Morrowind talk:West Gash

Antabolis Informant

Antabolis Informant does not go to Moonmoth. It goes to Arkngthand, which is over the bridge in Molog Amur. If it matters that it starts in Balmora, we would include the other dozens of quests that start in Balmora. --Brf 23:03, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, you're right, I looked at it too quickly. I'll revert my reversion. You may want to take a look at the Antabolis Informant page as well, as that identifies it as happening in West Gash in the breadcrumb trail at the very least...it might do so elsewhere as well. – Robin Hood↝talk 23:15, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

I fixed the footer and added it to Molag Amur. I think the original confusion on this quest is that you are traveling through the West Gash to get there, and are only like one cell into Molag Amur --Brf 01:44, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, that would make sense. – Robin Hood↝talk 02:12, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Table of People Is Broken

Down in the table of all the people in the West Gash, the entry for Malay Ranarbatus shows bad data and an error message. As far as I can tell, it's because the {{NPC Data}} template is returning garbage for this entry, but I can't figure out why. The data on his page — https://en.uesp.net/w/index.php?title=Morrowind:Malay_Ranarbatus&action=edit — all looks correctly formatted, and it's not a hidden error on some previous line causing problems later because it'll do it here, too:

{{NPC Data|Malay Ranarbatus}}

|- class=citation id=Malay_Ranarbatus ! Malay Ranarbatus | | Dark Elf | Archer | | 6 || 77 || 88 || 0 || 90

Whereas an entry that works correctly looks like...

{{NPC Data|Ainab Yassabisun}}

|- class=citation id=Ainab_Yassabisun ! Ainab Yassabisun | | Dark Elf | Barbarian | | 9 || 103 || 92 || 0 || 90

And it's not a case of the template not finding the page, because that would look like...

{{NPC Data|Nonus Existus}}

|- class=citation id=Nonus_Existus ! Nonus Existus | {{ }} | [[Morrowind:|{{{race}}}]] | [[Morrowind:|{{{class}}}]] | | || || || ||

So I can't figure out why the {{NPC Data}} template is broken for this specific NPC, and my Mysticism skill is too low to go poking any deeper into how templates work. Can anyone help? Shmoot (talk) 23:44, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

"Fixed" it by adding ns_base=MW

{{NPC Data|Malay Ranarbatus|ns_base=MW}}

|- class=citation id=Malay_Ranarbatus ! Malay Ranarbatus | | Dark Elf | Archer | | 6 || 77 || 88 || 0 || 90

Not sure why it works, though, or how it's even broken in the first place. Purging MW:Malay Ranarbatus and/or MW:West Gash did not seem to work. Salamangkero (talk) 01:10, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

UPDATE: Undid my "fix"; it's working properly now... for some reason. Probably Sheogorath. Salamangkero (talk) 01:14, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

So you did see it? That's good... a test I did shortly after posting that had me concerned that it might be just me. I went and made up a list of every non-relevant NPC and tried all their templates on a preview page to see if any others were broken. Three were, but Malay Ranarbatus worked :/

(Those three are Adaishah Ahanidiran, Celegil, and Talkin Ashar-Dad. They may still be up on Morrowind:Sandbox if it hasn't been reverted yet. I have not checked relevant Morrowind NPCs, or anyone from Tribunal or Bloodmoon.) Shmoot (talk) 04:36, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Also fixed. Just found out I had to retain the &redirect=no part when purging the NPC's redirect. After that, purge the page of the place / region where they are listed and their NPC Data should be back to normal.

Good catch, btw. Thanks! Salamangkero (talk) 06:08, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

So... it was a server cache thing? I checked everyone else I could find in Morrowind (and Tribunal and Bloodmoon) and didn't see any more problems. And those three I mentioned now show up fixed. Shmoot (talk) 06:35, 7 November 2023 (UTC)