User talk:Rapidspace52

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Magic words
Please don't replace hard coded words with magic words when unnecessary. –xenotalk 18:24, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Mostly in templates, so that no matter when or where the template is applied, it returns a conditional type of data that isn't the same all the time. For example, if I create a template that should display the current time whenever someone looks at it, I can include . Whenever I look at that template it will always have the correct time if the template is transcluded. Or, say I am using a template that is supposed to be substituted, and I want it to display the time it was first posted. Then, I can use  in it, and when it's substituted, it will permanently display the time at posting. The reason that example came to mind is because I used it in the first manner in the template hasty when I created it. Another example might be if you want a link to a page whose name changes by condition. For example, every day, the current Articles For Deletion page is listed with the current date in it. Today's, for example is Articles for deletion/Log/2009 June 27. Tomorrow's will be the first part plus "2009 June 28" So I can't make a link to that without a magic word. The link that will always go to today's log, no matter when today is, is Articles for deletion/Log/2024 July 29, which displays as Articles for deletion/Log/2024 July 29. Does that help clear up matters?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:58, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Mostly in templates, so that no matter when or where the template is applied, it returns a conditional type of data that isn't the same all the time. For example, if I create a template that should display the current time whenever someone looks at it, I can include . Whenever I look at that template it will always have the correct time if the template is transcluded. Or, say I am using a template that is supposed to be substituted, and I want it to display the time it was first posted. Then, I can use  in it, and when it's substituted, it will permanently display the time at posting. The reason that example came to mind is because I used it in the first manner in the template hasty when I created it. Another example might be if you want a link to a page whose name changes by condition. For example, every day, the current Articles For Deletion page is listed with the current date in it. Today's, for example is Articles for deletion/Log/2009 June 27. Tomorrow's will be the first part plus "2009 June 28" So I can't make a link to that without a magic word. The link that will always go to today's log, no matter when today is, is Articles for deletion/Log/2024 July 29, which displays as Articles for deletion/Log/2024 July 29. Does that help clear up matters?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 22:58, 27 June 2009 (UTC)