Template talk:Lang-ar

message: Please stop using this template. Replacing very simple links like Arabic saves a minimum of time and puts unnecessary strain on the servers. Worst of all, people use this template to replace existing links, which is unbelievably pointless.
Peter Isotalo 20:21, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess I'm not really getting it but I'm not really getting it! I dont see the diff. on either of them. how should the arabic names then be formatted? (ar هيان بن بيان) as such? let me know please. Wilis.azm 06:02, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  definition 

message: use , we don't want the  clutter of a separate template for every language on earth. dab (ᛏ) 11:42, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be an okay replacement if it adds the correct CSS classes and language name. The replacement that was suggested on the template was much longer, so I don't think anybody is going to use it. Anyway, I can't see a good reason not to have these specific templates for major languages. Kusma (討論) 06:41, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: indeed, there is nothing wrong with using both  and  except for the unsatisfactory situation that we'll have two standards of marking up the very same thing. If we could agree that we prefer , people could still use  as much as they like, but we could send in a bot that will subst: occurrences. For the purposes of entering Arabic, nothing will change, but we'll end up with  more standardized markup. dab (𒁳) 06:56, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well,  and  do different things.  (adding the language name with correct links) does something visible to newbies, while  doesn't do anything obvious. I think it is likely that people will write just Arabic: blah instead of Arabic: , which will not add the language attribute and cause another page that needs disambiguation. Having a template for every language on earth is an easy way around these problems. Kusma (talk) 07:24, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: deprecate

message: Could we automatically enlarge the Arabic script so that it reads clearer in articles. --Al Ameer son (talk) 21:15, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Enlarging the script 

message: I noticed on Jesus in Islam that  is being used, and I'm guessing the second parameter is supposed to be a transliteration.  However, it has no effect:   does not display the second parameter at all.  Is this a bug, or was it designed not to have any transliteration?  Thanks,
-- Joren (talk) 02:48, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Right now the article uses  , producing  , if anyone else came here wondering. Shrigley (talk) 18:42, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there a way to include a transliteration? 

message: lrm needs to go outside:
 ‎
Lfdder (talk) 18:19, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Done — Mr. Stradivarius ♪ talk ♪ 21:55, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 12 September 2013 

message: Why does this template (or one of its transcluded templates) hardcode the Amiri font. It's nearly illegible, and my default font, DejaVu Sans, is perfectly capable of rendering legible Arabic text. While Amiri has some aesthetic value, it's not suitable for an online encyclopedia.
Since it's hardcoded in the element style, I can't even override it in my user style, not even with the !important tag. This is extremely frustrating, and isn't it bad practice to hardcode fonts (which are downloaded to the user!) into span tags anyway? Why not use a css class I could then override?
Moszczynski (talk) 13:17, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: it's the Universal Language Selector to blame, not this tpl. — Lfdder (talk) 15:44, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Amiri' font 

message: For the article LIPIA, I use the template , for example: () so we can put the transliteration directly in the template)
: Comment: The  and  are currently being deprecated, since templates of other languages are using this scheme. For now, call  without specifying  or . Ex.  Cheers, — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 05:01, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  LIPIA 

message: To allow making use of Template:Language with name's  parameter, I created a sandbox version. While for many related articles, a  parameter would be helpful, for now we should start with the current Template:Language with name. Please also change full protection to template protection per WP:TEMP-P. Regards, --PanchoS (talk) 17:00, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add lit. parameter per parent template 

message: This template written "ar: " without "()", Fix it by making it "(ar: )"
عمار الوائلي (talk) 10:10, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: The Lang-x templates are also used in places where brackets are not required, or as part of a longer parenthesis. Alakzi (talk) 17:20, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 30 April 2015 

message: Please replace the current code with this revision. The ‎ is no longer needed since it is now being automatically included for all -derived templates using the rtl field. I've also replaced the documentation with the lang-x documentation which better describes the available fields. — Quoth (talk) 09:52, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Alakzi (talk) 11:21, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 29 May 2015 

message: Template has been merged with Template:Lang-ar-at per closed TfD consensus. Lang-ar-at has been redirected here. Documentation page has been recreated, and documents the extra parameters.
HyperGaruda, are there any Arabic WikiProject MOS guidelines that need updates? PanchoS, thanks for the suggestion. If you see any issues with this template, submit an edit request. Thanks!!! :) — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 18:10, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The template looks as good as it always was, maybe even better since you added "lrm". Adding birth dates was a pain in the a back then, but no more, so kudos to you. I'll take care of MOSAR ;) - HyperGaruda (talk) 18:25, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  How do you get the script isolated, it is big enough to read but not bold enough to bother the other words. Alexis Ivanov (talk) 23:10, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Never mind Alexis Ivanov (talk) 23:13, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merged with [[Template:Lang-ar-at]]  

message: The alleged Arabic “transliterations” are actually almost always transcriptions. How can I change the template so it says “transcribed” rather than transliterated?
Kilo77 (talk) 21:19, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The layout of the language templates is set in Module:Lang. You'll need to make a proposal at Template talk:Lang to get the process going. In the meantime, note that some cases of transcription of standard Arabic to account for regional variation can be covered as proper transliteration using specialized templates, specifically ,  and . Ibadibam (talk) 22:13, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Ibadibam, Thank you. I posted in the talk page of Module:Lang. Kilo77 (talk) 02:36, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Translit.” should be Transcribed 

message: It's "Arabic" now, not "". Is there a way to change the link on this template accordingly? Charles Essie (talk) 20:01, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Main article has been moved