Forum:SH Archive/Revamping the protection templates

After recently adding sprotected to a bunch of protected pages (of which there are far too many, but we'll get to that later), I noticed the protection templates can be annoying looking on pages, especially when used in conjunction with other templates such as ambig, conjecture, cleanup, etc. Stealing Borrowing an idea from Wikipedia, I suggest we replace protected, sprotected and vprotected with icons in the eras template. Nothing too extreme like in the Wikipedia protection policy, just a simple icon to show whether the page is semi or full protected. Here's some examples of what the icons could look like:

Here's an example of what a page would look like with the eras icon, and here's the same page with sprotected. Although the former still has annoying templates at the top, it's nowhere near as bad as the latter. Also on the negative side, editing Wookieepedia will no longer be like being in the movies. Any thoughts/suggestions/comments? --  I need a name  ( Complain here ) 14:22, 8 December 2008 (UTC)