Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-33878615-20160620040544

This is a template which I use on a wiki:

Here are some examples of how it works:

 * → (first appearance of original Foo) (link to article “Foo”)
 * → (first appearance of original Foo) (link to article “Bar”)
 * → (first appearance of the original Foo) (link to article “Bar”)
 * → (first appearance of original Foo) (link to article “Foo”)

This is almost perfect; however, I want the “the” to be a parameter. Now, I am not too experienced with parameters of this sort; therefore, I require some help.

I want it all to function the same as it does now, except I want the last example to be or, alternatively (and better) (if possible),.

I want to add the “the” article using a parameter, instead of having to use the same word twice.

I.e., instead of using, I would use or  instead (or something similar). I just want it to be a little easier, and I do not wish to use “Foo” twice in the template, as it is unnecessary if there is a workaround for this.

To sum it up, I want the template to function as it functions now, but if the word which appears in the template is the same as the name of the article it links to, and it should have a “the” therewithin, one would not need to type the same word (in this case “Foo”) twice in the template.

I hope that my problem is not too hard to understand.  