User talk:Celierra Darling/Sandbox

RE: P.S. about <noinclude>

I think every way will relay basically on the same option (<noinclude>-tags). Another implementation would be to define a tester variable that only operates on the article. Like

<noinclude>{{#vardefine:test|*}}</noinclude>

on top of the artcile and use

{{Specific Instruction|{{#var:test|}}|text}}

to call the template. I don't think it's an improvement of your version. Just another way to do the same thing.
Lynch ^{(talk|contribs)} 18:11, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, that does seem more compact and probably less obfuscatory. I'm a little nervous about nesting, though (what happens if a page that itself defines #var:test includes another one that also uses #var:test). But maybe the names would just need to be page-specific, i.e.

<noinclude>{{#vardefine:onCMake|*}}</noinclude>

I'll try it out. Thanks for the idea! Celierra Darling 20:33, 5 January 2009 (UTC)