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I like the template as it is now, covering all major armoured vehicles in one place; I think the way Mzajac is thinking is the way forward: lightening the template and tightening it up. One thing I've done to make it lighter is removing the links to the various
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I agree with your choice to shorten down the E-series, but I changed the Maus and Ratte names. The reason is that in the case of the Maus, it was a formal name just like Tiger. For the Ratte, the P-1000 designation is more common then the nickname. The same is true for E- label as opposed to writing
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The main armored car types listed should at least include the Kfz 13/14, Sdkfz 221/22/23 260/61 Fu types, Sdkfz 231/32/63 233 (6 and 8 rad) and Sdkfz 234 types, and the Sdkfz 247 Personenkraftwagen. If all the main ones cannot be listed, it might better just to move the all the wheeled vehicles off
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Going back to the light/heavy issue, I have never seen them seperated with those names, only that the term is mentioned when saying the vehicles full name. Also heavy/light is not a very good seperator of functionality, for example, both the 222 and 234/1 both had a 20mm cannon. There was not much
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If we have the time, another solution that might work would be to have several templates; one covering the vehicle and its variants, the other for its class. For example the StuG III page could have one template covering all vehicles from the Panzer III chassis, and another for all German assault
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Also, writing out heavy/ light armored cars in the template is about as long as just linking Kfz 13/14, Sdkfz 221/223, 231/234, 247. The 234 series is enough different to deserve its own page eventually, as it is more the just another 231 version in many respects, but it is probably fine for now.
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Does the Dell brochure use five different colours of bands, with little or no significance to the colours? (In our case, it seems "dark" means heading, "reddish" means experimental. Blue, green, and brown mean ... what?) Does it use a combination of background contrast, background colour, text
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Allright then, what I will do is change the light and heavy names to the numbers on the template, since that is more common name for those vehicles. However, I will leave the page name where they are and I will not add the other vehicles to the template for now.
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I agree that it might not be an ideal split, but it is one that where a vehicle is definitely in one camp or the other. Once the vehicles are expanded further (enough for seperate articles), we can probably add more links to the template and further break it up.
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It's big, but it would look a lot less monstrous without the rainbow stripes. It makes me want to put my flaps down for final approach. When I have a chance, I'll try to make a redesign proposal (there's a first draft of the smaller Soviet AFVs table at
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I like the second. I disagree with Mzajac, the colours are important to break up the sections and give the eye someting to fix on when looking up and down. I see the same thing in use besides me in a Dell brochure; alternating light and dark bands
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Another solution: tank pages get a tank-only template, which also links to a compact list of all German AFVs. All tanks remain a click away, other AFVs are two clicks. Likewise for each category, which is currently a single row in the template.
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There need to be at the very least good articles for the sdfk 250 and 251 half tracks; the various four wheeled armoured cars and six wheeled armoured cars can be combined; certainly the 221/222/223 don't necessarily need separate articles.
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Hello again! If the logic for that spelling is because its more popular, then it does not make sense to list them that way at all, as the cars are rarely organized by using those names but usually mentioned after.
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