Template talk:Fromthe

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. 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)