User talk:Hardvice/Guest stars

If we standardize the image names, find a way to match the cell size, and sort out this duplicate problem, this could totally work. We should be able to use a string function to get the number of characters in a name, and if it's less than X, automatically add nonlinktext.--Hardvice (talk) 00:03, 30 November 2007 (EST)

• Right, and there's a few sort functions in Winter that we might be able to use. I left a comment on your talk page.--MiamiVolts (talk) 00:09, 30 November 2007 (EST)
  • No need. I just didn't read their documentation very well. Sort is working, duplicates are fixed. All we need are standard image names and to set up the auto nonlinktext.--Hardvice (talk) 01:09, 30 November 2007 (EST)
    • Most of the names are pretty standard. I think you tend to use lowercase and I use uppercase--can that be fixed using ucfirst or any of those other fun tricks? It looks like there's only three so far for this season that would need to be fixed: Héctor Luis Bustamante, Oscar Gutierrez, and Kiko Kiko. But that brings up two other issues: guest stars who don't have real-world portraits, and guest stars for whom articles do not yet exist. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 01:20, 30 November 2007 (EST)
      • Yeah, since it's generating the page, there's no good way to override it. We can add a separate copy of the image for those with no out-of-character images (for example, re-upload Image:Monty Petrelli.jpg as Image:Jackson Wurth.jpg), which would actually make things easier once we get an OOC image. Folks who don't exist yet aren't going to appear in the portals, but they will appear as soon as they're added, which is kind of nice. And on the off chance that we need to override somebody's name, we can read individual variables from templates called by an article, so we could add a "portalname" variable to template:infobox cast and use that to fill text=--Hardvice (talk) 01:30, 30 November 2007 (EST)