Template talk:*
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This is an experiment in creating rollovers with text boxes as a possible alternative to footnotes.
To use this template, you just have to type:
- {{*|This is the text that you want to appear.}}
and this is what it will look like: •
This is really simple to use, and would encourage more footnoting (or should I say citations).
If this template was only an experiment, and hasn't been added to for more than a year, can we reappropriate the {{*}} space for a useful historical linguistics shorthand? (I want the template to say something like *{{{1}}}.) QuartierLatin1968 
22:35, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
- Oh, go for it. I originally created this as a shortcut for a special mortarboard shaped bullet; feel free to realocate it again for your own tinkering. -Litefantastic 03:17, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- Awesome! Thanks; and thank you for being so prompt.
QuartierLatin1968 
16:43, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- Awesome! Thanks; and thank you for being so prompt.
From talk:Wōdanaz
[edit]As there's been some talk about bringing this matter to MoS, maybe I should mention one change I'd like to see, which is to link asterisks for the edification of those who aren't familiar with their use in historical linguistics. In the same way that (to pick a random example) Galileo positioning system says its cost "is estimated at €1.1 billion", this article could begin "*Wōđanaz or *Wōđinaz is the reconstructed name...". We might even start an article for the purpose: asterisk in historical linguistics. This way we can just link there every now and then, and we don't need to clutter up every article with a historical reconstruction with explanations. (Another possibility would be to use a template with a span markup: "*Wōđanaz is"...) QuartierLatin1968 15:23, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
- good idea (I prefer the *). dab (ᛏ) 17:10, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
- Newsflash! I've talked to the good folks at {{*}}, and we can use their template to produce something like this: • . This gives us the roll-over option, links to asterisk, and forces unicode-friendly fonts. You just type {{*|Wōđanaz}} and voilà. QuartierLatin1968 17:02, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- that's not that great, since ideally you'd want a mouseover for the form itself, too, such as {{PIE}} ({{*}}{{PIE|Vatinos}})... dab (ᛏ) 17:24, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- Oh; I didn't know about the {{PIE}} template. Shouldn't that template really include the asterisk anyway? It's not as though any PIE forms are directly attested. And leaving PIE aside, I don't think there should be separate templates for every possible proto-language, because that just reduplicates effort. We could add a new parameter to {{*}} toggling the span title if necessary. Would it seem more annoying to have to enter two templates à la {{*}}{{PGmc|Wōđanaz}} or one {{*|Wōđanaz|Proto-Germanic}}? QuartierLatin1968 20:43, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
- no, the asterisk should be added manually. of course PIE is all reconstructed, but imagine a declination table for example: you'd not put an asterisk in each table cell, after all. I was intending to do a {{PGmc}} for some time: these are for language markup, much like {{lang}}, {{semxlit}}, {{ArabDIN}} and others. The problem of the asterisk is separate. You don't want it to give a "THIS IS RECONSTRUCTED" explanation every time, just the first time it appears in an article, so there should be a separate {{*}} for that. dab (ᛏ) 09:41, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
- Yup, you've convinced me. And after all we can always just use {{Unicode}} wherever there isn't already a proto-language template. I'll make the necessary change to {{*}} and we can start using it. I think I may take the liberty of copying this exchange over to template talk:* for future reference. QuartierLatin1968 15:03, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
- Yup, you've convinced me. And after all we can always just use {{Unicode}} wherever there isn't already a proto-language template. I'll make the necessary change to {{*}} and we can start using it. I think I may take the liberty of copying this exchange over to template talk:* for future reference. QuartierLatin1968
- no, the asterisk should be added manually. of course PIE is all reconstructed, but imagine a declination table for example: you'd not put an asterisk in each table cell, after all. I was intending to do a {{PGmc}} for some time: these are for language markup, much like {{lang}}, {{semxlit}}, {{ArabDIN}} and others. The problem of the asterisk is separate. You don't want it to give a "THIS IS RECONSTRUCTED" explanation every time, just the first time it appears in an article, so there should be a separate {{*}} for that. dab (ᛏ) 09:41, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
- Newsflash! I've talked to the good folks at {{*}}, and we can use their template to produce something like this: • . This gives us the roll-over option, links to asterisk, and forces unicode-friendly fonts. You just type {{*|Wōđanaz}} and voilà. QuartierLatin1968
Protected edit request on 15 August 2018
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Replace with <nowiki>*</nowiki> I feel as if more people what to easily place * in pagers then another type of dot. — BrandonXLF (t@lk) (ping back) 14:49, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
Not done BrandonXLF Following the 2007 TFD this resulted in the current redirect usage has grown and is currently in use by ~70000 pages. You will need to establish consensus to change this first. — xaosflux Talk 17:24, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
