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Before I update this so we don't have to specify PDFs - was the "vol" parameter ever used and will we miss it if it goes? -[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] ([[User talk:Black Squirrel|talk]]) 12:24, 26 October 2018 (CDT)
 
Before I update this so we don't have to specify PDFs - was the "vol" parameter ever used and will we miss it if it goes? -[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] ([[User talk:Black Squirrel|talk]]) 12:24, 26 October 2018 (CDT)
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<pre>\| (.*)_source\=\{\{num\|([0-9]*)\|page\=([0-9]*)\|pdf\=(.*)\.pdf\}\}</pre>
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<pre>| $1_source={{magref|$1|$2|$3}}</pre>
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^^ For magazines with simple numbering systems, page numbers that line up with the PDF, and with reviews that don't span more than one page.
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The results are good but I just feel really really guilty setting it away on 1400+ pages and clogging up the Recent Changes for what would be most of a day. And then I wonder if we should be taking into account the version of a game being reviewed (e.g. region, re-release)... should this data maybe be generated from the magazine articles sub-pages? Will every review need manually revisiting anyway if we're to represent things as stars or whatever
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And then there's TV shows - ''it's really complicated'' -[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] ([[User talk:Black Squirrel|talk]]) 15:07, 2 January 2019 (EST)

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Before I update this so we don't have to specify PDFs - was the "vol" parameter ever used and will we miss it if it goes? -Black Squirrel (talk) 12:24, 26 October 2018 (CDT)

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\| (.*)_source\=\{\{num\|([0-9]*)\|page\=([0-9]*)\|pdf\=(.*)\.pdf\}\}
| $1_source={{magref|$1|$2|$3}}

^^ For magazines with simple numbering systems, page numbers that line up with the PDF, and with reviews that don't span more than one page.

The results are good but I just feel really really guilty setting it away on 1400+ pages and clogging up the Recent Changes for what would be most of a day. And then I wonder if we should be taking into account the version of a game being reviewed (e.g. region, re-release)... should this data maybe be generated from the magazine articles sub-pages? Will every review need manually revisiting anyway if we're to represent things as stars or whatever

And then there's TV shows - it's really complicated -Black Squirrel (talk) 15:07, 2 January 2019 (EST)