[WikiEN-l] A linguistics template should not be this obtrusive

[magiske prosesser]

I came across Template:Chinese at the Nanking Massacre 
article. At first I thought this was a regular infobox, 
but I soon realized that this was in fact something very 
different.

It appears to me that something has gone totally awry in 
the development of this template. On the template talk 
page I suggest that it is a "'labour of love' that has 
gone somewhat amok". I'm used to working also on the 
Wiktionary project, and I find that the almost complete 
absence of graphics there is very soothing and beneficial 
for that type of work. The people working on 
Template:Chinese obviously are of a completely different 
mindset.

I attempted to raise the point on the template talk page 
that the appearance of the template needed to be radically 
revamped, scaled down or downsized. I was met with a 
complete lack of understanding of what I was attempting to 
convey. In fact, I realized that these people obviously 
have developed a completely eccentric and proprietary set 
of ideas concerning the relation of their pet project 
infobox to other infobox templates. So I nominated it for 
deletion, not really wanting it to go, obviously, but to 
attempt to give these people a wake-up call. I was rather 
unsuccessful at this, the TfD ended in speedy keep and 
nobody appear to have understood in the least what I'm on 
about. One editor explained that he had tried to make 
changes in the color scheme of the template...

So, I respectfully subject this issue to this forum 
requesting comments on whether we all (except for me) 
think it's fine to have a linguistics infobox that wants 
to make itself the centrepiece of any and all page on 
which it is applied.

Halvor / User:meco

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