[WikiEN-l] "Future" templates compared to "spoiler" templates

[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 <carcharothwp at 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
>
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