Thread:Mikex20/@comment-24649018-20141011150407

I've noticed that some image gallery pages have overlong names.

For example, the Penny Dreadful Image Gallery page was named thusly - Penny Dreadful (2014)/Penny Dreadful Image Gallery.

I figured out why we have these overlong gallery page names. It's connected with the Tab Template that Taka set up.

Using Penny Dreadful as an example, the source code for the Tab Template usually looked like this -

Because the tab2 field above had been entered as "Penny Dreadful Image Gallery" the system names the image gallery page as "Penny Dreadful (2014)/Penny Dreadful Image Gallery". This is the overlong messy way of naming the page.

But if the tab2 field is just entered as "Image Gallery" the system generates the page name as "Penny Dreadful (2014)/Image Gallery". The tab link on the main overview page is also simply displayed as "Image Gallery". This is the better, tidier way of naming the page and tab link in my opinion.

If you're agreeable, I will go about tidying up the image gallery page names and Tab Templates. It also seems like a good idea to better standardise usage of the Tab Template for other users.

tab1 - It seems we can name this anything we want but it always links back to the main overview page of the title in question. "Overview" is currently used, but "Main Article" may be a better alternative. The reason why this is useful is the Tab template can be used on the other generated pages such as the image gallery page etc.

tab2 - whatever is entered in this field contributes to an automatically generated page. So as explained above, if the tab2 field is entered as "Image Gallery" for the Penny Dreadful page, the new page is named "Penny Dreadful (2014)/Image Gallery".

According to the Tab template page this also applies to tab3 onwards. We could use tab3 as a Characters link but the page generated would have to redirect to the appropriate Characters category page. If we redirected to a category page we wouldn't be able to use the Tab template on it, but we could perhaps just use manual bridge links.

tab4 could perhaps be used as a Franchise link. But again we would have to put a redirect into the generated page pointing to the appropriate Franchise category page. And again, the franchise category page would be unable to display the Tab template.

Given the complications explained above, I'm not sure if it's a good idea to even use tabs 3 and 4 for Characters and Franchise or not. I'm in two minds. I've updated the Penny Dreadful Tab template and connected pages as a test case to show what I've explained above.

Sorry for the lengthy post but the Tab Template is something we could put to good use. We just need to decide on how best to use it and adopt a uniform approach. Let me know what you think. Once we decide on how best to use the Tab Template I will link to an appropriate page(s) in the Wiki Tools section of the navigation bar. 