Template talk:Spaceship

Regarding possible use for alien patterns

Regarding recent edits to the template: I think it would be better to avoid using this template on pages about alien patterns (and add a separate infrastructure if any is needed, or avoid infoboxes in the OCA namespace at all). Confocal (talk) 16:54, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

I made the edits for the exact purpose of allowing infoboxes in alien patterns without putting them into categories. --Galoomba (talk) 17:03, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

The usefulness of infoboxes on pages about alien patterns is an open issue. I'd prefer {{EmbedViewer}} transclusions with captions describing patterns, instead of attempting to reuse infrastructure that was not designed to support other rules. Confocal (talk) 17:05, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Open issue? Where is it talked about? --Galoomba (talk) 17:06, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Currently here. For previous discussions, see for example LifeWiki:Tiki bar/Archive/2020#LifeViewer and RLE on OCA subpages. Confocal (talk) 17:13, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

That doesn't talk about usefulness of infoboxes on pages about alien patterns. The only time it mentions the infobox is a suggestion to make it clear that it's not a B3/S23 pattern.
The other relevant thing is the inclusion of alien patterns in the RLE rulespace, which could be solved by making Template:InfoboxStart accept a RLE field, but I don't know if that's even necessary, isn't the RLE rulespace just technical? --Galoomba (talk) 17:32, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

The RLE namespace nontrivially interacts with downloadable LifeWiki pattern collection. In the same linked 2020 discussion, there were suggestions to separate alien RLEs into another namespace ("OCARLE"); that idea was neither rejected nor implemented, as far as I can tell. Confocal (talk) 17:37, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

LifeWiki:Tiki bar#Alien pattern pages. Confocal (talk) 17:26, 4 September 2023 (UTC)