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" > 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 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 > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
