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Memnarc's question to CzechOut

I've noticed that character pages are no longer displaying a character's race unless the race section of the infobox is changed to read species instead. Is there some kind of error here, or is this a new policy? Because if it's the latter, then it's going to take a REALLY long time to change every single character's infobox. Memnarc ^{talk to me} 00:32, March 11, 2012 (UTC)

No . . . and yes, to answer your question. No, it's not "new" policy. The discussion to change race to species, at least in dab terms, was started last July and formally closed last month. So it had a good, long marination process. Granted, it wasn't a specific discussion to change variable names, but the concept preferencing species over race was a part of that discussion. And no one objected to the change.

But yes, I screwed up the coding slightly. I forgot to allow for the instances of race already in the system. That's been corrected now, so thanks for catching it!

However, please don't use race in any new articles as there's no guarantee that race will always be supported. Contrary to your assertion, it's actually quite an easy thing to change the variables out, and it is on my long-term list of goals to actually change all instances of race to species, then drop race from the template code. But that bot run is low priority, so race still has a few months left in 'er yet.

Thanks again for catching the error! Don't be afraid to pass along any similar notes to me!
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍ 03:53: Sun 11 Mar 2012