Talk: Species

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Designation: Sentient

I think the "designation" field is a holdover from The Essential Guide to Alien Species, which included both sentients and nonsentients. Do we plan to use this template on both types of species? Otherwise, the designation box is redundant. — Silly Dan 13:42, 27 Oct 2005 (UTC)

  • Well, the pre-template table is used in articles about nonsentient species as well. Rancor is an example. - Sikon [Talk] 14:19, 27 Oct 2005 (UTC)
    • Ah, missed that. Still, we might want separate ones -- an "allegiance" box would be useless for Rancors, but might be useful if we want to show which side a species was on during the Clone Wars or something. Meanwhile, a creature infobox could have a "niche" field to tell us if something is a pack-hunting predator, an herbivorous herd animal, a household pet... — Silly Dan 16:44, 27 Oct 2005 (UTC)
  • This would be better for creature articles. -- Riffsyphon1024 21:12, 27 Oct 2005 (UTC)
  • There's a Template:Sentient now: I suggest we start using it to replace this template. — Silly Dan 12:14, 11 Dec 2005 (UTC)
    • It always was, under the name {{Infobox StarWarsSpecies}}, completely unnoticed. - Sikon [Talk] 13:20, 11 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Suggestions for improvement?

    • It's been a month -- anyone else have ideas on how to improve this template? — Silly Dan 02:01, 1 Dec 2005 (UTC)
      • How about diet, daytime/nocturnal, and technological level? (Primitive, pre-standard, standard, advanced, highly advanced)

Template revamp

Now that we have auto-hiding infoboxes, this template could definitely be revamped. What kind of additions would you like to see on the new template? RMF 00:32, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Allegiance (like we have with planets), biology (mammal, avian, or more specific ones like near-human)...I'm sure I could think of more. —Silly Dan (talk) 17:46, 5 April 2006 (PDT)
    • Those above, plus possibly Habitat, Average Height, Hair/Fur Color, Diet, Notable Subspecies - Kwenn 08:53, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
      • Allegiance would only be useful if we were keeping this for sentients (which we're not: see below.) —Silly Dan (talk) 11:37, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Deprecate?

Since we have Template:Sentient, which has more nifty fields and autohiding, I'd like to declare this template deprecated, at least for intelligent species. Objections? —Silly Dan (talk) 01:43, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

  • I support. - Sikon [Talk] 12:59, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Why is there a "[source]" link at the bottom?

It just links to the template page. No other infoboxes that I have seen include that. Will (talk -- contribs) 09:01, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

  • What do you mean? Almost every infobox template on the wiki has that link. It was added so that user could easily find usage instructions for the infoboxes.–SentryTalk 09:13, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Try Template:Campaign, Template:Device, User:Rmfitzgerald50/Infobox CVG, and Template:501st. Will (talk -- contribs) 22:09, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Fur and hair?

Should we add "fur" parameter to the list? There are a lot of species which have hair all over their body and it is called fur in sources. Or should it be one category with a slash like: "hair/fur"?--Dionne Jinn (Something to say?) 14:43, August 31, 2012 (UTC)

  • Well, fur is hair by any dictionary definition, so to include a new field for it would be, pardon the pun, splitting hairs. ~SavageBOB sig 15:56, August 31, 2012 (UTC)
    • Apology accepted ;). I just thought it would be more accurate to separate them.--Dionne Jinn (Something to say?) 09:58, September 1, 2012 (UTC)

Terms of Venery (Plurals)

In Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition, C-3PO gives a number of terms of venery in basic. These are collective nouns which refer to a group of a creature, for example a crash of rancors (or a flock of birds in the real world). Should these be added to the template? Pihlkachu (talk) 17:56, March 12, 2018 (UTC)

  • Probably better to just write it on the page rather than add it to the infobox --Lewisr (talk) 18:14, March 13, 2018 (UTC)
    • Sounds good, I'll update the pages now. Pihlkachu (talk) 18:15, March 13, 2018 (UTC)

Members section removed?

Why was the "members" section removed? It had been very helpful.