User:PC-XT/KIS

This page includes my templates and recommendations for pseudoproject WP:KIS. Feel free to comment on the talk page.

Resources
The Keep It Simple project developed these resources:
 * Labels as mini userboxes: WP:KIS/label with documentation at WP:KIS and WP:KIS/label
 * Babel labels, moved to WP:KIS/Babel and now with documentation at WP:Keep It Simple/Babel
 * WikiProject labels
 * Custom labels
 * Containers:
 * WP:Keep It Simple/tray top and WP:Keep It Simple/tray bottom
 * WP:Keep It Simple/box top and WP:Keep It Simple/box bottom
 * user icon corner top and user icon corner bottom were used by the project as icon/label containers
 * There may be others documented in WP:Keep It Simple/Options
 * Mini lapel pin barnstars: I want to look into making one template to handle them all.

The idea was to have this stuff smaller, overlapping, and simple-looking so it wouldn't take over the page.

Similar things that cooperate:
 * top icon, which is used in a few newer KIS templates
 * Usbktop, Usbkbottom and Usbk are for display of userbox templates
 * User icons overlapped the project in the past, using user icon corner top and user icon corner bottom, intermixed with lapels or labels.
 * WikiProject_Flag_Template
 * Perhaps any other icons that may exist.

Page naming conventions
The new page should be in your userspace, preferably as a subpage of one named KIS, after WP:UM.

WikiProject labels may be a subpage in project space.

New labels as subpages of WP:KIS or Wikipedia:Keep It Simple are not recommended, at least not without discussion on Wikipedia Talk:Keep It Simple.

Categories
In the template documentation, include Category:Keep It Simple templates. Note that userbox guidelines discourage userboxes from adding categories to user pages, even though many do so. Use the category options built into &#123;{WP:KIS/label}&#125; carefully.

Label text
There are two widely used methods:
 * The organized way is to use a capital letter prefix, such as W: for Wikipedia-related labels, or WP: for wikiprojects. These prefixes are listed on WP:KIS.
 * The custom way is without these prefixes. Some find the prefixes distracting, confusing or just archaic, and omit them in their own labels.

How we got here
KIS was started as a WikiProject for an alternative to userboxes. Since it didn't relate directly to articles, it was found to not be a real project. This pseudoproject used to have labels in Template space, but since this discussion, all have been migrated to either userspace or subpages of WP:KIS or WP:Keep It Simple. This page was used to plan some of this migration. (archived migration version of this page) I continue to improve labels as I have time. (Archived more recent worklist)

Templates in my userspace
A current full list can be found at Special:PrefixIndex/User:PC-XT/KIS/

Miscellaneous

 * 1) WP KIS is a template for KIS, though in WP pseudonamespace instead of user pseudonamespace. This may or may not be close enough to project space. - left alone for now
 * 2) user icon corner top, user icon corner bottom, and other user icon templates are in good standing elsewhere, but are also used by KIS.
 * 3) user labels is a test userbox, unrelated to KIS, that one inactive User:Discordance currently uses.