows it may not work out.) Toomai Glittershine 20:58, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Pictogram plus.png Support-Shine[] 20:44, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Pictogram plus.png Support: Also, maybe try adding mini-icons like for the weapons? Force-A-Nature Or would that make it too big again? --CruelCow 20:48, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Icons would look cool, but I think it would look too big again if we have both icons and text. So it'd look like Template:Achievements. Toomai Glittershine 20:54, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
Pictogram comment.png Comment: It's not bad. The original template was sort of designed assuming the classes would have a fairly equal number of hats, and that Valve wasn't going to add several hundred thousand hats in the future. My only suggestion for this right now is to split the All column into two parts, which I decided to just edit into your suggestion if you don't mind. MK 03:52, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Seems like a good idea. Toomai Glittershine 13:41, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
Pictogram plus.png Support We should do it right now. Daff 18:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)