User:Fabartus/template notes

This is extract to be boiled down to template gurus for questions and such. Source Template Talk: T1

Discussion

Alphax comment

A version which takes parameters exists at Template:Template link with parameters, with a shortcut at {{tl2}}. Alphax ^τεχ 01:10, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

I'll have to say...

This is a really good idea! — Ambush Commander^(Talk) 13:54, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

Please change this template

I suggest this template to be changed to

{{[[Template:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]]}}

This way it won't break things if it's subst'd (& added in source here so it's displayed right) _→AzaToth 19:28, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I think not it would also be better to change it to

{{[[Template:{{{1}}}|{{lcfirst:{{{1}}}}}]]}}

i.e. add a lcfirst on the name so it will always shown with the first letter as lower case (As I think most people writes it when they call the template) _→AzaToth 17:11, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

• do they? I'd have said that the split was about 50-50. Certainly most of the templates that I call up I use a capital letter first (but then again, a lot of the templates I use start with proper nouns - specifically, country names). It's also useful to be able to have the first letter as l.c. or u.c. if the template is mentioned as the first thing in a sentence (as it quite often is at TFD, SFD, or WP:WSS). Why limit it to always rendering as lower case? Grutness...wha? 22:34, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

I'd leave it be for now. There may be a certain "suprise factor" when someone uses this and it doesn't display the uppercase as they'd expect. -- Netoholic @ 22:46, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Interwiki Link

I've been looking for a while to find the matching template to the one used on the french Wikipédia for showing a template's syntax while linking to it in the form {{Template}}. It's not exactly the same but since it's used for the same purposes in about the same way, I think the following should be added to the current template :

<!-- Interwiki Link -->
[[fr:Modèle:M]]

Interwiki linkage of the most commonly used templates really facilitates the users' ability to adapt quickly the syntax on any local wiki... : ) Stéphane Thibault 20:50, 7 January 2006 (UTC) ^Talk fr:Discuter Modèle:LienModèle

T1 Redirect

Template {{T1}} redirects to this template. Is this intentional, considering the history of T1 indicates that it's completely unrelated? --TheParanoidOne 10:42, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Formatting consistency

Hi guys,

anyone taking care to make spacing consistent among Tl, Tl1, Tlx and others? If you look, for instance, at the first column in Numbers & Variables you'll see that {{ User pi digits|500 }} is the only code snippet in which additional spaces exist between the braces and their content. --Gennaro Prota 15:14, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

{{Tl}} and {{Tlp}} are protected. If a consistent look is important you could use either Template:Tlx(edit talk links history) also for one or no parameter, or only {{Tl}} (no parameter) and {{Tlp|xyz}} - then you'd glue together more parameters by a pipe symbol in numeric al form: |. -- Omniplex 08:27, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

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