Template talk:G

What does G stand for? This seems like a silly way to save five characters, especially since when reading the wikicode, it's easier to parse [[Pokémon breeding]] than {{g|breeding}}. Plus, the former doesn't require a template invocation. — Laoris _(Blah) 16:48, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure G was for game, originally, although this template is useful for linking to things like Pokémon breeding and Pokémon battle. It seems that we use it mostly for ease, so people don't have to find the e-acute. --((Marton imos)) 05:11, 26 January 2009 (UTC)

Okay folks.

No more using {{g}} to replace good old placement of Pokémon whatever. It was originally there for use by all of the games, before we moved them to their real names. Now it'd only see use for Colo/XD. Then someone had the bright idea to change every aspect of [[Pokémon Trainer]] to {{g|Trainer}}! What's worse? Well then someone decided "OH HEY, I KNOW! LET'S JUST USE THE TEMPLATE WITHOUT PARAMETERS" and we get things like Pikachu is a {{g|}}. Now, I know, Pikachu's straight-up, y'all. But really. Honestly. The G in this template was supposed to stand for game. It's not meant to be a stand-in for the thing that this wiki is all about, especially since you're writing it out anyway when you link it. Pokémon Trainer. Easy as anything. Noobs barely understand the concept of link templates anyway, let's not make it MORE difficult.

I move for the deletion of (or at the very least, very heavy restriction on the use of) this template. This has become the ultimate in laziness templates. Pikachu is a Pokémon ... Honestly. TTEchidna 00:51, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

I feel that, at the very least, we should rig the template so that, if anyone tries to use {{g|}} to link to Pokémon, we have it display "Lazy, lazy!" (or a similar message) instead, as well as add any page that uses it this way put into a special category; the category would note that the pages in it use the template improperly and that the link should be changed to a proper link. We can work in other lazy uses into displaying similar messages the future, but at the very least, we should get rid of the most lazy use now. --Shiningpikablu252 03:07, 16 April 2009 (UTC)