> The navboxes would be so much better if they didn't pollute "what > links here".
I personally like navboxes. I usually use "what links here" to check if an article is orphaned or not. What do you use it for? Emily On Aug 4, 2009, at 6:26 AM, Carcharoth wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Magnus > Manske<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Carcharoth<[email protected] >> > wrote: > >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling_Award > > PS. The one thing I'm very bad at: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Linus_Pauling_Award > > ...is linking from the winners of an award back to the award page. > > I refuse to create bloated navboxes that pollute "what links here" to > put on each award winner, but the old tension between navboxes, lists > and categories is still there. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Benjamin_Franklin_Medal_laureates > > Someone made a half-hearted (more like 0.5% hearted) effort to start a > category for that award. Some awards have categories, some have > navboxes, some have lists. I favour lists, myself, but can understand > some navboxes and a very limited number of categories (for the really > major awards). The navboxes would be so much better if they didn't > pollute "what links here". > > But what I really need is the time to pull out a standard description > sentence and citation for each winner, and plonk it in their article. > Plus be able to see at a glance which articles don't have the award > mentioned or that fact cited. At the moment, has to be done by hand, > but I'm sure there are some nifty shortcuts. > > For awards of 50 or so people, its not so bad. But when you have > awards with hundreds of winners going back centuries, it becomes a bit > of a chore. And then you have to start explaining *why* they won the > award... (which it, after all, the whole point really). > > Carcharoth > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
