Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-30384903-20150620185412/@comment-30384903-20150620201716

DEmersonJMFM wrote: Xxsammmsammmxx wrote: I don't exactly think the reason is caused by the "template within a template", I've seen complex templates built like that, Yes, you can put templates inside templates but it doesn't always work like you would want it to. As I said, I haven't seen this version of code you are using. All I know is for the times I've helped people with rating widget issues the template was never placed in another template. Also, I don't know if you need page IDs for this version but that's something you might want to look into. If you don't, ratings can start failing at random as the votes pile up and will be lost if a page is ever moved. If you add page IDs, that is when the template in the template will be a problem (if I remember correctly from my own experience).

The reason I ultimately went for "template within a template", is because the character infobox was just the first step, I'd also to eventually use it on other infoboxes for other types of articles, AND also the ones without infoboxes at all (for those it will just be the rating template itself); that's why I figured, if the same code is going to be used on different places, it makes more sense to have and as a template and placing the template when its needed. But I get what you are saying and that sometimes things just don't work the same... but still, at one point when this was set up, the data was not synced, so again, I do not think it was the real problem and just haven't figured out why this isn't working properly. S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 20:17, June 20, 2015 (UTC)