Template talk:Glossary

Where to place glossend template
In List of rugby league terms I put "glossend" at the end of each section of the list, so e.g.

A
some terms listed

B
some terms listed

Is this right or should "glossend" only come as the end of "Z"?  LunarLander  //  talk  // 13:28, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * You got it right. Each  opens a, and each  closes it with . — SMcCandlish    Talk⇒〈°⌊°〉 Contribs. 09:05, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
 * You should use defn for your defenition; nesting : inside {gloss} and {glossend} results in incorrect markup due to double nesting. — Edokter  ( talk ) — 11:25, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Sub-terms
I have a need to use sub-terms of a term in a glossary. I have created subtermand subdefn for this purpose. I have also created glosslink and glossback for the purpose of inserting reference-style backlinks so that readers can easily navigate back to the place in hte article they came from. I would appreciate someone who knows template code to check what I have done for sanity.  Spinning Spark  16:12, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

Glossary_of_cue_sports_terms not working (December 2016)
For some reason this template isn't displaying correctly after the Glossary_of_cue_sports_terms ~646th entry on the page. 24.246.23.7 (talk) 20:56, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Seems to be okay now. It was too many parser calls on the page. This was resolved by replacing simpler definition entries with non-templated markup.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  16:37, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 August 2023
Please replace all instances of "glycosylated hemoglobin" with "glycated hemoglobin", to use the current standard nomenclature. Thank you! AldoPioManuzio (talk) 21:17, 1 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Xan747 (talk) 22:25, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

Convert to TemplateStyles: save 6% on PEIS!
I just ran a test by removing inline styles from Term (in Term/sandbox, removing from Term and Defn (in their respective sandboxes) (letting the CSS cascade work from having it defined in Glossary/sandbox, and using some simple CSS in Template:Glossary/sandbox/styles.css:

Copying Glossary of cue sports terms and Glossary of video game terms into my user space, editing them to use the sandboxed templates, and comparing the PEIS reports, I shaved 6.6% and 6.5%, respectively from the PEIS. Just removing didn't seem to make any difference; I suspect that the gains were from basically eliminating the inline styling in Term due to processing multi.

I'd like to move forward with these simple changes. Normally I wouldn't bother even checking; we should already be using TemplateStyles. But the side effect of this change is that it completely deprecates the need (and ability) of multi in Term. All s that are next to each other will be "closed up", assuming they are multiple terms for the next. And I think this makes sense: why have a Term without a Defn?

Thoughts? Any compelling reason to keep the behavior of multiple s if y isn't specified? &emsp;—&#8239;sbb&#8239;(talk) 18:26, 25 May 2024 (UTC)


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