On 1/6/06, Chris Jenkinson chris@starglade.org wrote:
{{tl}} should be substituted.
Does it work when substituted now? I know there were some issues with that before.
In any case, if we were to do this, we would need a bot to go through and substitute the massively-used shorthand templates: {{tl}}, {{user}}, {{vandal}}, {{admin}}, etc.
The point of these templates is that they are short and simple to use. If they are subst:'d in, they become more complicated. Why do we need to do this?
Benefit to the servers. Avoidable use of templates should be avoided, and substitution is an easy way of doing that. Creating slightly ugly code is unfortunate but inevitable.
-- Sam