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[edit] Better Rename A District
See the discussion at Talk:List of United States Congressional districts#Better Rename A District.
We're about to change the names of all the district articles, and then this template will change, too. This should be done by May 15, 2006. Right now, I've created a test template, {{ushr2}}. It uses the new naming method. Once all the articles are changed, then I'll copy the code from {{ushr2}} into this template, {{ushr}}.—Markles 13:17, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Questioning the usefulness of this template
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that the only purpose for this template is to save a few keystrokes when creating a piped link to a congressional district, i.e. "{{ushr|Tennessee|5|5th}}" instead of "[[Tennessee's 5th congressional district|5th]]". The cost of this one-time slight convenience, however, is a lifetime of increased server load and editing obfuscation. Although the instructions suggest substituting the template (which obviously makes the most sense), over 2000 articles are currently transcluding this template. That means thousands and thousands of extra server hits every day and confusion from editors trying to edit the articles who have no idea what "ushr" is. First, we should go through all the articles that transclude this template and change them to substitutions. Since there are several thousand, this will obviously require a bot. After that is complete, I would propose eliminating this template entirely unless we can successfully get editors to start substituting the template consistantly. What are other editor's opinions on this? Kaldari 19:52, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I've now subst'd ushr when it is used in other templates. That reduced it to about 350 articles.—Markles 12:06, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ragarding s's for states ending with letter s
Discussion of this issue is taking place at Template talk:USCongDistStateIL (there are also some related comments at Template talk:USCongDistStateList). MisfitToys 19:58, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
