Template talk:SSB4Characters
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Reason?[edit]
It seems weird to shove away part of an article's information to a template. It's annoying for edits and doesn't seem to give many benefits. Hello, I'm Time Turner.
- Yeah, this strategy of dealing with charts was never formally approved, afaik. It's also done with {{MarioKart7Parts}} and {{MarioKart8Parts}} - looks like some guy just did it and no one complained. I guess it makes a bit more sense to outsource the eye-crossing stat charts, but this character chart is definitely getting excessive, and frankly, the MK charts don't need to be split anyway - and like you said, in all cases, it does add one more step to get to the editing part (plus it doesn't work well with checking refs). Perhaps it'd be a good idea to make a Proposal (a regular one, not a TPP) to establish once and for all whether this sort of thing is a good idea or a bad one? - Walkazo 22:26, 6 December 2015 (EST)
- the only possible thing I see coming out of the template for this is that if you wanna edit, like the entire article, then you have less crap to sift through. and since super smash bros. is dealing with identical information, it's more convenient to edit the template once than go through it twice. However, what baffles me is that the 3DS version article does NOT use this template, when it probably should. However, the negatives definitely outweighs the positives, and both Mario Kart versions are incredibly unnecessary when you can just incorporate it, negating the only significant advantage putting the table into the template has.
Ray Trace(T|C) 00:01, 7 December 2015 (EST)
- It makes sense to outsource rules and stuff into templates because those templates can get protected, but for this? I believe the benefit is that it takes a bit less time to load when you're editing the entire article and maybe keep the history in one neat spot (but that's the point of editing by section), but for me, this template is still mostly annoying and the benefit is measly for the overwhelming inconvenience for long-time and drive-by editors; templates are intended mostly for saving time and energy for repeated text content that are frequently used. Overall, my experience with these things aren't very positive, and I'd really want to stop that practice.
It's me, Mario! (Talk / Stalk) 00:03, 7 December 2015 (EST)
- It makes sense to outsource rules and stuff into templates because those templates can get protected, but for this? I believe the benefit is that it takes a bit less time to load when you're editing the entire article and maybe keep the history in one neat spot (but that's the point of editing by section), but for me, this template is still mostly annoying and the benefit is measly for the overwhelming inconvenience for long-time and drive-by editors; templates are intended mostly for saving time and energy for repeated text content that are frequently used. Overall, my experience with these things aren't very positive, and I'd really want to stop that practice.
- the only possible thing I see coming out of the template for this is that if you wanna edit, like the entire article, then you have less crap to sift through. and since super smash bros. is dealing with identical information, it's more convenient to edit the template once than go through it twice. However, what baffles me is that the 3DS version article does NOT use this template, when it probably should. However, the negatives definitely outweighs the positives, and both Mario Kart versions are incredibly unnecessary when you can just incorporate it, negating the only significant advantage putting the table into the template has.
