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::::It's not better. It is a clear downgrade and it costs effort to implement an inherently less clear system. It's not going to change unless you can make one hell of an argument for it. It's also outrageously brazen to tag for speedy deletion templates that are on hundreds of pages. [[User:Miles of SmashWiki|<font color="dodgerblue"><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">'''Miles''']] <font color="silver">([[User talk:Miles of SmashWiki|<font color="silver">talk]])</font></font></span></font> 23:14, 24 October 2014 (EDT) | ::::It's not better. It is a clear downgrade and it costs effort to implement an inherently less clear system. It's not going to change unless you can make one hell of an argument for it. It's also outrageously brazen to tag for speedy deletion templates that are on hundreds of pages. [[User:Miles of SmashWiki|<font color="dodgerblue"><span style="font-family:Comic Sans MS;">'''Miles''']] <font color="silver">([[User talk:Miles of SmashWiki|<font color="silver">talk]])</font></font></span></font> 23:14, 24 October 2014 (EDT) | ||
:::::Toomai seemed fine with it, so I thought it'd be a simple batch-replace for the existing ones after creating the new template. [[Image:VinSymbol.png|16px|link=User:VinLAURiA]][[User:VinLAURiA|VinLAURiA]] ([[User talk:VinLAURiA|talk]]) 23:16, 24 October 2014 (EDT) | :::::Toomai seemed fine with it, so I thought it'd be a simple batch-replace for the existing ones after creating the new template. [[Image:VinSymbol.png|16px|link=User:VinLAURiA]][[User:VinLAURiA|VinLAURiA]] ([[User talk:VinLAURiA|talk]]) 23:16, 24 October 2014 (EDT) | ||
We had this, it was Template:G, it was deleted. Why? Because the point of these shortcut templates is to shorten code that is really space-taking. <nowiki>''[[Brawl]]'' and ''[[Melee]]''</nowiki> don't take up too much space, and {{t|Smash}} won't fix much; there are 6 pages that this can link to. Combine this with the fact there are only supposed to be two or three links to a single place on one page (even one, on smaller articles), and you have a really, really limited template. The template differs from others because of its limitations; take a template like [[Template:SSB4|this]] and there are 59 places to link to; [[Template:H1|this one]] in particular works on any page with sections. The reason we have {{t|for3ds}} and its counterpart is because, as mentioned before, <nowiki>''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS]]''</nowiki> takes up too much space, and is a very big pain in the ass to type out, even without the link. | |||
And another thing: Toomai never said he was fine with it (at least not that I can see on this page). <font face="sand">''[[User:Qwerty|<font color="black">Qw</font><font color="003F3F">er</font><font color="005F5F">ty</font>]] ''[[User talk:Qwerty|<font color="005F6F">(t</font><font color="003C6F">al</font><font color="000F7F">k)</font>]]</font> 23:55, 24 October 2014 (EDT) | |||