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: If there are problems with its hugeness, we can use that template hiding thing. {{User:AltAcnt/sig}} 09:17, November 27, 2007 (EST)
: If there are problems with its hugeness, we can use that template hiding thing. {{User:AltAcnt/sig}} 09:17, November 27, 2007 (EST)


:Automatically hiding templates is a good thing to know about, but more importantly, we should try to emphasize that just because an article is included ''in'' a template, does NOT mean that the template has to be in that article. There are plenty of inline links designed to redirect users to related topics, but only properly fleshed-out, non-stub articles should have templates. For instance, [[Template:ccsc]] includes all articles related to the [[CCSC]] such as Lord Efrem, but that particular article is much shorter than the template itself and so it only appears on longer articles like [[Kithkin]] and [[Teh Fair]]. A good rule of thumb is to make sure that all articles that are too short to justify including a template at least link directly to another related page that's long enough to have it. (i.e. Anti-Wendy Wu Crew doesn't have a template, but it links to [[Jiangshadow]] which does) This intuitively directs readers to a "portal" into the subject matter without cluttering up every little article. --<font color="000023">'''[[User:Randall00|RJM]]'''</font> <sup>''[[User talk:Randall00|Talk]]''</sup> 15:20, November 27, 2007 (EST)
:Automatically hiding templates is a good thing to know about, but more importantly, we should try to emphasize that just because an article is included ''in'' a template, does NOT mean that the template has to be in that article. There are plenty of inline links designed to redirect users to related topics, but only properly fleshed-out, non-stub articles should have templates. For instance, [[Template:ccsc]] includes all articles related to the [[CCSC]] such as Lord Efrem, but that particular article is much shorter than the template itself and so it only appears on longer articles like [[Kithkin]] and Teh Fair. A good rule of thumb is to make sure that all articles that are too short to justify including a template at least link directly to another related page that's long enough to have it. (i.e. Anti-Wendy Wu Crew doesn't have a template, but it links to [[Jiangshadow]] which does) This intuitively directs readers to a "portal" into the subject matter without cluttering up every little article. --<font color="000023">'''[[User:Randall00|RJM]]'''</font> <sup>''[[User talk:Randall00|Talk]]''</sup> 15:20, November 27, 2007 (EST)
::Why we just instead of have a original smash bros template, a meele template and a Brawl template, we just create one template with all links refering to that universe.--[[User:Fandangox|Fandangox]] 15:23, November 27, 2007 (EST)
::Why we just instead of have a original smash bros template, a meele template and a Brawl template, we just create one template with all links refering to that universe.--[[User:Fandangox|Fandangox]] 15:23, November 27, 2007 (EST)
:::That auto-hide feature sounds like the perfect solution to me. That way, on any page you can just open up a template to get to a related article in a more orderly fashion, instead of looking at the categories and spending time searching through them. Until now I would've supported removing them all, but now I think they're great to keep if they can be hidden and extendable. [[User:Erik the Appreciator|Erik, Lord of Universes]] 01:56, November 28, 2007 (EST)
:::That auto-hide feature sounds like the perfect solution to me. That way, on any page you can just open up a template to get to a related article in a more orderly fashion, instead of looking at the categories and spending time searching through them. Until now I would've supported removing them all, but now I think they're great to keep if they can be hidden and extendable. [[User:Erik the Appreciator|Erik, Lord of Universes]] 01:56, November 28, 2007 (EST)