Thread:Maopyon/@comment-131168-20150128123619

Hey Maopyon, saw you tinkering with Template:fs. There might be an angle I'm missing, but I'm not sure this is really worth bothering with.

A while back I made a a slightly different template for making forum links shorter, by automatically hiding whatever namespace was given in the link. BUT, then I learned it is possible to do so without a template. So all four of these will actually create the same link:

make
 * Sasaki Rikako Gallery
 * Forum:Sasaki Rikako Gallery
 * Forum:Sasaki Rikako Gallery
 * Sasaki Rikako Gallery
 * Sasaki Rikako Gallery
 * Sasaki Rikako Gallery

So fs isn't much shorter than the way that's built in by default.

The other trick I'm guessing you're intending for fs is to change it from linking to Forum: to whatever new namespace. However, once we're settled on which namespaces to go with it shouldn't take long for them to appear--so it doesn't seem like it would be worth it to change a bunch of Forum: links to use a template, when we could just change them directly to their proper new destination pretty shortly anyway. 