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For those who really believe that Sino-Tibetan has two primary branches, namely Tibeto-Burman and Sinitic, this title does not contradict that viewpoint. Parentheses are used throughout this template box to mark subordinate branches. —
Stevey7788 (
talk) 09:34, 1 February 2015 (UTC)reply
We can't follow the preferred terms of these people like that for the article and simple consistency with the term for this language family in all our articles leads to #2. Aside from the fact that Tibeto-Burman is usually not a synonym for Sino-Tibetan (in which case this title would contradict itself), if we'd do it like that, we'd also have to include Trans-Himalayan. --
JorisvS (
talk) 09:38, 1 February 2015 (UTC)reply
This template's purpose is to navigate between the primary branches of the Sino-Tibetan family. Navigation to individual languages within each branch is provided by dedicated navboxes like
Template:Karenic languages or
Template:Na-Qiangic languages. However, in October last year this template was expanded with the content of these individual navboxes and added to all individual language articles, of which there are about 700. This was not a good idea: the
end result simply duplicates the content of the individual navboxes, and – with over 700 links spread across a dozen collapsed sub-navboxes – is clumsy to navigate, both to the languages and to the subgroups. I've now restored
the earlier version. –
Uanfala (talk) 13:33, 27 March 2021 (UTC)reply