Thread:Evacino/@comment-5275759-20150722144149

Hello Evacino

I've had a minor dispute with another user, Electric Game‎, over a template that I've made on the wiki (I've probably been a bit too hasty in adding it, sorry about that). The template is a common template found on a number of wikis, which is for creating a compact Wikipedia link. Wikipedia links can be created normally, however they involve a fair amount of repetition (most often to have it display as the subject of the link in the text instead of Wikipedia:Subject) and can be somewhat inefficient. The template W automatically displays the link in text as the subject rather than Wikipedia:Subject, without having to type out the subject again (unless the user tells it to display another title then it will). This saves a fair amount of unnecessary typing/copying, as well as taking up less size/space, making it more efficient.

Electric Game argues that the template is unnecessary, however I think that the template counters something which is unnecessary in its own right. There are also a fair number of common templates which could be called unnecessary under their reasoning, but are used regardless and fulfil their functions well, improving things on the wikis they are used.

If it is OK, could you provide us with your opinion on the matter and make a decision on the subject, please?

Thanks, and apologies for any convenience.

P.S. Is the input layout and table format on Taunts what you had in mind (for it and the Move Lists in general)? 