Template talk:Welcomeanon-meta

Requested move
Template:Welcomeanon-meta → Template:Welcome-anon – Welcome-anon is basically broken and serves little purpose because instead of being a stand-alone template, it is (for reasons unknown) a transclusion portal to the meta template which is, except for a clunky parser function (which, on a separate front, should be changed to mimic the code in Welcomeip, identical to the meta template.

What this means is that when you attempt to substitute welcome-anon, instead of substituting the template as intended, the template changes to the other. Another words, when you type, the result is not substitution but a change of the code to. However, because you are no longer in edit mode, what you see is the template's text, and since it is the same, there's nothing to indicate that the template wasn't successfully substituted. The only way you would know it's still transcluding (hasn't successfully substituted) is if you click edit again and, if you're like me, see the new and unsubstituted template link, scratch your head and say, "huh?".

Thus, the present role of welcome-anon serves no purpose but to confuse and deceive, and taxes resources by requiring two edits where only one should be necessary. More problematically, it also leaves behind an unsubstituted template whenever someone doesn't go back into edit mode and discover the mess. The author of both these templates is no longer active, so it is not possible to inquire why they were produced in this manner. The reason I have proposed the move in the direction I have, is that Welcome-anon appears, by my anecdotal observation, to be used far more often than is the meta template. The preceding text is a duplicate of that posted at Requested moves--Fuhghettaboutit 05:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC)