Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Neopaganism/Templates

message: I would encourage those than know a lot about these subjects to add to the templates instead of deleting them :) Midnightblueowl (talk) 20:34, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That does assume that they are desirable and necessary in the first place: I can envisage situations in which the most comprehensive template would still be an unnecessary and distracting addition to an article. That's why this discussion about their desirability in principle is overdue, and should precede technical discussions about how they could be improved. I will copy this exchange here so we can add it to the discussion of templates in general in these articles. Kim Dent-Brown (Talk) 20:55, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Navigation templates are very useful on Wikipedia, as they draw readers from one topic to the next, and may provide links not present in any given article but that are still relevant to an understanding of the topic.  But what we have here is a glut of, perhaps, bloated and un-organised templates that can function better if they are all brought into line.  In principle, these things are good to have; in actual implementation, they are faltering a bit and just need some help. -- Huntster T • @ • C 23:25, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exchange copied from [[User talk:Midnightblueowl]] 

message: OK, I've been bold and proposed one of the existing templates for deletion here. It's the Wicca template with the vertical sidebar shape, which was recently pasted into a whole slew of Wicca articles and hastily reverted by a number of editors. I think that, whichever way we go with the sensible suggestions above, this particular template is not going to be the one we would choose as the way forward. If you agree or disagree with me, please go to the discussion page and say so, then we have one fewer existing template to worry about. Kim Dent-Brown (Talk) 08:33, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sidebar navboxes were popular in the early days of Wikipedia, but have drastically fallen out of favour compared with footer navboxes, partially due to the proliferation of sidebar Infoboxes.  Make sure to copy the contents somewhere just as a future reference, but I think it is perfectly safe to get rid of it in light of this attempted reorganisation. -- Huntster T • @ • C 09:40, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you post as such on the TfD discussion? Kim Dent-Brown (Talk) 10:15, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. -- Huntster T • @ • C 10:33, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A first step 

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Pasted here in anticipation of ultimate deletion. Kim Dent-Brown (Talk) 10:18, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copy of old template