Board Thread:Decisions/@comment-26573805-20181208193511

Chibi's recommended starting this once the voting for his Decisions thread was over.

Anyway, that's not the point: I think ' should be used as a substituted template rather than a transcluded template. I know this is a minor thing, but still: since it is just for convenience of users who don't care to type or paste the apostrophe form we generally use here (due to it not being a keyboard character). It avoids inserting four extra bytes just for the transclusion of a template and since it's a convenience template, it's the type of template that's designed to be substituted with subst:. Also, we do allow insertion of simply "’" instead of the template by users who can insert it.

For example, instead of the word "can't" appearing as "can't" in the wiki code, it'll appear as "can’t" when typing " cant " in the code and substituting the template like that looks much neater than just transcluding it every time the apostrophe must be used. There's also nothing we'd get out of transcluding it that we can't get from substituting it so using it as a transcluded template is pretty much a waste anyway. Also, people who edit the page after it's been saved with the template substitued with the subst: tag there will see that word for example as can’t, as if the person had actually pasted and typed it in and since it's simply a template used solely for personal convenience, I think it should be used with subst:. 