Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-667748-20130515090233

Hi there. I redid the armor boxes recently, but I got thinking: That's not enough: Why are we copy pasting the same data over and over and over again? We have tools don't we?

I'd like to propose the creation of a database, for armor. I've started with a proof of concept for Paladin Helm, inside Paladin Helm/DB. This page contains the "Data". The Data can be queried using the Template:ArmorDB. Enough talk, examples:

So... How powefull is this? I've created a dummy "ArmorBox", which I call "SuperArmorBox". It displays the same as the old one, but here is where it gets interesting: It takes only a single parameter:

Just to be clear, it doesn't end here. All data related to the armor is here. This means that *any* template that wants to operate on armor pieces should require nothing more that the piece's name. The code to use compare boxes, looking at U Daifukkatsu ;), should end up looking like nothing more than this:

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One of the things I've wanted we don't have on the wiki (AFAIK) is to compare pieces of armors, eg Helms only. This would could be very easily doable.

AFAIK, the amount of work required to deploy is not negligible, but more than manageable.

What do you guys think? Should I pursue with this endeavor? 