User talk:T8612/Template:Politics of ancient Rome

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Hi, I've converted the Template:Politics of ancient Rome from sidebar to an autocollapse template placed at the end of a page. In its current state this template takes a massive amount of space on the side and pushes down pictures. The problem for the draft template is: there are a lot of stuff, and I haven't even touched Christian positions and expanded the Law section. Any input? T8612 (talk) 17:32, 20 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I actually like the sidebar format in this instance largely because it fills the missing feeling from a general lack of images for most of these articles. For articles with images, just place them before the sidebar. I agree that it does need re-organising and will do some thinking on that. Ifly6 (talk) 18:59, 20 March 2023 (UTC)


 * It feels like a more periodised format might be better; the politics and political culture of the republic are so different from those of the empire the "continuities" are largely in name only (eg imperial consuls being figureheads). Ifly6 (talk) 20:10, 20 March 2023 (UTC)


 * It can also be split by thematic (military/religious/provincial administration, etc.). Another problem is the vast amount of overlapping material in the articles about the military and constitution. Do we really need Constitution of the Roman Kingdom, Servian constitution, History of the Constitution of the Roman Kingdom, Senate of the Roman Kingdom, Citizens' assemblies of the Roman Kingdom and probably others? Moreover these articles only rely on the outdated Frank Abbott and must be rewritten from scratch. See also this template: Template:Roman Constitution T8612  (talk) 11:43, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I completely agree that most of the duplicative constitution articles can and should be (given how badly and obsoletely sourced they are) deleted. They should be reduced, I think, to only the core articles (I don't know enough about the imperial period – which I've always largely been uninterested in – to propose a universal schema); this currently plethora is highly duplicative and unmaintainable. Ifly6 (talk) 14:47, 21 March 2023 (UTC)