Template talk:RM top

Problems with including external links in the parameter

More than once, I've "lost" my closing comments because I included an single-square-bracket-enclosed external link with URL parameters. For whatever technical reason, this cause the entire parameter to be discarded and only the "page moved" default gets retained. For example:

{{subst:RM top|'''not moved'''. It is an acronym, so might be SEMATECH, SeMaTech, or Sematech in WP Style. Google NGrams shows a preference for lowercase until 2004, for allcaps since then[http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Sematech%2CSEMATECH&year_start=1980&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3]. A commercial news search also shows about 600 hits for SEMATECH in the last year vs. 164 for the downcased version. -- }} {{subst:RM bottom}}

yields

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The result of the move request was: page moved. JHunterJ (talk) 16:28, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

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Anyone with better technical abilities know how to mitigate this? -- JHunterJ (talk) 16:25, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

workaround solution

See Help:Template#Usage hints and workarounds:

• An unnamed parameter cannot contain an ordinary equals sign, as this would be interpreted as setting off a named parameter. (This does not apply if the equals sign comes within another template call or other item which the parser handles separately.) To pass an equals sign in an unnamed parameter (for example in a URL with key/value pairs), replace the equals sign with the special template {{=}}, which returns an equals sign that will not be specially interpreted. Another method is to replace the unnamed parameter (and any subsequent unnamed parameters) with named parameters — the first unnamed parameter is equivalent to a named parameter with the name "1", and so on. So to call template {{done}} with the parameter "a=b", type either {{done|a{{=}}b}} or {{done|1=a=b}}.

The following discussion is an archived 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. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved. It is an acronym, so might be SEMATECH, SeMaTech, or Sematech in WP Style. Google NGrams shows a preference for lowercase until 2004, for allcaps since then [1]. A commercial news search also shows about 600 hits for SEMATECH in the last year vs. 164 for the downcased version. -- Wbm1058 (talk) 23:43, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

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—Wbm1058 (talk) 23:43, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Archive color

The archive color seems to be uniformly green. This is somewhat confusing when the result is a non-move, where {{archive top red}} would probably be better choice since {{archive top green}} usually indicates a successful request. Would it be worthwhile to try and add a parameter or automatic recognition of an unsuccessful request so that the archive box color changes? Wug·a·po·des​ 03:16, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

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NAC parameter overrides PMC

The non-admin closure parameter overrides the PMC one. I feel like this should be switched so that PMC overrides NAC, since users might be confused and want to use both. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 22:13, 28 January 2022 (UTC)