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[Zamujasa]

Is there any interest in creating a generic item template?

I was thinking something like this:

Code:

Template:Item/Beaker

{{item
|name=beaker
|plural=beakers
|link=Medical Objects#Beaker
|icon=Beaker.png
}}

...which could then be inserted into pages, e.g. "You can dispense chemicals into an empty beaker".

There are a few things I haven't considered with this approach (capitalization at the start of a sentence, plurals, etc) but at least some of them could be solved with MediaWiki template ifs or arguments (e.g. {{item/beaker|useplural}}).

It might make it easier to standardize shit, and god forbid the name of any object change it can be updated pretty easily everywhere by just changing the template/making a redirect.

Only issue is it'd be a lot of work and probably require a lot of image editing (most of the images on the wiki have empty space around them) ...