Last modified: 2005-02-23 13:03:21 UTC
Template inclusion should be extended to allow category suppression. There are certain situations, such as including a template on a talk page or Wikipedia namespace page where you don't want that page to wind up in the categories defined by the template. The most logical way to do that would be to borrow the leading colon notation from the Category tags. For example, let's say I wanted to tell someone on a talk page about the GFDL template and display it as an example. I obviously don't want the talk page to wind up in Category:GFDL Images, but there's no way to avoid this. I feel that the most natural way to do this based on the current wiki syntax would be: {{:GFDL}} This would suppress any category inclusion in the template.
I know bug 835 is pretty messy in terms of comments, but it is the same issue, I promise. Also, a leading colon wouldn't be a good choice for this, because it already has a meaning wrt template inclusions: {{foo}} includes [[Template:Foo]], so you have to type {{:foo}} if you want to include just plain [[Foo]] (":" meaning "main namespace" in the same way that "Talk:" means "discussion namespace"). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 835 ***
