Help talk:Templates

Made a first attempt at organizing them here. --barto (talk) (contribs) 14:20, 14 November 2017 (EST)

Possible improvements: Not exhaustive. --barto (talk) (contribs) 14:54, 14 November 2017 (EST)
 * Expand the scope of IncomingLinks to all pages with wrong incoming links.
 * Clarify the scope of WIP: should it mean that it is incomplete in a severe way, e.g. only half of a definition? Or inuse?
 * Clarify stub, difference with WIP if any, perhaps disuse because it carries the meaning of "too short", while short is our standard.
 * More meaningful names for improve and rewrite, e.g. inelegant or improve argument resp. improve style.
 * Merge duplicate with mergeto?
 * Perhaps discourage using tidy and work to do, something more specific instead.
 * More meaningful name for help, e.g. expert needed


 * Eliminated WIP. Stub and wtd should do the job. &mdash; Lord_Farin (talk) 17:19, 15 November 2017 (EST)

Design
MaintenanceTemplate has been expanded, having been renamed from  as suggested.

Also suggested: style can be improved, and can be simplified by requiring that the image always be passed in from the calling template. No need for a case statement, that adds unnecessary maintenance burden.

Work in progress. --prime mover (talk) 11:33, 11 November 2021 (UTC)