Re: [WikiEN-l] Future templates compared to spoiler templates

2009-08-27 Thread Tony Sidaway
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 carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: There has been a centralised discussion on deprecating future

Re: [WikiEN-l] Future templates compared to spoiler templates

2009-08-27 Thread Carcharoth
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 Sidawaytonysida...@gmail.com

[WikiEN-l] Future templates compared to spoiler templates

2009-08-26 Thread Carcharoth
There has been a centralised discussion on deprecating future templates. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Centralized_discussion/Deprecating_%22Future%22_templates The templates were compared to the spoiler templates. Not to drag all that up again, but I found the comparison