Help talk:Templates

Made a first attempt at organizing them here. --barto (talk) (contribs) 14:20, 14 November 2017 (EST)

Possible improvements: Not exhaustive. --barto (talk) (contribs) 14:54, 14 November 2017 (EST)
 * Expand the scope of incoming links to all pages with wrong incoming links.
 * Clarify the scope of WIP: should it mean that it is incomplete in a severe way, e.g. only half of a definition? Or inuse?
 * Clarify stub, difference with WIP if any, perhaps disuse because it carries the meaning of "too short", while short is our standard.
 * More meaningful names for improve and rewrite, e.g. inelegant or improve argument resp. improve style.
 * Merge duplicate with mergeto?
 * Perhaps discourage using tidy and work to do, something more specific instead.
 * More meaningful name for help, e.g. expert needed


 * Eliminated WIP. Stub and wtd should do the job. &mdash; Lord_Farin (talk) 17:19, 15 November 2017 (EST)

Design
Proposed design at Template:Ambox, draft work and more examples at User:Barto/tpl/ambox/core. Borrowed the WMF style because I didn't see the need to spend time creating a new one. --barto (talk) (contribs) 08:24, 18 November 2017 (EST)
 * When creating theorem wanted I didn't want to tinker once again with the inelegant template code, so I already used ambox there. I must say it was one of the most satisfying edits I've made, so clean :) --barto (talk) (contribs) 18:06, 18 November 2017 (EST)
 * Why is it actually called ambox? This name doesn't make sense to me at all. But I admit it looks pretty good, and also the unified maintenance is appealing. &mdash; Lord_Farin (talk) 17:12, 19 November 2017 (EST)
 * Yeah, I agree that the name is unclear. I basically adapted an on old version of a namefellow template at WMF, where ambox stands for "article message box" and has sisters for category (cmbox), talk (tmbox) pages etc. I don't mind renaming it. --barto (talk) (contribs) 10:54, 20 November 2017 (EST)

I don't see a need to copy others' idiosyncrasies. Either we restrict it to maintenance applications (which would make the most sense IMO) and maintbox could work. Or the mindblowing simplicity of box. &mdash; Lord_Farin (talk) 12:08, 20 November 2017 (EST)