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There is no standard for Character subpage navboxes, they tend to be made to avoid going back to the main character index.
The X-Men style seem to be more popular on the wiki and one I'd prefer generally, but for some series such navboxes can get as tall as a browser screen and look ugly.
Navboxes need to list all subpages from the main Characters/ index. If a navbox doesn't link to a character-specific page, it's because somebody haven't bothered yet and they should be.
Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
In order to avoid the potentially ugly tall navigation boxes, I'd follow some format similar to the cited DS9 character sheet.
If Characters.X Men Arakko were modified to that style, there'd be a link to the franchise character sheet index, links to the "The X-Men", "Other Teams", and "Other Characters" subpages, and the expanded form of the "Antagonists" subpage (with Rogues Gallery A To I | Rogues Gallery J To R | Rogues Gallery S to Z | Villainous Organizations | Acolytes | Arakko | Brotherhood of Mutants | Clan Akkaba | Externals | Hellfire Club | The Hellions | Marauders | Mojoverse | Morlocks | MLF | Orchis | Sentinels).
However, the most important rule with this is
Yes, actually, if there is a navbox, major changes to it need consensus of some kind, which often is done with a query to Characters/ Discussion page, Characters Cleanup thread or elsewhere and PM to work's most active editors if there are any. At least a couple of times an agreement of how it should look like for specific pages going onwards have been made.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Short-term project thread started
and notes linking to it (and to this ATT post) added to a bunch of the discussion pages - I’ll add to the others later.
EDIT: now added to all of the relevant discussion pages.
Thanks!
Edited by Mrph1
I brought this up in the X-men discussion but the solution is just to make the Nav box collapsable . That’s solves all the probable s without making a mess of what we worked so hard to organize. So when you open an X-men page you have the option to open up the nav box. Otherwise I think it’s just fine and this is a non issue to begging with
Putting it in a collapsible folder was one of the suggestions in my original ATT post, and I'm certainly good with that if others are. Probably just needs a consensus on the forum thread.
(In a perfect world, we'd have a framework that lets us drop the same navbox on 50 pages without editing it 50 times, but I appreciate that's well beyond the scope of the wiki!)
Edited by Mrph1
One alphabetized list of mutants, divided into sub-pages? Each name can list the teams they are/have been on. Possibly a similar but separate list of mutates, ie humans/sapient beings with superpowers, be they the result of a lab accident or technological enhancements. Not sure if this would render a list of normals redundant.
Most pages are around 40 bytes and would make a mess to solve an non issue
Please use the linked thread to discuss these things.
Are there any guidelines for start of page navbox 'indexing' (the cross-referencing wikilink kind, rather than [[index]] tagging) on Character pages, for the cases where a work or franchise has a huge number of characters across a large number of sub-pages?
Looking at Characters.X Men Arakko (and the other X-Men Characters pages), I count 19 lines of links in the navbox before the page itself starts, mapping out approximately 50 different X-Men character pages. Presumably that also needs to be updated on all 50(ish) of the character pages any time it changes.
That's not an exhaustive list either, as it doesn't directly link to some of the single-character pages or the works-specific pages for particular comic books.
Most of these characters range across the wider franchise, appearing in multiple Marvel Universe comics and webcomics, so are not specific to any one comic series and their Characters page names don't mirror a particular works page.
(It's also using WMG tagging, which I’m not used to seeing outside of WMG pages, but I’m assuming that's not a problem?)
Looking at other sprawling franchises -
Is this approach fine 'as is', should it be condensed/removed in a similar way to Star Trek & Star Wars, or can it be streamlined in a different way (e.g. hide it in a folder to save space)?
Thanks!
EDIT: Edited to fix terminology and make navbox references clearer.
Edited by Mrph1