Talk:Emotes

If somebody who understands ask queries better than me could change the first column from page names to canonical names that'd be great. Freedom4556 (talk) 20:59, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

• By "canonical name", do you mean a plain text string instead of a link? If so, adding the line

| ?=#

at the beginning of the column list seems to work. But are you sure this is desirable? Screenshots of characters showing the emotes could be added to the pages.

Ref: https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_information#Plain_.28unformatted.29_printouts Glotos (talk) 23:26, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

Nah, I'm looking for it to display the value of Template:Emote infobox's name = field. So that Backflip (Emote) becomes Backflip like how Template:action icon does it (  Backflip). Freedom4556 (talk) 01:46, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

I have discovered that adding

| mainlabel=-
| ?Has canonical name = Name

does most of what I want, but it would like the ?Has canonical name to be a link, and can't seem to figure that one out. Freedom4556 (talk) 02:07, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

You can get the name AND the link, of course, with

| ?Has canonical name = Name
| ?

But I'm not seeing a way to make something other than the page name be a link. Glotos (talk) 02:24, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

Hey, I saw all of the above and found the same issue with canonical name - I think there is a way around it but too messy. I've created Template:Emote list and added them to pages - let me know if okay? They are pretty basic ones. JohnnySolas (talk)

Just to add - there are a few redirects for some commands that were created that refer back to the name - so for example where you'd expect to see /beckon - you see Beckon because the /beckon redirects to Beckon - I'll remove these redirects and put them in for deletion - I don't think we need all the commands created if honest. JohnnySolas (talk)