Template talk:States of Germany

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[edit] Consistency and the lack of a standard

There might not have been a formally agreed standard, but visual consistency is still good, even moreso on an encyclopedic project like Wikipedia. All of the Subdivision footers (with the esception of the british districts ones, which follow a different, but established scheme) now follow a format thatwas already more or less existent, although not consistenty applied. So far this template is the only one where there has been revert. For the most part, what I did was overhaul the code and standardize the location of the flag images.

In addition, I believe the current template to take too much vertical space, and that the use of both the coats of arms and flag is unnecessary. The flag alone is good enough a visual represtation, especially as a good amount of iusers are unlikely to be familiar with the German coats of arms. Circeus 15:38, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

You are wiping out a lot of people's work with your activity here, so you might be better off going to the project and see if you get an agreement on the standard before you impose it yourself. As I can tell the current status is that it clearly states no standard exists. On improving the code, I'm all for that, but we should discuss coding issues rather than replacing one poor set of code with another. I also objected to your Poland redesign, but I didn't revert you on it. ~ trialsanderrors 17:50, 16 July 2006 (UTC)