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New header METAs proposal - Orion Pobursky - 2025-08-07
Starting this as a separate thread since I think Peter had some good suggestions:
Quote:Getting back to the original topic; I wanted to discover some way of annotating official parts with a tag that states what would need to be fixed if a part for some other reason is being edited. IMHO, the "needs work" sounds appropriate although it is not currently used or even intended for such use.
Maybe !NEEDSWORK could be added as a meta instead of being appended to the description and/or comments/!HELP.
Why not create a !BRICKLINK meta specifically for taking care of the mapping? Or a !LINK meta with two arguments - one for the authority (e.g. BrickLink), and the other for the ID?
RE: New header METAs proposal - Orion Pobursky - 2025-08-07
I like !LINK a lot. I think I'd rather use !EXTERNAL
I'm medium on !NEEDSWORK. I don't think there's enough parts in this category to warrant Yet Another META ™
I have one more suggestion:
Subcategories.
RE: New header METAs proposal - Peter Blomberg - 2025-08-08
Since !NEEDSWORK is mostly invisible to the user, could it be a flag on the PT? That would make it possible to add needswork flags to official parts whenever the needs are discovered.