Template talk:CloseFPC
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[edit] Closing FPC template
As anyone who has tried it will know, promoting an FPC nomination can be quite involved and requires editing about half a dozen pages. To help a little, I've set up Template:CloseFPC to help with the formating of the wikicode for each page.
To use it, open the subpage for the FPC nomination and add
- {{subst:CloseFPC | Image:filename.jpg | ShortDescription | [[UsedOnPage]] | [[User:name|name]] }}
to the bottom of the nomination and save the page.
The template takes four parameters
- the Image:filename
- a short description of the image (typically something like the name of the nomination
- a link to the main page where the image is used (if it is not mentioned in the nomination, it should be on the image description page)
- a link to the Userpage or source for the image credit
Then edit the nomination again, and you will see the template has expanded into the wikicode formated for each page that needs updating. You can cut each line and paste it into the appropriate page of Going's On, Featured Pictures etc.
Finally delete any remaining comment lines up to the {{FPCresult}} tag, add the voting tally and sign.
You still have to open the image page to change the {{FPC}} tag to a {{FeaturedPicture}} tag.
This doesn't help with FPC nomination that are not promoted, but they just need the {{FPCresult|Not promoted| }} template and the FPC tags removing from the image page, so aren't much of a problem anyway. -- Solipsist 22:01, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
