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603:– These two opposite templates display a banner in template documentation to advise if the template should always or never be substituted. Until recently, they were named "nosubst" and "subst only". Recently, they were renamed "no substiution" and "substitute only", respectively. Then the latter only was reverted. The purpose of this discussion is to resolve the current inconsistency. There has been a recent trend to use natural spacing, thus "no subst*" over "nosubst*". The further question is whether to use the abbreviation "subst" or the full word. 449: 22: 71: 53: 862: 700:!votes). The inner code of the template is meaningless to the actual name of the template as most users don't even know how to read that code. What they do know, is how to read English, and having a template titled with something that they can understand is much more important. In this regard "subst" means nothing as it's not an actual word, while "substitution"/"substitute" are. -- 581: 944: 680:– they're both equally valid names, so the only factor in my mind is historical president. Redirects are already in place from all other possible names, so it doesn't really matter if it's an abbreviated name, it's still able to be called from the long name. Thus, I'd keep at consistency, and historical president. 306:
That is not necessary, it should be the same template as Wikia does. On your preferences, you should type {{SUBST:Nosubst|User:Lucas Thoms/sig}} to make your signature as a template when you sign it with four tildes, but without "Nosubst" there if you sign with four tildes it contains much characters
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I just want signatures templates (not substituted) after I sign with four tildes using (~~~~) instead of typing your signature template page and then five tildes. That's what we need here for including your signature templates copied the source from Template:Nosubst template from Wikia and it works
659:: The code to subst a template is "subst:", so the name of the template is "subst only". It makes sense for the template name to match the code. I'm fine with redirect existing at other names that make sense to people. – 86:. This particular template is especially important to the project because it is used in the maintenance of other templates. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the 189:
that they should not be substituted. You... can't just change it to fit your needs. You can feel free to copy its source into your userspace (and then make whatever changes). —
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tells us, "Template names are easiest to remember if they follow standard English spelling, spacing, and capitalization...". In that light, the first proposal will be
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See below no local consensus to make a change either for the sake of consistency or anything else. The larger community consensus shown by the cited guideline at
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I believe it's providing an example of substituting the template, in case an editor didn't know what substituting was. I do agree with you though, since in its
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It supposed to be the same signature policy as on Wikia, then a signature template will be replaced when you signed it with four tildes at anytime. --
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Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a
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I should replace "{{{{{1}}}}}" in this template page as transcluding signatures is allowed on Knowledge (XXG) as the same on Wikia seen
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Like I said before, this is Knowledge (XXG). What you do on wikia has nothing to do with what happens here. You need to accept that
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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any solution that leaves "subst" in the template titles, basically as per Gonnym. So I suppose I could support moves to
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If you have to change this completely unrelated template to accomplish that, you're doing something wrong. Maybe it
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No, the template on Wikia is a completely different template that accomplishes completely different things.
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after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
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pages. You can try to use the code from Wikia in your userspace, but
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This template should not be substituted. Therefore, "use {{subst:
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This template (like all templates) is within the scope of
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Do you know what this template is for? It's for marking
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It was proposed in this section that multiple pages be
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somewhere else, with the names being decided below.
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Your edit broke the documentation pages of 132:What did that last edit to this template do?— 8: 897:}}) doesn't make sense; it should be "use {{ 274:this template is not the right place for it 853:Semi-protected edit request on 2 July 2023 422:The following is a closed discussion of a 47: 795:; other titles as redirects is fine. -- 49: 96:Knowledge (XXG):WikiProject Templates 21: 19: 7: 931:the wording is slightly confusing. 38:It is of interest to the following 14: 842:The discussion above is closed. 942: 860: 579: 447: 157:perfectly on Knowledge (XXG). -- 69: 51: 20: 509:to editors for your input, and 951:Thanks for pointing that out. 650:03:38, 12 September 2020 (UTC) 99:Template:WikiProject Templates 1: 632:) 00:12, 22 August 2020 (UTC) 90:and see a list of open tasks. 834:23:25, 20 October 2020 (UTC) 811:15:13, 14 October 2020 (UTC) 611:) 06:25, 24 July 2020 (UTC) 545:00:03, 24 October 2020 (UTC) 883:to reactivate your request. 871:has been answered. 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