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: Good catch. We should check with [[User:Dugo|Dugo]] to make sure it's OK, but then we can do more or less as you suggest, and move the page to be sub-page of their User: page, although I'll have to look up how to include one page in another (which is presumably the reason they used a Template: page). [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 01:30, 9 April 2019 (CEST) | : Good catch. We should check with [[User:Dugo|Dugo]] to make sure it's OK, but then we can do more or less as you suggest, and move the page to be sub-page of their User: page, although I'll have to look up how to include one page in another (which is presumably the reason they used a Template: page). [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 01:30, 9 April 2019 (CEST) | ||
: Oh, it turns out to be simple; the <nowiki>{{}}</nowiki> syntax can transclude pages/sub-pages from namespaces other than Template:, all one has to do is specify the namespace. So <nowiki>{{User:Dugo/My sandbox}}</nowiki> will do it. (I used to know all this stuff back when I was an active admin on Wikipedia, but I've forgotten a lot of it, had to look it up! :-) [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 05:04, 9 April 2019 (CEST) | : Oh, it turns out to be simple; the <nowiki>{{}}</nowiki> syntax can transclude pages/sub-pages from namespaces other than Template:, all one has to do is specify the namespace. So <nowiki>{{User:Dugo/My sandbox}}</nowiki> will do it. (I used to know all this stuff back when I was an active admin on Wikipedia, but I've forgotten a lot of it, had to look it up! :-) [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 05:04, 9 April 2019 (CEST) | ||
| + | :: yes, but my point was rather that this is a page that looks and feels just like a sandbox page, i.e. lots of random stuff scattered around. I bet it is not designed to be transcluded into other pages (and as of this writing, it has exactly 0 active transclusions except from the user's page itself) so I don't understand why this needs to be a template at all... --[[User:Darkstar|Darkstar]] ([[User talk:Darkstar|talk]]) 14:21, 9 April 2019 (CEST) | ||
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Why is this a template? Shouldn't this be a regular page, preferably a sub-page under the owners' user page? --Darkstar (talk) 00:57, 9 April 2019 (CEST)
- Good catch. We should check with Dugo to make sure it's OK, but then we can do more or less as you suggest, and move the page to be sub-page of their User: page, although I'll have to look up how to include one page in another (which is presumably the reason they used a Template: page). Jnc (talk) 01:30, 9 April 2019 (CEST)
- Oh, it turns out to be simple; the {{}} syntax can transclude pages/sub-pages from namespaces other than Template:, all one has to do is specify the namespace. So {{User:Dugo/My sandbox}} will do it. (I used to know all this stuff back when I was an active admin on Wikipedia, but I've forgotten a lot of it, had to look it up! :-) Jnc (talk) 05:04, 9 April 2019 (CEST)
- yes, but my point was rather that this is a page that looks and feels just like a sandbox page, i.e. lots of random stuff scattered around. I bet it is not designed to be transcluded into other pages (and as of this writing, it has exactly 0 active transclusions except from the user's page itself) so I don't understand why this needs to be a template at all... --Darkstar (talk) 14:21, 9 April 2019 (CEST)
