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 ?