Template talk:Nutshell

Uses
No offense, but what purpose does this template serve? As with the Perfect template, you should consider what purpose these templates serve before your create them.  LordofEditing =( Talk )= ''' 09:43, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
 * This template and the one you mentioned were created by different editors. Also, when used properly, this template has a valid purpose. It serves as a visible summary of guide pages. Not all guides successfully summarize the content in the top paragraph. Items have a paragraph dedicated to describing what this item is and does, some guides just simply dive right in to overload the reader with information. Shadowsyllvet (talk) 10:08, 9 December 2016 (UTC)


 * It's a carry-over from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Nutshell. I created it when someone asked for a "TL;DR" template. It serves to hopefully make a complicated technical page more inviting to casual readers.


 * Wikipedia has it on many of their documentation and policy pages. We may not have quite as many uses for it here (Wikipedia has about a thousand documentation and policy pages, versus us at perhaps 20), but it does have a couple uses here. Equazcion  ( talk ) 12:44, 9 Dec 2016 (UTC)