Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-22479560-20131107011549/@comment-22479560-20131107224123

Jimeee wrote: I see, so you are proposing this color change only so the pages that don't use the ID template can be identified? Yes Jimeee wrote: most of our readers will have no idea why some IDs are a different color. We could display a short explanation when the mouse hovers of the template ID. Jimeee wrote: If you are proposing that all IDs on the wiki should be switched to using the template, then I would agree - but it is a huge project and based on previous projects here it is highly unlikely many people will contribute. Because of this it will take a some time to have all IDs switched over and less likely regular readers will spot the difference and add the template.

Many pages use the "bad" IDs, some are small-font - which is good, but none are monotype. We could insert the ID template into other templates like "Template:SkyrimArmor" and try to get that working - that would cover most of the items I think - then we would need to do all the overview pages.
 * Like 40% of the "bad" IDs are in templates (SkyrimArmor, Infoboxes, etc.) by fixing those templates all those IDs will be "good".
 * Another 40% of "bad" IDs are in overview pages. With some smart search and replacing these pages can be fixed fairly easy too. I did the like 200 IDs on Console Commands (Skyrim)/Keys in like 10 minutes.
 * With 80% of the IDs "good", people will notice and (I hope) follow the main stream.