Category:Philosophy and thinking sidebar templates

This page in a nutshell: This page provides instructions on how to coordinate multiple subseries under the main series on philosophy.

In this category page, an overview of the philosophical series is presented. This series consists of a main series and multiple subseries. Together, these series are represented by sidebars. If correct, the content listed in an article's sidebar refers to a page equipped with a corresponding sidebar. In some cases however, this bridge is missing. In order to prevent series-discontinuity, one should opt to accommodate these incomplete pages with correct sidebars.

The main series is preferably collapsible, and should only be autocollapsed in cases of self-reference. In most cases of self-reference, an article's title is listed in the sidebar. Otherwise, the sidebar will take up unnecessary space. If an article's title is not listed in the sidebar, one can manually add a sidebar. To add the main series, place {{Philosophy sidebar}} at the top of an incomplete article. If an article consists of both a main series and subseries, the main series should be on top.

The subseries should contain as few content layers as possible. If an article is represented in a lot of subseries, template creep may occur. As a consequence, a reader might have to scroll-down a considerable part of a web page before being able to follow-up on a subseries. For this reason, subseries are ideally kept concise. When adding a subseries, don't forget to expand the self-referenced title by adding a notifier, like |expanded=Title.

The pages listed in this category are templates. This page is part of Wikipedia's administration and not part of the encyclopedia. Further template category notes This category contains pages in the template namespace. It should not be used to categorize articles or pages in other namespaces. To add a template to this category: If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template:template name/doc"), add  [[Category:Philosophy and thinking sidebar templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add  <noinclude>[[Category:Philosophy and thinking sidebar templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.