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Since everything in "allows" should start with "Capability:", maybe one should include that in the template (i.e. instead of "<nowiki>={{1}}</nowiki>" use "<nowiki>=Capability:{{1}}</nowiki>", and then instead of "<nowiki>{{allows|Capability:Graphics}}</nowiki>" use "<nowiki>{{allows|Graphics}}</nowiki>"). --[[User:Ce|Ce]] 06:35, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
: If everything is going to be a capability, does the "Capability" need to be explicitly stated? I left the Capability part out since I wasn't sure that everything would be a capability. --[[User:Coderjoe|Coderjoe]] 16:26, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
:: Of course not everything is a capability. Only everything referenced by "provides", "allows" and "requires". The idea of the "Capability:" prefix was to separate them on the page level, since you may very well e.g. have both a task named "Graphics" and a capability "Graphics". That is, the Capability "namespace" is to avoid unintentional naming conflicts (not unlike the User namespace prevents conflicts between user names and page names, except that the Capability namespace isn't directly supported by MediaWiki, but only based on convention).
:: I don't have strong feelings about that prefix; it's certainly not needed to ''identify'' capabilities. I just thought it would be a good idea to prevent naming conflict from the beginning by using the prefix. But I wouldn't care too much if the prefix were removed (it would increase the risk of naming conflicts, of course).
:: If I'm the only one considering that prefix a good idea, it may well go. In that case, the change should probably be done early, so that the work required isn't too large. In any case, it would be interesting to know what others think about the prefix. --[[User:Ce|Ce]] 16:45, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
::: I think Coderjoe was trying to say that the template could be defined to use "Capability:{{{1}}}", instead of as "{{{1}}}". That way, the "Capability:" could be left out of the template argument. (Just clarifying; don't mind me.) --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 19:36, 18 August 2010 (UTC)