User talk:Eno Lirpa/sandbox/country group navbox

Principles
The navbox should:
 * be on every article for an international group or association
 * replace nearly all current see also items to other groups or associations, only very specific to the article such items should remain in their own right

Each list article should have sections as follows:
 * Lead / introduction / overview about
 * Current
 * Defunct
 * Proposed
 * See also
 * References if any
 * External link if any - preferably none - any external links should be only the specific list item articles.

To do list

 * Discuss this proposal
 * The navbox idea itself
 * The principles above
 * Identify all relevant list articles and categories
 * Identify any other articles
 * Populate the navbox from articles and categories and others, sorting entries into groups
 * Document and establish navbox template in template space
 * Perhaps clean content of some current list articles where there is a mixture of types of country associations
 * Rationalise all see also sections in articles and list articles

Starting up
As per our previous conversing here.

I am suggesting a navigation box as per the article page associated with this talk page.

Above I have made some suggestions for overall principles.

I have also started a to do list.

Comments / likes / dislikes / suggestions. . .  Feel free to edit this talk page and the article(template) page.

Eno Lirpa (talk) 13:34, 1 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Hey, merry "April One", "Eno Lirpa" :-) You have outed me! You are the first to do so!!
 * Oh yeah! :-) Bonomont (talk) 21:33, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't think a Navbox fits. They are to quickly jump between things that belong together (like all Nepal articles, or all Pokemon articles). There is no need to quickly switch from DACH to BRICS, they are very different things. I think a category and maybe a list article is the best fit here. Cheers! Bonomont (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 13:53, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Different things, yes and no. One of my issues is that one does know up front from a name or an acronym what is what.  One does not know they are different or similar until one looks.  What we do know is that they all country groupings or associations of some type.  They obviously do not all fit into one list article.  A list of lists is no help as it requires the reader to jump around all over the place.  A navbox allows the best of all worlds.  It allows the whole overall concept of country groupings and associations to be captured, and at the same time ensuring things of the same type can be grouped accordingly, and allows a reader to get an overall picture at a glance. Eno Lirpa (talk) 11:56, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Hmmm.... I've got a hunch the wikipedia community will not agree with your suggestion. The negative aspect would be that it takes up space while not showing links to articles that are closely related to the current page. But hey, this is just me. I'd say find out who to talk to about your suggestion at WP:VPA and then discuss it with the relevant people and find out whether like it or not. Good luck! :-) Bonomont (talk) 21:33, 3 April 2017 (UTC)