Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-25917576-20190716124318/@comment-5218827-20190716132217

Uhh, because there isn't a storage crisis going on at Fandom that would necessitate corner cutting at the byte level? At least there's not one I'm aware of. Plus RAM evolved past 1kb in 1972, so that again isn't a problem. In my opinion there are far more confusing source-layer aspects that need to be done away with - stuff like using {1} which intimidates even me due to the fact that unless you were the one who wrote it, it's impossible to understand without comments, or nested templates within nested templates.

I really don't see your point. Piped links can be very useful when shortening an article's name - instead of typing:

"Movie Instalment 2, when compared to Movie Instalment 3, attained a higher commercial box office..." You could instead type: "Movie Instalment 2, when compared to its sequel, attained a higher commercial box office..."

No meaning is lost, repetition is avoided, and it improves the aesthetics of the page. If it's really that confusing to many inexperienced users, then perhaps they shouldn't contribute until they learn the correct etiquette?