Template talk:Guideline list
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[edit] Use?
What is the use of this template by putting it on all manner of guidelines when it links to pages that are totally unrelated to what the user is looking at? The Dispute resolution template, for example, makes sense because all the subjects are directly related to dispute resolution and which a user might deal with in combination. Disambiguation, for example, has nothing whatsoever to do with assuming good faith. Even worse, there is no point in having Wikipedia:Hoaxes have this list linking to Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages yet having no list with links to Wikipedia:Original research, or to have Wikipedia:Patent nonsense link to Wikipedia:Categorization yet have no link to Wikipedia:Vandalism. These subjects are totally different from each other and there is absolutely no reason to think that a person reading one of them would have any more interest in the others on the list than interest in the Policies, or interest in the Help pages and Wikiprojects that are more relevant. This template just duplicates the list already at Wikipedia:List of guidelines, which we can link to directly. The division of guidelines, policies, help pages, Wikiprojects is a division of how official the pages are, and the authority and collaborative nature of them; it has nothing to do with their actual content and are rather irrelevant for someone interested in learning the ropes of Wikipedia. —Centrx→talk • 00:33, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
- That is an excellent point. This template gives an arbitrary grouping of some arbitrarily-chosen guidelines. Of course we have way too many guidelines to fit them all on a single template. If a group of guidelines is related, those should have an interlinking template; if not, the category should suffice (which is already linked from {{guideline}}). (Radiant) 09:18, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
See Template:Dabnav, which I just created and put on Wikipedia:Disambiguation, WP:MOSDAB, etc. as a much more appropriate grouping that actually helps for navigating between related pages. —Centrx→talk • 05:55, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
- Fair enough. -- Ned Scott 07:25, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
