Forum:Changing some templates

Alot of the templates we currently have are pretty dated. For example, some of our templates are from World at War, Black Ops and Modern Warfare 2. I had the idea of changing all of them after a discussion about it on chat. Slav and I spent a hour digging for images that can look good for replacement. And it can make it look more up-to-date. To note, these are just examples, and we can easily change them to be better looking.

We can do this for a lot of other templates too but these are just examples. Here we have Sdelete, Speculation, Needsimages and Stub.

It would be really nice to change them. What do you think? 20:39, November 17, 2013 (UTC)

Discussion
Once again to note, these are just examples. Feel free to post what you think will look better. -- 20:39, November 17, 2013 (UTC)

As a random guy. Also, the speculation template can sound like " All tank crews prepare for drop. ETA two minutes " (which is also from Severed Ties). It can sound " All editors prepare for game release (or something). ETA (ETA can be counter template) two minutes ". 20:43, November 17, 2013 (UTC)

Many of our templates were made back when those games were out. I don't see why we have any need to change the templates to reflect more recent releases. 20:46, November 17, 2013 (UTC)
 * It will look up to date and cleaner. There is no harm in updating them. 20:50, November 17, 2013 (UTC)
 * There is also no harm in leaving something as is that already works. 20:53, November 17, 2013 (UTC)
 * In which why this forum is here. I could say I proposed the idea, but I was just thinking of changing the Sdelete template as the other felt outdated, and that image of Rorke just works with it imo. Overall it lays down to choice of support or oppose. 21:09, November 17, 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't want us to change all the templates, or it will retract from us being the Call of Duty wiki. We need to maintain some links to previous games. 21:15, November 17, 2013 (UTC)
 * Good point, but I still want the new Sdelete. New is good, diversity is good, so updating some shouldn't be a bad thing, right? Yeah we have the Logo and background but I still think some of these could be updated. 21:22, November 17, 2013 (UTC)
 * That is what I am saying. We have no templates from Call of Duty: Ghosts. We should update some. And I think we might not have any for MW3 also. -- 21:50, November 17, 2013 (UTC)

Support changing Sdelete As the person who proposed changing the sdelete template, which seemed to have sparked Batman to want to this, leading to the updated templates and idea I'd like at least one "updated". 21:09, November 17, 2013 (UTC)
 * Hmmm... good idea. Only "problem" that we have about new Sdelete is that the image is from YT, so if someone can upload a new proper image from game, that would be good ( i still can't, cos leechers and bad net, geddit? :D ). 21:48, November 17, 2013 (UTC)

- I designed those templates like a year and a half ago, if anyone has any feedback in how i can improve them overall I'd be happy to whip up some updates. KλT 22:21, November 17, 2013 (UTC)
 * That's the point of the forum, to update them. C: 22:25, November 17, 2013 (UTC)
 * did you read my comment? I think I get that.. KλT 23:24, November 17, 2013 (UTC)

Ghostifying everything like that. Maybe one or two, but not four. And definitely not sdelete. 00:30, November 18, 2013 (UTC)
 * Those are examples. I encourage people to modify them to look more diverse. We should atleast have 1 or 2 Ghosts/MW3 templates. 01:02, November 18, 2013 (UTC)

Per cod4. The Sdelete template is perfect the way it is. We're the Call of Duty Wiki, Not the CoD:Ghosts Wiki. I'd support changing a single template to reflect some epic moment in ghosts or something. Other than that I don't see why we would have to change them all to represent a single game. KλT 00:35, November 18, 2013 (UTC)
 * "Change them all" I want to change 4 to a game we have no templates for. MW3 and Ghosts. I see no problem with this. Once again, those are examples. 01:02, November 18, 2013 (UTC)
 * If you're going to change anything, how about something like http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Random_character that actually needs a quote and an image? we have a lot of templates that can be ghostified. the ones you put as examples are fine the way they are. KλT 05:18, November 18, 2013 (UTC)s
 * Plus we already have an Mw3, And a Black Ops 2 themed template. KλT 05:26, November 18, 2013 (UTC)
 * Tad off-topic. But do any pages use that template? Seems a bit odd we have it since we also have COD:NOTABILITY. 07:04, November 18, 2013 (UTC)

There is no reason to change our templates, especially since the entire wiki is basically CoD:Ghosts themed. 03:33, November 18, 2013 (UTC)


 * I cannot stress this enough. THESE ARE EXAMPLES. I think having 2 Modern Warfare 3 templates and 2 Ghosts templates will be sufficient enough. -- 03:35, November 18, 2013 (UTC)

Do all our templates look this small and cramped, or just these exammples? Joe Copp 07:01, November 18, 2013 (UTC)