Wikipedia talk:Sidestacking and pinching

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[edit] Irony

Needs an image for extra sidestacky/pinchy goodness. :) Zetawoof(ζ) 19:28, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

There's nothing wrong with having this page, but I suggest not cluttering up articles with a useless tag, specific to this. If an article has a problem, please fix it. If you can't fix it yourself, please state the problem on the talk page. There's different style issues, and we shouldn't have tags for each. It's more important articles should have proper spelling, but we don't (I hope) have a {{bad spelling}} tag. Also the word "policy" has a specific meaning in Wikipedia, and doesn't apply to style guidelines. I don't mind if you change it to a guideline, but don't call it a policy. --Rob 04:50, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Example?

An illustratory example would be extremely helpful. -- Beland 19:40, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

See below. Zetawoof(ζ) 21:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] An example

Sidestacking and pinching

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A fourth image? This is getting to be a bit much
A fourth image? This is getting to be a bit much

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Sadly, this isn't all that uncommon a phenomenon. As soon as an article starts including more than a few images, especially in close proximity to infoboxes, it's easy for the many floated objects to start colliding with each other. Full-width templates like {{npov}} are serious offenders as well. Zetawoof(ζ) 21:35, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Looking within

This essay is a bit confusing, a glance at Wikipedia:Sidestacking and pinching appears to be pretty much just a big box on the side... — xaosflux Talk 23:03, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

That's the point. It looks bad; an illustration here speaks louder than any words could. (Not to mention the loveliness above. Crystallina 00:59, 18 September 2006 (UTC)