Template talk:UK banks

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[edit] Identifying the Big Five

I agree that it is useful to identify the Big Five. However, I am not sure the scheme of using 'small caps' is very useful. It won't work on devices without a smallcaps font, such as a screen reader, but more importantly, HSBC doesn't stand out that way at all.

I have changed the HSBC link to HSBC Bank, to avoid visual confusion with the HSBC parent group article, and to allow small caps to work there.

However, a layout like {{UK supermarkets}} might be better:

v • d • e Supermarkets in the United Kingdom "Big Four" Asda • Morrisons • Sainsbury's • Tesco Major chains The Co-operative Food • Marks & Spencer • Somerfield • Waitrose Discount chains Aldi • Lidl • Netto Frozen foods Farmfoods • Iceland Convenience stores Budgens • Costcutter • Londis • Nisa-Today's • SPAR • Scotmid • Premier Stores

Thoughts?

-Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 09:52, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure I'm keen on the "small caps" approach: maybe separate out the "big five" and rename the commercial banks section as "Other commercial". There is the issue of some of the others being owned by one of the "big five" (NatWest being the prime example, as well as the various bits of HBOS, etc.). It might also be worth noting that the article Big Five (banks) is about Canadian banks. --RFBailey (talk) 16:08, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

• Revisiting this template, I agree, so I've tried replacing the smallcaps with bold italics. (I first tried bold, then remembered this is what Wikipedia uses when a link points to the page it's on.) Does this work? Sardanaphalus (talk) 18:29, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
  PS Big Five (banks) might be about Canadian banks, but the "Big Five" link here currently points to Big Four (banks). Maybe the former should be renamed "Big Five (Canadian banks)" and the latter "Big Five (UK banks)"?