Template:RarityWithArticle: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 11:15, 3 February 2023

This is useful for auto-generating text with a template, in which you'd like to refer to an item's rarity in the flow of a sentence, like so:

The {{{name}}} is {{RarityWithArticle|{{{rarity}}}}} item.

Suppose the 'name' is "Worgfang" and the 'rarity' is "uncommon". Then the result would be:

The Worgfang is an uncommon item.

For an empty rarity value, it will say "a common":

The Dagger is a common item.

For an invalid / unrecognized rarity value, it will say "an (unknown rarity)":

The Weird Sword is an (unknown rarity) item.

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-<includeonly>{{#switch:{{{1}}}
+<includeonly>{{#if:{{{1|}}}|
+{{#switch:{{{1}}}
 | uncommon = an uncommon
 | rare = a rare
 | very rare = a very rare
 | legendary = a legendary
-| a common
+| an (unknown rarity)
-}}</includeonly><noinclude>
+}}
+|a common}}</includeonly><noinclude>
 This is useful for auto-generating text with a template, in which you'd like to refer to an item's rarity in the flow of a sentence, like so:
 {{code|<nowiki>The {{{name}}} is {{RarityWithArticle|{{{rarity}}}}} item.</nowiki>}}
-Suppose the 'name' is "Worgfang" and the 'rarity' is "uncommon".  Then the result would be: "The Worgfang is {{RarityWithArticle|uncommon}} item."
+Suppose the 'name' is "Worgfang" and the 'rarity' is "uncommon".  Then the result would be:
+ The Worgfang is {{RarityWithArticle|uncommon}} item.
+For an empty rarity value, it will say "a common":
+ The Dagger is {{RarityWithArticle|}} item.
+For an invalid / unrecognized rarity value, it will say "an (unknown rarity)":
+ The Weird Sword is {{RarityWithArticle|what's this}} item.
 </noinclude>