> I think I've asked this before, but I'm raising it again as I've > noticed templates being used again within articles to allowed finer > control over specific parts of article content. This practice of using > templates within articles for the actual text of articles is something > I think should be discouraged because it messes up page histories and > makes it difficult to work out who edited what on a page. > > The question I have is whether it is possible for old page versions to > display warnings that if templates were on the page, that the content > from that part of the page comes from current templates, rather than > showing what was originally there when the page was published. > Currently there is a warning on top of old page versions that says > "This is an old revision of this page, as edited by XXX at YYYY. It > may differ significantly from the current revision." But that doesn't > go far enough, IMO. There needs to be a warning included there that > images and templates may display as red-links if subsequently deleted, > or may display content different from what was originally there if > later updated, or may display something completely unrelated (if a > template is deleted and recreated or re-coded, or the image > overwritten with a new image). > > Does anyone know which mediawiki page produces that warning, so I can > suggest changing it? > > Carcharoth
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