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Any thoughts on adding a {{para|SMALL_TEXT}} parameter to the main banner? It might help encourage projects using {{para|MAIN_TEXT}} to add more concise wording for small banners, and for those that already do it would eliminate the need to use parser functions in {{para|MAIN_TEXT}}. Just an idea. [[User:PC78|PC78]] ([[User talk:PC78|talk]]) 14:33, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

:Last discussed [[Template_talk:WPBannerMeta/Archive_4#.7B.7B.7Bsmall.7D.7D.7D_and_template_length|here]]. If this option was used widely, then it would be a good idea. But it's hardly used at all I think. &mdash;&nbsp;Martin <small>([[User:MSGJ|MSGJ]]&nbsp;·&nbsp;[[User talk:MSGJ|talk]])</small> 18:03, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

::A whopping 0.02% of banners, in fact. I hate the small parameter, and the small tmbox style in general (as opposed to the small ambox, which I think is adorably cute <tt>:D</tt>). I remember having a cleanout of that category once, and found a lot of 'small' banners ''also'' inside shells; so many that I tweaked the tmbox CSS to ensure that the nesting automagic overrides the small parameter. I just ran a Toolserver DB query: 141 of those 513 pages also transclude {{tlx|WPBSWikiProjectBannerShell}}. So some of those 'small' banners could actually not be small at all... [[User:Happy-melon|<span style="color:forestgreen">'''Happy'''</span>]]‑[[User talk:Happy-melon|<span style="color:darkorange">'''melon'''</span>]] 21:15, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Listy. Sorry for the text explosion, can't think of a better place to put it... [[User:Happy-melon|<span style="color:forestgreen">'''Happy'''</span>]]‑[[User talk:Happy-melon|<span style="color:darkorange">'''melon'''</span>]] 21:46, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

{{hidden|Pages which contain a WPBM banner with {{para|small|yes}} ''and'' {{tlx|WPBSWikiProjectBannerShell}}|2=

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Ah well. I'll get my coat... :) [[User:PC78|PC78]] ([[User talk:PC78|talk]]) 00:08, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

:Quite a few on that list have a {{tl|FAOL}} or {{tl|Talk Spoken Wikipedia}} with the <tt>small=yes</tt> parameter outside of the {{tl|WPBSWikiProjectBannerShell}} though. -- [[User:WOSlinker|WOSlinker]] ([[User talk:WOSlinker|talk]]) 09:42, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

== Auto=yes is a bit intrusive ==

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:::: In fact, things are pretty consistent... they use capitalization to refer to the classifications as proper nouns. Not sure the change is even worth all the work that would accompany it, so I'm edging it on not doing it. [[User:Titoxd|Tito<span style="color:#008000;">xd</span>]]^{([[User talk:Titoxd|?!?]] - [[WP:FAC|cool stuff]])} 17:36, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

:::::The change is very easy. I will just change some "C"s to "c". As I said, I am ''not'' proposing to rename any categories; that would indeed be a lot of work. The inconsistency is between the capital C for Class and the little i for importance. Thus we have things like

{{WPBSWikiProjectBannerShell|{{WPCHICAGO|category=no|importance=mid|class=stub}}}}

:::::and there is no reason the two should not be capitalised the same. &mdash;&nbsp;Martin <small>([[User:MSGJ|MSGJ]]&nbsp;·&nbsp;[[User talk:MSGJ|talk]])</small> 17:47, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

::::::Here's my problem: I'm all for switching to a lower-case "c", but not if it's just going to be a mere cosmetic change implemented here only. I would expect the categories to be dealt with as well, otherwise you're just trading one inconsistancy for another. [[User:PC78|PC78]] ([[User talk:PC78|talk]]) 17:56, 9 September 2009 (UTC)