Template talk:C20YearTOCright

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[edit] Created

06-Jan-2008: The right-side-TOC "Template:C20YearTOCright" was created to centralize format changes to years 1900-1999, with allowing a bottom Table-of-Contents to float to the right-side margin of a year-article. The template is part of a series of templates named with prefix "C20Year..." to restrict direct access to year-article formatting, at least to the extent that users must remove those templates, or separately alter each template's internal format, slowing down the typical wikirot of hacked articles. During 2006, about 5% of yearly articles "1300-1999" directly contained undetected vandalism that had slipped past other editors. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:46, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Related templates

07-Jan-2008: Some related templates are:

Those are the major related templates. -Wikid77 (talk) 11:21, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Precedents for using compact TOCs

07-Jan-2008: Although the use of a compact TOC was a new approach for formatting the year-articles back in May 2007, the general concept had been used in hundreds of other articles, such as film-list sections using compact-TOC templates for selecting sub-sections "A-Z" or "0-9-A-Z" (etc.). For those years 1900-1999, the compact-TOC concept was generally well-received, even though it of course shocked some editors expecting the prior 35-line TOCs to scroll down the screen. Also, yes, one or two people instantly started removing compact TOCs from about 30 articles before others objected and the TOCs were returned. -Wikid77 (talk) 11:21, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hacking year articles back to non-standard

07-Jan-2008: When compact-TOCs were hacked out of many year-articles, the trend was to also shorten the resulting full-TOC by another method: randomly hacking out sub-sections, such as removing the WP standard "See-also/Notes/External-links" sections while lumping Deaths into just 2 massive sections, sometimes splitting the 12 Births months into 3 uneven groups such as 3-3-6 months per sub-section; also hacked out (at random) were event sections "Ongoing" or "Undated" or "Fictional" even though they had formerly occurred in almost all years 1900-1999. The tiny event section "Ongoing" (which listed the Cold War) was often hacked, indicating a form of contempt for repeating similar context information from year to year, even though the section typically had contained only one line; meanwhile, one person reversed the trend by expanding Ongoing-events into Wars and Other. Overall, the results demonstrated that, even with an article set containing 600 standardized articles ("1400-1999"), even with the format semi-controlled by templates, several users continued to hack articles (or templates) in any manner, regardless of overall impact, while thinking the result was better (WP:AGF), not intending vandalism or making Wikipedia years look trashy. Wiki-chaos was undeterred even by using a short written standard. -Wikid77 (talk) 11:21, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Other issues

[ Discuss other, unnamed issues here. -Wikid77 ]