User talk:Xenocidic/UX/link

May we give this a more specific/descriptive name? It might be a little ambiguous at this point, and we should also probably make room in the ns for other Link... templates.

You probably know the "Why is that command called dd? Because cc was already taken" story.

By the way, this is quite useful, thanks! List of minor characters had been needing this to get to the TV show tab. --FeralKitty (talk) 15:44, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

My main concern when naming it was something easy to type and remember. This template can always be expanded with other parameters rather than creating new templates. But feel free to suggest a better name. –xenocidic (talk) 15:48, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Sure, I understand that it can be expanded, but it probably shouldn't be overloaded (i.e., linking to tabs, vs. linking to things other than tabs). Names should also be easy to recognize. What does it link? Can I understand and/or distinguish its function when searching through the list of all templates?

Suppose I called a template Infobox, then you come along next month and want to copy over Wikipedia's Infobox? Merely trying to minimize future headaches/rearranging, that's all. Personally, though, I'd call it ln and be done with it ;) --FeralKitty (talk) 16:26, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

I suppose I'm just not seeing other templates that might need to be named link for our purposes. It could be called linktab or ltab I suppose. link is just so easy to type and rememeber =), and most other things can be [[linked in the usual way]]. –xenocidic (talk) 16:42, 21 August 2008 (UTC)