Talk:Tayra Meléndez/College Statistical Totals

CSD A1 refers to articles. This page is a subpage, not an article. If you look at Tayra Meléndez, you will see that this table, as well as the table at Tayra Meléndez/College Statistical Ratios, are conditionally transcluded onto the article, depending on the user choice. I'm open to a discussion that this is not the best way of achieving this, but I've researched placing the tables within hidden text and cannot accomplish it that way. I've also directly place the tables into the switcher template (See User:Sphilbrick/Stats example) But while that approach avoids the use of sub pages, it makes the tables and editable using visual editor which is important to me.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  21:28, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

As an important aside, I am aware that the discussion of sub pages prohibits the use of sub pages to hold material that is intended to be a permanent part of the encyclopedia. I haven't found the historical discussion that led to that conclusion, but it seems plausible that the consensus of editors was that we should never expect the reader to have to navigate to a sub page to see any material. Given that all the relevant material is transcluded into the article proper, this objection is moot. No reader will ever have to visit the sub page. An editor who identifies an error in the data and wishes to correct it will have to visit it, but we presume that editors know how to access sub pages.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  21:32, 20 June 2021 (UTC)