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Veekun links broken on several templates

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With Veekun's revamp (and the changes in url of a lot of pages) many of the templates that link to his site are just making broken links. Since the templates are protected, this seems to be a good way to point out it out to someone who could fix it.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Template:MoveInfobox
Move links are now in this format: http://veekun.com/dex/moves/hyper beam

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Template:PokémonInfobox
The current "http://www.veekun.com/dex/pokemon/Zapdos" links do work, but require a redirect to the actual page at "http://veekun.com/dex/pokemon/Zapdos"

And maybe you guys could add some external links to your http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Template:AbilityInfobox template?
 
Better time to change it aside from right this instant. But sure, we'll keep it in mind.
 
^ By which he means that changing a template and causing 1000+ pages to change their coding in a short space of time will likely blow our server. We will fix this, just at a time where it won't crash the site.
 
And aside from that, Eevee somehow managed to code his site so that moves with spaces in them don't have underscores in them in the URL. Making that a pita.
 
For some reason it's linking to
Code: 
http://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/
instead of
Code: 
http://www.smogon.com/dp/pokemon/{{{pokefordex}}}


...the reason being, apparently, because the parameter is not defined for the fourth-gen Pokemon. ???

(Except for a random few, half of whom seem to be using the Japanese names.)
 
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So would you admins like people to go through and fix them now? Or would it be too likely to kill the servers? I can help change them if you want.
 
No, it's not the template, it's the individual pages. The template has the pages linking to the root followed by a parameter. Many of the 4th gen Pokémon don't have the parameter defined on their pages.
 
TTEchidna said:
Define them!
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Umeko and I have now done so for the 4th gen Pokémon, except Burmy, which is protected, and Wormadam. I wasn't sure what to put for Wormadam, since Smogon treats them as 3 separate Pokémon.
 
Done. I've set it to link to the same forme as is shown in the infobox.
 
Eevee said:
Also, to nitpick, Pokémon are linking to http://www.veekun.com/dex/pokemon/Eevee instead of http://veekun.com/dex/pokemon/eevee.
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Wait, so the URL is basically http://www.veekun.com/dex/pokemon/ right? With lower-case Pokémon names, or does that matter at all.
If it's lower-case, we can just use the {{pokefordex}} variable for it, if it doesn't matter, we'll just use the {{name}} variable. Seems simple enough.

And good to see the gen.4 Smogon links have been updated, I hadn't realized it was EVERY gen.4 Pokémon that was broken. I was just fixing them as I came across them, myself.

Once we've got a bit more leeway in the servers, I'll throw up a quick variation on the external links template, just for those Pokémon with multiple formes. Sometimes, waiting around for the page mode to switch just doesn't cut it, might as well just link to all the formes right there.
 
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