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In a perfect world, every relevant page of a magazine scan would be getting used somewhere on Sega Retro. For example, I would expect every page of Sega Visions to be spread across "XXXX/Magazine articles" pages, or failing that, promotional material galleries. If, say, page 13 had been missed out, the only way you would know is to cross reference every page of the magazine - that's not going to happen.

So I've (re)invented [[:Template:MagCheck]] as a crude way of working out any pages we've missed. Give it a publication code and an issue, and it'll print out a list of pages: 

{{MagCheck|code=mdag|issue=2}}


(unfortunately I have no easy means of telling it how many pages are in each magazine, so I'm using the highest found page number for that).

It's using [[Special:CargoTables/publications]] as a database. Right now I've only got it linked up to [[Template:Magrow]], so if an article is 5 pages long, it's only going to count the first page. But it should be enough to see which magazines have been completely ignored.

-[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] ([[User talk:Black Squirrel|talk]]) 08:47, 13 May 2018 (CDT)


:I wasn't satisfied with the need for scrolling and Mediawiki's unique take on tables in templates:
{{#vardefine:oldpubpage|1}} <!-- ignore this -->

<div style="display:inline-block; vertical-align:top;">{{MagCheckAlt|code=mdfan|issue=12}}</div>  <div style="display:inline-block; vertical-align:top;">{{MagCheckAlt|code=mdfan|issue=13}}</div>

Only counting the first instance of a page -[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] ([[User talk:Black Squirrel|talk]]) 13:21, 16 May 2018 (CDT)