User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130201045831/@comment-188432-20130303215305

Oh, tabber is not new. It's well established. But it's under active review by Wikia and could soon disappear. I can't give percentage possibilities of its removal. But the very fact that it could disappear means that we should stay well away.

Even if the chance of removal were zero, though, we still wouldn't use it.

See, the problem that you seem to be ignoring is one of linking. If we use parentheticals, you'd end up with 23 November (releases). By using a pipe trick you can easily reduce to 23 November by typing.

But a slash trick doesn't work like a pipe trick. You can only use a slash trick on the parent page — in this case 23 November. So if you wanted to link to 23 November/Releases, you'd have to type. In other words, we'd be massively increasing the typing burden on everyone.