Hmm. I don’t want to prevent people from adding details (testers, review links, or what have you) if they want to. And the existing template is nice for a really thorough page. But what if we were to say somehow that the required minimum info required to make a game page was much, much less? As it is now, I never want to make game pages because–even if the stub is automatically generated–there lots of little pieces of information that must be checked to make sure they’re accurate. I’d rather have lots of tiny game pages that point to IFDB with a few details that can be quickly checked, than red links all over the place. And people could still add testers, reviews, etc. if they wanted. Any thoughts on this? (From anyone?)
Fortunately the Baf’s Guide links are done with link templates. I’ve now changed the templates for Baf’s guide games and people so that it will point to Wayback Machine results for 2012, which appears to be the last full year Baf’s guide was fully functional. It would be better if there were a way to return an actual snapshot within the given time frame, rather than making you choose a date, but so far I haven’t figured out how to do that with just a link.
Is anyone opposed to deleting or hiding the output of the “Baf wanted” template? ifwiki.org/index.php/Template:Baf_wanted