Template talk:Mono County, California

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Please -- let's delete/not use this navigation. It only contains 4 items other than the county, and I can't imagine large numbers of people wanting to quickly navigate from Bridgeport, California to Mammoth Lakes, California.

The category was perfectly functional: why take up more screen real estate with this infobox?

hike395 21:57, 13 August 2006 (UTC) (part-time Mono County resident)

I can't imagine large numbers of people wanting to quickly navigate from Bridgeport to Mammoth Lakes

That's a little presumptuous without any facts or evidence. Also, given that Wikipedia will probably be around for the next decade or two, you do not know how the county will change in the next 20 years. Tourism or residency could increase. Plus, you and I have no idea if other users, either existing or future, will create more Wikipedia articles on each unincorporated community in Mono County. So its' probably better to create it now with all of the other CA county navigation boxes.

It's true that we don't have click-thru data for WP, that's a pity. So, all we have left is intuition --- my intuition says that there isn't a burning need for direct navigation between our sleepy little towns. :-)

Also: given that WP should be editable for decades, why not wait until Wal-Mart invades, then we add the navbox? (If that happens, I probably wouldn't care any more :-) :-) ) hike395

The category was perfectly functional: why take up more screen real estate with this infobox?

It seems I tried to make similar arguements on Wikipedia:Categories for deletion numerous times and ended up on the losing end. I believe the last time I tried it was Template:AcademyAwardBestPicture, but overwelmingly lost on the discussion as users said things like "It's not that cumbersome compared to some of the boxes we have (e.g. Senators, House of Representatives, Star Craft, etc)." and "Its very handy".

I completely mistrust the Cfd/Vfd/Tfd process, and don't think that it is a reflection of general opinion amongst WP editors.. It's like party primaries --- the extremists tend to dominate and drive out the people with moderate opinion. Look: it happened to you (you gave up), and it's happened to me (I agree with you about the bloated navboxes, but I have 0 desire to fight the voting bloc in vfd, so I don't even bother reading ). It's a shame that you and I agree on the principle of "no large navboxes", but we're disagreeing on this particular issue! hike395

Zzyzx11 (Talk) 06:22, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Here's a proposal: there's probably 3-5 editors who actively edit Mono County articles. If they like the navbox, we can leave it in, but if they dislike it, we take it out. Does that sound OK with you? hike395 17:05, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I really do not watch the pages where this template is used... I'll just leave it at that... Zzyzx11 (Talk) 22:35, 14 August 2006 (UTC)