Template talk:Infobox food

The value -999 is used to indicate that data is missing. Using 0 for this function is ambiguous as 0 can be proper data. Please do not change the default values. Instead, find the proper data, and add it to the proper pages. -Erik the Blue 10:10, October 5, 2009 (UTC)
 * I disagree with this, 0 can be correct data, but -999 looks fugly, everyone can see when I page has FEP loaded and when it doesnt, and if a food item has 0 FEP on all stats it clearly means that it hasnt been edited yet. Furthermore, the changes I made allowed for an easier way to edit that doesn't force the user to add every damned stat and variable to the table when they don't need to be used. You've told me this -999 thing myself, so you should know that I know why it has been used like that. G1real 19:01, October 5, 2009 (UTC)
 * P.s. get on IRC you fool we can discuss things so much easier there. G1real 19:01, October 5, 2009 (UTC)
 * If you use the FEP table or property pages to find missing values, the value 0 is ambiguous when given two uses. The value -999 is designed to be undesirable to encourage people to add the correct data. If someone doesn't like typing out all the parameters, they can use the default configuration on the documentation page to fill in their calls. Semantic MediaWiki can't tell when we're being lazy, so the lazy solution is not the good one in this case. -Erik the Blue 05:17, October 6, 2009 (UTC)
 * Still, it looks helluva ugly and I can't be arsed to edit FEP values >:( G1real 20:40, October 6, 2009 (UTC)
 * Addition: You want to automate the FEP table, however, wouldn't it be handier to display nothing instead of 0 there? It gives it a much better look honestly. G1real 15:39, October 8, 2009 (UTC)
 * That'd be nice, but the table produced by Semantic MediaWiki can't be formatted much at all without accessing the .css file that drives it (impossible on Wikia). So we either have a poorly formatted table that updates itself, or a nicely formatted table that has to be manually written and updated. While the game's in alpha, I prefer the auto-table, but everyone is welcome to try to keep the old table up-to-date with the new one. -Erik the Blue 19:15, October 8, 2009 (UTC)

Restored functionality
I do like the 3 column format for the FEP data; however, there was some functionality that I had to return to this template. I also appropriated the Required by logic from the Template:Infobox object.
 * Dex and Psy FEP data
 * Semantic Wiki data needed for the FEP Table.
 * Crafting info

--SwordMage 05:21, April 15, 2010 (UTC)