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Interstate Highways deletion

Seeing as Category:Lists of Interstate Highways sharing the same title was deleted last year, should the documentation be updated to merge that part with Category:Road disambiguation pages which it was merged with? QuietHere (talk | contributions) 07:08, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

|ignore_parentheses=yes and Category:Disambiguation pages with (qualified) titles

Since we already have |ignore_parentheses=yes (for displaying the article name within the template), IMO it would make sense that the few dab pages with this parameter setting would also automatically be excluded from Category:Disambiguation pages with (qualified) titles. (There may also be good reasons against this, and the template coding is a little bit too complicated to change this myself at this point.) – sgeureka ^t•c 07:11, 18 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"T:DAB" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect T:DAB has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 February 13 § T:DAB until a consensus is reached. Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 13:09, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Formatting of page title

Earlier, I noticed that on my phone, this template looks a bit off on /r/, because it gets split across two lines—the initial "/" is on one line and the "r/" after it is on the next line, which is really ugly. I tried fixing it by adding page-title={{nowrap|/r/}}, but unfortunately this broke the "internal link" link. TTWIDEE (talk) 19:44, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@TTWIDEE: I don't see that edit - or indeed anything anything recent - in the page history. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:43, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Redrose64 I tried making that edit to /r/, but I didn't publish it, because when I looked at the edit preview, I saw that the "internal link" link was broken, even though it would have fixed the issue with "/r/" getting split across two lines, and I figured that the "internal link" link being broken would be worse than "/r/" being split across two lines. Try making the edit yourself (on a phone, of course) to see what I mean. (Although, I imagine you might get different results depending on the width of your phone.)

We'll probably have to edit this template in order to make it possible to change the formatting of the page title without breaking the "internal link" link. TTWIDEE (talk) 06:27, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have a smartphone, and even if I did, wouldn't use it for editing Wikipedia. Threads at WP:VPT and elsewhere have shown that smart phone editing can be difficult, and often creates problems. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 06:43, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I realise that phone editing can be a pain for large edits or for when you want to change lots of complicated markup, but for simple edits like the edit I recently attempted on /r/, it's not too hard. Using a phone is beneficial in this case, because the problem I was trying to fix is a layout issue on mobile, so it's handy to have a mobile preview. TTWIDEE (talk) 06:57, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]