Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Why the rush?/reply (3)

Well, I think it's quite major. We should work this out more before making any changes, because it has a wide effect on many templates, not just the linking templates. It's a complete change in standard practice across Wiktionary. For example, it would also affect templates like, and others. Anything that's used to link to another entry in one way or another.

Personally, I'm not decided whether a change is even desirable. The nice thing about and the likes is that the two term parameters mimic how plain wikilinks work. somewhat resembles, which is a bonus for those who understand wikicode and only need to learn Wiktionary's practice. It makes the practice relatively simple: take the existing plain wikilink, remove the square brackets, and wrap it inside. However, if we are to change anything at all, I think the best whould be to move the gloss down one parameter, and use  for the display form.

In any case, renaming and  to  doesn't really have anything to do with that, because it only affects one template and does not affect any proposed change in the parameters.