User blog:Blappp/New AoE 2 icons template (and small ForNolink template)

Hey everybody,

Introduction
i know this template comes pretty late, as its purpose has mostly already been filled manually, but when creating the various Armor Class pages, i mused that it's pretty tedious to look up the icon name for every unit in AoE2. While some icons are similarly named, they aren't wholly consistent, and i didn't know by heart, whether there was a disambiguation page dor the unit (i.e. if there's a unit of the same name in other games). Experimenting with Template:ForNolink sparked my interest in playing around with templates, so i decided to make a template fur the icon purpose. It's still work in progress, so i haven't released it as a template yet, but here's the draft: http://ageofempires.wikia.com/wiki/User:Blappp/Sandbox/Blappptest

Plumed Archer

It's mostly finished, there are two things missing:
 * the expansion civilizations and i want to ask you, how you would represent the civilizations before i do it for all of them. For now i used their respective unique unit as icon. i also thought about using their wonder, but i think it's pretty hard to distinguish them at first glance:
 * PlumedArcherIcon.jpg Mayans


 * Wondermayans.png Mayans

Any better ideas?


 * The name of the template: It should be short, to it can be typed in quickly in the source editor, but it should also have a clear name. The first thing that came to my mind was "AoEIIIcons", but the three I kinda look like AoEIII. Maybe with space: "AoEII Icons"? Any other suggestions?

Please also let me know when you find anything missing or you have any other suggestions

I started some text for the final template (I don't know how to use it in my own userspace outside my sandbox, but it does work, and definitely will work once it is an official template):

Overview
This template's purpose is to fill in any Age of Empires II unit, technology, building, or civilization linked and prefixed with their respective icon in paragraphs or lists. The user doesn't have to look up the icon name or if there is a page of the same name in another game of the series.

How to use it
While the template itself is rather large, it has only one input parameter, the name of the unit/technology/building/civilization.

It knows every unit/technology/building/civilization (except for upgrade technologies with the same name as the unit/building, as they don't have a page), as well as the non -s ending plurals for standard English words (like ), but not for special words like Mamalik, the plural of.

Simply call the template and fill in the full name as it appears in the game.

example

ForNolink
Like mentioned before, i also made a new Template:ForNolink, which can link to more than 1 page for disambiguation, but doesn't convert the parameters to links automatically, to give the user more freedom. I just wanted to let you know it exists, in case you ever need it.