On 9/6/07, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
Since obviously my point wasn't clear enough, let me explain: deleting templates shows how easy it is to use automated peocedures to make a big, Wikipedia-wide change that cannot be reversed by people restoring each one manually, regardless of the actual merit of the change.
I think you over-estimate how much of the removal of the spoiler templates was done in an automated manner. I know that a fairly good proportion were done with a simple tabbed browser.
-Matt