Forum:Villains Navigation templates
If this thread's title doesn't specify it's spoilery, don't bring any up.
First, these almost all had the "show" link left black even when that made it hard to see (or, in the case of the Black Guardian, completely invisible). I fixed them all to match the title color (some of these are still a bit ugly, but now they're at least readable), but someone might want to check them over, as the only way I could find to do this was to change the default text color, which also affects the internal text, which I had to fix in different ways for different templates because they're all organized differently.
That brings me to the first problem: They're all laid out differently--both visually and, even more so, in terms of wikicode (some use tables to separate sub-categories, some use br tags, etc., to achieve similar effects).
More importantly, what's included, what they're called, and how they're organized is radically inconsistent:
- Davros, the Sontarans, and the Ice Warriors have stories across all media, while the Master and the Black Guardian have only television.
- Graske and Judoon separate out DW, SJA, and TW stories as separate subcategories with a heading for each; Raxacoricofallaptorian and Weevil do the same thing but with a prefix instead; Sontarans runs them together on a single line, but sorts them so all SJA come after all DWs (and similar for the other subcatgories, e.g. NA vs. NSA).
- They don't sort the shows/lines consistently (as in, does DW come before or after SJA).
- The Sontarans use the DW/SJA/NA/etc. prefixes, but most of the others don't.
- Silurians and Sea Devils are two conjoined boxes with a single title, and you can't even tell that Sea Devils are going to be included until you click the show button.
- Some of them capitalize "stories" in the template name, others don't.
- Some of them capitalize "stories" in the box header, others don't, and this isn't even consistent with the template names. In fact, Silurians and Sea Devils gives us one of each in its two boxes.
- Some of them just say "stories", some say "TV stories", some say "television stories", and the Master says "- TV stories" with an extra hyphen.
I think it would be a good idea to come up with a consistent way to do these. I'd be glad to do this, except for two things:
- I can't decide which of the many options is the best for each choice. If we can get a consensus on which existing template is good, I can fix the others to match.
- If we decide that we need to include all appearances, not just TV appearances, I don't have the knowledge to find all Master appearances except by going through every comic, audio, etc. and seeing if he's mentioned, and this would take forever. --Falcotron 01:13, May 29, 2010 (UTC)
