A alternative to name changes and updates.

**CloseOne**

{{PAGENAME}}
...it is what it says. In the wiki, this will make the page's name appear. Why would this be important? Well, suppose you happen to find out Malcolm's name in NA Mabinogi was suddenly changed to Malthus. Now, this would mean 16 changes to his name in ex-Malcolm's page...because, well, I counted them. Now, suppose the whole page had {{PAGENAME}} instead of Malcolm. With a simple move of the page, the names within the page change too. Of course, the previous names that are mentioned outside that page will not be affected and may require manual editing of the name.

Would the use of {{PAGENAME}} be useful in pages where it is necessary for that page to be moved because of a new name?

By the way, this Talk page helped me remember this...code or whatever.

**Hark** · 11:06 PM

Hrm. I think it's a clever use for the macro, but I feel like the benefits really aren't that great. Changing 1000 instances of "X" to "Y" isn't hard at all (for most purposes) -- you just throw it through sed and that'll take care of everything.

Also, how does {{PAGENAME}} behave with a redirect, I wonder.

EDIT: Looks like it handles redirects fine, if anyone was wondering

EDIT2: Also, you know. If they change names, we're going to have to go through a bunch of pages anyway and correct it, since a bunch of pages refer to "Malcolm" other than the main article. If you really wanted to devise such a system, you could make a template for each name which can change, and substitute that in everywhere (please don't). Doing that would be overkill I think D:

EDIT3: I just saw your comments on Category talk:Monsters, and have to say I think using {{PAGENAME}} to refer to images (ie [[Image:{{PAGENAME}}.gif]]) is a terrible idea -- it imposes restrictions on both the file format and the naming convention which I think are unnecessary. If you want to put an image in the template, just use a named parameter or something :x

**CloseOne** · 11:22 AM

Yeah, I guess...it's not that big of a change nor is it that helpful...

No prob. Just an idea anyways, maybe it'll be useful in the future.

Woops, sorry for double post...thought I editted...

Bleh whatever, just wanted to edit the title..."An" not "A"...anyways good night sleep an extra 5 hours to play an extra 20 tomorrow...

That can't be healthy.