HRWiki talk:Descriptions

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The page seems to be missing all YouTube exclusives, as well as source descriptions for Not the 100th Email!!!, Page Load Error, Cheat Commandos Playsets, that Valentine's animation, and Post-Flash Update! (all of which can be found here). It's also missing descriptions from Oldest Toons Menu, Lava Lamp Toons Menu, Telebision Toons Menu, and Chinese Food Toons Menu, if we're being that thorough (in which case, Pom Pom, Too and Marshmallow's Last Stand should be added). Other than that, it seems perfect! Gfdgsgxgzgdrc 06:42, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Wow! That's quite a thorough list! (Both the project page and the comment above!) I'm curious, looking at the sandbox link above, do the Valentine's and Playsets pages not have corresponding HRWiki pages? If not, they probably should... Either way thanks for the hard work Dot com and Gfd! --Stux 08:50, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Experimental Film

So I noticed that the description for Experimental Film is longer than the rest. But looking at the actual Youtube description, they match. I take it this is normal, correct? This just happens to be the one time they use descriptions longer than a sentence? --Stux 09:34, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

There are four instances where the description is on more than one line (at least so far; as noted above there's some more YouTube stuff that needs to be added). Here's one that's almost as long as that one. As I mentioned on HRWiki:Projects, we'll probably want to find a way to make those collapsible. — It's dot com 16:26, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

[none] entries

I see there are a lot of entries with the text "[none]". I'm assuming that's meant to indicate that the item is missing? However the norm seems to be to simply omit the item altogether? I'm guessing those items should be removed? If so that would leave us with another problem: what if the item has no descriptions? Maybe add a separate flag like "nodesc = true"? I'd rather do than than remove the entire item so that we explicitly know that the item has been checked and it has no descriptions. --Stux 09:38, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

[none] means a description was expected but none is there. For example, every page on the updated site has a <meta name="description"> tag, but for some pages the content of that tag is an empty string (""). So those are listed as source = [none], whereas things that don't have that tag at all (like old pages) don't have source listed at all. Likewise, toons that don't have a YouTube version don't have youtube listed, but toons that do have a YouTube version but the YouTube description is blank are listed as youtube = [none].