Template talk:Nav

I think it would be so much easier to navigate through the episodes if this bar had more than just the last and next episodes. That info is already prominently featured in the infobox. I think this box should, at the least, have a small link to each episode, probably under the title of the current episode. Any thoughts on this? - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 02:19, 29 January 2007 (EST)

I kind of like it the way it is, because once you've read through the article, you have a means of navigating to the next article without having to scroll to the very top. That being said, all the Character nav templates are lists of characters, so I can also see that we should include a list of episodes that belong to the Season specified. I'll see if I can whip something up. --Orne 09:29, 29 January 2007 (EST)

• I agree with Orne: this is less repetitive since the episode articles are so gosh-darn long. I think a list-of-episodes navbar would be great for now, and obnoxious about fifteen episodes from now, but it could still work. Ideally, if we made it use a "season" variable, and then had it display links for all episodes in the current season, and just links to other seasons (or next and previous seasons), it shouldn't end up too huge. Still, 23 episodes is going to make for a pretty big bar, no matter how small we make the links.--Hardvice (talk) 11:15, 29 January 2007 (EST)
  • I don't mind keeping the "previous" and "last" nav buttons - you're right, they're good at the bottom as well as the top. And no, I definitely don't think we should include 100 episode titles when we're a few years in - season-by-season is fine. You make a good point, Hardvice - the names are long and it can get bulky (see template:GN). But how about a shortened version, like "Episode: 1 · 2 · 3 · etc."? It could go right under the previous/next links, in a separate little table. ... But if I'm the only one that feels this way, then I'm fine keeping it. I can navigate the site pretty well, I'm just thinking of visitors. Or maybe overthinking? - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 13:35, 29 January 2007 (EST)
  • Oh, I see you've already made some changes, Orne. Moot conversation, then. - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 13:39, 29 January 2007 (EST)
    • What's funny is Orne had already made almost the exact changes I was thinking of (only with much nicer formatting than I'd have done). GMTA. I don't think 23 episodes will be truly unruly; it's just something we need to watch.--Hardvice (talk) 13:42, 29 January 2007 (EST)
      • Yeah, I think we all talk this stuff to death, I don't think there'll be a problem with keeping an eye on it... I just don't know what the Georgia Music Teachers Association has to do with anything. :) - RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 15:26, 29 January 2007 (EST)