Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5401732-20150605100016/@comment-917693-20150612150833

Welcome~ :>

I agree, the "=" thing is quite bothersome :/

If you wanna know why this happens, I'd be very glad to explain it to you. (If you don't wanna know, just skip all that rest lol)

Basically it's because "=" are used to mark fields (especially if you edit in source mode, you'll see things like e.g. |gender = Male).

When the fieldnames (like "gender") are numbered (like "1", "2" or "3") we can leave them out (example: Gallery template, Commercially featured template).

But because we left them out, the template is confused, when we include a "=" and will think the "=" belongs to the "|fieldname = XXX" part. So basically a link like this " http://examplelink.com?r=15 " the template will interpret to something similar to that "|http://examplelink.com?r = 15"

the = is just basically a workaround, and still the easiest of all options, on how to include a "="