Template talk:Sidebar year

Problems
There are some problems with the template currently:
 * 1) The image needs to become a variable. Trying to adapt other templates variables seems to fail here for some reason.
 * 2) Some feel the arrows aren't aesthetically pleasing where they're at now (close to the year/name field above the image). They need to be moved somewhere and changed slightly to be out of the way and/or look better (I don't think they're that bad, but I put them there in the first place).
 * 3) The "Prev" and "Next" fields are kind of unnecessary. There should be a way to enter some math and simply add and take away from the Year/name to satisfy those. Come to think of it, the "Name" field is unnecessary and it should be able to simply quote the username.

I've had trouble working on these 3 to 4 issues, but if someone more adept than me wants a crack at some, be my guest.--Tim Thomason 21:26, 3 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I fixed #3 - "PAGENAME" is now used instead of a "Name" variable, links to the year pages before and after are calculated from that, too. There will be a slight problem if this template is used on the first or last year article we have (creating links to pages we don't want to exist), but that can be fixed later. Someone will need to go around, editing the few template calls we have to remove "Name", "Prev" and "Next". What exactly is problem #1, I don't quite understand the description. :) -- Cid Highwind 10:27, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Like on the government sidebar, the image needs to become a variable, so the template can be placed on articles that don't have/need images. For some reason, my attempts to make it a variable, simply removed the image from the template altogether, so I was doing something wrong.
 * The "links to pages we don't want to exist" isn't much of a problem, if you don't mind a couple of redirects decade/century articles.--Tim Thomason 16:17, 4 August 2008 (UTC)