Forum:Too many template calls

Hello, a page of mine was added in the category for pages with too many templates, can someone give me more infos, like which is the limit or how can I count the template calls in a page? This way I can set up better that page.


 * And just to be safe, is there a limit on how many images ca I add in a page? (I guess there is...)


 * I'm unaware of any publicly announced Wikia policy on this matter, but Wikipedia definitely have an informational page on it at wikipedia:WP:TLIMIT. The nuts and bolts of it is that the limit is on the "complexity" of a page, not really just the number of templates. Templates, after all, come in all different shapes and sizes.  Some of them are super-complex, with nested parser functions and the whole nine yards.  Others are just raw text dumps. So all the various functions on a page are given a "rank", and all these ranks are added together, but must be lower than 1000000.  The rank is called a "preprocessor node count", which, to my ear, totally sounds like Star Trek technobabble.  You can find the PPNC of any page by looking at the raw HTML of a page and searching for "NewPP".


 * This page, for instance, has the following "PP" (or did, prior to my additions):


 * NewPP limit report
 * Preprocessor node count: 71/1000000
 * Post-expand include size: 2438/2097152 bytes
 * Template argument size: 126/2097152 bytes
 * Expensive parser function count: 0/100


 * So it's not really a set number of templates, but rather how the page measures against the PPNC, as well as the other three metrics. On very few occasions will a page even come close to these limits.  As you can see, this page barely registers on the scale.  But as you start using more and more templates on a page, you'll want to just check to see how close you're coming to the ceiling.  04:11: Thu 14 Jun 2012