Template talk:Infobox animal

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Proposed Change

It's been proposed that we add a field to the template specifying days to grow to maturity. It seems this value is not affected by any profession bonuses (correct me if I'm wrong), and could be added. On the other hand, we could make sure it exists in the body text of all the animals' pages instead.

If we decide to add it, should it be hidden if there is no value in it? Currently, the infobox is used on 11 pages, all of which are farm animals, so there should be a valid value for each animal.

How do we differentiate between time to hatch (i.e., time in the incubator) and time to maturity for chickens, dinosaurs, and ducks? This is one reason I would vote "no" to the field being in the infobox, and instead in the body of the text. Please add your thoughts below. Thanks, margotbean (talk) 19:51, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

I agree the info doesn't stand out on the animal pages as there are right now, mainly because the redaction is not consistent at all between articles.

Regarding hatching, time are listed on the incubator page, whereas it is nowhere for maturing time. But there could indeed be a confusion between hatching and maturing time if only one of the two is stated in the infobox, and I don't know if both infos should belong to it (why not regularity of the produce also?).

I would suggest to adopt a consistent redaction for each farm animal.

I also wonder: is there a reason why for some it's written "sheep/ostriches who eat every day mature after 4/7 days", when it's not stated for cows or goats? Do they grow even if unfed?

-- Charly (talk) 20:36, 12 November 2021 (UTC)