View source for Template talk:Water locations table

== This needs to be reworked (or replaced) ==

As it is right now, I think it is a bad template. The images are not needed and make the table needlessly long. It is not needed to describe what and where the waters are in each map in the article this is being used on; that is information better suited on the individual map articles. Having these descriptions here adds more work for translators and will inevitably lead to tons of text in English being added to the translated articles due to little to no translators of certain languages working on the wiki.

It also does not distinguish between water inside the playable area and out-of-bounds water, the latter being purely cosmetic and not affecting gameplay whatsoever (which can be entirely disregarded, in my opinion).

I think we could do with a simple list, similar to the one in [[Magic spells]]. Alternatively, if it is deemed necessary to mention what kinds of water are found in a map, we could have a table similar to the ones in the game mode articles, with one or more columns explaining which ones are present.

; Visualization of first table suggestion:

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding=2 style="text-align:center;"
! class="header" | {{common string|Name}}
! class="header" | {{common string|Picture}}
! class="header" | Water types
|-
! width="85px" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{map link|2Fort}}
| [[File:Ctf 2fort bridge ss.png|160px|link=2Fort{{if lang}}]]
| align="left" | 
{{Check}} Shallow<br>
{{Check}} Deep<br>
{{Cross}} Deadly<br>
{{Check}} Scenic<br>
|}


; Visualization of second table suggestion:

{| class="wikitable" cellpadding=2 style="text-align:center;"
! class="header" | {{common string|Name}}
! class="header" | {{common string|Picture}}
! class="header" | Shallow
! class="header" | Deep
! class="header" | Deadly
! class="header" | Scenic
|-
! width="85px" style="background:#F9D483;" | {{map link|2Fort}}
| [[File:Ctf 2fort bridge ss.png|160px|link=2Fort{{if lang}}]]
| {{Check}} || {{Check}} || {{Cross}} || {{Check}}
|}

- [[User:BrazilianNut|BrazilianNut]] ([[User talk:BrazilianNut|talk]]) 18:47, 8 November 2023 (UTC)