Template talk:Daily Prophet

Split?
Hi there! I know this template initially only has the bottom part (Known Personnel) and barely a little of the top part, though soon having the top part with the structure of the newspaper being gradually more and more detailed, and I agree that, for Daily Prophet this specific article, both the top and bottom are relevant navigations and appropriate to be placed.

I don't, however, feel the same way for articles of any of the personnel (like Rita Skeeter) to include all those links to newspaper pages. Skeeter linking to Forecast, and Rolf Scamander linking to Black Magic, are not effective linking; it'll boost up appearances in Special:WhatLinksHere for all of the links featured on this navbox, but it isn't helpful in a way that, say, ''I wanted to know more about Showizbiz, so I looked into what pages are linked to it, and found quite loads! Only to belatedly realize, none of the linked articles actually contained additional information to "Showizbiz"; they are just linked because they all have the template placed.''

That, is unhelpful. Yes, some pages are never going to get more info because that's just how little we are given, but I don't think the act of linking a bunch of loosely associated pages with one another has any real benefit. I'm hoping it could be considered to split the top and bottom, or at least, devise a way to selectively display whichever, so that both parts won't always have to appear.

A separate topic. This is me fixing what's not broken, it's just that the bottom part to me is painful to look at. Unfortunately, while I tried several different layouts, none of them felt like a clear improvement, either, which is why I didn't update the actual template. The following is like the 6th variation or something.

-- S a m m m ✦✧ (talk) 23:02, October 22, 2018 (UTC)