Template talk:If

I thought the whole reason for the parserfunctions was to do away with the server loading that such logic templates created. My understand is that this sort of logic template is deprecated for that reason, in favor of the following existence test. That is what is documented on meta as best practice.

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Or am I mistaken about the performance hit/ what this template does / what is considered best practice? ~  Ph l o x  03:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

adding a deprecated note
Per discussion on Forum:Server loading due to complex templates?, unless there is comment to the contrary, in two weeks I shall be adding a comment that this template is deprecated in favour of the corresponding parserfunction syntax for the equivalent functionality (see meta help for description of how #ifeq: can be used to do this same thing.) ~  Ph l o x  05:02, 1 October 2007 (UTC)