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Badge numbers/listings

http://www.paragonwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Settitle_(Slash_Command)&oldid=106441

Something needs to be done. It hasn't been updated in ... years. --Konoko 19:48, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Taking the lazy way out. Trying to see if I can get a dump of the badges and their id numbers that I can then easily format and dump back into the article. --Eabrace 21:04, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

I just made this based on the info in their database. It probably needs some revision though before inclusion in the article. Notably, the day badges aren't included; they had them all listed as 9999. Also, the badges are listed for both hero and villain even if they only apply to one side. -- Sekoia 21:36, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

I just replaced the subpage /listing I'd made before with a redirect to this page, since the subpage was outdated to the point of being erroneous by now. -- Sekoia 11:45, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Might it be better to just not include the list? It constantly gets outdated and we rarely update it. It might be better just to refer people to CIT, since they do keep theirs updated. -- Sekoia 21:29, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Or follow the Talk:Confuse example and put it on a separate page, which the subpage qualifies as. this --Konoko 22:45, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Placement wasn't my concern here. This information changes at a very high frequency. We never update it. As soon as they put another badge out, the whole page will be outdated and it's unlikely we'll get around to fixing it for another year or two. Meanwhile, CIT keeps theirs pretty up-to-date. CIT is clearly providing a better, more accurate resource; why not just point at theirs instead? (Especially since we are in the Titan network together.) -- Sekoia 23:07, 17 December 2008 (UTC) (Though you're right, it'd probably be better put on a separate page if we do keep it. -- Sekoia 23:08, 17 December 2008 (UTC))

I'd support just pointing at CIT - it's a sister-site through Titan Network, so it's a good workaround to having to constantly update this page. -- Agge (talk) 03:59, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Round Two?

I'd like to revisit the discussion of adding this list to the wiki. I had read the previous thoughts about just keeping links to the other sites that do the badge tracking, but there are a couple downsides to that. First, Badge-Hunter only lists the settitle numbers for Gladiator badges as a courtesy. Other than that, settitle numbers aren't used for maintaining that site at all. And second, even though CIT has the numbers listed for each badge, there's no reference for everything all in one numerical list without skipping through all the different badge categories.

My vision for this article would make it value-added rather than just a simple list, including the categories and Issues when the badges were added, as well as a way to indicate where known inactive badges would go, which CIT doesn't show. Maintaining it shouldn't be as much of a problem as might have been in the past because we've already been through the Great Badge Restructuring of Issue 13, and there's currently a large gap in the numbers where I'm betting the Going Rogue badges will go. Even if there's some shifting that's needed later on, large numbers of badges really don't get added all that frequently -- mostly they're just veteran awards and events that get plugged into small gaps in the list.

So what do y'all say? Can we leave it in this time? --Blondeshell 16:18, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

For a list this large, we need a semi-automatic way of generating it. If CiT and the rest of the Titan Network has the information we need in their database, then we just need to query it once a month or so.

Also, my new job has me helping end users craft reports. And often they need more than one to see the information they want. Therefore, several articles:

• List of settitle no group
• List of settitle group by category
• List of settitle group by Issue

etc, etc, etc --Konoko 17:04, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Information and table structure

Sortable tables would be nice