Forum:Felt templates

First off I would like to mentioned that usually for something like this I would usually go ahead and just do it, however because the issue in question is a bit large, and could cause some confusion I thought it best to discuss it first.

When I was implementing all the new templates I had a thought. Why did the original ones all link to the character's article by default? Like lets say I want to type the name of another character, say, John Egbert, which is of course now typed. If I want to link it to the article I have to specify that is the case, otherwise there is no link. With the Felt characters we made the templates for easily displaying their names, therefore typing out the template can be thought of as the same as typing any other character's name. Therefore it should have no link by default and the existence of one should be specified, a complete reversal from current practice.

Also our MoS says that only the first instance of a word should be linked, this means whenever the Felt or any particular member is mentioned more than twice it is necessary to go through an article and make all uses after the first be specified to have no link (something that can be overlooked for forgotten when using one of them). Would it no simply be easier to make it so they don't link by default and then just specify in the first usage that it needs to be linked? - The Light6 (talk) 05:41, June 20, 2013 (UTC)