Thread:OH&S/@comment-25364614-20190805140334

Inconvenience
This franchise has gotten huge over the last 15 years with multiple different series across multiple different formats. As the franchise has grown, it has become more inconvenient to link to the various media pages on this wiki without typing the full page name:

This is especially inconvenient when referencing source material in regular articles.

Solution
To address this inconvenience, I have created the following new quick link templates that (after learning how to use) should make contributors life easy when referencing and linking to media pages for light novels, manga and anime:
 * Template:Qvl - Quick Volume Link
 * Template:Qcl - Quick (Manga) Chapter Link
 * Template:Qnl - Quick Novel (Chapter) Link
 * Template:Qal - Quick Anime Link

These templates are now available for general use and should make future links and references to source material and media pages easier, systematic and take up less space. After reading up on the documentation for these templates, you will be able to link to the above examples as follows:

Scope

 * These templates are easy to update when new series are added to the franchise e.g. Dark Matter manga; LN Series Part 3.
 * There shouldn't be a rush to wiki pages to replace previous wikilinks to media pages with these new templates; the templates are only for new links made from now onward.
 * A bot account will deal with previously made wikilinks.

Syntax Highlighting

 * In order to aid the future use of these new templates, the source editor will now highlight these quick link templates purple to distinguish them from regular templates.
 * Template:Nihongo; Template:Link color and Template:Update have all also been given a new orange highlight.
 * The details of the custom syntax highlighting can be found on MediaWiki:Custom-SyntaxHighlighter. 