Talk:Mad Libs

Task name

Hi, Why Madlibs? Does that name have some history to it? (Normally we try and be short and descriptive). --Paddy3118 07:48, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

see Mad Libs on wikipedia. maybe a reference to this should be added to the task description.--eMBee 08:43, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

We ought to work that reference onto the task page somehow. –Donal Fellows 10:49, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

copied the first sentence from wikipedia. i think that works as introduction with a reference.--eMBee 11:34, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Repeated substitutions?

Most Mad Libs templates have many nouns, verbs, etc., which are all independent. How should we decide when a replacment is meant to be repeated, like "name" in the example? --Markjreed (talk) 02:09, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Well to comply with the instructions only as given, you’d replace all instances repetitively, so that’s what most people have done. If an independent name was needed, it would need to be called name2 for example.--Jnd (talk) 05:47, 23 May 2015 (UTC)