Template talk:About

For2

Wikipedia has a variant of this (Wikipedia:Template:For2) that omits the "This articles is about..." lead. It is useful in cases where the first sentence makes that clear anyway and the phrase is a bit redundant. Such a template could easily just call this with an empty first parameter and would just be a convenient way to write it (one that users of other wikis are already familiar with). Does this sound useful? --Alfwyn (talk) 23:45, 31 January 2013 (GMT)

I could see that being a faster/easier way to achieve the shorter hatnote, but we can do the same thing with this template already by having a blank first parameter (like this), so do we really need it? It would save the editor from typing two characters only, is that worth a separate template when we can achieve the same thing with this one? — ABCface^◥ 16:38, 1 February 2013 (GMT)

Namespace coding

The suppression of namespace display is not desirable when linking to an article in a different namespace. E.g., when at Morrowind:Dark Brotherhood, a hatnote of "This article is about the vanilla Morrowind faction. For the faction in Tribunal, see Dark Brotherhood" is confusing and looks to the average reader like an error. This could be fixed with an if-test that does a namespace check. The issue applies to this whole set of templates. — Darklocq ^☎ ¢ 08:15, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Parameter 5

Toward the end, the template is making use of parameter 5 (at |{{{5}}}), after an #if:{{#explode:{{{disambig}}}|:|1}} test. Why? I.e., why would parameter 5 be used as anything but the link target for the "about" item no. 4 (i.e., the second alternative subject)? Now that the template has 7 parameters (used at Tribunal:Dark Brotherhood, could be used elsewhere), does this need to change? — Darklocq ^☎ ¢ 02:14, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

Redirect Hatnote

It's quite rare here, but very common on wikipedia to see hatnotes state that "xx redirects here, for alternate uses of xx see ...". There is currently an example using OB:Daedric. It can't naturally be replaced by the wording here, and I assume wikipedia has a specific template for it. Can we either add the function here becuase it's rare enough to see very limited use, or perhaps think about adding a template for it. Silence is Golden^{Break the Silence} 22:33, 30 October 2019 (GMT)