Thread:NeonSpotlight/@comment-1330314-20150221093859

I think I've found a way to adapt data templates to items by giving them their own show data template (see here). That template looks huge, but the actual data templates are actually quite small. I did a few example data templates for Doran's Shield, Guinsoo's Rageblade, Health Potion, Juggernaut, Poacher's Knife, Talisman of Ascension and Trinity Force.

Going back to the pre-discussion thread on gold value, this is the first step in what I think could be the full automation of item articles, and those related to them. I designed the above templates to contain absolutely all of an item's information, so we could automate:
 * Item infoboxes, which could pull data from the above templates and display it the way we see it now.
 * Introductions to item articles (i.e. "Item X is a Y tier item..."), which would similarly just automatically create lines of text based on the item's data.
 * Item recipes (so pretty much the entire main body of every item article, which could even be condensed into a single multi-part template).
 * Item lists on stat articles. Right now, those are a nightmare to update, because changing just one item across all the stats it relates to is super-inefficient, due to each item needed to be updated on every stat page. With the above templates, we could just pull all items with the relevant stats (including new items), which would then update the moment the item's data template gets edited.
 * The item list template. We wouldn't need to update it; it could just pull everything marked as an item and organize them based on their tier, availability and the like. If an item gets updated, the item list would update itself.
 * Cost analyses. Putting aside the events of the past day, the consensus we seemed to have reached on the thread was that we should merge them with infoboxes so as to be as discreet as possible. This is obviously optional, but it would be relatively simple to just create a template that would churn out an automated cost analysis for any item given its data template.

What do you think of the show data item template? Is there anything that needs to be improved or clarified? Is the format okay? Would you approve of having this template on the mainspace (once it's in fully working condition, anyway)? 