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[edit] Suggest removing this

While I appreciate the work that's gone into this, I don't think it's a useful addition. First, every WCC article has a sucession box with a link to the World Chess Championship article, so the presence of this template in every WCC article is redundant. Second, it presents as fact the FIDE view of the world championship. This is widely disputed across the chess world, so to have a summary table which presents only the FIDE view (or only the "Classical" view) is misleading and unhelpful, IMHO.

In short, sorry, but I propose removing this template. Peter Ballard 00:44, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Agree. Billbrock 04:38, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

No other discussion? I'll start removing it soon then. Peter Ballard 02:26, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

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This has recently been altered (without any discussion). What do people think? I preferred it how it was before, with just two lines, "Undisputed" and "FIDE". Seems over-complicated now. Pawnkingthree (talk) 15:18, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I noticed this also. Did you read on the Template talk page that is was(is) going to be removed? Perhaps the two things are linked. In that someone edited to save it from being removed. ChessCreator (talk) 03:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Not sure if that older discussion is the reason for the change. My view is that we only need to show each name once: we can list all the undisputed champions, then the FIDE only ones (Khalifman, Ponomariov, Kasimdzhanov, Topalov). Fortunately the only disputed Classical champion who hadn't previously been an undisputed champion was Kramnik, who went on to unify the title anyway. Pawnkingthree (talk) 09:11, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

I agree that it is over-complicated for a template which doesn't really say much (only the 20 names). I say either go back to the two lines, or remove it and replace it with in the champions' articles with Template:World Chess Championships (which takes up about as much space but is packed with much more information). Peter Ballard (talk) 11:30, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and changed it back to two lines. 20:21, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

... In light of the above discussion, I've reverted it back to the two-line version. Peter Ballard (talk) 12:12, 21 March 2008 (UTC)