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This template was considered for deletion on 2016 December 5. The result of the discussion was "Keep". |
This template is used to insert the character | with its easier-to-remember PostScript name Pipe instead of its difficult-to-remember Unicode number. In case the character can be inserted without using the Unicode number or PostScript name, the template is used to insert the character when it conflicts with the mark-up language of the wiki.
This template can be used for inserting an International Phonetic Alphabet symbol, or a non-IPA symbol in an allophonic rule.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 2004-12-29T22:45Z (talk • contribs) 20:41, 25 July 2005
Is there any specific reason why this template is using the ǀ
"ǀ
", instead of the more compatible |
"|
" ? I tried in all three of my browsers (Firefox 2, IE 5.5 and Opera 9), and none of them can render the ǀ
. Well, Opera renders a very fat pipe instead, but that is what it renders for any character that it doesn't know how to render. (And yes, I use a fairly old Windows, but there are many users out there with old computers.)
--David Göthberg (talk) 09:52, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
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.SMcCandlish: You redirected this {{pipe}} template to {{!}} with the edit comment: "Duplicate functionality, and this version has had too many problems reported, also deprecated in the "See also"s of some other templates."
It was not duplicate functionality. {{pipe}} supplied a pipe character that did not interfere with MediaWiki template syntax. Thus now that you changed it to redirect to {{!}} you broke the old usage of {{pipe}}. However as you also kind of pointed out the naming is probably confusing and causes mix-ups with {{!}}, so it might be better to get rid of this template's old functionality. (There are better separators than pipes that people can use.)
So I suggest either you revert yourself so this template gets its old functionality. Or you should fix the remaining cases that used {{pipe}}, since they are now broken. (And don't forget to do something about the usage instructions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Xbox#Note.) I'll leave it to you to decide which way to fix this.
--David Göthberg (talk) 12:46, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
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". Oh, I just checked, we already have that explanation over at {{!}}. Good.End of section that was moved here from Wikipedia:Requested moves#Incomplete and contested proposals.
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Please add {{subst:tfm|!|type=tiny}}
to the top of this template as it has been nominated for merging Pppery 00:07, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
Please do not use the Unicode ǀ (which produces ǀ) since that does not work in all web browsers. It is also slightly smaller than |.
— Template:Pipe/doc
That's the Unicode character for a dental click. Even if it worked in all web browsers, it should never be used as a pipe – its semantics are completely different. Why is it even mentioned here? I don't see how it's relevant to the template. jlwoodwa (talk) 17:43, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
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