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[edit] Radio Disney and ESPN Radio Stations
We need to seperate the Radio Disney and ESPN Radio stations. Disney owns a lot more radio stations than the ones listed. Here is a list. Jonyyeh 19:28, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Interactive
03-October-2006: I have listed website names: Disney.com | ABC.com | ABCNews.com | ESPN.com, under Interactive Assets. See: Walt Disney Internet Group (also new). -Wikid77 21:15, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The new layout...
...looks too big, clumsy and awkward. I prefer the previous version better. Best to keep templates simple. -- azumanga 05:33, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
- I agree. It's huge. TOO huge. --Lyght 02:04, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Reduce overlinking
14-Feb-2008: Try to reduce excessive wikilinks within Template:Disney. When I added those website names in 2006, I didn't realize the "Wikipedia:Overlink crisis" but will try to unlink extra words. Many former 15-line navboxes have become "box-ified" articles about each subject, tacked to the end of hundreds of other articles. The combined effect of hundreds of overlinked navboxes has propagated millions of wikilinks choking those articles, which formerly contained perhaps 40 wikilinks each, not over 200 links each. -Wikid77 (talk) 11:33, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Rollout of Radio Stations
14-Feb-2008: I have changed the navbox Template:Disney to rollout the section for Radio Stations, as "see Radio Disney radio stations". The change avoids duplicating the navbox radio list which had been 55% incomplete, while easily reducing navbox size by another 20% (see above: Reduce overlinking). Using a separate small navbox for each sub-topic helps reduce the navbox sizes and focuses later updates to keep a navbox more current for the related articles. The difference had been: Template:Disney listing only 24 stations rather than 56, with even the older 24 stations as excessive detail in a Disney-wide navbox. -Wikid77 (talk) 13:55, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Rollout of Parks/Resorts
14-Feb-2008: I am changing the navbox Template:Disney to rollout the section for Parks/Resorts, as "see Walt Disney Parks and Resorts". The change avoids duplicating the navbox parks list which had been incomplete, while easily reducing navbox size by another 20% (see above: Reduce overlinking). Using a separate small navbox for each sub-topic helps reduce the navbox sizes and focuses later updates to keep a navbox more current for the related articles. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:35, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Rollout of TV or ABC News
14-Feb-2008: I am changing the navbox Template:Disney to rollout the section for TV stations, as "see Walt Disney TV" or such. The change avoids duplicating the navbox TV data which had been incomplete, while easily reducing navbox size by another 25% (see above: Reduce overlinking). Using a separate small navbox for each sub-topic helps trim navbox sizes and focuses later updates to keep a navbox more current for the related articles. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:36, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Group by Category:Disney_navboxes
14-Feb-2008: I tagged Template:Disney for Category:Disney_navboxes to help view the related navbox templates for the Walt Disney topics. -Wikid77 (talk) 16:25, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Disney navboxcar off track
01-April-2008: I was hoping that Template:Disney would be reduced in size by the recent rollout of sub-sections, but the opposite has happened: the Disney navbox has ballooned into a "nav-boxcar" adding over 60 new wikilinks this year. Again, I am focusing on the simple tactic of linking to rollout navpages to allow more space for expanding the general coverage about Walt Disney. -Wikid77 (talk) 10:01, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Rollout as navpages
01-April-2008: A general subject such as the Walt Disney topics could easily include a thousand major wikilinks, not only to company divisions, officers, and franchises, but also to cultural icons, major media films, famous actors, timeless animated characters, stock-market events, etc. Consequently, the main Disney navbox has had to rollout navbox sub-topic sections into other navpages, such as to Template:ESPN and to the themeparks in Template:Disneyparks. The tactic of using rollout navpages allows more topics to be considered without an arbitrary cut-off as to what is noteworthy about Walt Disney. Currently, the rollout sections defer the wikilinks to about 450 articles of company divisions, personnel, parks, resorts, TV programs, and radio stations. -Wikid77 (talk) 10:01, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Rollout of Consumer Products
01-April-2008: The section about Disney Consumer Products has been rolled out to the new Template:DisneyConsumer, created on 01-April-2008 by long-term Wikipedia user Wikid77 (me), as a rollout section from Template:Disney to allow more space for expanding the coverage about Walt Disney. Formerly, people held long debates to limit what topics could be included for linking articles in the Template:Disney navbox. It is so much easier to just create a sub-section as another external navpage; then, connect that new navpage, by just one wikilink in Template:Disney, to view that navpage's 50 or 100 related Disney articles. Let readers choose which sub-navpages they wish to see, without intense debates about excluding topics because Template:Disney would become too large: simply rollout each section to handle each portion of the thousand related articles in a logical manner. This is a case where the subject ("Disney") really covers over 1,000 major articles, so using a rollout navpage is an excellent solution to a massive problem. -Wikid77 (talk) 10:01, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
