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I made this template to replace the old manual lists of staff members. Thing is, Sega has employed literally thousands of people over its existence, so if you list 15 years' worth with

<pre>{{StaffList|Sega Corporation (2000-2015)|employees=yes}}</pre>

it hits the DPL limit at about the half-way mark.


We can get over that - that isn't the issue. The problem is Sega has employed literally thousands of people over its existence, which means the list is massive and dominates the page.

I think a sub-page is required. But do we still want flat list of names, or something more akin to [[:Category:Lists of games]], where there's a bit more detail, e.g.

{|class="prettytable sortable"
!Name
!Role
|-
{{#dpl:
| category=Sega Corporation (2000-2015) employees
| include={PersonBob}:role
| titlelt=Am
| ordermethod=sortkey
| mode=userformat
| secseparators=\n¦[[%PAGE%]]¦¦,\n¦-
}}
|}
(this is a reduced list)

Thing is, it's not very sortable if someone has multiple roles. Any field from PersonBob will work btw.

Or do we just let the categories do it -[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] ([[User talk:Black Squirrel|talk]]) 14:04, 3 November 2024 (EST)
:Your 'subpages for StaffLists' idea is a good idea. As for sorting by role, that's tough. I don't see any issues with how you have it here: essentially we're sorting by the first entry in the Role= field. I've usually approached this field by entering their most relevant role first, and their least important last - "Producer, Lead Tester, Tester". I think that's probably how most people do it. This also might be one of those things where we have to rely on the contributors to do their own formatting. Which goes against wanting to take care of that template-side, but.... I mean I guess you could have something that sits between PersonBob and this tabled StaffList which checks all PersonBob's role= entries against a static list, sorts that, and returns it to the tabled Stafflist. I don't even know if that's possible, or way too much work.

:I also couldn't imagine any other field from PersonBob to include that'd be strictly necessary other than name and role. I mean I can totally imagine us getting all fancy and having a teeny image of the dev's face next to their name (no wider than the line itself.) dunno how legible that'd turn out but gosh what a flex [[User:CartridgeCulture|CartridgeCulture]] ([[User talk:CartridgeCulture|talk]]) 16:07, 3 November 2024 (EST)