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I like the new infobox and what it allows. My one complaint is that the fact that it tries to make the all the developer publisher entries a link to an article. I think we aren't going to have articles for most developers/publishers, resulting in too many red links. 

 

Thus I have two ways to fix this: Either change the "{{Infobox game/row/developer|Developer}}" bit so that it still formats the wording to the right side of the infobox and get rid of the way it points to an article.

 

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Give the ability so that if we just put "|publishers   = RandomIndieDeveloper" it pushes the text to the right side of the info box, but doesn't point to a non-existent article. This would allow us to keep pointing to the developer/publish articles (the few we have) while keeping more red links from the majority or articles where there won't be a developer/publisher article pointed to.

 

 

I like the flexibility of the second one better personally, but what do you guys think?

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I don't mind the red links a whole lot, they're only really common on indie games. I think they're more helpful than hurtful, especially for making sure the articles are high quality. I've discovered a lot of poorly-made articles through this system.

 

I can see why it could be annoying, but as we go on the red links will become fairly rare, I think/hope.

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I don't see this as an issue - if there is a red link then it should be filled out. Eventually we will get to the stage where every page is created and there'll be no more red links.

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I guess I just missed the policy change for it, but last I knew we weren't going to make publisher/developer pages. I guess this changed somewhat recently?

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