Template talk:Manga
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Unify templates[edit]
Should we unify these templates that create piped links with their namesake in brackets?
- Template:BAM (This one is slightly different as it also strips "#" from the link)
- Template:Anime
- Template:Manga
Always using the bracketed text as the name of the template will run into problems. e.g. if we ever wanted to make one for "card" or "OCG".
A unified template would mean not needing to make a new one for all recurring disambiguation text. Something like:
{{Link|Blue-Eyes White Dragon|manga}}
→[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (manga)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]
or
{{Link|Blue-Eyes White Dragon (manga)}}
→[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (manga)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]
Although, there is a very similar non-template way of doing this.
[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (manga)|]]
, which becomes[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon (manga)|Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]
when the page is saved.
It removes the need to type the same thing twice or copy paste. But it doesn't reduce the repetition after the page is saved.
I think there's a limit to the number of templates that can be used on a page and too many templates can slow down the time it takes to load a page. Although for this template, that probably wouldn't be an issue, except on long pages, like main characters. -- Deltaneos (talk) 19:35, April 20, 2016 (UTC)
- I'm actually ahead of you there; some time ago I created {{link with dab}} which fills this role, and switched all the link templates to using it, including the ones you linked here.
Making it auto-strip # is a good idea, though, and would allow the BAM template to be simplified.(I'm also not particularly attached to the name; if you think just "link" would be better (and that we wouldn't ever want to use that name for something else), feel free to move it.) 「ディノ奴千?!」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 21:51, April 20, 2016 (UTC) - I went ahead and moved the #-stripping to {{link with dab}}. 「ディノ奴千?!」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 21:55, April 20, 2016 (UTC)