Template talk:Featured book

Please no animated pictures
Hi Darklama,

I'm not a huge fan of the barn star myself, but I think an animated smiley and the like has no place on wikibooks, much less on something like a featured books templates. I feel that it is annoying (in the sense that browser pop-ups and flashy ads are annoying) and deeply unprofessional, not the kind of thing I would like to have associated with our best work. Do you think we might be able to find something else? Thanks! -- Kowey 14:48, 20 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm with Kowey on this. So much so, that I created Template:Featured book with star for use in my book. I will happily delete that template if something more acceptable comes along. --Jomegat 15:36, 20 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Me three. Moving flashing blinking things are for pizza parlours and the like. Webaware talk 15:40, 20 August 2007 (UTC)


 * As with the other commentors, I agree that the moving smiley face looks a little cheezy. At the very least the eyes could have been slowed down a bit, because that smiley was reading about a thousand words a minute! ;) But it is true, the barn star is a little unexciting. Perhaps a new image could created from the red, blue and green stack of books (seen on the Main Page as a link into the Feature Book page). [[Image:Featured_article_books_and_star.svg|100px]] Maybe something like this would be acceptable?--NickPenguin 04:28, 21 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I have no objection to NickPenguin's star. --Jomegat 12:53, 21 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I am leaning slightly more towards the old star, as it is a little more sober, albeit boring. But insofar as we are not using animations, I also feel this is not something that needs a lot of discussion ;-) -- Kowey 13:44, 21 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I have no problem with using something else. I was looking at pictures on Commons and came across it and thought it looked like something that would be better then the barnstar, since it was at least book-related. I think we could use something book-related/book-themed. Someone reading a book seemed appropriate for featured books. Maybe a static image of someone reading a book instead? --dark lama  17:17, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Featured Book Seal

 * I like the new image, and the bronze type colour is appropriate. --NickPenguin 01:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Print Versions
I have edited the template to include an inline version of the PDF and Print version floating boxes - as otherwise title pages become very cluttered. I hope that I haven't changed anything - only added stuff, so it shouldn't make any difference, but if there are problems I am sorry. This can now be used As with the PDF_version template, the name of the PDF file should be passed without Namespace of file Extension, and as with the Print_version template, this will look either for a subpage with the given argument or for the complete page with this name. (sadly I dont know how to get it to have a guess at these things like the other templates do.) See versus  for why. Conrad.Irwin 22:42, 11 October 2007 (UTC)