Forum:Navigation Templates

Are the navigation templates really need? I mean we have categories, which contains all the information that the navigation boxes do. I see the point in some of them (such as Series navigation template and also the Aliens and Enemies of series X), but the other are not really needed if we have the categories. There have been comments in the past about how much space they take up at the bottom of the page, so should we get rid of them, and use categories instead or keep them? Mini-mitch 17:13, July 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * See, it's funny. Everyone seems to have different ideas about what's "necessary" with these things, but everyone equally thinks some of them are completely unnecessary.  Personally, I don't see the point at all to the aliens and enemies templates, cause that's not about one single thing, and it is, in any case, quite subjective.   People openly ridiculed my creation of hospitals, but I think that's quite helpful, and does something more than what a simple category could do.  So who knows what, really, to do with them.


 * The one thing I do think they need, visually, is to be placed under infoboxes at the same width of the infobox. If you have to go all the way to the bottom of the page to get navigation, maybe they're not as helpful as they could be.  Plus, they look quite smart as a sort of adjunct to the infobox.  Czech Out   ☎ | ✍  17:58, July 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * What I've tired is putting a navigation box inside a infobox. It does not work, due 'show/hide' box not working. However if you put a ':' before it, it works, but the box is crushed up, especially the writing at the top of the infobox. I'm not sure if we could add another item to the Infobox called 'navigation templates' and see if that works? Mini-mitch 19:54, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * I have managed to make the navigation box. Its on the Sandbox page. I think it could easily fit under the infobox, only thing is. I can't get the box to move to the right. i can get it to move left, and centre it, it won't move right. Mini-mitch 22:15, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * You were looking for the command "float:right" to add to the main style instructions. Also, I changed the width to match that of the infobox.  If you look at the Sandbox page, it probably comes closer to what you were trying to do.   Czech Out   ☎ | ✍  03:32, July 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm against having them sit under the infobox. It has the affect of crowding the page with infoboxes, especially if we're considering adding several of these thing below the infobox. I'm more inclined to follow Wikipedia and other wikias model of, as we do now having them at the bottom of the article. --Tangerineduel 05:36, July 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * I think it looks alright, but i'm unsure how it will look with many navigation templates, such as The End of Time page. I suggest, we could trial it on a few pages to see what other User think and how it looks. Mini-mitch 17:40, July 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * It's not just multiple templates, but also shorter articles like short story articles, which may also have several templates stacked up.
 * Additionally if we ever get around to doing NA, MA, PDA, EDA etc template they're really long lists, if they're bunched up under the infobox they can make for difficult reading.
 * I'm not against a trial, though I am unsure about rolling it out onto any current pages given the differing styles and what not. Perhaps several new pages (or sub-pages of this forum) that test differing lengths of article and various combinations of template? --Tangerineduel 12:42, July 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * I see what you're saying. And testing on new pages like you suggested seems to be a good way to do it. But are the navigation template, for the example, really needed? Can we not just have navigation box for Series X and Alien and enemies of Series X, also like you suggested, EDA, PDA etc? Mini-mitch 14:29, July 19, 2010 (UTC)