Template talk:Forum link

Usable as replacement for cite web used for forum links?

I was about to look up all the links to the FlightGear forum replace those links with this template (due to the post Template:Forumref by legoboyvdlp, Thu May 30, 2019). I have quickly noted that a lot of the links are in a {{cite web}} template. Because that seem to be a common use case I am considering to add the parameters author= and date= and when they are used format them like {{cite web}} does. (in essence: Author (date). Title (Icon)).

I maybe should look into how the various ways the forum is linked first though.

—Johan G (Talk | contribs) 14:10, 30 May 2019 (EDT)