Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1713281-20130314165720

''I realize this was highlighted out to everyone. If you don't know what a disambiguation template is, or you do and don't care, feel free to ignore this.''

It's been brought to the attention of the staff that the template we use for displaying information on the disambiguation pages is a little worn out. Pages for characters with a large number of alternates have been known to surpass the limits of the template, as well as create long load times for users viewing the page. Now, we've admittedly known about these hiccups for a while, but we've made due simply because we don't have a better replacement. Yet. That's where you come in.

We want opinions and ideas from our regular contributors and staff about how to improve this template. We would like the template to be optimized so that larger pages, like Iron Man or Spider-Man, do not become bogged down with long load times, but are still able to display all the information we wish to have on the page. If you have any possible ideas for this, please don't hesitate to leave them below.

On the same subject, we're also open to suggests that are not strictly technical improvements. If you have a suggestion of something our disambiguation pages should cover but currently don't, or anything along the lines of artistic changes (layout and display choices, things of that nature), feel free to leave those below as well.

Finally, I want to stress that nothing is "too grand" or "too wild" for these suggestions. There are a few technical restrictions that may conflict with your idea, but we can address those later. We want this to be the best design of the template for our site to use going forward, so feel free to throw out any and all ideas you may have. 