Template talk:Quest Link

Shortening

For ease of use, I suggest we look at shortening all parts of this to make it faster and easier to type in (just makes it more likely people will use it). -- Endareth^Talk 01:29, 27 April 2006 (EDT)

How do you suggest I shorten it?Fushi 01:48, 27 April 2006 (EDT)

Perhaps change the template name to qlink, namespace to ns, and questname to quest. Making the usage: {{qliink|ns=Oblivion | quest=Escape From Prison}}. -- Endareth^Talk 02:29, 27 April 2006 (EDT)

I changed questname to quest, namespace to game (A more appropriate title), but I firmly believe in keeping names have some description in them, so I think I'm going to leave it as Quest Link. Fushi 02:31, 27 April 2006 (EDT)

Also, Oblivion:Main Quest and all the quests listed there are now using this template (the quests themselves are all sitting in the new namespaces with redirects from the former location). Fushi 02:34, 27 April 2006 (EDT)

Namespace

Is there a particular reason you're moving the pages into /Quests ? The /Description part will still work even if they're not in /Quests, so I really can't see any benefit to it, and their are disadvantages to it as it's harder to link directly to the page. -- Endareth^Talk 04:00, 27 April 2006 (EDT)

So they all have a common naming scheme, rather than some of them have -Quest tacked onto the end (namely when they share a name with a locale). Also, it provides for an automatic link at the top back to Oblivion:Quests (Thus somewhat eliminating the need for trails). Best of all, you can still link directly to the old page (in most cases). Mainly though, it's for a common naming scheme. Fushi 11:26, 27 April 2006 (EDT)

Template with a dash

Looks better IMHO. Terrible sorry if I'm wrong! User MXI 09:29, 11 May 2006 (EDT)

Yep I agree, that's how I tend to do it also. -- Endareth^Talk 20:11, 11 May 2006 (EDT)

And I will keep reverting it, because there has to be some differentiation between places and quests. Fushi 13:38, 12 May 2006 (EDT)

Game parameter

Is there any reason to keep the "game" parameter in this template? I'm pretty sure that in every single instance in which it's used, the link is in the same namespace as the quest, so there shouldn't be much need to have this option. Even on the off-chance that you did want to link to a quest in a different game, you'd probably just use a regular link and not this template, since there's probably no reason to have the quest description displayed after the name of the quest in those cases. I just changed the template such that the second un-named parameter will function as "altname", just for ease of use. It occurred to me that if anyone's actually using the "game" parameter, this might be a problem, but since I don't think anyone is, it just seems to me that it should be removed for simplicity's sake. --TheRealLurlock ^Talk 15:39, 16 November 2007 (EST)

Actually, there's a half-decent chance the game parameter is needed in a few cases, for example links to SI quests from Oblivion namespace or vice-versa (not that there is one right now, but for example, Shivering:Haskill should perhaps have a related quest link to Oblivion:Sheogorath). It's true that most of the cases where it's used are completely unnecessary and many date back to before templates had the option of having default values for parameters. But I think that deleting the option from the template itself is unnecessary and more likely to cause problems than to fix any, IMO. --Nephele^Talk 17:21, 16 November 2007 (EST)

Fight! Fight!

There seems to be something wrong with this template and Skyrim:Fight! Fight!. Might it be the exclamation marks in the quest name? Anyway, for whatever reason, this template doesn't display the quest description. Instead you just get the name of the quest by itself, although it appears to have a description in its quest header.

{{Quest Link|Fight! Fight!}} displays as

Fight! Fight!: Prove your strength by wagering on a fist fight with another. (radiant)

--Morrolan (talk) 05:31, 21 August 2013 (GMT)

Whenever something isn't displayed for a link template, it's a caching issue. A null edit will fix it. That is ALWAYS what is wrong lol Jeancey (talk) 05:35, 21 August 2013 (GMT)

How long do you have to wait for the cache to catch up? I made an edit using that particular code here a bit over 16 hours ago and have made two edits to that page since, and the description still isn't showing. Which is why I wondered if the punctuation was the problem; as far as I know, this is the only TES quest whose name ends in an exclamation point. --Morrolan (talk) 05:41, 21 August 2013 (GMT)

The edit needs to be made on the page that is being linked to, not the page that is being linked on. I looked at a page that Fight! Fight! was linked on and it was showing up fine. Jeancey (talk) 05:50, 21 August 2013 (GMT)

Yeah, that seems to have worked - thanks. It still hasn't updated the link here on this talk page though. --Morrolan (talk) 12:24, 21 August 2013 (GMT)

(←) That's because you're in a different namespace. If you were to add |ns_base=Skyrim to the end of the template, it would work. — ABCface^◥ 14:15, 21 August 2013 (GMT)

I just did to remove the red link. Jeancey (talk) 01:04, 22 August 2013 (GMT)