Talk: Category Templates (proposed)

Inviting discussion[]

As I am cleaning up policies and ratifiying them, I invite discussion on this. Plkrtn talk contribs email 15:09, 10 February 2008 (PST)

Well, the example page I have posted isn't really what it would look like. I couldn't figure out how to get it right under the Infobox. -- Iron Man Send a message View contributions 14:18, 11 February 2008 (PST)

It should be contained within the infobox, if we were to progress with this, one would assume? Can you mock this up? Personally, I quite like the idea of categorising them with easy to understand symbols. Plkrtn talk contribs email 17:47, 11 February 2008 (PST)

With the user page one, the template on the bottom of my userpage should be combined with the one on this page. --Blueeagle islander 22:46, 11 February 2008 (PST)

I'd like to suggest the boxes either go inside the infobox or, like here on the TARDIS Index File, go somewhere like that.--JohanTenge 23:12, 11 February 2008 (PST)

That second one might clutter the articles, I say the Infobox would look the best. Also, I think we should combine the two userspace pages, as Blue Eagle said. -- Iron Man Send a message View contributions 03:55, 12 February 2008 (PST)

I'm voting no on this policy - I think it'd be tricky to enforce and could lead to breaking and spacing problems, similar to how images already can skew up prose on certain browsers --Nickb123 (Talk) 04:26, 12 February 2008 (PST)

I think this is unnescessary and just a way of adding more templates to articles. So I say no to this. -- Dee4leeds talk contribs all 08:12, 12 February 2008 (PST)

I'm confused, how could they possibly cause spacing problems if they are inside the Infobox? -- Iron Man Send a message View contributions 09:00, 12 February 2008 (PST)

What exactly do these do? Are they to be used in place of the current fanon, hoax, etc banners? In which case, I prefer the current system as they are much clearer and explanatory. And if they aren't intended to replace said banners then I really don't see how they can help.--TechNic|talk|conts 18:12, 10 March 2008 (PDT)

They are meant to catorgerize Lostpedia's categories using four distinct symbols. Category pages such as Portal:Cast and Portal:Filming Locations would fall under "PI", or "Production Information", ect. -- Iron Man Send a message View contributions 10:40, 11 March 2008 (PDT)

OK, thanks. Your explanation and edits to the page have made their purpose much clearer. But I still can't see why we need them. Seems to be solving a problem that doesn't exist.--TechNic|talk|conts 10:53, 11 March 2008 (PDT)