Talk:Poll:Historical template formats

As I've been screwing around with templates, I've noticed that with the longer historical characters articles (Stalin, Hitler, FDR, Churchill), the articles have gained such length that the character templates seem almost isolated from their subject matter. I moved the templates around for Stalin, and found that I do like both the aesthetics and find the system more user-friendly.

Obviously, this would be limited to really long articles involving people who are in multiple works (I don't want to set a specific number, but certainly more than one) and has a page of some length. For example, John Adams, who is limited to only posthumous references in two separate works, has a collection of character templates that take up more page-length than the actual text of the article, and so splitting off would be less user-friendly than simply leaving things in place. Conversely, Harry Truman's only been in three works, but he was prominent in MWiH and a POV in THW, so his overall page is pretty long, and splitting templates could be helpful to readers. TR (talk) 16:03, September 6, 2017 (UTC)