User talk:Revanche
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Templates
- I've noticed you've made a lot of them lately. I'm currently toying with a method to reduce redundancy and ensure that server load is kept at a minimum. Unless the template is desperately needed, please don't make any more for the next two to three days, I should have the 'procedure' in place by then and taught you it. Trust me, this is so brilliant in its simplicity, but so effective… you get the idea (which was, incidentally, yet again
stolen'borrowed' from Wikipedia)— it's pure gold. --Xoid 03:21, 4 December 2006 (CST)
- Sure, that's fine. My template construction is up-to-date now and teaching me a new method while its still fresh in my mind would be useful. --Revanche (admin) 07:31, 4 December 2006 (CST)
- What's the plan, Xoid?--The GeneralT 07:55, 5 December 2006 (CST)
- See {{disambig}}, and look at the source. Also: follow the link to Wikipedia's template doc pattern page. This is a brilliant and simple way to reduce server load when updating documentation (to fix a typo in the documentation, say the template's being nominated for deletion, say the template's been superseded by X, add categories, etc.), and makes permanent protection of templates a less unpalatable proposition. It's just so bloody obvious in hindsight, but why did nobody ever think of it before? --Xoid 12:29, 5 December 2006 (CST)
- Two things: A) I hope your response was to The General, 'cause I'm not sure how {{disambig}} addresses my recent canon/custom template building splurge. If it does, how could I, as the template Creators made use of this info? 2) Can you add these tags onto the Tags help page, as you build them? A layman's documentation of how best to employ them would be best. Detailed instructions can then be provided on the tag's discussion page. Thanks for bearing with the laymen's representative. ;) --Revanche (admin) 14:14, 5 December 2006 (CST)
- The funny thing is, no one I know seems to understand me on the fine details of template creation and usage, not even The General (Hammero would, but
he was put out to pastureleft for greener pastures). - OK, notice how {{disambig}} has the
- The funny thing is, no one I know seems to understand me on the fine details of template creation and usage, not even The General (Hammero would, but
- Two things: A) I hope your response was to The General, 'cause I'm not sure how {{disambig}} addresses my recent canon/custom template building splurge. If it does, how could I, as the template Creators made use of this info? 2) Can you add these tags onto the Tags help page, as you build them? A layman's documentation of how best to employ them would be best. Detailed instructions can then be provided on the tag's discussion page. Thanks for bearing with the laymen's representative. ;) --Revanche (admin) 14:14, 5 December 2006 (CST)
- See {{disambig}}, and look at the source. Also: follow the link to Wikipedia's template doc pattern page. This is a brilliant and simple way to reduce server load when updating documentation (to fix a typo in the documentation, say the template's being nominated for deletion, say the template's been superseded by X, add categories, etc.), and makes permanent protection of templates a less unpalatable proposition. It's just so bloody obvious in hindsight, but why did nobody ever think of it before? --Xoid 12:29, 5 December 2006 (CST)