Template talk:Tribetextcolor

Fair warning to the admins, I added a comment to this template specifying a new issue with the template that has not existed prior to maybe last year. When using templates that invoke the tribe's name (i.e. tribeicon), the template will attempt to link to a page matching the value mapped to the tribename given to the template. As a result, blue or red text will appear (indicating a hyperlink) depending on if such a page exists, instead of the black text most people would want.

For that reason, I specified that it might be beneficial to explicitly state a tribe's text color as black, which overrides the color changed caused by linking. I kept the initial sentence that says not to add a tribe if its color is black, but honestly, I think this sentence should be removed as it's no longer sound advice and there are a lot of tribes (including some of mine) with black text in the template anyways.

Again, this is an issue that I doubt most writers care about, but it's always bugged me.

MATT DB (talk) 07:38, November 20, 2019 (UTC)