Template talk:Number sign

Requested move 14 August 2014

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The result of the move request was: moved. More pointless template moves... Jenks24 (talk) 11:45, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Template:Pound → Template:Number sign – More generic/neutral and the Unicode name used (and linked) in the documentation. Sardanaphalus (talk) 10:37, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

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 * Support pound could also be a reference to mass of currency. I think number sign will be clearer to more people than pound.--67.68.22.129 (talk) 19:53, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Support it's not the sign for the British currency, nor "lb" symbol for weight, so is highly ambiguous. Optionally hashmark or octothorp/octothorpe are also reasonable and even less ambiguous that "number sign" (which could mean &#8470;) -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 05:21, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Discussion

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 * Comment any idea why we have Hash-tag ? # ; couldn't this be a &lt;big&gt;&lt;bold&gt; version of this template instead? -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 05:23, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
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Output in texts copied verbatim from French Wikipedia
French Wikipedia uses template to output "nº x" (where "x" is normally a number): fr:Modèle:Numéro. If an author copies text (title of a reference, etc.) verbatim from French Wikipedia into English Wikipedia, eg. when translating an article, and fails to notice the presence of that template or is not aware of the different output, the output changes to "#" and the number is lost. Is there anything that should and can be done about it, except manually replacing the French-sourced template with "nº"? 84.69.182.103 (talk) 14:52, 18 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Came across this while posting the notice below. Numéro should redirect instead to Numero, if there are no objections. If you look at transcluding pages using Numéro they appear to all be French translations. The Manual of Style prefers "No." to "#" or "№". Rjjiii (talk) 16:45, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Discussion regarding image use
There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Templates regarding how to handle templates that were created to insert images of typographic characters. These characters are now available via Unicode. Please comment there if interested, Rjjiii (talk) 16:06, 4 June 2023 (UTC)