I submitted a bug report requesting a change to item descriptions.
Effect descriptions have an HTML comment that gives the effectid.
Item descriptions do not have a comment that gives the itemid
If they did, all we'd need is the descid for an item - which is easy to get and to verify that it refers to the correct item - to get everything there is to know about an item. For now, we need both numbers - and the Wiki is chock full of pages with a known descid and an unknown itemid. (Or even an unknown descid - which is pure laziness on the part of the person who made the page, since the text on the page is cut and pasted from the item description).
Effect descriptions have an HTML comment that gives the effectid.
Item descriptions do not have a comment that gives the itemid
If they did, all we'd need is the descid for an item - which is easy to get and to verify that it refers to the correct item - to get everything there is to know about an item. For now, we need both numbers - and the Wiki is chock full of pages with a known descid and an unknown itemid. (Or even an unknown descid - which is pure laziness on the part of the person who made the page, since the text on the page is cut and pasted from the item description).