Usage
Meta template to count pages following a numerically incremental naming pattern, like archive pages. Can count up to 999, optimized to use at most 18 #ifexist checks, and somewhat optimized for typical page distributions (see Benford's law).
This template can be substituted.
Examples
{{Count pages|WP:Featured article candidates/Battle of Villers-Bocage/archive}}→ 0{{Count pages|User_talk:Amalthea/Archive }}→ 0 Note the space after "Archive"!{{Count pages|Pages that do not exist}}→ 0{{subst:Count pages|User_talk:Amalthea/Archive }}→ 4[[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive{{Count pages|Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive}}]]→ Administrators' noticeboard/Archive0
See also