[WikiEN-l] templates boxes: multiplying like rabbits

Tue Apr 12 18:47:46 UTC 2005

Viajero (viajero at quilombo.nl) [050413 04:33]:

> For example, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erskine_Hamilton_Childers
> Five template boxes, and then of course the categories.
> Are all these really necessary? Given the space they take up, the 
> template boxes appear more important than the text itself.
> Does anyone else feel this feature is getting out of hand?

This is already listed on the [[WP:CLS]] guideline as a time when editors
should consider making the templates into categories. Also see disadvantage
2 of templates.

- d.