Template talk:Rightcolumn

Complexification

G'day BOBO (or good afternoon or good evening)! I see that you've been diligently working on simplifying the front end part of this Rightcolumn template. But as for the backend LE template, (and to be honest) it looks complicated. I'm assuming there's a very good reason you're taking it this far, the problem, I don't know what that is exactly.

Thus far, I've had ChatGPT dissect the template setup, and from what it describes, I think this complex setup isn't really needed (don't take this personally). As an example, as of the 18:53 edit on the LE template, most of the wikitext in Template:LE is being used to automatically find the case's image. From what you could see in mysandbox, I was expecting this to be manual, after all it isn't much of a hassle to find the names of the case images.

In general, I think it is best if we balance between what is automatically done by the template and what isn't. This is, most notably, to keep the templates simple enough for future debugging. But, by all means, if you have a more important reason that you would like to share, and that reason backs up the complexity of the templates, then please continue development in that direction. Your thoughts are appreciated. --Avico (talk) 19:05, 23 January 2025 (UTC)