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There seems to be some disagreement about the use of capital letters in the title of this template. I cannot find a Manual of Style entry for template titles; if there is one, can someone please point me in the right direction? Lacking that, all I can do is look at other similar templates. There is a mix of approaches. In other Biology navigational boxes, some use title caps, for example, {{ Anura}} and {{ Carotenoids}} and some don't.
Is this just a drive-by template edit or is there an ongoing discussion somewhere about it? If it's just random, I think you should leave the template the way it is unless there is a compelling reason to change it. -- Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 20:25, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Per WP:SERIES and practice elsewhere on Wikipedia, I think this template should only appear at the bottom of articles listed in the template. However it appears in dozens of articles on specific zoos, aquaria and aviaries. While this could be useful, such an article always contains a link in the first sentence to Zoo Aquarium or another member of the series. From there a reader can easily find the navigation box and explore the rest of the series.
Should we encourage people to remove these from non-members of the series when editing those articles? -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 08:58, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Suggest removing the row Animals as it doesn't fall in the category Zoos, and unnecessarily increases box size. Topics would be easier to find if ordered alphabetically. Elekhh ( talk) 04:53, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Animal Sanctuary could be listed among "other topics". Earl of Mar ( talk) 01:49, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
This template and its use was discussed on WP:BIDIRECTIONAL navbox requirements in December 2015. Dan Koehl ( talk) 19:12, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
On my talk page you can read the request to submit the navigation template Zoos, and all zoo pages again, and I feel reluctant to do so, since I simply cant evaluate the outcome of consensus discussions regarding this template.
And I would like to ask the users who participated in that discussion in December 2015 @ Francis Schonken, Slakr, Izno, Sadads, Montanabw, Moxy, Boghog, Bagumba, Robsinden, LT910001, Alsee, Donlammers, Thincat, Andrew Davidson, In actu, Etamni, Softlavender, Dkriegls, WhatamIdoing, Monty845, Steelpillow, Rhododendrites, KarasuGamma, Beyond My Ken, Etamni, Rich Farmbrough, Steelpillow, The Earwig, Pigsonthewing, Lugnuts, TonyTheTiger, Oknazevad, Frietjes, and Vanjagenije:, what do you interpret as the outcome, which consensus was reached? Dan Koehl ( talk) 20:37, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
@ WhatamIdoing:, I was confused as to if there was now a consensus or not, and now it seems you may come up with an alternative solution, which sounds intersting, but can you explain more exactly how you mean? Dan Koehl ( talk) 22:02, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Zoos template. |
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Zoo Template‑class | |||||||
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There seems to be some disagreement about the use of capital letters in the title of this template. I cannot find a Manual of Style entry for template titles; if there is one, can someone please point me in the right direction? Lacking that, all I can do is look at other similar templates. There is a mix of approaches. In other Biology navigational boxes, some use title caps, for example, {{ Anura}} and {{ Carotenoids}} and some don't.
Is this just a drive-by template edit or is there an ongoing discussion somewhere about it? If it's just random, I think you should leave the template the way it is unless there is a compelling reason to change it. -- Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 20:25, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
Per WP:SERIES and practice elsewhere on Wikipedia, I think this template should only appear at the bottom of articles listed in the template. However it appears in dozens of articles on specific zoos, aquaria and aviaries. While this could be useful, such an article always contains a link in the first sentence to Zoo Aquarium or another member of the series. From there a reader can easily find the navigation box and explore the rest of the series.
Should we encourage people to remove these from non-members of the series when editing those articles? -- Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) ( Talk) 08:58, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Suggest removing the row Animals as it doesn't fall in the category Zoos, and unnecessarily increases box size. Topics would be easier to find if ordered alphabetically. Elekhh ( talk) 04:53, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Animal Sanctuary could be listed among "other topics". Earl of Mar ( talk) 01:49, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
This template and its use was discussed on WP:BIDIRECTIONAL navbox requirements in December 2015. Dan Koehl ( talk) 19:12, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
On my talk page you can read the request to submit the navigation template Zoos, and all zoo pages again, and I feel reluctant to do so, since I simply cant evaluate the outcome of consensus discussions regarding this template.
And I would like to ask the users who participated in that discussion in December 2015 @ Francis Schonken, Slakr, Izno, Sadads, Montanabw, Moxy, Boghog, Bagumba, Robsinden, LT910001, Alsee, Donlammers, Thincat, Andrew Davidson, In actu, Etamni, Softlavender, Dkriegls, WhatamIdoing, Monty845, Steelpillow, Rhododendrites, KarasuGamma, Beyond My Ken, Etamni, Rich Farmbrough, Steelpillow, The Earwig, Pigsonthewing, Lugnuts, TonyTheTiger, Oknazevad, Frietjes, and Vanjagenije:, what do you interpret as the outcome, which consensus was reached? Dan Koehl ( talk) 20:37, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
@ WhatamIdoing:, I was confused as to if there was now a consensus or not, and now it seems you may come up with an alternative solution, which sounds intersting, but can you explain more exactly how you mean? Dan Koehl ( talk) 22:02, 22 February 2017 (UTC)