Thread:MrBlonde267/@comment-3361105-20120803211318

Alright, of course you're away right now, but I'm leaving this in the hopes that you will either be drawn to it during your brief moments of internet, or see it when you return.

I have created an alternate image template over at Template:ImageTest, which features three significant changes to the template that I hope will resolve some of our head-butting over it.

Plus, the other guys will see it here.


 * The source field would no longer use category magic to add cover images to - which means that
 * the field does nothing but add a source to the image,
 * the field becomes mandatory, regardless of image type (it was always supposed to be).
 * category magic will now rely only on "| Issue =", "| Episode =", "| Movie =", (yes, those fields still exist, even though they don't turn up in the empty syntax).


 * There used to be a part of the template that would do category magic adding the image to when it was a cover, but when  isn't filled out (most covers and badly templated images), it would go to  instead - which is a junk category. Given that we don't want covers in Issue/Images anyway, I just cut that bit of the template out.


 * I've added a fancy new feature, where if it is a cover image (and not if it is anything else), a new section of the infobox will appear showing "Previous Cover / Next Cover". If you fill in those fields (which exist in this version of the template) with a plaintext "Image.jpg", Template:Fn (which I also created for this purpose), will turn that text into a fancy direct link, which will help navigate between a series' covers (the problem is that we have to fill out those fields on every cover image for it to be useful).


 * As I just mentioned, I also created a template which will turn plaintext filenames into direct links, the same way does.
 * Observe! =  instead of Hellblazer Vol 1 67.jpg.

That is all. I was hoping you (and everyone else) could agree that those are cool ideas, and then I can switch out the old Image Template's code for my new code. There are no adverse effects of my changes that I have seen. 