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Template revamp?[]

so, this template is... kind of hard to navigate. it's got a lot of nesting goin' on, which makes for an awful amount of clicking to actually find anything—and on top of that, there's the issue of trying to parse what you're looking at once you do get it all opened up

i've been messing around with it, here's a mockup of what i'd like to see. tho i'm also running into a potential issue where "width=" acts weird at closer zoom levels (and might also act weird on different-width displays), since i'm not sure how to make actual columns while still keeping the look of a regular navbox? i sort of just jimmy-rigged it by making each line a table, eheh

basically 1. what do you guys think of this look and 2. does anyone know more about making a navbox with horizontal grouping, but also with the entries organized into columns so they're not an unreadable wall of text? :0 --Eithris (talk) 04:47, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

I like the idea of one expand click per expansion. There seem to be a slight error in the zebra table between holy pala and shadow priest. Perhaps a vertical top thingy with the different seasons listed? Overall I like it in any case! PeterWind (talk) 06:23, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
ahh, good eye on the stripes! looks like i forgot to account for prot no longer having its own set in wrath
how does this look? went with season labels on each entry instead of at the top because some expacs (like wrath) have too many prefixes to all fit on one row & personally i'd rather not abbreviate the set names --Eithris (talk) 23:29, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
I'm thinking going even simpler. Something like this. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 23:37, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
hmm. an interesting idea, and it makes sense. while messing with this i have been wondering if the way i'm doing it is redundant—e.g. having this navbox be sorted by class when it generally appears right below a "[Class] sets" navbox anyway. maybe we could change this into just a navbox for pvp seasons, as you've worked up, and then revamp the class set navboxes so they're organized by source rather than expac? --Eithris (talk) 03:10, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

No longer needed?[]

well, i got back to messing around with these templates, and with WP:Slack's advice throughout the "messing around to see what looks nice" process, i've updated {{Armor sets}} to what i think is a pretty good state. among other changes, it now has PvP sets grouped together, including all of the arena seasons.

above, DTZ proposed simplifying this template to be just arena seasons, and i agree pretty heavily with that idea--but the armor sets template's PvP group is serving the same purpose now. so, i figured i'd ask: would anyone have qualms with phasing this template out? --Eithris (talk) 03:01, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

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