Template talk:Manga

Unify templates
Should we unify these templates that create piped links with their namesake in brackets?
 * Template:BAM (This one is slightly different as it also strips "#" from the link)
 * Template:Anime
 * Template:Manga

Always using the bracketed text as the name of the template will run into problems. e.g. if we ever wanted to make one for "card" or "OCG".

A unified template would mean not needing to make a new one for all recurring disambiguation text. Something like: or

Although, there is a very similar non-template way of doing this. It removes the need to type the same thing twice or copy paste. But it doesn't reduce the repetition after the page is saved.
 * , which becomes  when the page is saved.

I think there's a limit to the number of templates that can be used on a page and too many templates can slow down the time it takes to load a page. Although for this template, that probably wouldn't be an issue, except on long pages, like main characters. -- Deltaneos (talk) 19:35, April 20, 2016 (UTC)