[WikiEN-l] Ok, so about that ISBN template...

[SPUI]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> All of which is to say, the "magic word", while undoubtedly useful and
> intuitive to those naively adding ISBN numbers (not necessarily
> expecting a link), is not actually necessary. And, if any bot
> substitution was to occur, I would actually find substitition *to* the
> template syntax "cleaner" than substiution to the magic word syntax.
> 
> It's more portable anyway.

What's your opinion on stuff like 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Njt-sta ?