Talk:Hope (disambiguation)

Templating entries
Enclosing entry links in templates can make those links inaccessible to some of the tools used by editors who disambiguate incoming links to dab pages. This particular template definitely makes the link inaccessible to the tool I use (Popups). The only thing the template does is correctly format the italicizing, which can be done perfectly well without the template. Please don't restore it.-- Shelf Skewed  Talk  19:00, 6 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Is this a problem with links to index/dab pages but not a problem with links to articles? 92.3.212.0 (talk) 20:56, 6 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Links are links, so, no, it's not an issue of the target of the link. The issue is that when the page title is in a template rather than linked in the normal way, then the link--even though it displays normally on the page--is "invisible" to tools that read the links from the page code. So when I'm using Popups to fix incoming ambiguous links, a templated page title will be unavailable as a choice for disambiguation. If you like using the template because you find it easier to type or remember, I think if you just subst: it, then the saved version in the raw page will be the regularly formatted version.-- Shelf Skewed  Talk  04:24, 7 May 2010 (UTC)