Module talk:CR

Please use the module indirectly via Template:CRTemp, or Template:CR if the latter has been converted (see below).

Using the module directly is more likely to break in the future.

Work to be done (Article editing)

The first two bullet points need to be completed in order. Afterwords, work can continue in any order.

• Replace uses of Template:CR with Template:CRTemp.
• When the above step is done, copy the contents of Template:CRTemp to Template:CR, and then leave a redirect on CRTemp.
• Replace uses of Template:Rules and Template:Comprehensive Rules with the new Template:CR.
• Check UserWiki:RuleUpdateBot for any further pages that need to be converted.

Bug Reports

• lookup=Effects returns the heading "6. Spells, Abilities, and Effects" rather than rule 609, "Effects".

To-do list (coding changes to the module)

• Allow title-based lookups to be case independent. At the moment, lookup=Creatures works, but lookup=creatures does not.
• Create glossary lookups for terminology not in the rules. This would utilize the glossary provided at the bottom of the CR.
  • For example, "interrupt", and possibly ability words.
• Build a list of common names for rules that are not titled as such in the CR, but which would be accepted by the module.
  • For example, the module might allow {{CR|lookup=Legend Rule}}, despite no title in the CR named "Legend Rule", and use an internal list of such faux-titles to equate that lookup with the correct index (in this case, at the moment, 704.5k).
• Look into a means of allowing lookups for the General titles without using indices. The TOC output appends the title of the section, but this doesn't currently work on input.

Visual Styling

Feel free to use this heading to contribute and debate any suggestions or requests for alterations to the visual style of output from the module. Corveroth (talk) 05:00, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

Requests

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Under Consideration

• Re-implement the leading bullet point on the zeroth level of indentation (i.e. on the first line). It looks a little odd like this, even if the bullet point is unnecessary.
• Linking key phrases within the transcluded text - key words like "trample" and rules titles like "end step".
• Replacing {W}, {1}, {S}, etc with their symbols
  • Why: Looks pretty.
  • Why not: The official CR documents use the text representations of those symbols. I want both an honest quote and to reinforce that those representations are canonical.

To-Do List

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Not Happening

• No suggestions have yet been rejected by consensus

Prepare for Launch

I think the module is good enough that further work on the code is largely stalling on my part. Here are my goals for the implementation of the module:

• Affect all pages currently using Template:Rules, Template:Comprehensive Rules, Template:CR, and those explicitly listed on UserWiki:RuleUpdateBot.
• Avoid directly using Module:CR in the article namespace.
• Implement invocation of Module:CR within Template:CR.

• Later editors should be able to utilize the template without worrying about changes to the underlying module or how the template generates the correct wikitext.

• Retire Template:Rules and Template:Comprehensive Rules entirely, either via deletion or redirect to Template:CR (currently, CR redirects to Comprehensive Rules).
• Accomplish all of this transparently from the visitor's perspective - no broken pages at any point during the process.

I'll be sleeping on it and get started tomorrow morning. Corveroth (talk) 04:25, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Good luck! I'll lend a hand where needed. --Hunter (talk) 05:56, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Update: Pages currently using Template:CR will be rewritten to use Template:CRTemp so as not to break them when the former template is updated. Afterwards, the new template will redirect back to the updated version of CR, and any pages using CRTemp can optionally be converted to use CR directly at leisure. Pages using Template:CR are top priority for conversion so as to open up that template for editing. Other templates can wait. For now though, I'm off to FNM to play some janky Standard Izzet ETB thing. Corveroth (talk) 00:42, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

First 50 down, 200+ Template:CR uses to go! One small issue I noticed along the way is that the module is dropping the examples that should be in the transcluded text. That's easy enough to address in a later update. Corveroth (talk) 08:09, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Another hiccup. This doesn't show the complete text (apart from the example) The sentence about the evasion ability is missing --Hunter (talk) 18:20, 4 August 2015 (UTC)

From the Comprehensive Rules (June 7, 2024—Modern Horizons 3)

• 509.1b The defending player checks each creature they control to see whether it’s affected by any restrictions (effects that say a creature can’t block, or that it can’t block unless some condition is met). If any restrictions are being disobeyed, the declaration of blockers is illegal.
  A restriction may be created by an evasion ability (a static ability an attacking creature has that restricts what can block it). If an attacking creature gains or loses an evasion ability after a legal block has been declared, it doesn’t affect that block. Different evasion abilities are cumulative.

  Example: An attacking creature with flying and shadow can’t be blocked by a creature with flying but without shadow.

Think I've got both those issues nailed, plus I nixed the superfluous bullet before 0th-level indentation. Should propagate shortly! (and, for what it's worth, examples are indented at a fixed indent, independent of their depth in the rules. In terms of layout, they match the style used in the PDF version of the CR) Corveroth (talk) 02:35, 5 August 2015 (UTC)