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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) | ||
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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}} 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.) - Mammalian Verisimilitude (talk) 18:36, 2 April 2019 (EDT)
