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G? Phasing Out
The move from the old grid style to the new (and current) tilesheet system was a great thing, but in order to keep backwards-compatibility, G? was made to convert anything like |ore=Iron Ore into  . The move was a really long time ago, and G itself really is inferior to Gc or O, meaning we're looking to phase out using G?, and try and avoid using G when you can achieve the same thing more efficiently using Gc or O and |link= and more importantly |mod=. With mods ever overlapping of names, it makes pages look much nicer if the grid icons work when the wiki knows which tilesheet to get the image from (which with G, it doesn't and can only guess, meaning it fails when there's overlapping of names). This is still in an early phase, so information may and probably will change from this.  Chocohead Nag • Edits • Staff 21:10, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Looking at, there are slightly more pages than we expected. A few thousand more. Don't worry though, there's a doom counter to know what percent of the wiki currently needs fixing before G? can be deleted safely (ignoring template modifications to stop using it): And in case you need a more visual representation:

 Chocohead Nag • Edits • Staff 01:30, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Bee and Tree Note
Any bees in Extra Bees or Magic Bees must be referenced to the Forestry tilesheet, due to a bug in NEI, and not me. Combs added by either mod should still reference their respective mod's tilesheet however.

Tree Saplings added by Extra Trees also need to be referenced to the Forestry tilesheet, due to the same bug. The wood planks and other products (like fences or doors) however should still use the Extra Trees tilesheet.

Bug me if you have any questions.  Chocohead Nag • Edits • Staff 01:32, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Resource page tooltips
I hereby decree that in the infobox for resource pages, each icon must add the mod name to their tooltip using my fancy new Resource Icon template.

For example instead of   we do    which looks like this:

Copper has been reformatted to use this new style as a demonstration.

🐇 R e t e p 9 9 8 🐇🐰 Bunny Overlord 🐰


 * I have a complaint. Shouldn't |imageicon have so that it will cycle through all the copper, rather than just GregTech's horrific coloured one?   Chocohead  Nag • Edits • Staff 13:51, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Overhaul RI Template
As good as RI is, it is still at heart a Gc, but meaning many parameters that Gc has aren't being used, but are still slowing the wiki having to check them. User:Chocohead/Sandbox/Template:RI fixes this, by stripping it out so it only uses what it uses from the Gc template. There are two different versions depending on how invalid mod abbreviations are entered, the documentation on the template page explains that difference. IMO, this'll make a good template better (by making it more efficient and neat).  Chocohead Nag • Edits • Staff 01:32, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Crafting grid style overhaul
The crafting grid style overhaul would make standard style GUIs follow this style. Non-standard templates will not follow this, such as Template:Cg/Arcane Worktable and Template:Cg/Essence Refiner will not be affected. Example template: Template:X9. Alternate style: Template:X1. Demonstration: User:Retep998/Sandbox/Cg.

Polls
Voting began on December 18 and will end after one week on December 25. Verdict reached. The standard will be used, using thicker borders.

Voting eligibility
All staff can vote. All users can provide input.

Instructions
Find the appropriate section for your vote, read the instructions on the first and second line, then click on the [edit] link beside the section titles. There are three types of votes:


 * Support
 * Oppose
 * Conditional support
 * Neutral

A detailed comment weighs more than a short and brief comment.

Support

 * Yes. --  Satanic Santa F T B Wiki Admin 04:49, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I started this ― 🐇 R e t e p 9 9 8 🐇🐰 Bunny Overlord 🐰 04:55, 19 December 2014 (UTC)

Oppose

 * I like the rounded edges more.  Chocohead Nag • Edits • Staff 13:49, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I like the sound of the idea of page space economy, but I like the idea of using original GUIs more. Something just doesn't feel right about the more compact versions. -PaladinAHOne 20:29, 20 December 2014 (PST)

Conditional support

 * Only if you use the alternate rounded GUIs ;)  Chocohead Nag • Edits • Staff 20:40, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I quite like the idea of making the titles Shaped Crafting and Shapeless Crafting rather than a Shapeless subtitle. I also have to admit that having no grid borders in the Shapeless crafting grid is growing on me; and thus I'm open to this change. However I do agree with and  in that although page economy is great and the thin border looks quite good, there's something slightly off in not having a Minecraft style border. Due to this fact I believe we should use the alternative "Thicker boarder" featured on User:Retep998/Sandbox/Cg.  Wolfman_123_ Wiki Staff ·&#32;(Talk) 07:41, 1 January 2015 (UTC)