Village Pump (technical) - Mysterious Behaviour of Template:Talk Other

Mysterious Behaviour of Template:Talk Other

The template {{talk other}} takes two positional parameters, and returns the first if used on a talk page, and returns the second if used on a non-talk page. Thus,

{{talk other|This is a talk page|This is a subject page}} returns This is a subject page

when used here. However, it breaks if all or part of the second parameter is wrapped in :



{{talk other|This is a talk page|This is a }} returns


(i.e. nothing). I spotted this because I found a case of {{edit semi-protected}} being used on an article here, when searching for bad edits by this anon. It should have shown Error: Semi-protected edit requests should only be made on the talk page. and put the page into Category:Non-talk pages requesting an edit to a semi-protected page, but did neither of these. If I amend {{edit semi-protected}} to remove the class="error", it works. I've determined that if the  has no attributes, it works - but as soon as it's given an attribute, whether class= id= or style=, regardless of whether the attribute has a value or not, the whole of the second positional parameter is ignored. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:41, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

Try this:

{{talk other|This is a talk page|This is a subject page}} returns This is a subject page


Otherwise the equals sign is interpreted as part of the template syntax. Jafeluv (talk) 16:15, 14 December 2012 (UTC)


Or this:

{{talk other|1=This is a talk page|2=This is a  -- WOSlinker (talk) 16:23, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

 Ah yes, that would do it; or even

{{talk other|This is a talk page|2=This is a }} returns This is a subject page



which is a bot more "obvious". Thank you --Redrose64 (talk) 16:25, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

All non-user pages now fixed up. Some had carried the {{edit semi-protected}} for over a year. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:59, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

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