Template talk:Summoner

Link to Kiran
I think the link should be optional because I intended for the template to mimic the game text for the Summoner's name. (I know that the in-game code for the summoner's name is something like . I wanted to represent this in a similar but more readable fashion.) Linking by default also ruins the format of hero quotes pages, which don't include links to any other characters pages. Markfeh (talk) 07:02, 28 February 2019 (UTC) Links are colored for a reason, and allows people to see that it is a link. There is also no way to retrieve the background color of text so you would have to code the color. Doing this harms accessibility in general because it is not guaranteed to work and appear the same on all skins or for users using custom CSS(it would be unreadable on a simple dark mode skin), and would not be able to account for if the background text color in CSS was changed. I think it is unreasonable to do something like that purely because of your personal preferences of link color/aesthetics. Endilyn (talk) 03:55, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Hero quote pages do and should include links to other character pages. Some quote pages do this and you can check some old revisions like of pages like Cain: The Bull/Quotes for examples. When quote pages were batch converted some existing links were just removed because they were recreated from the game files and a bot obviously cannot determine what to link to. This change does not "ruin" Hero quote pages. I do not see how this linking or unlinking changes the ability of this template to mimic the game. The quoted text is the exact same whether it is linked or not. If you're going the technical route and saying that "the game has no links, so therefore nothing should be linked", well then this template is already inaccurate by the fact that it displays [Summoner] instead of $Nu, or it is inaccurate because the text is colored black and not white with a black outline, and so on. There is nothing more accurate than simply taking screenshots and pasting them, but that would not be good for several reasons. The game's content is adapted for the web on this wiki, and the information being conveyed here, the exact text, is represented accurately. It is also impossible to misrepresent this text because it does not use links in the first place. If it did, we would do something similar to notifications where wiki links and the actual news links are distinguished. Endilyn (talk) 07:04, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
 * That makes sense, now that I think about it right should be a link by default. What's really bothering me is the light blue coloring of that text. Could I change it to black to match the rest of the text, or is that an unreasonable request? ( I also feel like it looks strange of the brackets are part of the link text.) Markfeh (talk) 07:14, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
 * The entire variable is the subject of the link, not the word "Summoner", so the whole thing should be linked.