Forum:New Page templates

When creating a new mainspace page, there's a series of links to templates for creating the page based on game and whether the article is for a quest, item, NPC, etc. Most or all of those templates include in multiple places within the page, such as in the Infobox and the first two sections.

I'd like to propose a change. Put simply, some of these instances should be changed to. This would simply mean that the name of the page is inserted into the text rather than substituted every time the page is loaded; if the page needs to be moved, then the text would need to be changed since it would no longer update with the title of the page, but in reality it would make things no harder since in many cases the capitalization for the subject in the article needs to be different than the page title (for example, Plasma rifle for the page title, but "plasma rifle" in the page text) or in some cases the text needs to be different in other ways (for example Plasma rifle (Fallout 3) for a page title, but just "plasma rifle" in the page text).

Any thoughts on this? Also, who sets up and edits those clickable templates? -- Kris mailbox 14:14, August 29, 2010 (UTC)


 * Fine with me either way. We primarily used to do it this way because it worked with the old capitalization policy, and it required less effort when moving a page. I'm content to have it whichever way people prefer.


 * As for who maintains the page creation templates, that would primarily be Ausir and me, although any admin could do it; I guess we're simply the only ones who bother/understand the system. The reason why you need an admin is that the article creation pages, the page which contains the box which appears when creating a new page (MediaWiki:Newarticletext) and the templates themselves can only be edited by admins due to the rather significant potential for vandalism. -- Porter21 (talk) 16:10, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

K, I'll take a look at those templates and see if I can get an understanding of how they work while more people reply to this page to give their opinion on the matter, and then we can go from there. -- Kris mailbox 20:40, August 30, 2010 (UTC)