On 11/17/07, MinuteElectron <minuteelectron(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
It is not neccesserily the ammount of work, but an inexperienced editor
may neglect to put the ISBN template tag in at all, meaning there will
either never be one, or someone else has to realise it and edit the
This is terrible justification. An experienced editor may forget to add:
* Sources
* Categories
* Assertion of notability
* Navbox
* Infobox
* Image
* Link to Commons category
* See also links
* Links to other articles in the text.
* Stub template
* Footnotes
* Unit conversion templates
The software can't magically fix those. Forgetting to add the *link* to a
correctly cited ISBN? Pfft. The least of our worries.
Regardless why would one remove a feature from the parser, it makes no
sense.
Because features that add complexity without a major benefit aren't good.
Because you don't always want to link to absolutely every RFC and every
ISBN.
Steve