"Talk:A Link Between Worlds Translations" vs "A Link Between Worlds Translations"[]
Is there any advantage over typing out the base page name instead of using the magic word + parser function? I would like to discuss.
--KokoroSenshi (talk | contribs) 09:47, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
- I think that writing out the base page name is more readable for other editors and in most cases would use less characters since we only use the subtitle, which is why I changed it, but I don't know if there's a different reason the other staff have used the base page name.Link Lab (talk) 10:44, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
- What I initially had in mind is that when creating the page for a new game you don't need to touch that bit at all, vs replacing 5 sections of text to "<name of game> Translations". So we could literally just copy-paste another page's source over, except for the list of languages and the two mentions of the game in the first sentence.
- In fact, since page naming convention should be consistent, we could probably use a similar trick with those two game mentions, leaving only the list of languages to rewrite (which could probably be done too given a spot of extra work (with variables) per language on the transcluded pages; It could be too far, but it could also reduce the possibility of typos) - if so, we mightn't need to do any work on the new page at all.
- Back to the original topic, in terms of readability, it could be repackaged as a template like "BasePageName", no need parameters.
- Then for the other ideas templates would work too; It wouldn't be too much effort to do it up, only the end user might have both pros and cons, which could make doing either part or all of these suggestions either worth it or not.
- Hmm I typed a lot... but more makes a discussion richer, right?
- --KokoroSenshi (talk | contribs) 11:04, 8 October 2016 (UTC)