Template talk:SpecialCharsNote

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Use at top to link to a FOOTER under the banner "Special characters". Place SpecialChars tag under the Footer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stevertigo (talk • contribs) 00:47, 25 March 2005 (UTC)

New anchor suggestion

 * Also posted in Template talk:SpecialChars.

It would be possible to specify an anchor by adding the  attribute to the   tag in SpecialChars. This would remove the necessity of adding a special header—which often looks clunkyanyway—and ensure that anywhere SpecialChars and SpecialCharsNote are used together they will work properly. I suggest using " " as the anchor text. I also suggest altering the wording slightly so that people actually expect to click for an explanation.

SpecialCharsNote would therefore contain:

and SpecialChars would start:

—Phil | Talk 14:09, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Usage
In seems many uses of this template are incomplete and miss the second template. WilliamKF 03:06, 15 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Also it seems like having the explaination on each page is excessive, why not just have the suffice with it linking to a single location instead of to a footnote on the same page at the bottom.  Seems like a waste of space and a distraction to the articles using it. WilliamKF 03:37, 15 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Agreed.. how about making it link to meta:Help:Special characters? Mlm42 12:48, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Nominated for deletion
This template was nominated for deletion on March 4, 2006. The result was keep. The archived discussion can be found here. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 00:36, 11 March 2006 (UTC)