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Jguk appears to have created a fork of this template at Template:Middle Kingdoms of India and is in the process of changing articles [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] to use the fork instead of this template. Mirv has demonstrated that the only difference in Jguk's fork is era style [19]. Jguk's fork clearly violates the guideline, and this action is especially inappropriate in light of the fact that Jguk is in the midst of his second arbitration case for pushing his preferred era style on Wikipedia. Note complaint at WP:AN --MPerel ( talk | contrib) 23:10, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
I removed Pandyan kingdom as it was being shown that it existed during the 6th BCE which I think is factually wrong. I think somebody needs to take another look at the template especially the Southern kingdoms column. Most of the dynasties/empires seem to have been advanced by 200-300 years. Sarvagnya 04:53, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
There are many sources including Greek travellers sources from the period of the 6th to 4th century BCE that mention the Pandyan kingdom. Therefore it was readded to its place. Wubbabubba 08:39, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
This section is a little confusing. Many dynasties and kingdoms existed at the same time as others, during different points in history, controlling different parts of the southern peninsula etc. It might need a review. Wubbabubba 10:07, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Gandhara needs to be added under foreign kingdoms--D-Boy 11:20, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
User:Srkris moved the Chola, Chera and Pandyan kingdoms to the 4th century C.E. They're generally taken to have been attested in the inscriptions of Asoka, so I've moved them back to the 3rd century BC. I've put them below the Satavahanas for convenience - whether they're above or below isn't really a major issue.
The more general issue is that this template is badly broken. Most of the southern empires lasted centuries, and trying to pigeonhole the Chalukyas or Rashtrakutas or Cholas into one single century simply doesn't work. We need to seriously rethink how the template is structured and how it represents dates. One option I can think of is a timeline with coloured bars, but those with more experience in creating templates can probably come up with something better. -- Arvind (talk) 15:35, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
As discussed earlier, I have created a new template User:Vinay84/Template:Middle kingdoms of India for the page which is better formatted and reduces some of the problems people had with the current one.I intend to replace the current template with the new one after a discussion.Suggestions and comments invited. --Vinay84 (talk) 02:37, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
The new template version is impossible to read in a normal screen resolution, and I'm sure it must be worse in smaller size screens. If there's no compelling reason to keep this, I'm going to revert back to the original version. -SpacemanSpiff 18:07, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
Cool template! Really nice. I only wondered: wouldn't it be better to turn it into a proper table, with a row for every century/period, instead of two rows and very long columns? Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 20:43, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
The reference list breaks on the page Gandhara - - MrBill3 (talk) 14:17, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
This template is trying to do too much and is far too big as a consequence. The need for it to be placed above the Refs section defies the usual convention that such navboxes appear at the end of articles and the sheer size of it adds a bunch of irrelevance before the final article-related matter, ie: the Refs and Ext Links.
I realise that it may not be possible to remove the refs but can we at least have a collapsible version, and have this default to that state? - Sitush (talk) 17:06, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
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