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I feel like this template is just bad practice. There is no need to have 5 different ways to write yes/no. Simple switch statement and using always 1/0/#default is enough and is a lot less expensive than calling template with parameters and is more readable since #switch is well explained and documented while with this you need to look at what this particular template does --[[User:Nescius|Nescius]] ([[User talk:Nescius|talk]]) 13:47, 1 August 2024 (PDT) | I feel like this template is just bad practice. There is no need to have 5 different ways to write yes/no. Simple switch statement and using always 1/0/#default is enough and is a lot less expensive than calling template with parameters and is more readable since #switch is well explained and documented while with this you need to look at what this particular template does --[[User:Nescius|Nescius]] ([[User talk:Nescius|talk]]) 13:47, 1 August 2024 (PDT) | ||
:It's a very inexpensive template that doesn't really hurt anything (trying it on my sandbox, it takes .938 seconds to use it 1,000 times), and it standardizes a certain set of values that are used on Wikipedia and other wikis very regularly (in fact, Module:Yesno is the second most commonly used module on English Wikipedia, and it along with template:yesno are used more than any single template/module). Allowing for most reasonable variations of "yes" and "no" and using all of the same values as Wikipedia makes it much easier for newcomers to edit pages. | |||
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unnecessary template
I feel like this template is just bad practice. There is no need to have 5 different ways to write yes/no. Simple switch statement and using always 1/0/#default is enough and is a lot less expensive than calling template with parameters and is more readable since #switch is well explained and documented while with this you need to look at what this particular template does --Nescius (talk) 13:47, 1 August 2024 (PDT)
- It's a very inexpensive template that doesn't really hurt anything (trying it on my sandbox, it takes .938 seconds to use it 1,000 times), and it standardizes a certain set of values that are used on Wikipedia and other wikis very regularly (in fact, Module:Yesno is the second most commonly used module on English Wikipedia, and it along with template:yesno are used more than any single template/module). Allowing for most reasonable variations of "yes" and "no" and using all of the same values as Wikipedia makes it much easier for newcomers to edit pages.