Template talk:What links here

Requested move 8 July 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: page not moved. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 15:47, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

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Template:What links here → Template:WhatLinksHere – Since Special:WhatLinksHere is what this is a frontend for, I figure for symmetry, title the template the same, and redirect alternate formattings. I found out the template name didn't match when I went to use it and muscle memory-ed in the Special page name. 47.155.41.201 (talk) 05:15, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

• Mild oppose - I empathize with the rationale, but the CamelCase feels worse somehow than the natural phrasing. No objection to the creation of a redirect, though, since I understand the muscle memory concern. -- Netoholic @ 06:31, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Mild oppose move - There's already a Template:Whatlinkshere redirect. I've gone ahead and created Template:WhatLinksHere as a redirect since that seems like it'd satisfy the muscle memory concern with less of a challenge (even if the template was moved, that'd leave a redirect at Template:What links here (unless someone wants to clean up all of the existing uses, which seems like a waste of time), so redirecting one or the other should be functionally identical). Pokechu22 (talk) 18:18, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

• Comment. All the special pages use CamelCase. Glancing at mw:Manual:Special pages, my guess is that it may be a technical restriction based on how the MediaWiki software is currently coded, and how each special page is directly tied to a separate PHP script file. There is no such restriction on template pages. Zzyzx11 (talk) 05:40, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

Oppose. Templates should be readable. See WP:TPN. Gonnym (talk) 14:30, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

BASEPAGENAME

I think defaulting to BASEPAGENAME would be more useful than PAGENAME. jlwoodwa (talk) 03:25, 20 August 2023 (UTC)