Template talk:Navbox/Subreddits

User:Pinky G Rocket, I'm not entirely opposed to having a navbox for subreddits, but I really dislike how this current one works for two reasons:

1. Listing fandom-specific subreddits will make that section unusably large if we actually manage to cover a decent minority of fandom-specific subreddits. Like seriously there must be thousands of them.
2. Every time someone adds this navbox to a page, I get a notification, because I've got r/Parahumans in my watchlist. I *do* want to know when people are working on that page but I don't want to know when people are making pages for other random subreddits.

The solution I've come up with is to just remove that section from the navbox entirely, or else just leave one link to Category:Subreddits, but I'm open to discussing other solutions. -- Quaelegit (talk) 00:42, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Your first point I can get behind, but I want to do some technical investigation on why adding the navbox to the page sends out an edit notification to all the pages linked. Editing a template shouldn't send out an edit notice to folks watching pages where the template is used, nor should linking page A from editing page B send out an edit notice about page A. Can you tell or show me what the watchpage notification looks like? Pinky G Rocket (talk) 01:26, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay, I think the easiest thing to do is send you screenshots on Discord so I'll follow up over there. -- Quaelegit (talk) 00:23, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Proposed Deletion

I agree with Pinky, though I believe having a navbox for all subreddits is redundant with the Category:Subreddits category. It makes adding subreddits harder since not everyone knows how to edit navboxes, and like Pinky described, it clutters notifications. I believe it should be deleted, it makes the barrier for entry regarding making Subreddit pages higher than any other fannish community page. --Cavewomania (talk) 18:25, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

I will add the propose deletion flag. As some additional context, this template is only used on 4 subreddit articles at the minute. So it appears that a lot of subreddit articles aren't using it and its only an optional navbox. I don't think its causing any difficulty for new editors when they can choose to omit it from the page they're creating. But I take your point that there are issues with notifications. --Auntags (talk) 22:47, 25 March 2024 (UTC)