Forum:Collapsible family navboxes

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Hiya,

I've been thinking if we can replace the family navboxes into a collapsible one. If you don't know yet, most, if not all, family navboxes are in wikitext complete with markup and everything, which can be a huge eyesore and annoying to edit.

I think what we can do is to replace the wikitext with {{Navbox}}, which not just make the navboxes collapsible, but also easier to edit as there are less markups to deal with. I made a basic example which you can see here. What do you think? EpicJoyBoy ^{(My talk page!)} 04:48, August 16, 2014 (UTC)

Discussion

For sake of clarity, are you suggesting that we use {{Navbox}} to make family templates? So, instead of having {{Landgraab Family}} as it appears now, we would make it look like your example? -- LostInRiverview ^{talk ~ blog} 05:26, August 16, 2014 (UTC)

I guess I didn't make it clear enough, but to answer your question, yes. I think using {{Navbox}} for family navboxes wouldn't just make it collapsible, but also make things more streamlined. It isn't fully fleshed out yet, but the example template is well, an example.

I'm not sure where the wikitext customization go into the template, though, but I'm quite sure the end result would be at least similar to what we're seeing now. EpicJoyBoy ^{(My talk page!)} 06:33, August 16, 2014 (UTC)

While its arguably not the best reason I do think we should keep them how they are now simply because that's how it is on every other wiki but there's no real issues other than changing some formatting or something if we do decide to do this. Disregard this, I checked and a similar system is used on Wikipedia, I don't really have any strong feelings on this either way. Also, while this isnt exactly related, I kinda think it may be a good idea to change the navboxes like the one LiR linked to some sort of standardised colour, probably the blue/white most other templates use or something. Regardless of what happens I do believe any of these changes could probably be automated with a bot, although I'm admittedly fairly rusty with AWB. ―ฬђ ^talk 08:57, August 16, 2014 (UTC)

Is it possible if the family templates could just be removed entirely? Ѧüя◎ґ (talk) 22:53, August 16, 2014 (UTC)

I don't think we should remove it entirely, IMO, but I think we should at least keep it for notable families or families spanning three generations or more. EpicJoyBoy ^{(My talk page!)} 03:12, August 17, 2014 (UTC)

Personally, I prefer if the navigation is removed entirely as well. I never really liked it anyway. But if we are to keep the navigation, I agree if all of the family navigation templates use the same base template so they're all consistent. I don't know if we should use Navbox for the base template though. It's basically used for most navigation templates. I'd like it better if family navigation template has a different style to distinguish it from general navigation templates. Nikel _{Talk – Vote!} 13:38, August 17, 2014 (UTC)

If we keep the navigation templates, I agree that they should all look the same. I think creating a new style of navigational template just for family navboxes is a little redundant, so I'd suggest we just keep using Navbox. As for deleting the navigation templates themselves, I'm undecided/leaning against deletion, as I think they do serve at least some purpose. -- LostInRiverview ^{talk ~ blog} 17:44, August 17, 2014 (UTC)