Wikipedia talk:Category message boxes

message: The following are some examples of the current styles in use:
Content moved to Wikipedia:Category message boxes/Pre-standardization. It was taking up too much room. - Rocket000 09:30, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: -Rocket000 05:36, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Oh good lord. I knew it was bad, but I hadn't realized it was this bad. Ok..... Hersfold (t/a/c) 05:41, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Why there's a need for standardization

message: Ok, here's one option so far. The blue "info" box might look out of place, but there's a reason. Unlike the blue "notice" article message boxes, these are permanent and I don't think they should stand out as much as the rest. The redirect one and the second category-size ones are also permanent, but I think they still should stand out (especially the redirect).
This is for speedy deletion messages.
This is for deletion messages.
This is for redirect messages.
This is for content issue messages.
This is for category size-related messages.
This is for permanent size-related messages.
This is for permanent informative messages.
This is for merge and related messages.
This isn't a proposal or anything, I'm not even saying this is what I want to go with (as of now anyway). I just thought I'd throw it out there. Also, I was only focusing on the colors; things like padding, icon use, width, etc. aren't being suggested here. (Well, maybe width (80%) as it's the same as the ambox.) Rocket000 22:55, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Idea 1 

message: Here I went with Hersfold's suggestion. I'm not really happy with the colors, so feel free to tweak them. I'm also posting some alternate "info" type boxes, which we might want to treat differently. There pretty similar to what we have now. Rocket000 16:13, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just ran across this page → :Category:Underpopulated categories. So far, this is the best looking category page I've come across that has more than two boxes. It's similar to the style above, and I think this is the direction we should go in. I'm undecided about the saturation, though. Pastels are definitely the most in-line with Mediawiki's style in general, yet sticking with them doesn't accomplish the goal of merging the two styles (ambox and everything else). Rocket000 02:47, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Thanks :) I've been waiting for some input on my two suggestions, so I know which direction to go in. Rocket000 22:11, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Idea 2

message: The above discussion seems to centre largely on article-space categories, and "issue-tagging" of same.  However, there's a couple of examples of others on the /Pre- subpage, so I assume this is wider in scope.  So are we going to need one axis of colour-coding (or coding of some other sort) for "issue", and another for "namespace", or "type" of category?  For example, (permanent) mainspace categories, stub cats, cleanup cats, talk-page cats, template cats, Wikiproject/Wikipedia namespace in general cats...  Alai 19:39, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure what you mean by "article-space categories" as all categories are in the category namespace. I'm assuming you mean non-administration categories for articles only (designed for reader navigation). It's true, the discussion so far has dealt a lot with content issue messages, mainly because this project was directly inspired by WP:AMBOX. However, I believe the primary focus of this project should be the permanent message templates as these are more prominent and unique to the category namespace. As for the color-coding (and if we need two different systems), that is what we are trying to figure out. Rocket000 21:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: By "article-space categories" I mean, "categories whose contents are in in the article namespace", which would include maintenance categories and "permcats" (though that's such a large grouping that it presumably requires the most distinctions and subdivision).  But there are also categories whose contents are templates, talk pages, wikipedia: namespace (wikiproject and otherwise), and I don't see any real cognisance of that in this discussion so far.  Perhaps multiple axes is to over-egg things, since the non-article cases may only need a single design or colour each, but it does require some consideration.  Alai 18:15, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two axes of coding? 

message: I just wanted to point out a discussion currently going on at WikiProject Stub sorting concerning a certain category page message box. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting#Colour scheme for . Rocket000 22:04, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{tl|WPSS-cat}} 

message: To standardise the look of message boxes in image space and category space we have now coded up some suggestions. See the new meta-templates  and  and discuss the design for them at their talk pages.
I will announce this standardisation effort in the appropriate places here at Wikipedia during the next few days.
--David Göthberg (talk) 13:01, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Message box standardisation