Template talk:Multistub/doc

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This templete does not seem to work. Only the first stub generates a templete. {{multistub| Lit| TV}} gives

This short article about literature can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.

This is by design (read the documentation!)

Any space before the | seperator generates an error such as {{multistub| Lit | TV}} gives Template:Lit -stub

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Brian R Hunter (talk • contribs)

The first part is on purpose. We created it to prevent more than one stub sentence being shown while still putting the article in two categories. You will notice the documentation tells you this "This template can be used to transclude multiple stub templates into a single article while only one stub is displayed on that article." The second I will take a look to see if there is a way around it. Really its mostly recommended to just choose one stub and use it. This template was mostly created as a reaction to an IP hopper that refused to listen to how we generally only use one stub per article and was putting 5+ etc on articles. Because they IP hopped so much blocking them was hard. -DJSasso (talk) 14:34, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that makes a lot of sense (even more now I've read the doc!). I'm still new on simple.wikipedia and was looking for a better stub than TV as the article is a radio/book/TV/movie multi-topic. I have settled on Lit for now. -- Brian R Hunter (talk) 14:47, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah our stub system is much less compex. A very long time ago it was decided we didn't need to have the complicated system of sorting stubs en did and we decided to make it "hard" to create new stubs and mostly just grandfather what we have instead of removing them all in order to prevent people coming over just to sort stubs without adding any real value, you can read a bit about it at Wikipedia:Simple Stub Project. So there isn't always a perfect stub for every subject type. Using the generic stub template sometimes is all you can do. In this case lit does seem to work. -DJSasso (talk) 14:51, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]