[WikiEN-l] Re: Re: Defamatory Biographies - another problemloomingforWikipedia?

Tue Dec 20 09:22:52 UTC 2005

"Bryan Derksen" <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote in 
message news:43A6F5E0.7040809 at shaw.ca...
> Phil Boswell wrote:
>>I was going to suggest that {{lifetime}} and/or {{lived}} could be 
>>modified so that the death date was optional, and lack thereof would put 
>>the article into [[Category:Living people]], but given the recent furore 
>>over conditional templates, maybe now is not the time...:-(
>>Also, I note that these templates have been listed for instant 
>>Substitution, so the information wouldn't actually stick anyway :-(
> What? Why, and where? The whole reason I use those templates instead of 
> just putting in categories is for their potential future mutability, for 
> _exactly_ the possibility you just mentioned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_substitution#Article 
namespace

I discovered it when I found myself converting a pair of birth/death 
categories in the saem article again, and discovered that a bot was goind 
around SUBSTituting them according to the guidline on that page.

Let discussion ensue :-)

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 