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M Sipher at 02:43, 3 April 2019

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	:::Seems like this entirely misses the point of templates. They're for things that are expected to not change and to be standardized across many appearances. The thing for making large numbers of identical changes is a bot. --[[User:Khajidha\|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha\|talk]]) 19:56, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		:::Seems like this entirely misses the point of templates. They're for things that are expected to not change and to be standardized across many appearances. The thing for making large numbers of identical changes is a bot. --[[User:Khajidha\|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha\|talk]]) 19:56, 2 April 2019 (EDT)
	::::Or {{w\|Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser\|AutoWikiBrowser}}. [[User:Saix\|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix\|talk]]) 20:26, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		::::Or {{w\|Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser\|AutoWikiBrowser}}. [[User:Saix\|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix\|talk]]) 20:26, 2 April 2019 (EDT)
			::::Yeah, I'm not seeing the point when a bot will do the job '''''IF''''' the situation rises again. --[[User:M Sipher\|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher\|talk]]) 22:43, 2 April 2019 (EDT)

Saix at 00:26, 3 April 2019

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	::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. - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:47, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		::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. - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:47, 2 April 2019 (EDT)
	:::Seems like this entirely misses the point of templates. They're for things that are expected to not change and to be standardized across many appearances. The thing for making large numbers of identical changes is a bot. --[[User:Khajidha\|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha\|talk]]) 19:56, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		:::Seems like this entirely misses the point of templates. They're for things that are expected to not change and to be standardized across many appearances. The thing for making large numbers of identical changes is a bot. --[[User:Khajidha\|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha\|talk]]) 19:56, 2 April 2019 (EDT)
			::::Or {{w\|Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser\|AutoWikiBrowser}}. [[User:Saix\|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix\|talk]]) 20:26, 2 April 2019 (EDT)

Khajidha at 23:57, 2 April 2019

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	::(My sympathy for wikis like Memory Alpha that template even stuff like character links grows by the day, here. If there'd been a <nowiki>[[Template:IDWlink]] that automated {{IDWlink\|Megatron}} into [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]]</nowiki>, 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...)		::(My sympathy for wikis like Memory Alpha that template even stuff like character links grows by the day, here. If there'd been a <nowiki>[[Template:IDWlink]] that automated {{IDWlink\|Megatron}} into [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]]</nowiki>, 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. - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:47, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		::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. - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:47, 2 April 2019 (EDT)
	:::Seems like this entirely misses the point of templates. ~~There~~ for things that are expected to not change and to be standardized across many appearances. The thing for making large numbers of identical changes is a bot. --[[User:Khajidha\|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha\|talk]]) 19:56, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		:::Seems like this entirely misses the point of templates. They're for things that are expected to not change and to be standardized across many appearances. The thing for making large numbers of identical changes is a bot. --[[User:Khajidha\|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha\|talk]]) 19:56, 2 April 2019 (EDT)

Khajidha at 23:56, 2 April 2019

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	::(My sympathy for wikis like Memory Alpha that template even stuff like character links grows by the day, here. If there'd been a <nowiki>[[Template:IDWlink]] that automated {{IDWlink\|Megatron}} into [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]]</nowiki>, 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...)		::(My sympathy for wikis like Memory Alpha that template even stuff like character links grows by the day, here. If there'd been a <nowiki>[[Template:IDWlink]] that automated {{IDWlink\|Megatron}} into [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]]</nowiki>, 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. - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:47, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		::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. - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:47, 2 April 2019 (EDT)
			:::Seems like this entirely misses the point of templates. There for things that are expected to not change and to be standardized across many appearances. The thing for making large numbers of identical changes is a bot. --[[User:Khajidha\|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha\|talk]]) 19:56, 2 April 2019 (EDT)

Mammalian Verisimilitude at 22:47, 2 April 2019

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	:Yeah, the continuity notes are not complex. A template for them is just adding an unnecessary extra layer. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates\|talk]]) 15:43, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		:Yeah, the continuity notes are not complex. A template for them is just adding an unnecessary extra layer. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] ([[User talk: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, {{tl\|episode}} into every single episode page, rather than bothering with a template.)		::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, {{tl\|episode}} 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 <nowiki>[[Template:IDWlink]] that automated {{IDWlink\|Megatron}} into [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]]</nowiki>, 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...) - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:36, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		::(My sympathy for wikis like Memory Alpha that template even stuff like character links grows by the day, here. If there'd been a <nowiki>[[Template:IDWlink]] that automated {{IDWlink\|Megatron}} into [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]]</nowiki>, 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. - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:47, 2 April 2019 (EDT)

Mammalian Verisimilitude at 22:42, 2 April 2019

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	:Yeah, the continuity notes are not complex. A template for them is just adding an unnecessary extra layer. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates\|talk]]) 15:43, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		:Yeah, the continuity notes are not complex. A template for them is just adding an unnecessary extra layer. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] ([[User talk: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, {{tl\|episode}} into every single episode page, rather than bothering with a template.)		::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, {{tl\|episode}} 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.) - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:36, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		::(My sympathy for wikis like Memory Alpha that template even stuff like character links grows by the day, here. If there'd been a <nowiki>[[Template:IDWlink]] that automated {{IDWlink\|Megatron}} into [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]]</nowiki>, 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...) - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:36, 2 April 2019 (EDT)

Mammalian Verisimilitude at 22:38, 2 April 2019

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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? [[User:Jalaguy\|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy\|talk]]) 13:59, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		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? [[User:Jalaguy\|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk: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. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates\|talk]]) 15:43, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		:Yeah, the continuity notes are not complex. A template for them is just adding an unnecessary extra layer. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] ([[User talk: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...		::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, {{tl\|episode}} 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.) - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:36, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		::(My sympathy for wikis like Memory Alpha that template even stuff like character links grows by the day, here.) - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:36, 2 April 2019 (EDT)

Mammalian Verisimilitude at 22:36, 2 April 2019

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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? [[User:Jalaguy\|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy\|talk]]) 13:59, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		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? [[User:Jalaguy\|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk: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. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates\|talk]]) 15:43, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		:Yeah, the continuity notes are not complex. A template for them is just adding an unnecessary extra layer. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] ([[User talk: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...
			::(My sympathy for wikis like Memory Alpha that template even stuff like character links grows by the day, here.) - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:36, 2 April 2019 (EDT)

Abates at 19:43, 2 April 2019

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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? [[User:Jalaguy\|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy\|talk]]) 13:59, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		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? [[User:Jalaguy\|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk: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. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates\|talk]]) 15:43, 2 April 2019 (EDT)

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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? [[User:Jalaguy|Jalaguy]] ([[User talk:Jalaguy|talk]]) 13:59, 2 April 2019 (EDT)

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	:::Seems like this entirely misses the point of templates. They're for things that are expected to not change and to be standardized across many appearances. The thing for making large numbers of identical changes is a bot. --[[User:Khajidha\|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha\|talk]]) 19:56, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		:::Seems like this entirely misses the point of templates. They're for things that are expected to not change and to be standardized across many appearances. The thing for making large numbers of identical changes is a bot. --[[User:Khajidha\|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha\|talk]]) 19:56, 2 April 2019 (EDT)
	::::Or {{w\|Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser\|AutoWikiBrowser}}. [[User:Saix\|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix\|talk]]) 20:26, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		::::Or {{w\|Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser\|AutoWikiBrowser}}. [[User:Saix\|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix\|talk]]) 20:26, 2 April 2019 (EDT)
			::::Yeah, I'm not seeing the point when a bot will do the job '''''IF''''' the situation rises again. --[[User:M Sipher\|M Sipher]] ([[User talk:M Sipher\|talk]]) 22:43, 2 April 2019 (EDT)

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	::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. - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:47, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		::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. - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:47, 2 April 2019 (EDT)
	:::Seems like this entirely misses the point of templates. They're for things that are expected to not change and to be standardized across many appearances. The thing for making large numbers of identical changes is a bot. --[[User:Khajidha\|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha\|talk]]) 19:56, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		:::Seems like this entirely misses the point of templates. They're for things that are expected to not change and to be standardized across many appearances. The thing for making large numbers of identical changes is a bot. --[[User:Khajidha\|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha\|talk]]) 19:56, 2 April 2019 (EDT)
			::::Or {{w\|Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser\|AutoWikiBrowser}}. [[User:Saix\|Saix]] ([[User talk:Saix\|talk]]) 20:26, 2 April 2019 (EDT)

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	::(My sympathy for wikis like Memory Alpha that template even stuff like character links grows by the day, here. If there'd been a <nowiki>[[Template:IDWlink]] that automated {{IDWlink\|Megatron}} into [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]]</nowiki>, 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...)		::(My sympathy for wikis like Memory Alpha that template even stuff like character links grows by the day, here. If there'd been a <nowiki>[[Template:IDWlink]] that automated {{IDWlink\|Megatron}} into [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]]</nowiki>, 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. - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:47, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		::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. - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:47, 2 April 2019 (EDT)
	:::Seems like this entirely misses the point of templates. ~~There~~ for things that are expected to not change and to be standardized across many appearances. The thing for making large numbers of identical changes is a bot. --[[User:Khajidha\|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha\|talk]]) 19:56, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		:::Seems like this entirely misses the point of templates. They're for things that are expected to not change and to be standardized across many appearances. The thing for making large numbers of identical changes is a bot. --[[User:Khajidha\|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha\|talk]]) 19:56, 2 April 2019 (EDT)

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	::(My sympathy for wikis like Memory Alpha that template even stuff like character links grows by the day, here. If there'd been a <nowiki>[[Template:IDWlink]] that automated {{IDWlink\|Megatron}} into [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]]</nowiki>, 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...)		::(My sympathy for wikis like Memory Alpha that template even stuff like character links grows by the day, here. If there'd been a <nowiki>[[Template:IDWlink]] that automated {{IDWlink\|Megatron}} into [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]]</nowiki>, 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. - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:47, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		::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. - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:47, 2 April 2019 (EDT)
			:::Seems like this entirely misses the point of templates. There for things that are expected to not change and to be standardized across many appearances. The thing for making large numbers of identical changes is a bot. --[[User:Khajidha\|Khajidha]] ([[User talk:Khajidha\|talk]]) 19:56, 2 April 2019 (EDT)

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	:Yeah, the continuity notes are not complex. A template for them is just adding an unnecessary extra layer. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] ([[User talk:Abates\|talk]]) 15:43, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		:Yeah, the continuity notes are not complex. A template for them is just adding an unnecessary extra layer. --[[User:Abates\|abates]] ([[User talk: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, {{tl\|episode}} into every single episode page, rather than bothering with a template.)		::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, {{tl\|episode}} 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 <nowiki>[[Template:IDWlink]] that automated {{IDWlink\|Megatron}} into [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]]</nowiki>, 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...) - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:36, 2 April 2019 (EDT)		::(My sympathy for wikis like Memory Alpha that template even stuff like character links grows by the day, here. If there'd been a <nowiki>[[Template:IDWlink]] that automated {{IDWlink\|Megatron}} into [[Megatron (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity\|Megatron]]</nowiki>, 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. - [[User:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|Mammalian Verisimilitude]] ([[User talk:Mammalian Verisimilitude\|talk]]) 18:47, 2 April 2019 (EDT)