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 Sidawaytonysidaway@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 carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
There has been a centralised discussion on deprecating "future" templates. See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Centralized_discussion/Deprecating_%2...
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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