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{{nutshell|Navbox templates can be useful as a tool for navigation.}}
This essay explains the benefits of [[WP:NAVBOX|navboxes]] ([[navigation]] boxes),
== Benefits of navboxes ==
{{see also | WP:Navbox#Advantages of a category}}
On Wikipedia, a [[WP:NAVBOX|navbox]] is a template that lists at least several and sometimes hundreds of pages that are
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While a navbox may appear redundant to a [[WP:CATEGORY|category]] or [[WP:L|list]], it is not the same as a single category, a group of categories under one parent category, or a list. Each section of a navbox may seem to be a carbon copy of a category or list, but that is not always the case, and in many cases, the navbox "categories" do not reflect Wikipedia's custom for creating and organizing categories or for lists.▼
While a navbox may appear redundant to a [[WP:CATEGORY|category]] or [[WP:L|list]], it is not the same as a single category, a group of categories under one parent category, or a list.
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* the navbox is not a mechanical grouping of all articles that fit within a single classification, as categories often are. rather it is a selective compilation of articles with actual signficiance to the main topic at hand.
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Navboxes also help provide more links to articles listed within. Wikipedia has numerous [[WP:O|orphans]] (articles with few pages linking to them). The main drawback to an article being an orphan is that few people know it exists, and there are few ways for it to be found and therefore improved. When an article is added to a navbox, in most cases, it is instantly [[WP:DO|de-orphaned]].
The success of navboxes
==The goal==
The goal is to have a navbox in every article that the reader might find useful. This would apply generally to articles in [[Wikipedia:Main namespace|main namespace]]
Navboxes should not be placed in [[WP:USERSPACE|user space]], on [[WP:TALKPAGE|talk pages]], on [[WP:CAT|category]] pages, or in [[WP:R|redirects]].
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There was [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Navbox|a proposal to place one or more navboxes in every article]], but it did not succeed.
[[WP:DEADLINE|There is
==How to achieve this goal==
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*A broad concept and all the articles in that concept
*A group of jurisdictions contained within a larger geographic area
*A listing of all of something within a jurisdiction, especially when that place is well
*A company, listing all its key people, products, services, and other related articles
*A band, listing all its members, albums, songs, and other related articles
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Disadvantages to having two or more navboxes on a page are:
*All navboxes will appear "autocollapsed," requiring them to be opened to read
*If the navboxes were created or added by different users, [[WP:EDITWAR|edit warring]] can occur over whose navbox is more important and therefore should be listed first
*The size of the navbox tends to increase, sometimes substantially.
*Too many navboxes can cause the page to exceed the [[WP:PEIS|post-expand include size]] limit.
==See also==
* [[Wikipedia:
* [[Wikipedia:Avoid trivia sections]] — When the end of an article is cluttered with navigation templates, it often amounts to little more than a "trivia section", which should be avoided.
* [[Wikipedia:Not everything needs a navbox]] — One of the ways to fight template creep is to stop making so many templates.
* [[Wikipedia:You don't have to be mad to work here, but#The chamber of frames]] — The possible motivation of navboxers
==External links==
* [https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3132847.3132899 Automatic Navbox Generation by Interpretable Clustering over Linked Entities] — Describing approaches to automatically construct Navboxes.
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