Template talk:Template shortcut

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[edit] Expand?

Most useful templates have more than 3 shortcuts. Would it be all right to expand this to, say, 9? Lenoxus " * " 22:53, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, that this template only handles three shortcuts is perhaps a bit little, perhaps five just like {{shortcut}} would be a good number. The reason {{shortcut}} has not been extended to handle more links was that we don't want pages to show many shortcuts, we want people to choose the best 2-3 shortcuts for a page and show only them. I guess the same is valid for {{template shortcut}}. Or perhaps even more valid since it is confusing to find a "new" template in a page or inside another template, only to later discover that it was just yet another name for some template you already knew about. So we probably should not encourage people to use the shortcuts to a template.

But frankly, there are better and clearer ways to show the shortcuts to a template. In spite that I am an experienced template programmer I didn't know until recently what the {{template shortcut}} boxes on template documentation pages meant. But check out the documentation for {{•}}. The third sentence there lists the shortcuts to that template in a much clearer way than a shortcut box would do.

--David Göthberg (talk) 02:07, 24 May 2008 (UTC)