On 11/11/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
I think Simetrical is wrong that such "features...are hard to discover". How on earth would you ever discover the current ISBN behaviour?
By seeing an existing ISBN link, saying "Hey, how did they do that?", and looking at the page source. That's how people (at least techy people) normally learn how to use various languages, they do it by copying examples. If it got magically converted to a template, you would say "Oh, it's just a template", and use the template. Unless you happened to stumble across a specific discussion of the feature, you would never know about it.
There's a reason, you know, that talk pages tend to have a message at the top telling everyone about ~~~~.