[WikiEN-l] Categories vs lists vs navboxes (was Re: Deletions, lists, etc?)

[Matthew Brown]

On 12/3/06, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> "Steve Bennett" wrote
>
> > And for navigational ability and visibility of related
> > articles, nothing beats a navbox.
>
> And the capacity to irritate people who can navigate without the intrusion, thank you all the same.
> One per article is quite enough, and often too many.

I find navboxes tolerable when something is obviously one of a small
set of related things.  I dislike them when someone decides to make a
group of topics into a "<whatever> series" when they aren't obviously
that closely related. E.g. the first example of it I ever saw,
"Wikipedia's Electronic Music Series", which seemed to collect
evertything the box's creator thought was important to electronic
music.  The latter type seem to clash with NPOV, for one thing.

-Matt