Template talk:Texas/Archive 2

MSA
Why are the names (or portions of names) of some of the MSAs bolded? -Acjelen 21:23, 5 July 2006 (UTC)


 * They are bolded because these are major cities with a population of over 500,000. &mdash;RJN 01:53, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Counties
I would like to suggest to include all Texas counties on the template. That way one will not have to look any further to find more information. (Eddie 01:47, 23 July 2006 (UTC))


 * There were several discussions on including counties in the past and the results were not to include them on this template. See the talk archive of several discussions and concensuses.  Other states can include counties because they don't have that many, but Texas has 254. If you are curious to see what the template looks like with counties included, click here.&mdash;RJN 01:30, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Standardization of state templates
There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding standardization of state templates (primarily regarding layout and styling) at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. states/state templates. An effort was made earlier this year to standardize Canadian province templates (which mostly succeeded). Lovelac7 and I have already begun standardizing all state templates. If you have any concerns, they should be directed toward the discussion page for state template standardization. Thanks! &mdash; Webdinger BLAH 23:00, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Metro Areas
did all this work. got all the msa on there. but some were not there. yall can figure out what you want to do with it (edit page) Abilene Amarillo Austin-Round Rock Beaumont–Port Arthur Brownsville–Harlingen College Station-Bryan Corpus Christi Dallas/Forth Worth (Metroplex) El Paso Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown, Texas (Greater Houston) Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood Laredo Longview Lubbock McAllen–Edinburg–Mission Midland–Odessa San Angelo San Antonio Sherman–Denison Texarkana Tyler Victoria Waco Wichita Falls


 * I propose that all the cities without a metropolitan page would just retain their city page link as the separate links per city are not appropriate with the section, "Metros" NThomas76207 (talk) 03:49, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Nav-box index crisis
15-Dec-2007: As the nav-box Template:Texas continues to be expanded with more cities or topics, and transcluded into more articles, the Wikipedia indexing is becoming a so-called "N-squared problem" or more accurately an "NxM (N-by-M) problem": when 2,500 articles use a nav-box having 200 wikilinks, the overall effect generates 500,000 entries into the Wikipedia index-file database: the seemingly small nav-box (with just 200 city/region names and topics) snowballs into a massive half-million entries in the Wikipedia link-files database.

The problem is encouraged because some people treat nav-box templates as being shared subroutines or common menus, but they are not: in MediaWiki language 1.6, nav-box templates are actually copied as multiple instances for each page when used, rather than implemented as a shared common routine. If just 10 pages use a nav-box linking 150 cities/regions, that's 1,500 index entries, and the current result has become the thousands of index entries already created by Template:Texas. Solutions are being implemented to avoid the growing nav-box index crisis, as discussed below. -Wikid77 (talk) 20:39, 15 December 2007 (UTC)