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Re: Subthemes for Star Wars renamed?
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Date: 
Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:58:30 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, Hakan Tandogan writes:
Hi,
I just noticed (while checking my webpage that links to the
pause pages) that the subthemes for the Star Wars sets were renamed
to "Episode I" and "Classic". While I find the new names far better
that "{Episode IV}" (especially for sorting purposes ;-) ) I wonder
whether those changes were announced somewhere.

No, the changes weren't announced.  It's just one of many everyday cleanup or
maintenance efforts in the set DB.  (I'm even surprised anyone noticed.  :)

LEGO officially uses the term "Classic" for the original SW trilogy (Episodes
IV-VI, that is), so the old category names in the DB were wrong.  (And the
curly braces {} signified that we knew it was an unofficial categorization
but didn't yet know the official categorization.)

I think it's kinda unfortunate that LEGO chose to call Episodes IV-VI
"Classic" when Episode I gets its own whole designation.  At the very least
they coulda called it "Episodes IV-VI"...  Anyway...  Call me A/R.  :-)


I imagine that this change broke quite a few Hyperlinks...

Nah, only if someone had links to the old canned theme-search queries, which
looked frighteningly dubious and not very link-friendly before:

   http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?theme=LEGO,SYSTEM,Star+Wars,%7BEpisode+I%7D
   http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?theme=LEGO,SYSTEM,Star+Wars,%7BEpisode+IV%7D
   http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?theme=LEGO,SYSTEM,Star+Wars,%7BEpisode+V%7D
   http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?theme=LEGO,SYSTEM,Star+Wars,%7BEpisode+VI%7D

A side-effect of getting rid of the {}'s is that the new URLs for those DB
queries are slightly more human-friendly:

   http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?theme=LEGO,SYSTEM,Star+Wars,Episode+I
   http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?theme=LEGO,SYSTEM,Star+Wars,Classic

although I wouldn't say they're link-friendly just yet (more on that in a
couple days).

If someone had bookmarks on the old queries, I apologize for any inconveninece
caused by the renaming of the subcategories.

--Todd



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  Re: Subthemes for Star Wars renamed?
 
(...) Nope, no bookmarks, I was creating the links in my perl script (hey, doesn't everyone have a sets-to-html-script? ;-) ), so the human-friendly part was a little lost on me ;-) Regards, Hakan (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.starwars)

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Hi, I just noticed (while checking my webpage that links to the pause pages) that the subthemes for the Star Wars sets were renamed to "Episode I" and "Classic". While I find the new names far better that "{Episode IV}" (especially for sorting (...) (24 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.starwars)

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