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This essay is for some general guidance of merging/splitting contents, and use of navigation templates (Navbars), in articles with hightly complementary contents (articles of the same-but-not-merged contents).
Some set if articles, as in the first two blocks of links of template:Crystallization or template:Black-box, are complementar ones, forming semanctic clustering or very closing nodes of a hypertext. The complementarity is managed in many forms:
- On manage/preserve the encyclopedic core content:
- use a side-bar (the navbar of the commom template) as a "table of content" (ToC) of the main content, a hub of the core content.
- priority over other sidebars.
- preservation of consistency of contents of the set of core articles.
- ensures the evolution of subject's core contents.
- enhance Wikipedata iniciatives.
- On edit contents and layouts:
- reducing duplicate or redundant content, merging parts in the adequate topic.
- split big article into sub-articles, whitout "lost of unit". They are clustered articles with a core subject.
- enhancing complementarirty and consistency of contents of the set of core articles.
- avoiding cumulative smothing of (encyclopedically) relevant topics, in merging processes of articles of the core set.
- ...
See also Wikipedia:Article series and Wikipedia:Summary style. The problem and approach here is about merge/split and a "ToC evidence" for the core articles... The core articles must be complementar and consistent.
Other examples of samantic kernel navboxes
editIn general the "ToC functionality" is accomplished by navigation templates located in the top-right corner of articles of the same core (same "part of a series"), and prominently displayed to readers:
- template:Geodesy
- template:Philosophy sidebar (part of series)
- ...
Examples without systematic use, where the "function of table of contents" is not observed in all articles of the core. In general a solutions for less-clustered articles:
- template:Policy list (a small vertical template)
- template:Philosophy topics (large horizontal template)
- template:Spain topics
- ...