Antoine Musso <[email protected]> writes:
> I think the primary use case for Special:PrefixIndex is to list
> subpages and I don't think there is much point in listing the root
> page in the listing when you are already on the root page. So that if
> you are on a page *Book* and have subpages *Book/Chapter_1 *and
> *Main_Page/Chapter_2* you would use:
>
> {{Special:PrefixIndex/Book/|stripprefixindex=1}}
So, the uses case I have is similar, but it this is in a template that
is used on subpages so that if you are reading a sub page, you can
easily skip ahead into different chapters.
Specifically, the use case is a list of countries, so that someone
reading about, say, Argentina, they can use the infobox to jump to
France easily.
To provide a concrete demonstration that demonstrates this using the
countries listed, a top-level page is titled "List of Countries whose
official languages are a romance language" and it uses a template to
display its list of sub pages. Meanwhile, each sub-page could use the
same template in the infobox to provide a navigation aid.
In this case, the page being viewed should not link to itself in the
list of pages in the infobox. It would result in confusion.
> So as much as I agree with the perceived consistency, I don't think
> that one has to be resolved since it is unlikely to be of any use.
I hope I've shown a useful use case. This is about more than
just foolish consistency[1].
Mark.
Footnotes:
[1] "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/353571-a-foolish-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds-adored
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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the
lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
-- Giorgos Seferis
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