Template talk:Manga

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Unify templates

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)