That sounds strange. From the discussion I read, these templates had
been around a while and spreading. Were they actually recreations that
no-one noticed? Probably best to go to the on-wiki discussions at this
point.
Carcharoth
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Tony Sidaway<tonysidaway(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The future template was deleted, oh, in 2007 of
something. I'll try
to find that link to that discussion.
Any attempt to recreate this excrescence can safely be speedied.
On 8/26/09, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
There has been a centralised discussion on
deprecating "future"
templates. See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Centralized_discussion/Deprecating_%…
The templates were compared to the "spoiler" templates. Not to drag
all that up again, but I found the comparison interesting. The same
basic point seemed to be made there, though, that such templates
patronised our readers, who can be expected to realise that the
article they are reading is about a future event (and if they can't,
then that is more likely to be due to bad writing in the article, than
the reader's comprehension skills).
Carcharoth
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