Forum:Let's talk about template names

The nice thing about templates is, you can change the content of all of them everywhere in an instant. One thing you can't change quite so easily is the names of the templates. So before we go peppering the wiki willy-nilly w/templates who's names are awkward, confusing or anything else, I thought we should talk about it.

I want to base a series of templates off the ones for the game names, you know, like Template:Ultima IX. I've started on ones like Template:Ultima IX link, which isn't too bad. But now that I see a lot of pages linking to The Ultima 6 Project I want to make templates for that, as well as other things. But who has enough time in his day to put " "?

Issues: Thoughts? The Ultra-Mind (talk) 16:04, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Background: I understand why we started out with " ". We could have made it "  " but there were already plenty of "Ultima VIII"s out there, and the long form isn't that long. So, to be clear, I'm not proposing we change those templates, or, for that matter, any other templates that appear in more than about 5 articles already.
 * Brevity: Someone's actually already beat me to an abbreviated version w/Template:U6PNPC which is pretty good, but it's not w/out its problems (see below). That's why before I start making more link templates (and more) maybe we could do it w/" " or "  "?
 * Readability: When you read " Template:U6PNPC " you are putting a more strain on the reader to understand it than you would for " Template:Ultima 6 Project NPC " (anyone who doesn't instinctively understand "NPC" has no business being here)