2013/4/8 Mathieu Stumpf psychoslave@culture-libre.org:
I wasn't aware of such an issue. But here the issue is less important, as template generaly are used for shaping the article, relevant data being passed as argument. I can't afford the time to read all of [1], but did you make an extensive research before "nobody complained"?
Well, *of course* we use to reach consensus *before* changing templates. I thought it was a given point, since we're no different from any other WP community. :)
And yes, nobody complained because discussions about changing a template are long, and thorough, and sometimes even frustrating. :) Usually, we even update data here contained while changing the templates...
What I tried to say is: we don't mind if we go back in a page history and find a red link to a template, nobody cares, because we all know that a template has been deleted/substituted *for a reason* - that we even discussed for a VERY long time. What we DO care is that the article has *right now* the correct data - and this will be easier with Wikidata. I wouldn't have been its main sponsor in it.wp, if it wasn't for this.