Template:Infobox rank
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Usage
{{Infobox rank
|name=Sentry
|purpose=Chat Moderator
|staff=Yes
|forumid=79
|active=Active
}}
Only name is required (it otherwise defaults to the page name); every other row is hidden when omitted. Built on Template:Infobox for the shared name/image/row chrome -- see there for the wiki's common infobox look. For a rank's own article (e.g. Sentry); article prose (how to obtain it, conduct expectations) belongs below the infobox as normal. Not the same thing as Template:Rank (an inline colour badge for mentioning a rank in running prose, e.g. on a player's own infobox) or Template:Icon's unrelated PvP-tier "Rank" icon family. Automatically adds the page to Category:Ranks, and to Category:Staff ranks as well when staff=Yes. Template:Ranks navbox is included automatically at the bottom of every infobox -- no parameter for it, and no need to add it separately.
Parameters
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
name
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Rank name. Defaults to the page name. Also drives the infobox title's colour -- see below. |
image
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Filename of a badge/icon image uploaded to the wiki (no File: prefix).
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purpose
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Short description shown as its own row (e.g. Chat Moderator, Sub-admin).
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staff
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Yes or No -- shown as a green/red badge. Also sets the ribbon under the name ("Staff Rank" / "Community Rank"), gates whether the Current holders row appears at all (see below), and whether this page is added to Category:Staff ranks. The ribbon and Staff row are both hidden if left unset entirely, rather than guessing.
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current
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Manual override for Current holders (only shown when staff=Yes), for the rare case the automatic count (see below) is temporarily wrong or not yet populated. Leave unset to use the real count.
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forumid
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Numerical ID from this rank's forum thread URL, e.g. 79 for https://forums.lokamc.com/threads/sentry-rank.79/. Passed straight through Template:Forums (with its "on the Loka Forums" suffix suppressed -- this row's own "Forum post" label already says what it is). forumId also works.
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active
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Current status -- Active or Deprecated are colour-coded (green/red); other values still display, just uncoloured. For a rank no longer in use, pair this with Template:Deprecated at the top of the article rather than relying on this field alone (see Slicer).
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The title's colour comes from Template:Rank
There's no colour parameter. The infobox title is literally {{Rank|name}} -- the same colour, bold/plain weight, tooltip, and light/dark variants Template:Rank already gives that name anywhere else it's used (e.g. on a player's own infobox). One rank has one colour, defined in exactly one place, rather than a second hex code here that could say something different. A name Template:Rank doesn't recognise just displays as plain text -- add it there first if it needs a colour.
Current holders is automatic
The Current holders count is not a number to type in and keep updated by hand -- it reads live off Template:Infobox player. Every player's own infobox sets their own rank=, which silently adds that page to a "<rank> holders" category; this template counts that category with 0 and links the number straight to it, so clicking the count shows exactly who's counted. There's exactly one place a player's rank is ever recorded -- their own page -- so this can't drift out of sync the way a hand-maintained roster number would. If the count looks wrong, the fix is updating the player's own infobox, not this one.