User:Pathoschild/Projects/Standardised header

= Before standardisation =

Byline method
This was usually written manually, but the  template was occasionally used as well. Several variations existed, as listed.

by Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment
 * 1) < Fyodor Dostoevsky
 * 2) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
 * 3) Crime and Punishment
 * 1) <Fyodor Dostoevsky

Navigator templates
The navigator templates, used on roughly 40 pages, did not allow empty parameters. They used multiple templates to cope with different situations. In order, the templates below are  and.

{{Navigation&#125;}
The  template, used on roughly 10 pages, used the conditional programming template   to hide the next and back links if they were undefined. This template depended on the title format "Title/section", which was not common at the time. It did not allow custom naming of the next and back links.



Chap templates
The chap templates, used on over 100 pages (over 700 pages in the case of ), also used. The template depended on the title format "Title: Chapter X" (exclusively "Chapter"), which was somewhat common among books. An alternative template,, was created for works that didn't use that title format. In order, the templates below are,  , and.

= Proposals =

Initial proposal
The initial proposal was based on the Chap templates1. They used blank default values to hide parameters that were left undefined, and a parameter for editorial notes.

Final proposal
The final proposal used a colour scheme that was previously unused on Wikisource. The notes parameter was redesigned to minimise the appearance of stacked boxes. As of 16 September 2006, this template was used on 29826 pages.