Template talk:Tobedeleted

Aw, come on, Derik's edit was not only amusing but incredibly appropriate given the subject matter of this wiki. - Dark T Zeratul 00:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

If that's really what everyone wants, go ahead and change it back; I just don't think that tone's appropriate for administrative messages. They should be straightforward and easy to understand, no matter what. --Suki Brits 00:27, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Well, you should discuss this with Sipher then. He's the one who proposed all administrative tags have funny text and images, ala Wookieepedia, in the first place. --Rotty 00:30, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Okay, here are the fundamentals of administrative templates:

• They need to not look boring.
• They need to be easy to understand the purpose of.

Wookieepedia does this by giving the amusing template text then giving the concise, simple explanation of what the hell the template actually is for. The latter is absolutely necessary. Make whatever changes you like, but it's pretty important, otherwise stuff just gets hard to follow. --Suki Brits 00:34, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Um, Derik? You're aware that the concept for funny administrative tags was proposed in imitation of Wookieepedia, right? It might help if you actually looked at their administrative tags, since so far you've managed to get this Tobedeleted tag wrong in multiple ways. First the unhelpful jokey text without the amusing image, then the straight unfunny text with the amusing image. If you're going to do these, please do them right or let someone else do the job. --Rotty 01:07, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

The jokey text was 'without the amusing image' because the way the images are done on these templates involves CSS, and the CSS change hadn't gone through yet. The original idea was to have funny image and jokey text. Admin disagreed witht he jokey text, so it got put back.

You want a joke? put it in yourself. I got overruled. -Derik 01:16, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

See "It might help if you actually looked at Wookieepedia's administrative tags". --Rotty 01:21, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

It might help if you linked to their administrative tags instead of their frontpage. -Derik 01:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

It also might help if people waited to see what he was doing before jumping down his throat for something that he labelled as a work in progress in his initial edit summary. --Steve-o 01:36, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Click the links here: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Templates --Rotty 01:38, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

I jumped the gun in reverting the initial edit, I'll admit; and Rotty, please don't be so comfrontational. I've explained what I think are the important criteria for these templates, but the rest? It doesn't matter. I'm not trying to flex admin muscle here at all; when it comes to matters like this, my word is not, in fact, law. That's not how it works here.

Make whatever changes you'd like, I'd appreciate it if you strongly considered what I said about the templates having straightforward explanations. If anyone has an idea for what the text should be, just make the change, post your thoughts, and don't bicker about it. This applies to me, too. --Suki Brits 01:51, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

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