User talk:Templationist
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[edit] University template changes
Please stop making undiscussed style changes to university navigational templates. There is a style frequently used for large navigational templates on universities (including university articles which have achieved WP:FA status) which involves the school's colors, a subdued gray background, and darker-gray borders. It is implemented in Template:Cornell, Template:Duke_University, Template:New_York_University, and Template:Rutgers, and it was implemented by University of Chicago, which had a maroon background (Maroon is one of Chicago's school colors) before you made it a salmon color.
I don't have a problem if you want to add features to these templates, such as the "edit" link, or the "hide" feature, but please don't make such substantial changes to the look and feel of the templates. I don't believe that there is much value in making all templates less attractive by "standardizing" them, and I believe that it is good for Wikipedia to have attractive, appropriately-themed, and topical navigational templates. Thank you.--TexasDex 06:51, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
- Apologies for causing irritation, however there were issues I had with the templates I edited:
- The comment on colour at Template:Navbox generic suggests that "multiple navigational templates on one page with different titlebar colors will probably look unpleasant". This is particularly true of Rutgers and Duke, but not so much of Drexel and New York (due to fortunate university colours). By making the titlebars a little less pronounced I was hoping to make them look better on the page. I'm not willing to pursue this, however.
- Two of the templates (Drexel and Duke) use images for the titlebar. This is inappropriate for two reasons: firstly, the images link to the image page, whereas other titlebars for other navigation templates link to the main topic. This might confuse some users. Secondly, it prevents the addition of v.d.e and edit links. It is probably possible to replace the images with regular titlebars that still maintain the colour scheme. I'll probably try working on that another time. Templationist 13:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] new Moon footer
I'm pretty much done with the new Moon footer and would appreciate any comments you might have. After looking through all the science navigational templates, I decided to base this on the Physcology footer, which is non-standard, but looks, better, IMO. Here it is User:Lunokhod/test. Its not collapsible, but I don't think it needs to be. Lunokhod 21:58, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Jupiter footers
In addition to your nomination to delete Template: Moon groups of Jupiter, there are also the redundant templates Template: Jupiter Footer and Template: Jupiter Full Footer that may also deserve nomination. RandomCritic 04:29, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Navigation templates
Please don't put navigation templates at the top of articles. There have been many discussions about this in the past. Navigation templates should go at the bottom or articles, leaving the top of the article for content. -- Solipsist 21:47, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
