User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-3030984-20130109133452/@comment-188432-20130109201350

What if we create a base template. I dunno, call it. Something. Heck, maybe you'd directly be able to use. But then we have, , whatever. These all refer to (or ), but because  has been called by another template, we can make assumptions based upon the template that called it. So if you use to call it, you assume a prefix of TV, and you assume the elimination of (TV story). I suppose the end user still has to do separate template declarations but that's okay, since there aren't but about 7 prefixes nowadays.

I guess that's not really a way around end-user simplification, but it certainly would simplify the code.