[[Template:pedia]]

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Only 6 redirects if I remember correctly. And your objections were noted, but founded on erroneous assumptions (specifically that I had moved Template:pedia).

CodeCat00:27, 12 August 2014

It makes a zillion times more sense for Template:pedia to have the text than whatever the hell had it yesterday, or whatever has it today.

Purplebackpack8900:36, 12 August 2014

Why?

CodeCat00:37, 12 August 2014

Because of this

Purplebackpack8900:44, 12 August 2014

And what about this then?

CodeCat00:50, 12 August 2014
 
 

Aliases exist at short (easy to type) and memorable titles precisely to allow the actual guts of templates to be located at more fully-descriptive and/or logical pattern-fitting names without inconveniencing editors. In this case, the guts were moved from one place to another, but you can still type {{pedia}} as always...

- -sche (discuss)01:38, 12 August 2014

Well, I've been wondering about this. Since these templates are really meant to be invoked through {{projectlink}}, would it be beneficial to either (or both):

  1. Make {{pedia}} invoke {{projectlink}} with the appropriate parameters?
  2. Create shortcuts for both {{projectlink}} and some of the parameters it accepts, so that {{projectlink|Wikipedia}} can be shortened to {{plink|w}}?

If we go for option 2, then it's not appreciably longer than typing {{pedia}}, and we could opt to get rid of it after a while. What do you think?

CodeCat01:42, 12 August 2014