Template talk:nav/Archive 1

Documentation

This is the talk page for a deleted page. It is being kept for historical interest.

Usage:

{{nav|lang=|langname=|current=|parent=|parent2=|parent3=|parent4=|parent5=|description=}}

Parameters:

• lang: current language (omitted if English)
• langname: name of the current language (can be omitted, don't use if English)
• current: name of the current category
• parent: name of the first parent category (can be omitted)
• parent2: name of the second parent category (can be omitted)
• parent3: name of the third parent category (can be omitted)
• parent4: name of the fourth parent category (should be omitted in most cases)
• parent5: name of the fourth parent category (should be omitted in most cases)
• description: replace the default boilerplate text with other text

Discussion

What about languages without ISO codes? --Ptcamn 08:23, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I dunno. Does that meet WT:CFI#Languages to include? --Connel MacKenzie 08:29, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

A lot of very real and natural but now extinct languages lack ISO codes.

Also, since it's protected now, can I request that Torres Strait Creole (tcs) be added? --Ptcamn 09:19, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Also Dhuwal (duj)... --Ptcamn 11:47, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Is anyone maintaining this thing? --Ptcamn 11:22, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, this had slipped through the cracks. It is semi-protected now, but please, because it makes the job-queue spike, remember to edit it infrequently (add a batch all at once.) --Connel MacKenzie 17:35, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

What about more than 3 parent categories

Category:Firefighting has four parent categories. How can this be dealt with? __meco 13:39, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Category:Gnosticism also has four parent categories. __meco 14:55, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Category:Law enforcement likewise. __meco 13:08, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

It can now take 5 categories, which should be enough for a while. Conrad.Irwin 13:55, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Topics in foreign languages

At the moment, all topic categories in XX end up in [[Category:XX language]]. This eans that the top category for a language can get very full of small topic subcategories (see Category:Spanish language for an example).

1. Could we arrange it so that this template files these categories in [[Category:xx:*Topics]] if this exists?
2. Should we be filing topic categories in any top level category if the parent parameter is set?

Physchim62 11:33, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

1. I agree with, leave the Language category for language elements, and grammar. 2. I am not so sure about, it would have to be a very specialist subset that no-one would look for it directly. Conrad.Irwin 11:38, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

The recent changes however, have removed the Cateegory:xx:*Topics from the Language category making topic categories hard to find now.--Williamsayers79 20:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

This problem should be pretty easy to fix by checking whether {{{current}}} is "*Topics". There is also another problem with the recent change that I mentioned at User talk:Conrad.Irwin: the changes don't work for English, only other languages. Mike Dillon 20:39, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

The change would be even easier to do by simply adding the top category by hand (Oh My God) to the various *Topics categories, instead of pretending that one can always reduce the complexities of human speech to MediaWiki template syntax. Indeed, I would happily support the deletion of this template, which does not seem to serve any real purpose and certainly causes more problems than it's worth. Physchim62 19:15, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Replace with {{topic cat}}

The template should be deprecated as {{topic cat}} is more versatile and requires less syntax/keystrokes to add to categories.--Williamsayers79 12:42, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Also, there is a move to make all three-letter templates refer to languages, using their ISO 639-3 code. In this case, nav is the code for Navajo, so once this template is no longer used in its old way, it should redirect to {{nv}}. Angr 12:22, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

I would support such a move. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:04, 2 January 2010 (UTC)