David Gerard (fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au) [050401 20:00]:
Tim Starling (t.starling(a)physics.unimelb.edu.au)
[050401 18:52]:
> Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> > Forgive me if there was a big discussion of
this while I was in lurker
> > mode for the past year or so, but is it really a good idea to allow
> > arbitrary transclusions at all? I can see the usefulness of templates
> > overriding the problems and limiting their spread to a few cases; but
> > arbitrarily including text that constantly changes seems like a good
> > way to screw up things like article provenance, evaluations, and such.
> It was a bad idea. The users made me do it.
That's not an April Fool's, I'm just posting on crack and answering and
entirely different message to the one in front of me. My apologies.
- d.