Template talk:Cbb link

#ifexist limit

According to this announcement, #ifexist calls will be limited to 100 per page by 12-9-07. This template currently makes 5 calls to that function, thus the {{cbb link}} template won't work for any schedules with more than 20 games, which is a shame because this template is so useful. The template is using the parser function to look for articles with the following name:

1. (year) (team) (sex) basketball team - 2007-08 Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball team
2. (team) (sex) basketball - Virginia Tech Hokies men's basketball
3. (team) basketball - Virginia Tech Hokies basketball
4. (team) - Virginia Tech Hokies
5. (school) athletics - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University athletics ...and if none of these exist, it uses:
6. (school) - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

I propose that cases #3 and #5 be eliminated. I believe #3 is checked in case men's and women's teams are combined on a single page (or if it's simply a men's page that hasn't been named according to our implied convention - WP:WPCBB is really unclear). These pages should be separated by sex, and renamed accordingly. I'm not aware of any pages named like #5, and think the link will work just as well going directly to the (school) page if none of the others exist. If we reduce the #ifexist calls to 3 per {{cbb link}}, that will accomodate 33 uses per page, which should cover most team schedules. Thoughts?

In addition, I think we should state in this template's documentation that once a season article exists (case #1), a direct link should be used rather than a transcluded {{cbb link}}. Hoof Hearted (talk) 14:17, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes ... that's reasonable. I think we should take it one step further, though, and have a separate template that doesn't even include the year. The "so what" of that is that a random minor conference team like Murray State or someone will never have a season page. So that would drop it to two uses of the template to link to them. Really, Schoolname mascots ought to always redirect to Schoolname#Athletics so in an ideal world, we could do it with just one #ifexists. --B (talk) 15:43, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

That adds another layer of complexity to our situation, but I agree it's a viable option. I'd rather determine if it's necessary before building a second template (i.e., will my proposal take care of all the problem articles with one template). I just split my rankings page into men's and women's versions, but there are still too many ifexist calls — and they would all be "major" conferences. By the end of the season, each individual Poll could have more than 33 uses of {{cbb link}}, so I may be stuck.  :-( Hoof Hearted (talk) 17:17, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

I still think subst:'ing the template where the usage results in #1 usage, which is the ideal usage, is the best. We completely eliminate the need to ever check again once that page exists. MECU≈talk 21:55, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Excessive uses of cbb link

Every college basketball article that I create gets stuck with this category at the bottom of the page. However, I really don't care for your "cbb link" template and therefore, removed all of them from the article I was creating {2007-08 Missouri Tigers men's basketball team), yet I'm still tagged with this category, and I can't figure out how to get rid of it. How do I go about removing this from my page?

Thank you.

--Bjrwiki (talk) 03:29, 13 February 2009 (UTC)