Template talk:Ig2

Link style
Is it possible for this template to use the little external link icon? It's a little jarring being thrown off to /idgames when it looks like a normal wikilink. - DooMAD 22:44, 9 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Completely agree. Why should this one type of external link be hidden?    Ryan W 05:10, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The link color is actually different, a paler blue, when it's an external link. On some list-heavy pages, like list of /newstuff Chronicles, the arrow icon would make the page far too busy I think; so you can instead replace ig2 templates by ig or idgames ones maybe? --Gez 12:23, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

End user brittleness
For posterity, IMO, it is suboptimal to put named and unnamed parameters in the same template. MediaWiki allows it and I don't have a use case with a preventable error, so perhaps I'm nitpicking, but I seem to recall some confusion when ultra-active editors, flitting across many Wikicities, tried to invoke our templates. With this template it was possible, e.g., for the ID value to be entered but not passed to the generated URL, producing a broken link. Ryan W (living fossil) 22:04, 18 January 2020 (CST)