Forum:No Include Categories in Templates

Categories Being Added to Templates
Could someone please show me where I'm going wrong with http://levynlight.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Character. I don't see how to get the documentation to not add the categories to the Template page. Thanks, -Xick 08:13, August 13, 2010 (UTC)

Also any formatting tips on how to get the documentation to look more like the source code with the breaks and not have it run all into one line. -Xick 08:16, August 13, 2010 (UTC) -- 09:02, August 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Either make it into a list, a table or use
 * You're using the template on the doc page and it's creating the category, obviously. Normally you can prevent categories (or any content for that matter) from being transcluded by using tags, but since the category link is embedded within the template, that's not easily possible. You could further complicate your template by creating an extra parameter that 'turns off' categorizing, but I think the easiest is to 'substitute' the template on the doc page and remove the category link manually. You have to 'resubstitute' it every time you change the template to keep the doc page up to date, but that isn't more than two minutes work. BramTalk/IGW 13:56, August 13, 2010 (UTC)


 * tags, not . -- 16:21, August 13, 2010 (UTC)


 * Instead of, you can do


 * This should only apply the category when the template is used in mainspace. -- ◄mendel► 19:51, August 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * That does work for the but  returns  the one square bracket just baffles me. FIXED can't have whitespace after value
 * The point is to not replace  in my code, since   is constant. -- ◄mendel► 13:43, August 14, 2010 (UTC)

Part 2

 * 1) How would I make that an if namespace is not Template? As I could also put that in the template:stub that this template references which would fix all the wrong categories on the template pages.
 * 2)   .png Returns .png .  How do I get it to perform the subst properly?


 * Thanks Everyone for all your help so far-Xick 21:53, August 13, 2010 (UTC) -Xick 07:08, August 14, 2010 (UTC) -Xick 08:13, August 14, 2010 (UTC)


 * Don't subst: the pagename? Or try, but I don't know if that works (probably not). -- ◄mendel► 13:47, August 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * I talked to some people on the wikimedia channel on IRC and the Subst:{pagename} would only work if I subst the template in which it's nested. I've removed the subst and it now works. Just means that if someone moves the page they'll have to rename the file such that it matches, which is probably better for housekeeping in the long run.
 * I talked to some people on the wikimedia channel on IRC and the Subst:{pagename} would only work if I subst the template in which it's nested. I've removed the subst and it now works. Just means that if someone moves the page they'll have to rename the file such that it matches, which is probably better for housekeeping in the long run.

So all that's left is I need a parser function that returns true if the Namespace is not template. -Xick 21:14, August 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * -- 21:27, August 14, 2010 (UTC)