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