Thread:Nyastara/@comment-1738746-20150620084254/@comment-1738746-20150622162619

As for the infobox, I do remember when it used to have the egg description in it as well and remember it looked really cluttered/intense- the infobox is meant to be something short and sweet with quick stats of the dragon. I feel like if the egg description was something people were putting priority on when looking at a dragon, they'd go to the Which Egg is Which page. That said, you have a good point in that it's one of the most important aspects of the dragon and that's something the infobox is meant to convey.

No, the Encyclopedia template pictured there is strictly to house information on each dragon's article in a simple yet attractive manner. I remember discussing with Nyastara regarding making separate articles for the Encyclopedia entries and I really think that would be a bad idea; nothing is more annoying that trying to find information on a character (or in this case a dragon) and finding that it's scattered on different parts of the wiki rather than compiled all in one article. I've seen other wikis do this before and they got a very bad reception for it, and I don't want this wiki to follow suit in that; I want people to be able to find all the information about the dragon they're looking for in one place. Easy! :) As for the category, I agreed with Nyastara in saying dragons that have Encyclopedia information available can have the article added to an Encyclopedia category of some sort so if people want to see all dragons that have published entries, they can just go to that category and everything is there. As for the sprites, I really think that's a bad idea for 2 reasons: 1) It's a lot more work for us and 2) The sprites are already available not only on the article but on most of the site (Dragon Types, Rarity Guide, Which Egg is Which, Dragon Sub-Types...), it seems really redundant to re-post them.

In any case, you're right about having an example will make things clearer to work with. I've chosen the Pink dragon to do an example as it has an Encyc. entry as well different M/F sprites so we can see how that looks with the new infobox (I'm excited about being able to house both sprites too!). Pink Dragon preview! If you feel that there isn't too much going on with the infobox, we could ask Taliseth about adding in the egg description under the egg, but it's a fine balance I think. (Oh and obviously when this gets released, the element affinity categories won't show as a red link anymore ;) )