Template talk:Lang-ar
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Please stop using this template. Replacing very simple links like Arabic saves a minimum of time and puts unnecessary strain on the servers. Worst of all, people use this template to replace existing links, which is unbelievably pointless.
Peter Isotalo 20:21, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
Use {{ar}} instead, please. dab (ᛏ) 12:52, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
- I guess I'm not really getting it but I'm not really getting it! I dont see the diff. on either of them. how should the arabic names then be formatted? (ar هيان بن بيان) as such? let me know please. Wilis.azm 06:02, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
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use {{lang|ar|...}}, we don't want the clutter of a separate template for every language on earth. dab (ᛏ) 11:42, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
- That would be an okay replacement if it adds the correct CSS classes and language name. The replacement that was suggested on the template was much longer, so I don't think anybody is going to use it. Anyway, I can't see a good reason not to have these specific templates for major languages. Kusma (討論) 06:41, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- indeed, there is nothing wrong with using both {{lang|ar|...}} and {{lang-ar|...}} except for the unsatisfactory situation that we'll have two standards of marking up the very same thing. If we could agree that we prefer {{lang|ar|...}}, people could still use {{lang-ar|...}} as much as they like, but we could send in a bot that will subst: occurrences. For the purposes of entering Arabic, nothing will change, but we'll end up with more standardized markup. dab (𒁳) 06:56, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- Well, {{lang-ar|...}} and {{lang|ar|...}} do different things. {{lang-ar|...}} (adding the language name with correct links) does something visible to newbies, while {{lang|ar|...}} doesn't do anything obvious. I think it is likely that people will write just [[Arabic]]: blah instead of [[Arabic language|Arabic]]: {{lang|ar|blah}}, which will not add the language attribute and cause another page that needs disambiguation. Having a template for every language on earth is an easy way around these problems. Kusma (talk) 07:24, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- indeed, there is nothing wrong with using both {{lang|ar|...}} and {{lang-ar|...}} except for the unsatisfactory situation that we'll have two standards of marking up the very same thing. If we could agree that we prefer {{lang|ar|...}}, people could still use {{lang-ar|...}} as much as they like, but we could send in a bot that will subst: occurrences. For the purposes of entering Arabic, nothing will change, but we'll end up with more standardized markup. dab (𒁳) 06:56, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
