Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Bot run to replace e.g. l ca ... with e.g. l/ca ... whenever possible./reply (2)

I think it should be discussed directly.

My understanding had been that these templates were intended for pages like [[water]] where slowness was a specific issue and micro-optimizations were worthwhile. If we're going to ditch that approach and just use them everywhere, then for one thing, we should rename them to something more user-facing. The name (e.g.) was crafted to convey "really this is just  . . . please ignore our guts".