Template talk:Infobox video game engine

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As opposed to Source or id tech, with widely-used engines like Unity and Unreal, there is no way to know what's the latest game, and even then i'm afraid this template will be abused by indie devs who want to promote their games by listing them in engine articles. Unless it's established that we will only use notable games from lists like List of Unreal Engine games, i'm contrary to employ these parameters.

Additionally, there is the problem that some games are being added as the first without a notable source supporting it, either in the engine's article or the game's. Hakken (talk) 11:25, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I was concerned about this. I actually think that sounds like a great way to 'filter' (for lack of a better term) these titles? I had mentioned on the WikiProject talk page to consider using hidden text in these rare occasions, so perhaps doing both would be the best way forward: Establish in the doc and remind with hidden text? That is ofcourse if we think the hidden text will be necessary? Orangeisacop (talk) 13:20, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata

@Orangeisacop: You should use Module:WikidataIB for Wikidata integration. See {{Infobox video game}} for an example. -- ferret (talk) 18:12, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Ferret: The implementation I've used is based off a number of other infobox templates including Template:Infobox software. Is there any reason to use this over what I've done currently? Orangeisacop (talk) 18:16, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
WikidataIB has a lot of additional functionality to allow for excluding unsourced Wikidata claims, including the references when they are sourced, handling local suppression of fields as desired, obeying claim rankings, proper date formatting (including obeying MOSDATE maintenance template), etc. Not all of it is always used of course, but it's much more full-featured that a direct pull of the property. -- ferret (talk) 18:19, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, sounds good - I'll get on that now then. Orangeisacop (talk) 18:32, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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