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A vehicle page is a special type of article devoted to the real-life Mattel re-creation of any given Cars character (or version thereof). These exist in a special namespace and operate rather uniquely from the regular content pages here on the wiki.
About
Vehicle pages are part of the larger die-cast project, and are in fact the very basis of its entire infrastructure. They work with the Cargo extension to store template parameters into a site-wide database, which not only can be independently searched, but also accessible by other pages on the wiki as part of their own page output. In short, when you edit a vehicle page, the results immediately effect every type of list page it appears on, including series, castings, etc.
Structure
Every vehicle page has two distinct features: The leading infobox to introduce the vehicle itself, and then the Releases section listing every individual issue of that character (documenting an issue-by-issue history of that character's production). Both sections are edited within dedicated templates.
Extra text should never be placed onto a vehicle page: navigational customs like {{distinguish}} and {{about}} are handled within the infobox (see template documentation)
To-do
- Landing page (List of vehicles)
- Tooltip photos (this does not currently work on lists due to programming limitations)
- Click cell text to go to list/query - cast for all of same, Year/origin/collector number to respective lists.
- Main image, you will always see the basic vehicle (1:55 die-cast) - ones without like Mini Racers and Color Changers should instead use their respective counterpart
Editing
- Form introduction (no VisualEditor)
- 3 required parameters, there are some additional ones only configurable in source mode (simplicity/situational necessity)
- Add a vehicle: Special:CreatePage
- Gadgets: Form is default, you can enable/disable either in preferences
Standards etc.
- Philosophy is to be as extensive and useful (optimal time-wise) as possible while staying user-friendly, easy-to-use
- Vehicle stats (appearance and colno query Vehicles table instead of Releases)
|character=
should be the base variant i.e. Dinoco Lightning McQueen and Lightning McQueen with Cone should both point back to Lightning McQueen.- Distinctions, each vehicle has its own page, generally based on name - exceptions typically made for NASCAR etc.
- Comes down largely to how it impacts the identity of what the model represents
- Variant considerations
- Fillmore = no because expression change has remained ever since
- Posing McQueen = yes because unique one-off model and Mack playset piece, there is official precedent with Road Trip Lightning McQueen etc.
|sort_name=
- Sets name for {{poster sort}} (what else?), this becomes the standard MODEL NAME for all releases
- Can set
|sort_name=
within a row to change that individual release. |full_name=
For collector number list
- Release photo must be accurate to final release
- Official promos > personal photos
- Key
- Series is the backbone
- type definitions plus {{vehicle key}}
- Troubleshooting
- Releases won't store = Make sure you have
{{table end}}
at the very bottom - Won't sort properly = ensure that the input name matches the RELEASE "sort name", otherwise you need to write the exact page title
- Releases won't store = Make sure you have