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This navigation template appears on the pages of both the original and the revived series. If it is intended to cover both series then I think it should give them equal precedence, with two lists of seasons, for example, and similarly with characters. --69.159.60.50 (talk) 09:13, 22 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There are only two articles specific to the reboot series, so it's a bit difficult to give them equal prominence. However, I have moved the MacGyver (2016 TV series) and List of MacGyver (2016 TV series) episodes to the "TV series" group. Maybe if more articles are created we can consider further. --woodensuperman 15:34, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Woodensuperman: so I'm using the talk page now. My reasons for further navigation here are the same as my reasoning on Template: Big Brother in the United States so I'm assuming your reasoning will be the same too? Which if it is I feel like it is eventually leading us to a noticeboard. TheDoctorWho (talk) 16:11, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

We should only link to each article once per navbox. This is standard practice. A navbox is not for navigation within articles. They also mislead the reader into thinking that there are more articles to navigate than there actually are. All the links you added are redirects to sections of already included articles, so they do not assist with navigation between articles. --woodensuperman 16:13, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't standard practice especially on large articles it may be confuconfusing for a reader to find the information they're looking for so therefore directing to specific parts of an article. TheDoctorWho (talk) 16:20, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is absolutely standard practice. Each article has a table of contents so a reader can find their way around an article. Navboxes are for navigating between different articles. --woodensuperman 16:22, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Say for example that a game show has contestants and there's a section for winners. The user is looking for content on a certain seasons winner however you don't include that winner because they don't have an article specifically about them. Yes they can go to an article with all of that seasons contestants but they still don't know the name of the name of the winner of that season because it wasn't mentioned in the navbonavbox. Therefore they'd have to go to the overall series article or the season specific article just to find the winner's name just to turn around and go back to the list of contestants and find the info they were looking for. This defeats the ENTIRE purpose of the navbox which is to AID in navigation which it is currently NOT DOING. TheDoctorWho (talk) 17:00, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

navigational boxes are not for navigating between sections in articles, they are for navigating between different articles. having a bunch of section redirects defeats the entire purpose of a navigational box. and, by the way, navboxes don't appear in mobile view, so we should be using other methods for providing any critical navigation between articles and sections. which is why we have an article table of contents, and other in-article linking. Frietjes (talk) 17:20, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]