Template talk:Wildlife

Removal of pets
Walshicus, why have you removed all the pets from the template? While not all of them are lifeforms, some of them (Horta, Targ, etc.) are. All kinds of pets have been included in this template for the sake of simplicity and clarity. Regards, --Markonian 11:28, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
 * While I did not edit the template myself, I had a look at it yesterday and found it quite weird that by now it features shuttles. IMHO those should be removed, since the template clearly references wildlife and (mostly) non-sentient creatures. At least that was the original intent, when I created it. I do concurr that animal(-like) pets should remain, though. -- Backyardserenade 15:35, 26 February 2012 (UTC)


 * How about having two templates: One for all animal-like creatures, another one for all pets (incl. shuttles and critters? And they don't have to be mutually exclusive. Markonian 17:35, 26 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Horta and Exocomps are portrayed in-game as "companions" - "people" in the lore of the game. It also made little sense to clutter a template designed to catalogue wildlife (i.e. non-"people" animals) with shuttlecraft or other entities which filled the "pet" mechanic within the game. I agree with the above, that there should be two templates; this Wildlife template reserved for ground and space animals, and a separate template for deployable followers, with subcategories for pets, companions and hardware. --Walshicus 20:06, 26 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I like the idea. Just tried and failed to create a Pets-only template. Probably a task for someone more experienced in template tables-magic. I suggest to differentiate "Sentient companions (non-combat)", "Sentient companions (combat)", "Pets (non-combat)" and "Shuttles (non-combat)". Any ideas? --Markonian 20:42, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I created a rough version of Template:Pets. Some suggestions are already on the talk page. Have fun with it. :) -- Backyardserenade 09:50, 27 February 2012 (UTC)