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...that I just had to stir things up, Actually, the January 15th edition of the Signpost had details of a very interesting new feature - CLICKABLE IMAGES. Some time back, there was an attempt to do just that with this template. However, due to technological limitations, it had to be abandoned. The new Wiki code (here) allows for the creation of clickable image maps WITHOUT having to cut up the image or otherwise "cheat" the system. As such, I've been bold and have already coded the template image as an interactive version (since it only involved some coding, and no changes to either the image or the template text). (It's a fair bit of code for this template, only because there are so many different objects to link to. I've added extensive comments within the template to make sure anyone can work with it.) Cheers - let me know what you think! --Ckatzchatspy 12:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
I archived the old talk from November and December 2006 in a new archive page, Template talk:Solar System/Archive 4. RandomCritic 18:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Nice template, dudes! Said: Rursus 10:32, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I removed the additions of the Gliese 581 system because it is not part of this solar system (it's a whole 20 light years away). MThe topic of this template is the solar system (as in our solar system) and thus other systems do not apply. Additionally, there have been many solar systems discovered, and they are not part of this template (if they were it would be unmanageably big). If someone wants to create a template to sit at the bottom of the Gliese 581 system (and/or other systems) to tie all the related topics (i.e. planets) together that could be more appropriate. BaKanale 15:05, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I think the image map would be better off as a regular old image. First, I clicked on it hoping to see an enlarged view, as with pretty much every other image on Wikipedia, but instead I got sent to the page for Neptune. Took a second to figure that one out. Then, cursoring around the image, it seems to be broken up into absurdly small fragments of which many are plain black space. Can we just make this a regular image, and allow people to click on the normal links beneath if they want to see a particular topic? --Doradus 02:15, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
I tried to make this template autocollapse (because that seems to be the trend in navboxes lately, so they work well together) but I was reverted by User:Ckatz, who likes the imagemap. I believe that we can have both, with one of three methods:
What are other editors thoughts? hike395 15:09, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
How about we move [show] to the bottom and call it [show links]? --Doradus 16:51, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
I agree that the font sizes could be a little larger (though they should still be smaller than ordinary text). But I don't agree with extending the box borders to the boundaries of the page. This seems to be the in thing for boxes these days, but it's unsuitable for this particular box, which is visually built around the illustrative image of the Solar System planets. Extending the borders to the edges creates a great deal of incompatible white space around both sides of the image; and I don't believe it's feasible to have an expanding and contracting image as the central feature of this box. RandomCritic (talk) 22:13, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
To include Makemake - rst20xx (talk) 23:09, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure how to do the hyperlinking. Also, the diagram atop the Solar System article needs an update as well.
BlytheG 02:23, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
The licensing info looks good. Thanks for the linking.
BlytheG 05:19, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
...the names are not assigned correctly with the above image. For example, "Uranus" is located below the image of Neptune in this template. Anyone able to alter it so that they are properly aligned?? Georgia guy (talk) 13:41, 15 July 2008 (UTC)