Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Templates/Navbox templates
Navigation boxes (navboxes) are helpful in collecting links to articles related to a central topic for the ease of navigating among articles.
Keeping in mind Wikipedia's guidelines for accessibility and color use, the navboxes used by the Comics Project should not use a color scheme that:
- Is only for the decoration of a single navbox;
- Is used on a single navbox to identify a character's or team's "colors"; or
- Can potentially become hard to read based on any state link text may be in.
Navboxes for closely related topics may have a unifying color scheme, but they must meet the needs of being visually accessible and there should be a reason for multiple navboxes other than to have a "different color". Otherwise the navbox should use the defaults for {{Navbox}} or the following colors which acoincide with the basic infobox colors used by the project:
- titlestyle = background-color: #77AAFF
- groupstyle = background-color: #77AAFF
- oddstyle = background:transparent
- evenstyle = background:#eef7ff
Also, based on Wikipedia:Navigation templates, the material contained within the navboxes used by this project should not include:
- Unlinked text or topics. The purpose of these templates is to provide connections between exiting articles, not to provide additional information in and of themselves.
- Links to non-existent topics or "redlinks". For the same reason unlinked text should be avoided. Further, including the redlinks gives a false impression of the need for the missing article.
- Topics that are, at best, tangentially related to the central topic of the navbox.
A full list of current navboxes used by the project can be found at Category:Comics navigational boxes and its sub-categories.