Category talk:Wikipedia multilingual support templates

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Shouldn't Template:lang-nds direct to Low German since that's the name of the article? —  AjaxSmack    23:21, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

will somebody think of the children
please, please stop creating these lang-ISO1 templates. It is insane to create separate templates for the 5,000 or so languages in ISO. It is perfectly sufficient, and much cleaner to just use langWithName directly. What you are doing is creating a crapload of templates that do nothing else but transclude another template. Which is a bad idea already for concerns of server load. I would even recommend scrapping that too, and spell out the langauge link in the text, as in
 * French: langue.

All "multilingual support templates" we should need are lang and rtl-lang, and maybe a couple of special cases like IAST or ArabDIN for specified transliteration standards. If for some reason we keep these templates around, they should always be subst:ed! dab (𒁳) 10:10, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * From what I remember, template transclusion hasn't been an issue as far as the server load is concerned for quite a while now. As long as transcluded templates are not frequently edited (and  templates are certainly not edited often), the server load effects of requesting a transcluded template vs. a regular template are pretty much the same.  And since the server load isn't an issue, then there is really no compelling reason to sacrifice convenience these templates offer.&mdash;Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 16:07, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
 * What Ëzhiki said above, in 2007, is even more true today over 7 years later.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  07:26, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Italics
Why do some lang templates render the content in italics (e.g. lang-hr, lang-nl), while others do not (e.g. lang-bg, lang-el)? I think that no italics would be preferable, but above all these templates should be consistent. GregorB 21:56, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I get it now: Latin script - italics; not a Latin-based script - no italics. That's MoS. GregorB (talk) 18:14, 6 April 2009 (UTC)