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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]