Table of Contents behavior

[franzeska]

It looks like Fanlore tables of contents should behave like Wikipedia ones: in other words, after the opening paragraph(s) and directly before the first header. Putting in "__TOC__" should force the table of contents to appear at that point. But that doesn't seem to be what's happening. It looks, or at least it looks to me, like the table of contents is stuck to the end of whatever template is in the article. Is there any way to change this? I think articles would be a lot easier to read if we could split the two.

Here's an example of a Wikipedia page with a huge template and a huge table of contents that's still pretty readable because of how they're positioned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_history

Is this just a problem with the skin I'm using? (Monobook--more or less the same as the Wikipedia default, right?) Is there some editing trick I'm missing?

ETA: The issue is the inclusion of "__TOC__" in some templates. I really think it shouldn't be there. Anyone have reasons it should? The templates that contain this are:

http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:FandombyText
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:FandombyText-RPF
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:Fanwork
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:GlossaryTerm
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:OrganizationCorporation
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:PolicyInfobox
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:Site


http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:ArchiveProfile
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:AwardsProfile
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:CharacterProfile
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:Commentary
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:CommunityProfile
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:ConventionProfile
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:EventProfile
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:FanProfile
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:PairingProfile
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:PersonProfile
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:UsenetProfile
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:ZineAnthology
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:ZineNovel
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Template:ZinePublisherProfile

Comments

[ratcreature]

Yeah.

Another thing I don't understand is why some pages get a toc when they have headers, but others don't. Like
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series/Fanzines
has a toc but
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation/Fanzines
doesn't.

[christycorr]

TOCs are automatically generated for every page with more than three headings :)