On Oct 13, 2007, at 4:54 PM, David Gerard wrote:
On 13/10/2007, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
At the very least, we should move things like WikiProjects, GA nomination statuses, and other such pieces of processcruft to a subpage and transclude it so that newbies trying to discuss on talk pages just get "{{single template link}}". We could probably afford to do the same with infoboxes and the like on main articles - move them to a subpage and transclude a single template. Yes, it makes editing the infobox a step less intuitive, but someone who can't figure that step out probably can't handle the template syntax anyway.
That'sa fantastically good idea! See if it flies on the Village Pump, etc. A bot run would be enough once you have something acceptable to the VP and the most template-heavy projects.
For the article namespace this apparently runs into the problem that we've disabled subpages for articles.
I suspect this is easy to undo, and possibly even wise to undo (did we just move all /Draft pages to the talk namespace?). Dev?
In any case, the idea would work fine for talk in the current situation.
-Phil