User talk:Effeff

DW / DW2 templates

They interesting work, except they don't handle TV stories with (TV story) on the end of them (I noted as such on the template's talk page), but thought I'd better alert you before you go for a major rollout. Thanks. --Tangerineduel 07:41, May 24, 2010 (UTC)

They should.. I'll look into it, thanks for noticing :) —ff 07:43, May 24, 2010 (UTC)

Okay...that's a solution...just not a time saving one so much.

{{Story link|prefix=DW|The End of Time (TV story){{!}}The End of Time}}

So, that's 72 characters (including spaces) vs 58 characters (including spaces) if someone were to type [[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''.

Not trying to be critical just, we've got a lot of prefixes and a fair few story titles and it may just be the case that it's easier to type the prefixes and story titles than use the template (and try to explain to people to use this template rather than the conventional method). Thanks. --Tangerineduel 15:06, May 24, 2010 (UTC)

Actually, Template:Story link is not meant to be used directly. I've moved the actual code creating the list into a separate template so that new templates, such as Template:TW, can be created easily. The main idea behind those prefix-templates is not necessarily to save characters, but making the appearance more consistent (and make the source code easier to read). For example, if you use the template, there is always a space behind the colon – forgetting that is a common typo. Also, the story title is always italic – that's forgotten regularly, too. If you should decide at some point that there should be a non-breaking space behind the column, you have one place to touch, etc. pp. That said, if you use Template:DW, you're down to 54 characters even with the {{!}} trick. —ff 15:14, May 24, 2010 (UTC)

There appears to be a problem with the template and two names added. See your user page. It is there. ☆The Solar Dragon ^{(Talk - Contribs.)}☆ 11:32, May 31, 2010 (UTC)

I fixed it – it was a simple typo. Though I have to admit I'm not happy with the current code, it's as unreadable as it gets :( —ff 11:56, May 31, 2010 (UTC)

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