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November 2013

Is this enormous chart really an improvement over separate navboxes for each district?

Roseohioresident (talk) 22:38, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It works OK for other states, but maybe we can make some changes for Ohio? Maybe parent/child sections for each district? (see this earlier version of Massachusetts).—GoldRingChip 00:10, 19 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
How about now?—GoldRingChip 16:08, 19 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- German language wikipedia has similar format as this: de:Vorlage:Navigationsleiste US-Kongressabgeordnete (Ohio)
- Wikipedia:Navigation templates says : "The goal is not to cram as many related articles as possible into one space. Ask yourself, does this help the reader in reading up on related topics?" and "They should be kept small in size as a large template has limited navigation value." I think 50 or 100 links is about my limit. Any more and I get information overload.
- Some people, such as Thomas Corwin, served in multiple districts. If you go with a grand unified navbox, you will need to clean up redundant invocations.
- The below= parameter would be useful for navigating between districts in a navbox. For each individual district navbox, add " below= 01 02 03 04 05 ...etc "
  Roseohioresident (talk) 19:33, 20 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - What about a list of the members alphabetically, without mentioning districts, thereby eliminating all the duplicates? I've just changed it. It reduced the code by 24%. —GoldRingChip 13:23, 21 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    - I noticed that Thomas Corwin still calls this template three times. I still think 500 names is way too many for a navbox, no matter how they are organized. It just duplicates Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio Roseohioresident (talk) 18:45, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

- To the original question. Yes. Easy to find, easy to navigate. We don't need 20+ tiny templates when one can just handle every name. But the unified field is practically useless if there are not separated by districts and kept in chronological order. Dimadick (talk) 09:33, 28 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]