Editing Template talk:Error (section)

== Category, anchor and merge ==

{{tl|FormattingError}} also adds pages with errors to a category, so it is easy to find pages that have formatting errors. It also adds an anchor to the page where the error occurs (#FormattingError). I'd like to put similar functionality for {{tl|Error}} and use {{tl|Error}} in {{tl|FormattingError}}, so the layout and such of both can be modified in one place. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;— [[User:SkyLined|<span style="font-family: monospace, monospace; color:#008000;">SkyLined</span>]] <small>([[User_talk:SkyLined|talk]])</small> 08:41, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
: I wouldn't mind. I initially created this simply the way we output errors in a centralized place, in case the way the MediaWiki parser function extension ever changes how it evaluates errors. Categorizing them (probably overridable via a <code><nowiki>{{{categories}}}</nowiki></code> template) certainly makes sense, although I expect that there'll be lots of false positives at first with various uses on template doc pages.<br>What do you mean by modifying the layout though? Error tags should be styled in the skin css files, I'd think. [[User talk:Amalthea|<span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#832">Amalthea</span>]] 11:51, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
:Re: ''false positives'': {{tl|FormattingError}} has an optional '''nocategory=true''' argument that can be used to prevent the category from being added. Any template that uses it should also implement this argument and pass it on, so that pages that create errors on purpose (such as doc pages) will not end up in a "pages with errors" category.

:Re: ''modifying layout'': No matter how they are styled, they should be styled in the same way. Currently, if we should decide to make a change to the layout that requires a change to the HTML, we would have to modifyin both {{tl|Error}} and {{tl|FormattingError}}. If we make {{tl|FormattingError}} into a wrapper for {{tl|Error}}, we would only need to update one template.

: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;— [[User:SkyLined|<span style="font-family: monospace, monospace; color:#008000;">SkyLined</span>]] <small>([[User_talk:SkyLined|talk]])</small> 16:08, 13 November 2009 (UTC)