Template talk:ListByUSStateTOC
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This template was considered for deletion on 2007 September 14. The result of the discussion was noconsensus. |
This template has been considered for deletion. Here is a copy of that for future reference:
[edit] Template:ListByUSStateTOC
Overbearing, unnecessary fork of {{TOCUSStates}}. Circeus 18:59, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Keep: I have to say that I disagree. I originally made this TOC for List of museums in the United States. I agree that it is large, but I think that the US Map is far more helpful than overbearing. It allows users to easily click the state visually instead of reading through a list. I didn't base it on {{TOCUSStates}}; I wrote this TOC from scratch.
Before I made this TOC a template, I encountered a Wikimedia bug in < imagemap > that prevented anchor links from working. I discussed this problem on the help page and used this very TOC as a reason that it was important to fix that bug as soon as possible. Shortly thereafter, the bug was fixed throughout all Wikimedia allowing me to use this TOC.
Also note that the US Map can be scaled even though it contains an image map. The image map will scale with the image and the image will not loose quality from resizing because it is an SVG-type image.
I definitely would not have spent the extraordinary amount of time it took to make this if I thought it was unnecessary. I also have applied this TOC to several pages on Wikipedia in order to test how well it works with other pages, and it has proven to hold up pretty well. Here and there I've had to zap little bugs.
I encourage people to improve this TOC, but I really don't think it should be removed altogether. Some of the pages I applied it to may not have been large enough to justify this TOC, so possibly another solution would be to leave it on very large lists and remove it from some of the shorter lists I may have applied it to. I do believe that this TOC is inappropriate for smaller pages. I had not considered that during my testing process.
Another point - this TOC was originally not a template; it was actually part of the List of museums in the United States page. This TOC is incredibly huge because of the image map and by removing it from that page and placing it in a template, this greately reduced the file size.
I believe that I have provided several good reasons why this template should remain on Wikipedia.
Ben Boldt 22:45, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
