"Bryan Derksen" bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote in message news:43A6F5E0.7040809@shaw.ca...
Phil Boswell wrote:
I was going to suggest that {{lifetime}} and/or {{lived}} could be modified so that the death date was optional, and lack thereof would put the article into [[Category:Living people]], but given the recent furore over conditional templates, maybe now is not the time...:-( Also, I note that these templates have been listed for instant Substitution, so the information wouldn't actually stick anyway :-(
What? Why, and where? The whole reason I use those templates instead of just putting in categories is for their potential future mutability, for _exactly_ the possibility you just mentioned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_substitution#Article namespace
I discovered it when I found myself converting a pair of birth/death categories in the saem article again, and discovered that a bot was goind around SUBSTituting them according to the guidline on that page.
Let discussion ensue :-)
HTH HAND