Template talk:NoMoreLinks
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I fixed some links and changed the "spammers" text to link to Wikipedia:Spam instead of Spam (electronic) as it's more specific.
I have one suggestion though. Most templates that are intended to be subst'd have, somewhere in them, an invisible comment that says what the template is so that others can learn what templates to use to get certain effects. (Normally they can just see the template call, but subst'd templates need to give extra help to identify themselves.) Since this is an all-invisible template, how best to do this? My first thought was putting ({{NoMoreLinks}}) in the right-hand-side whitespace on the last line of the text, or embedding that into the line of equal signs on the right.
e.g.:
<!-- ============================================================================= -->
<!-- DO NOT ADD MORE LINKS TO THIS ARTICLE. WIKIPEDIA IS NOT A COLLECTION OF LINKS -->
<!-- If you think that your link might be useful, instead of placing it here, put -->
<!-- it on this article's discussion page first. Links that have not been verified -->
<!-- WILL BE DELETED -->
<!-- =========================================================({{NoMoreLinks}})=== -->
— Saxifrage ✎ 22:52, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
- How about placing the text in the top line?:
<!-- ==============================({{NoMoreLinks}})============================== -->
This way it would be a bit less confusing for new users who would probably take this line of text for some kind of heading, and would not spend time trying to find the meaning of this text. It would also make this template a bit harder to find by vandals who are new to wikipedia. Mieciu K 23:09, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
