Thread:Adnoam/@comment-83.216.95.180-20170823172809/@comment-26115937-20170927105716

Now that I've had more time to explore the wiki, the templates, the needs of various pages and also see some of Adnoam's ongoing revisions, here is my revised view on what we should do.

I like the approach that Adnoam took with ActionResult - i.e. a full functionality template that may not be massively user-friendly in itself but offer the flexibility and is then wrapped in a range of other simpler templates for ease of use.

So I'd propose creating a new templare, call it, say which would have all the fields that the current Card and Storylet templates take. In addition, as I suggested above, I'd also include the ContentType paremeter (what I called Source above - Card, Storylet or "Plain"/Redirect), the Urgency parameter (with Category:Autofire renamed to Category:MustUrgency), and maybe even the CardBorder parameter.

Then the existing Card, Storylet and Autofire templates would just be wrappers. If I understand correctly, this should both address Adnoam's earlier concern about using bots (since only the templates themselves would need to be re-coded - all pages that actually use  Card and Storylet  templates should remain unaffected,  Autofire might require some twiddling but there aren't as many pages using that at the moment ) and Rahv7's concerns about not overloading on parameters (since the simpler templates would be retained). For special cases like Light Fingers 11, we could then use the underlying {{|Root} template since those would be rare.