View source for Help talk:Commonly used templates

==Terminology differentiation==
Tags generally refer to the HTML-esque things, like <code>&lt;nowiki>&lt;/nowiki></code> or <code>&lt;noinclude>&lt;/noinclude></code>. Most of this stuff should be in a page like [[Help:Commonly used templates]]. [[Help:Templates]] should be reserved for a page that is full of the basics of template usage. --[[User:Xoid|Xoid]] 04:36, 2 February 2007 (CST)
::You are suggesting we move [[Help:Tags]] to [[Help:Commonly used templates]], right? If so, I concur. --[[User:Revanche|Revanche (admin)]] 11:23, 3 February 2007 (CST)
:::Well, most of it. The #REDIRECT stuff is one of those weird ones that isn't a template, isn't a HTML-esque tag. According to [[mw:Help:Magic words]] it's, er, a magic word. Like <nowiki>__TOC__ and {{PAGENAME}}</nowiki>, for example.  (I do believe I'm rambling. Anyway, moved.) --[[User:Xoid|Xoid]] 18:13, 3 February 2007 (CST)
::::I just spent half an hour looking at MediaWiki's source code just to make sure I would be correct if I substituted the word "tag" for "magic word" in Help:CUT. (Got side-tracked when copyediting the page.)
::::Sure am doing something useful now, aren't I? To be fair it was spurred on by how [[mw:Help:Magic words]] didn't have an entry like I previously said. Cue half an hour of digging between revisions ''just to ensure that I was right'', follow by another half an hour digging through source code.
::::Anyway… it appears #REDIRECT is even more special than I thought before, that I got meta.mediawiki.org and mediawiki.org mixed up, that there's no way to get a canonical answer to whether it's a magic word or not… but #REDIRECT ''isn't'' a tag, and that overall this was a gigantic waste of my time even by my loose definition. --[[User:Xoid|Xoid]] 19:29, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
:::::Aaah, yes. But sometimes its about ''the hunt'' itself, isn't it? --[[User:Revanche|Revanche]] <sup>([[User_talk:Revanche|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/Revanche|contribs]])</sup> 21:57, 19 July 2009 (UTC)