Template talk:Abbr#Displaying strangely

I edit lots of articles related to WP:WHOCKEY, including many statistics boxes. There are many common statistics used in these boxes, such as {{abbr|GP|Games played}} and {{abbr|SV%|Save percentage}}. Sometimes, the stats boxes only use the {{tlx|abbr}} template in the table header row (example 1), and sometimes (example 2) there's a textual explanation given before the table, in addition to using the {{tlx|abbr}} template in the table headers.

Which is preferred? --MikeVitale 16:51, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

{{u|Mathglot}}, regarding, "[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AAbbr%2Fdoc&diff=1285462214&oldid=1279668310 On mobile devices, tooltips are typically accessed through long press (tap-and-hold) or single tap on the associated element.]" Perhaps I don't understand what it means, but I tried on two different phones and different browsers can't get the tooltip from {{tl|abbr}} or {{tl|tooltip}} to display with any kind of press. When I searched online, I just see pages saying that it doesn't work on mobile and offering ideas to create mobile tooltips with CSS & JavaScript. Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 21:16, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

: {{re|Rjjiii}} thanks for the feedback; I have reverted that until this can be sorted. What happens when you single-tap {{tooltip|this text|You should be getting this pop-up message.}} on mobile? It should also be decorated with dotted underline; is it? Mathglot (talk) 21:41, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

: Okay, never mind; I was seeing simulated hover text, so the original doc was correct. My error. Mathglot (talk) 21:46, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

::It's all good. Tbf, it is pretty odd for mobile browsers to render the dotted underline (....) below abbreviations if they don't offer any way to access the text. Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 02:56, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Abbr shouldn't be this: {{abbr|United States|United States}} or this: {{abbr|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|UK}} Tjaž Forint (talk) 05:34, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

:Uh.... yes? And? Primefac (talk) 14:25, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

::it aint in there lol Tjaž Forint € (talk) 16:23, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

:::Your first example is pointless, and the second is the wrong way round: it should be {{abbr|UK|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland}} --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:44, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

::::Oh wait, {{u|TjazForint}} do you mean that we don't have examples of how not to use the template backwards? I don't know if that's a common enough problem to put in the "/doc" page. The link issue and the accessibility issue are something that are more common and potentially confusing; that's why they have examples, Rjjⁱⁱⁱ (talk) 21:13, 17 May 2025 (UTC)