Casey Brown wrote:
It does, just don't "subst" it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates?input={{uw-v1|Article|subst=subst:}}+~~~~
<sarcasm> Wow, I'm thinking, the edit box has gotten a lot more sophisticated than ever, parsing long URLs and all that.... So, I copied that link, pasted it into an edit box, hit preview, and I'm pretty sure that's not what folks expect to put into a user Talk page! Did you try that before posting? :-(
When handling vandalism, the first step is to undo the problem, then copy the name of the article, then click the user talk link, then type some nice template shortcut, then paste the article name into the template, and then click save.
Perhaps you could explain how this ExpandTemplates feature helps?
You expect folks to type that long URL from memory? </sarcasm>
And then take a look at AfD or CfD or RfD or TfD, noting that the subst: is required to make the date constant, but that other templates inside the XfD templates cannot be subst: at the same time, so substall: won't work....
Anyway, it appears that nobody here knows a feature that handles the issues cleanly, and I'll probably post a bug/RFE later this week.