Template talk:Fromthe
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I'm not convinced of how useful this template is? The point of templates is generally to avoid typing out a bunch of wikimarkup code manually, but all a continuity note has is italics and internal links. I'd argue that doing it via template makes it harder, because you have to memorise the template's specific syntax, plus I assume it adds extra server load compared to doing the formatting directly in the article? Jalaguy (talk) 13:59, 2 April 2019 (EDT)
- Yeah, the continuity notes are not complex. A template for them is just adding an unnecessary extra layer. --abates (talk) 15:43, 2 April 2019 (EDT)
- It's the sort of thing that doesn't really seem complex until you have to edit several thousand pages to make some relatively small changes... (The whole point of templates is to *automate* boilerplate stuff, after all. You could copy and paste the code behind, say, {{episode{{#if:||{{{2}}}|}}}} into every single episode page, rather than bothering with a template.)
- (My sympathy for wikis like Memory Alpha that template even stuff like character links grows by the day, here. If there'd been a [[Template:IDWlink]] that automated {{IDWlink|Megatron}} into [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Megatron]], it would be a *single edit* to change all of those. Yet, links are the simplest wikicode of all, so thousands of edits it is...)
- In this case, imagine there was a new Transformers cartoon named Transformers: Cybertron. Doing it through a template lets you change all these Cybertron (franchise) to Cybertron (2005 franchise) without breaking a sweat. - Mammalian Verisimilitude (talk) 18:47, 2 April 2019 (EDT)