Talk:Jorvik Island

What do folks think of this format for islands? --Barrister 10:14, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Looks good. I'll reassert that 'current affairs' such as Governing flag should be template links to the Flag Tracker, but that's for the future when it's up and running again. Callistan 10:24, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The more I look at this, the more I think there should be an Island template. Between the 4 active oceans there are over 180+ islands. Throw in Azure, and we easily cross 200. The problem is that I have no idea how templates work, and the Wikipedia documentation practically assumes you know how to write a template already. Help! --Barrister 18:29, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Templates aren't really going to be useful for something like a whole page, I'm afraid. What would be useful is to come up with "quick fact"-type boxes to be included early on in the page (See wikipedia pages on an element, for example). You could have the size, spawns, routes, and current government, for example, in that preformatted box. The rest is probably best formatted by the contributer.

For MediaWiki use, you'd be better off going to MediaWiki.org and browsing through the help there than looking through Wikipedia's documentation. --AtteSmythe 19:59, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)