Help:Navboxes

A navigation template or navbox is a grouping of links used in multiple related articles to facilitate navigation between those articles. They are created using the template feature. Editing of a navigation template is done in a central place, the template page.

How to use
Examples of how to build a new navbox is given in the documentation provided with the Template:Navbox. Once created a navbox can be added to an article by typing the name of the navbox template within a pair of double curly brackets " " for example typing  with add the Template:Utah to a page.

Advantages

 * Provide a consistent look and navigation system for related articles
 * Faster to navigate than a category
 * Give immediate information about relationship with other articles
 * For presenting a series of articles in a logical order

Disadvantages

 * Simple boxes can often be replaced with a category
 * Take up too much space for information that is only tangentially related
 * Include the full list of links in every article, even though often many of the links are not useful in some of the articles.
 * Due to size, the use of multiple templates may take up too much space on one article
 * Sometimes do not give the reader enough clues as to which links are most relevant or important

Related articles

 * FamilySearch Wiki:Navboxes style guide