[WikiEN-l] Re: The proliferation of article series boxes

[Alex Regh]

Hi!

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:02:20 -0700, Bryan Derksen wrote:

>There are too many, they're too big and intrusive (especially at the top of 
>the article floating in the margin), and the links they provide are often 
>either redundant or only marginally relevant?

I agree 100% - remember the example of the Belgian mathematican? If I'd read
that article, for whatever reason, how big are the chances that I also want to
read about, say, Belgian museeums? Or a whatever-machine was named after this
person; do es the reader really need a list of other whatever-machines that
were named after famous mathematicians? 

Now there would not be much of a problem if there was only one relevant field
that has a box, unfortunatley, ususally there are several fields to which an
article relates, hence it would most likely aquire several boxes, who would be
fighting for the best positioning into the bargain.

Alex
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