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::The community reached verbal consensus on this issue long before we had a MOS page. In fact, I believe it was back when we were still in Plone. The decision was for all links that lead outside FamilySearch to spawn a new window. I don't mind us having the discussion again, but until that initial decision is overturned, all external links (including those from templates) need to spawn a new window. It is confusing to users if we have some external links spawn a new window and others use the current window. In the meantime, the MOS needs to reflect this rule. [[User:Ritcheymt|Ritcheymt]] 19:43, 6 October 2009 (UTC) | ::The community reached verbal consensus on this issue long before we had a MOS page. In fact, I believe it was back when we were still in Plone. The decision was for all links that lead outside FamilySearch to spawn a new window. I don't mind us having the discussion again, but until that initial decision is overturned, all external links (including those from templates) need to spawn a new window. It is confusing to users if we have some external links spawn a new window and others use the current window. In the meantime, the MOS needs to reflect this rule. [[User:Ritcheymt|Ritcheymt]] 19:43, 6 October 2009 (UTC) | ||
:::I made changes to the template to comply with the links policy, but it was then [[User_talk:CottrellS#Work_around_possible_for_the_templates|pointed out]] that links to articles with spaces in the title were broken. These could be handled by use of the ''#replace'' function, therefore I have reverted the changes until the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions StringFunctions] are installed. --[[User:CottrellS|Steve]] 05:43, 14 October 2009 (UTC) | |||
== Case against spawning new windows for external links == | == Case against spawning new windows for external links == | ||