Template talk:Split sequence

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What's the idea behind this template? It looks awful in use. ericg ✈ 04:48, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

To be fair, I'm probably overusing it. Suppose we have a designation sequence with multiple notable entries for a single designation. For example, in a USAF sequence, the UH-60 Blackhawk, SH-60 Seahawk, HH-60 Pave Hawk, and HH-60 Jayhawk. All four occupy the H-60 slot in the H- series, but have separate articles. There are three ways of dealing with this:
  1. Ignore the other variants, and only highlight the one the article is concerned with. Example: H-57 - H-58 - H-59 - UH-60 - H-61 - H-62 - H-63. The fact that this approach ignores the other articles bugs me enormously.
  2. Separate the different articles with slashes: H-57 - H-58 - H-59 - UH-60/SH-60/HH-60/HH-60 - H-61 - H-62 - H-63. This conveys that there are other articles corresponding to this slot in the same designation sequence, but the long list of slashes bugs me.
  3. Split sequence, which stacks all the links for a particular slot in the same column. Example:
UH-60 - YUH-61 - XCH-62 - YAH-63
SH-60
HH-60
HH-60


To see an example of a very appropriate use of this template, visit B-29_Superfortress#Related content. To see an example of this template heavily overdone, see P-2 Neptune#Related content. An example where this template was used when the second method (slashes) would have probably been adequate: F-104 Starfighter#Related content Karl Dickman talk 06:46, 29 December 2007 (UTC)