Wiktionary talk:Inflection-table templates

Standardizing inflection tables
I’d like to standardize the HTML in inflection tables. This could help build them with shared templates or scripts, style them consistently and user-customize their appearance, and help maintain and improve them efficiently.

Step 1 is to do a survey, identify and evaluate the common and diverse characteristics and areas for improvement.

Survey
The first five tables are put forward as examples on Inflection-table templates.


 * Placed under “Conjugation” section heading
 * In collapsed NavFrame
 * Medium-grey background
 * Text aligned left
 * Title copy “First Conjugation
 * Low-intensity colours
 * Coloured heading groups for case, number, and person
 * Blue: indicative
 * Green: subjunctive
 * Orange: imperative
 * Yellow: infinitives and participles
 * Toned data groups
 * Light: default
 * Dark: [?]
 * High contrast in text
 * Intermediate header rows in large table
 * Inconsistent italics in some headings
 * Rules between headings but not data, light toned
 * Adds category to this talk page


 * Placed under “Conjugation” section heading
 * In collapsed NavFrame
 * Medium purple background
 * Text aligned left
 * Title copy “Conjugation of [term] (strong class 5, prefixed)”
 * Colour monochrome, tinted purple
 * Toned headers, separators, empty cells, and footer
 * Medium contrast in heading text, high contrast in body text
 * Empty divider rows
 * Rules throughout, light toned
 * Doesn’t add category to this talk page


 * Placed under “Conjugation” section heading
 * Similar to, above, except:
 * Title text centred, “Conjugation of [term] (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)”
 * Colour in main left headings only, tone in subheadings and top headings
 * Infinitives and participles last instead of first
 * Heading copy “1st person” instead of “first”
 * Empty divider rows replace repeated number headings
 * Doesn’t add category to this talk page


 * Placed under “Declension” section heading
 * In collapsed NavFrame
 * Medium grey background
 * Text centred
 * Title copy “declension of [term]”
 * Colour monochrome
 * Coloured headers, tinted low-intensity teal
 * Toned body, dark indicating articles
 * Medium contrast in heading text, high contrast in body text
 * Doesn’t add category to this talk page
 * Rules throughout, dark toned


 * Placed under “Declension” section heading
 * No NavFrame
 * No Title
 * Coloured headers, tinted high-intensity teal
 * Headers for cases with links, italicized
 * Low contrast in heading text, high contrast in body text
 * Rules throughout, medium toned

Sample table from ковбаса

 * Placed under “Declension” section heading
 * No NavFrame
 * No title, explanatory text in a paragraph
 * No colour or tone
 * Headers bold
 * High and medium contrast in header text
 * High contrast in body text
 * Rules at top and bottom only, medium toned

A hard-type feminine noun of the first declension.

RFD discussion
This was page was emptied out per this BP dicussion (pages that try to list a lot of info for every language are unmaintainable). --Bequw → τ 19:11, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
 * It's a bit of a weird concept. First of all, you're only gonna use an inflection-table for a language you know well. Secondly, to find such a template, I'd either guess at a name, such as typing Template:pt-decl into the search bar (pt being Portuguese) or type in Category:Portuguese templates. Trying to remember the name of this page would come a distant third; like Bequw says, it would be very difficult to maintain and it's quite empty now. Delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:46, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Kept for lack of consensus and discussion. --Chicken is fun (talk) 15:57, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

RFD discussion
I'm RFDing these but I think at least part of those pages could be merged into a single page, perhaps Language-specific templates or even into Templates which is mostly empty right now. In any case, the headword-line page seems redundant to Category:Headword-line templates by language. 18:47, 10 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge. I will delete the unmaintainable list and link to the category. —Michael Z. 2013-02-11 00:09 z 


 * I see – each category listing needs a link to the relevant guideline before the list should be deleted. —Michael Z. 2013-02-11 00:13 z 


 * They've both been redirected to Templates, as there's absolutely no useful information on either that isn't already on that page. --ElisaVan (talk) 11:54, 21 October 2013 (UTC)