Forum:Character Template Revision

Now that we have stackable templates, I am considering a possible overhaul of our character templates, specifically as applies to the historical figures (although the fictional ones would trail). This idea came to me after I had to edit the current historical figure template to allow adding "Shtetl Days" into to the Hitler article. It's really a bit of a pain.

We could create templates that are story specific, rather than the "one-size fits all" approach that the current template requires, with color coding, POD info, and other things to a)increase user friendliness and; b) hopefully stop hit and runners.

Please take a look at the sandbox for a demonstration. I created new 191 template for the demonstration.

The biggest down side in my mind is that there's going to be a ton of work to modify the articles.

Also, we'll still need a generic template for stand-alone short stories, since we don't handle those in the same way as we do with novels and series. That's not really a down-side, I suppose. TR 15:52, May 12, 2011 (UTC)