Template talk:United States Senate

Purpose
What's the purpose of this NavBox? It is redundant to most of the topics in USCongress. Furthermore, it squeezes content in articles such as List of United States Senate committees.—Markles 13:45, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi Markles. The purpose of this template was to make the Senate articles look like the articles about the US Supreme Court, which use a similar infobox navigation template (which was already in place, I only modified its style). In addition, I added such a navigation template to the US Constitution articles after finding them very painful to navigate while doing research.  I completely agree that this Senate one is redundant with the navigational box at the bottom of the pages.  Thus, if consensus is reached, I will go and remove all of the Senate infobox navigation template.  Let me know what you think (you being a much more experienced user, I'll defer to your judgement).  --CapitalR 00:07, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, CR, I think uniformity is a very good thing in Wikipedia. However, I don't like this vertical NavBox.  It's too cumbersome in the article; it scrunches the content of the article.  I don't know if there's a Wikipedia policy to this point, but here's what I'm thinking: a horizontal NavBox at the bottom of the article is easier to get to because you only have to go to the bottom instead of searching along a long vertical list that runs down to the middle of the article.  In general, short VertNavBoxes are OK— see, e.g., US Historical Document.  Furthermore, the nice thing about the HorizNavBox (USCongress) is that it has House+Senate+Other all together.  I welcome your response.—Markles 00:25, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Let's merge and delete. Neutralitytalk 16:14, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * OK. See proposed deletion at Templates_for_deletion.—Markles 22:36, 6 March 2007 (UTC)