Template talk:Tintin

message: I've trimmed the most obscure characters off the template - most of them only making one appearence in 23 albums, and are not even described in the Minor characters in Tintin article, even though they re-direct. Please keep the list to notable characters. Poulsen 21:46, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

message: This template's layout was recently amended by User:David Kernow, then reverted by User:Foxcat. Which do people prefer?  Please indicate your preference below; thanks.
===As amended; see here===
===As reverted; see current template ()===
===None of the above===
*Templates should not be large monochrome boxes containing an indiscriminate and enormous collection of links; and both these qualify. Is this template going to be placed on any article ever which doesn't already link to Snowy? and if so which? Please consider a small template, on the model of , which links to a central list of links. Septentrionalis 04:16, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: * Something like the below...?  David Kernow 05:08, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which layout? 

message: *Templates should not be large monochrome boxes containing an indiscriminate and enormous collection of links; and both these qualify. Is this template going to be placed on any article ever which doesn't already link to Snowy? and if so which? Please consider a small template, on the model of , which links to a central list of links. Septentrionalis 04:16, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: * Something like the below...?  David Kernow 05:08, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: None of the above

message: First off, I wholeheartedly agree that the former renditions of the template was overtly detailed and confusing, but the new spartan format seems to have a few shortcomings as well. As I see it, there's no idea in having links to List of books in The Adventures of Tintin series and List of film and television adaptations of The Adventures of Tintin when there alredy exists the all-including Tintin books, films, and media article. I propose the two existing links (and their articles) be removed and the collective "Tintin books, films, and media" article featured instead.
Also, the main characters are already described and linked to in the main Tintin page, and having an entire article dedicated to mention those four characters yet again, seems weird. To me, at least some of miscellany articles might as well go directly into the template instead of having yet another article which functions only as a list of seven links. 
I like the supporting characters idea, but unfortunately it is highly subjective. Fore example, how come Mitsuhirato is a supporting character when he only appears in one book? What makes him more or less "supporting" than Laszlo Carreidas? Also, I propose that all three character lists be included in the template; Supporting, Minor and Complete list. 
An alternative template might look like:
The Adventures of Tintin                                         	The Adventures of Tintin                                         	The Adventures of Tintin	The Adventures of Tintin	The Adventures of Tintin
Creation of Tintin · Books, films, and media · Ideology of Tintin	Creation of Tintin · Books, films, and media · Ideology of Tintin	                        	                        	
Characters:                                                      	Supporting · Minor · Complete list                               	                        	                        	
Miscellany:                                                      	Hergé · Marlinspike · Captain Haddock's exclamations             	                        	                        	
What do you think? Poulsen 12:39, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes? 

message: Why does this template link List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock when it's simply a redirect to Captain Haddock? When this template becomes unlocked I will be proposing some changes. -b 11:04, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It used to exist; I guess it got deleted. --Jellyfisho 14:35, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Funny how it never got changed then stuck on the main page.  I look some and some of the earlier templates were excessive, but I don't see a template for each book too excessive.  Then another of Tintin topics? -b 19:31, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've got ahead and deleted the exclamations link from the template, as it was confusing as it was. —Quasirandom 03:45, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes, pt II 

message: It is a very hyphenated version of Template:Tintin and Hergé.  Shouldn't that one only be used now?  --BrokenSphereMsg me 16:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this still needed?