User talk:Catwheezle

Can you fix up Template:Unsigned2 like you did with Template:Unsigned? :> --- Fowl 19:22, 22 February 2012 (EST)

Sure... but I guess we should document what the difference is between the two, and why each one should be used. So, uh... what's the difference, and what's this new one for?

...*reads about safesubst* Hrm. So it looks like a safesubst wrapper around template:unsigned. Why not just put safesubst into template:unsigned? I don't understand! --Catwheezle 20:06, 22 February 2012 (EST)

Unsigned template goes username|date, which if you're copy & pasting from a history you have to switch them around, with unsigned2 you just have to put a pipe inbetween the date and name and you're good. Also I just noticed the description on unsigned is more true for unsigned2: "You can copy the username and date right out of the edit history, to get something like"

--- Fowl 20:31, 22 February 2012 (EST)

Yeah, I just wasn't understanding safesubst, I think. So what this actually does, it just flips the args, then puts in an unsigned template, with the properties the right way round: it's an invisible shim. Nice! I'm wondering if there's an even nicer way though, that lets us get away with making Template:Unsigned autodetect which way round they are, without needing another template helper. *rummages* --Catwheezle 21:38, 22 February 2012 (EST)

I looked into this, I think it will require a lot of string exploding so its probably not a great idea D: we could just switch them now and fix them as we see them --- Fowl 21:51, 22 February 2012 (EST)

Oh, ye of little faith.

OK, I've moved this discussion to the community portal, because it got interesting and deserved more to read it. --Catwheezle 03:13, 23 February 2012 (EST)

Catwheezle

test test —The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:{{{2}}}|{{{2}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{2}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{2}}}|contribs]]) Catwheezle

Works... but there seems to be some kind of sophisticated cacheing so that if it doesn't work at some point, you can't always see. Maybe.