Template talk:Cp

What to display?
Seeing the template in its first usage on Missing Sentries, I thought, the original link to Currency – displayed as bubble while hovering the mouse over it – wouldn't really fit. In all the game it's "cp".

First I created Copper Pands as redir to Currency, which is now displayed.

Looks like this:

But should it better be "cp"? Unfortunately – as far as I know – there's no way to create an article (again as redir to Currency) named "cp", it will always be "Cp". So alternatively "CP" could be used, but that again is different from the game's display…

Opinions? CompleCCity (talk) 14:35, 16 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I linked back to Currency, let the link be displayed as "copper", which is as such commonly used in the game. Discussion closed. CompleCCity (talk) 16:34, 17 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Since I intend to use a fair few icon templates and it's good to be consistent across the wiki, I've moved this template and removed the amount of cp bit. The template now resides in . It appears with capital C, but since the first character in page and template names is case insensitive, this means we can use lowercase, as in the game itself. Hopefully this is agreeable :) Pangaearocks (talk) 22:31, 28 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Could you please explain why you did remove the amount? -- UserCCCSig.png  -- You talkin' to me? -- cCContributions -- 13:10, 28 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Because it's easier to handle this way, in terms of tables and whatnot, and not least infoboxes. Loads of wikis use simple icon replacements like this, and it works pretty well. Essentially what I did to the creature pages too. No need to make things more complex than they need to be. And this makes it easy to get content auto-generated from Cargo tables down the line. Let's say we have some swords, and we list the value in the infobox as "1000". The infobox itself adds, meaning the icon for currency shows up. This makes it easy to sort and do math and other stuff. Besides, one of the things with Cargo is better separation of field types, so we can set fields to Integer, like for values, where it makes good sense. With the value inside the template itself, it makes some of these things more difficult and complex, is less customisable for other features, and complicates something for no added value. The template itself becomes a little bigger too, though that probably doesn't matter much (unless people have 28.8k modems or something, hah.


 * I've not made changes just for the heck of it, there tends to be a thought behind it ;) —Pangaearocks (talk) 14:44, 28 October 2017 (UTC)


 * I didn't intend to cast doubt on this – that's why I asked. :) Thanks for explaining! -- UserCCCSig.png  -- You talkin' to me? -- cCContributions -- 14:59, 28 October 2017 (UTC)