User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20131004162218/@comment-188432-20131008015659
These are all really good questions for which I don't have great answers at the moment. It's not super high priority, but it is high-ish priority. I'm thinking that the various types of tag may be handled differently.
Yes, other wikis do indeed incorporate such an image link in their infoboxes, and that's definitely a possibility. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that's the thing that makes the most sense, and this will probably be done, unless someone has an objection.
{{Wikipediainfo}} is a big more of a puzzle, since most of the pages that use that template typically don't have an infobox. Maybe it could be more like {{wiktionary}} — something floated in the body of the text.
{{lock}} and {{protect}} could simply be eliminated altogether, because that's the sort of thing that really doesn't matter to the reader at all. Whether an article is protected is of zero interest to the general consumer of the site, so there's really no point in putting it up. Especially since none of us on the admin side of the street uniformly use the tag — or remember to take it down afterwards.
The stubs I just don't know about. They may have to just be totally reworked. If anyone has an idea about these, please don't keep it a secret.
Now having said all that, I guess another possibility is that I could just create a template that effectively adds another thing shaped just like the category box, and stack it on top of things. So you could have:
